Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-12-07


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Struck by Lightning. = The home
| of s. B. Weaver in a Topeka suburb,
was struck by lightning last week and
damaged. This is the first time in
the history of the state, so the wealth
| er men say, that a November storm
ever produced enough lightning to
/ damage anything.
| Oldest University. = Highland uni
versity is the oldest university in Kan
sas, and the first west of the Mississ-
ippi to issue diplomas. 1t was char
tered February 8. 1858. The school
was the outgrowth of an Indian
school and began with white children
in 1856. 1t has never closed its doors
| from the day it was opened.
Easy on Truants. - County Super
| intendent Allen, of Jackson county, is
using some leniency in the enforce
ment of the truancy law. He is ex-
empting from its provisions those
farmer boys who are needed at home
these days to gather in the big corn
crop. All he asks is that they come
| to school as soon as they finish husk-
/ ing corn.
/ Wants !. o. o. z. Home.-The local
Odd Fellows lodge is raising a fund
| to locate state home in Winfield,
the Rebekah lodges of the state hav-
| ing undertaken to raise money to
build it. Delegates from every lodge
in the state will meet in Topeka next
month to select location. Ten thous-
and dollars has been raised by the
! Rebekahs
Poor Pipe Livingstone of the gas
{ towns in Southern Kansas are expert
encing difficulty in keeping natural
gas out of cellars and sewers. In
fact, the ground of the town sites is
found to be saturated with the gas.
Professor E. Haworth, of the Univer-
sity of Kansas, has Investigated and
found the difficulty to be the faulty
method of laying the gas pipes. This
condition of affairs is very haZar-
dous.
Alleged Footpad Acquitted. - Cal
| Heck was acquitted of the charge of
assaulting with intent to kill w. F.
Kuntz, a North Topeka druggist, on
January 8 last. Kuntz was held up
by couple of footpads, brutally beat
en- and robbed. He fingered between
life and death for several weeks, but
finally recovered. He afterward iden-
titled Heck as one of his assailants
At the first trial the jury disagreed,
and now upon the second trial has
acquitted him.
Charities to Economize.-The board
of control has asked the superintend-
ents of the different charitable insti-
buttons to use great economy in their
expense accounts for the next few
months. The legislature forgot to
pass the usual bill permitting the in
situations to use the fees which they
collect. AS result this money must
go into the state treasury. Then the
maintenance appropriations were
about the same as two years before,
while the number of inmates has in
creased in all of the institutions.
Law Is Not Obeyed. - Complaints
are coming in from two or three coun-
ties that the local authorities are per-
hitting unlawful contests of different
kinds to be pulled off without moles.
tation. In Leavenworth, it is claim
ed, cock fights are carried on regular
ly and that no effort is being made
to suppress them. At Parsons, the
authorities are permitting boxing
matches. So are the authorities in
Topeka. Boxing matches and cock
fighting are against the state law and
the local authorities will be asked to
do their duty.
Profits in Canning. Mr.. P. D.
Creagcr of Chicago who represents
the --cstings Industrial Company, was
in Hutchinson last week looking the
ground over with view to helping es
tablish a canning factory here. He
went over the situation with c. A
Tabb, secretary of the Commercial
club, and with w. ]. Rickenbacher OF
Topeka, who also represents the Hast
ings Industrial Company, and who has
been here for sometime going over the
matter.
A. F. L. Asks for Pardon. - The
American Federation of Labor will
try and secure pardon for A. E. Ire
land, the labor agitator who was sent
to Jail in Cowley county recently fol
assaulting a non-union machinist OF
the Santa Fe at Arkansas City
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation, wired Governor
Hoch from Pittsburg, Pa, that g
representative of the order would
call upon him December 1 to ask fol-
Ireland's pardon. The governor wired
, back that he had an engagement De
cember 1, but would be in Topeka the
. following day, when he would receive
the delegation.
Husking for the Church. - Fffteer
} church women at Sterling recently
husked forty-nine bushels of corn il
: one hour, which netted their church
: s26.5O. Their husbands have spent
: $50 for liniment and flesh lotions tt
cure their wives hands. Good thins
for the church, but poor investment
, for the husbands.
Marshall County Land. Marshal,
) county land is increasing in value. P
: N. Nelson sold his farm near Vliets
for $50 an acre. This is considered
big price by local real estate deal
ers.
J Took Woman and Money. = A