Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-11-30
KANSAS COMMENT

w 0OOlI III d UOA Col iOdQCd win
ties in the Frisco yards. His throat
had been cut, his head was mashed
with coupling pin and there was
bullet wound through the back of his
head
The Preacher ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
hypocrite gets prominent in church
work, says the Osborne Farmer, peo-
pie always say: II should think
someone would tell the preacher about
him." Don't worry about the preach
er. He isn't being fooled for a min
ute.
Farm Lands Sell Well. i Four hun
dred acres of farm land in Ridge town
ship, Dickinson county, sold for s16,-
500. A. K Ruse sold 160 acres north
east of Abilene for $4,000 cash. More
land buyers are in central Kansas
than ever before and land prices con-
tinue high with farms in good de-
mand
Problem Solved. A shaleonaire is
getting rich off his Trego county gold
shale land. He has quit looking for
gold and gone to raising onions on
1t. People who got swindled on the
shale game have always wondered
what the gold shale land was good
for. They are glad to know that it
will produce onions.
Reduction in Rates Promised.-The
railroads have promised the Topeka
Commercial Club that they will soon
reduce the rates on lump coal from
the Pittsburg district to Topeka. They
don't say how much of a. reduction
they will grant him, but claim it will
be material one. The present rate
on lump is s1.4O a, ton.
$1,000 Elevator Fire. - The Usage
City Grain and Elevator Company's
property, containing thousands of
bushels of corn and wheat, and valued
at $4,000, has been destroyed by a
fire which originated in the interior
Of the building from unknown causes.
The insurance amounts to $4,000. The
property was owned by NJ. w. Cald-
well and F. B. Bonebrake, who will
rebuild at once
An Official Who Does.-It is differ
ent now. When Tom Wagstaff, coun-
ty attorney of Montgomery county,
first took office he served notice on
the joints to abdicate. They ignor-
ed the notice. The county Jail is now
full to overlooking with jointists, and
the rest have pulled their freight. "
Recently Wagstaff served notice that
slot machines had to go, and their
owners removed them at once. They
knew Wagstaff meant what he said.
Killed by Horses Kick.-Word was
received at Hiawatha of the death of
Walter Hauber, near Kingman, Kan.
He was kicked in the stomach by a
horse and died few hours later. Wal
ter Hauber was one of the youngest
sons of William Hauber, a well known
and prosperous Brown county farm
er. He was engaged with two broth
ers in running big Kingman county
ranch. The body will be brought to
Hiawatha and the funeral held here
Sues Railroad company.-Miss Vio-
let Rosedale Cavell, a vaudeville ar
fist, brought suit in the Shawnee dis
trict court against the Santa Fe rail-
road for $4,000 damages for person
al injuries. Her home is in New York,
and before she got hurt she claims
to have been earning 5000 a week. She
was hurt in wreck at Newton last
September, and charges that her in
juries have incapacitated her from
ever following her avocation again.
New Waterworks Superintendent
E. S. Wills has rendered his resigna.
ton as superintendent of the Atchis-
on Water Company, on account of i'll
health, and will retire from the posi-
ton January 1. 1t is expected that
James NJ. Chisham will be elected to
succeed him, although Chisham's
term as postmaster does not expire
until July 1, 1906. Mr.. Wills has been
superintendent of the company 81
years.
kanc-s Boy Does Police Duty. -
Marion Russell, Great Bend boy
who is attending a medical school in
Philadelphia, was a special officer on
the police force in that city election
day. His picture appears in the
North American as one student who
did police duty for the reform forces.
:,
Roberts, the confessed murderer OF
Charles Wetzel at Hill City, has not
been taken there yet The people
there are greatly excited over the af
fair. There are no new Developments
in the case, except that Newton Wet
eel, the father of the murdered boy
states that the money the boy took
was his own.
Natural Elevation. How does II
come that you ask more for this land
than l can buy land for in Eastern
Kansas" asked land buyer of a
short grass real estate agent the 9th
er day. The agent was stumped for
minute but came back with this
We'll, stranger, you know the fur
Their west you go in Kansas the high
er the land isl
Club Room for EIks.-The Wichita
Elks have bought building which
they will convert into a first-class
club house. 1t cost them $4,000 and
they will spend $4,000 improving it.
Negro Boys Talk too Much.-Judge
Swarts of the district court sent
Rosio Robinson, negro, to Jail and
fined another negro 81 this morning
for talking in the presence of jury
while case was on trial at Win
field.
Strawberries Frostbitten. - e. H
Brown, of Morrowville, has a kicl
coming on the recent frosts. They