Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-11-16
KANSAS COMMENT

Gas in Chase County.-Natural gas
has been struck in prospect well at
Elmdale.
Woman a Hunter. = A license to
hunt game has been issued here to
Miss Myra Stores of Lansing.
Starts Skunk Farm.-C. o. Graham,
of Phillips county, has started skunk
farm. He says one skunk will bring
more revenue in year than two cows.
Still, the difference doesn't compen-
safe for that smell that skunk leaves
behind
Wants to go to Jail. - Eli Rouse,
who formerly lived in Guelph town
ship, has moved to Wellington after
selling his property in Oklahoma. He
says he is crazy and demands that he
be placed in Jail and sent 20 an in
sane asylum.
Topeka Minister Called. - Rev.
Abraham Wyman, pastor of the Uni
terrain church, has resigned to become
pastor of the Unitarian church at
North Eaton, Mass. He will be sue
ceeded here by Rev. Mr.. Stockbridge
of Aurora, Ill.
Caught With Wet Goods. = At Ar
kansas City County Attorney Kream-
er personally arrested Andrew Ward,
negro, on the charge of bootlegging.
and took charge of several bottles of
liquor which the negro carried in a
basket. The county attorney saw
Ward coming out of an alley with the
basket, and suspecting that it con-
tanned liquor, arrested him later, turn
ing Lis prisoner over to an officer.
Robbed of $1,585. = w. H. Davis,
manager of a repertoire company
showing in Winfield, was robbed OF
$1,5S5 in cash and drafts at the Pal
mer hotel. He had gone to bed late,
leaving his vest with the money in ii
on chair, and the robber finished the
on chair, and the robber fished the
vest from the room through the tran
som over the door. The drafts were
drawn on the Fourth National Bank,
Wichita.
Don't Like Game Law.-Iola sports
men are doing a good deal of kicking
about the new game law which re-
stricts the number of ducks which
may be shot at in a day and also for
bids the sale of them. They maintain
that there is no good accomplished by
the law and that it only results in in
terfering with the pleasure of hunters
and prevents people who do not hunt
them from getting an opportunity to
eat ducks.
Carnegie May Give $4,000. - ]. II.
Hill, of the library committee, has re-
ceived reply to the request from An
drew Carnegie for an extra donation
of $4,000 to complete the equipment
of the new library at Emporia His
letter was forwarded to Mr.. Carnegie
in Scotland, which explains the delay
in receiving an answer The reply
asks for more information as to the
disposal of the original amount re-
ceived for the building.
Hutchinson Postoffice Gains. -
There is big increase in the bust
ness of the Hutchinson postoffice. 1t
is such an increase that Hutchinson
will be an Office of the first-class by
the end of next year, with the same
gain for next year as for the present.
The receipts of a postoffice must be
$4,000 or more per year before it is
an Office of the first-class. The re-
ceipts for this year, from the way
things STe figured at this time, will
go something over s37, 900. This has
been a gain of about $4,000 during the
past year. With this ratio of gain for
next year Hutchinson will be counted
In amer class as a postoffice.
Garden City Prospering. - Perhaps
no community is showing greater
progress and advancement in this
time of general prosperity than that
of Garden City and Finney county. A
number of projects have recently
been undertaken to bring the beauti-
full little western Kansas town into
public notice and the men of the town
and county are making the most of it.
No opportunity is lost to keep the re-
sources of the community before the
attention of the public and if oppor-
tunity is lacking one is made by the
hustling business men of that vicin-
fly.
Young Babe Badly Scalded.-Doro.
thy, the one-year-old daughter of Pris,
GrIQrd
ed about the head and chest in Leav.
enworth at the Kurtz home, back of
the federal prison. Tie child saw a
kettle on the stove and reaching up
upset hot soup all over its body. A
doctor was summoned from the hos
pital and medical treatment given. 1t
was very fortunate that the soup did
not reach the eyes. Although the
burns are serious. they will not prove
fatal
Salinas Catholic Church. - Bishop
cunningham of the Catholic church.
on visit here, states that Salina is
the best church town in his diocese.
While he was absent on his visit to
Rome the church reduced its indebt-
edness $4,000, leaving out $4,000 OF
the cost of its new church furniture
and school grounds = $4,000 = un.
paid.
Coal Chutes Burned.-The new coal
chutes of the Frisco Railroad Com
2any, erected within the last few
months. burned. The loss is $50, 900.
partially insured.
Doctor Is Arrested. = County Attor-
Iey Pleasant has put the lid" on
tight at Rantoul, where the oil boom
has made things pretty free. DR..
Glover, one of the physicians of the
village, has been lodged in Jail charg-