Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-08-03

Rain Does Not .FaII.-w Wichita late
ly is threatened with good rain. but
for some, unknown reason it invari-
ably fails to rain
Wheat Crop Sold Well. Hon.
Charles Kirkland, member of the legis-
lature from Saline county, sold $4,000
worth of wheat, the crop from a field
of 148 acres. Tine wheat measured
$3.50 bushels and brought 80 cents a
bushel
lola to Protest.-Arrangem are
being made for a public Indignation
meeting to protest against the COM
ments of the press on the morals of
lola since the saloon dynamiting and
subsequent trial of ex-Congressman
Funston.
Was Almost a Miracle.-O. Aldren
fell sixty feet in a coal shaft near
Usage City, but landed, cat-like, on
his feet and escaped what seemed
certain death, with only few bruises.
w. A. Granstrom and Aldren had
been at work on scaffold, which
gave way. Granstrom's clothing
caught on some of the timbers and he
did not go to the bottom
Smashers Busy at Industry.-Eight
prominent temperance women smash
ed a joint at Industry owned by John
Peterson. With hatchets they broke
open a barrel of whisky and several
cases of beer. Six men were in the
joint drinking. The women knocked
the glasses from their hands. The
joint was thoroughly wrecked. Peter
C;ty.
Went Over Dam. - James Carter,
bridge Waterman at the Kaw river at
Lawrence, had narrow escape from
drowning this afternoon. He was re-
moving debris from one of the bridge
piers, when he lost his balance and
fell into the river He was carried
over the dam and through the rapids,
being taken from the water by pass
ing boatman. Carter had not lost
consciousness. and was only bruised
on the hands and arms.
Paint at Court House.-The county
commissioners of Sedgwick county in
structed the county clerk to advertise
for bids for painting the sashes of all
the windows in the court house. The
county will furnish all the materials
! and only want painters to do the
work The painting of the big circu-
lar tops of the court room windows is
now being done and the commission
ers want the sashes of all the win
dows painted as soon as possible.
Asking Too Much.-Chicopee. Kan,
will not get depot if the Missouri
Pacific can help it. The railroad
commissioners were asked to con-
tinue the case which was filed by
Chicopee against that railroad be-
cause it did not have a depot at that
town. The request was accompanied
by statement that the town did not
need a Missouri Pacific depot, as the
town was owned by a competing line
and would not patronize the Missouri
Pacific even if it had a depot.
Found Dead on Track. = The body
of ]. c. Fessler, of Sycamore, Kan,
was found on the Arkansas City
branch of the Santa Fee one mile south
of Florence. The body had been run
over and was badly cut. Fessler left
Ness City Saturday for Burns, Kan.
He had between $50 and $40 and a
watch, but neither money nor watch
was found when he was picked up and
| the superstition is he was killed and
robbed by parties who placed the body
on the track to conceal the crime. =
Killed by Live Wire. - Homer
Haines, an electrician with the Amer
lean District Telegraph Company,
was instantly killed at Salina, being
electrocuted by live wire. Haines
lived in Cleveland, O., and had been
there but a few days with his COM
pany which is putting in system of
call bells. Haines was stringing
wires and did not know that there
was day circuit 1t is estimated that
a current of 1890 volts went through
his body His hands were burned to
/ cinder.
More Holidays in Kansas. = The
state board of education has decided
that the public schools of Kansas
shall observe Kansas Day, Janury 20.
The suggestion was made by the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton and was adopted by the board.
May Is of each year will also be OBJ
served as Peace Day." in accordance
! with the wish of the national peace
conference
| New State Buildings. Three con-
tracts will be let next month for
state buildings. State Architect Stan
ton has completed the plans and
| specifications for the Eleanor Taylor
Bell memorial hospital medical pa
vilion at Rosedale, Kan. This build
ing will cost $4,000 and the contract
will be let by the regents of the State
university on August l.. The board
of control will let the contract for the
new building at the Reform school in
Topeka on August 8. This building
will cost about $4,000. The regents
of the State Normal School will let
the contract August IL for the gym
nasium at the Hays City normal
school. This will cost about SIS ,000'
Another Funston Warrant.-Patrol-
man 1. w. Cannon, awaiting trial in
the district court on the charge of as,
saulting ex-Congressman E. H. Fun
| ston during the excitement that fol
lowed the dynamite outrage at lola
swore out a warrant in the district
court charging Mr.. Funston with re-
sisting an officer.
+, Improve Island Park. = The Win.
field Chautauqua Association has de.