Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-04-20
KANSAS COMMENT

Natural Gas in Pittsburg. Pitts
burg will have natural gas in two
weeks. 1t will be supplied by the
Kansas Natural Gas Company. The
pipe line is connected up to the city
limits.
so Bales of Cotton Burned. - A
Rock Island car containing fifty bales
of cotton burned at Wichita. The
loss on the cotton will amount to
about $500. The car was in train
No. SO. and was just leaving Wichita
near the Union stock yards. The cot
ton was consigned to Burlington &
Co., at Watuppa, Mass, and was
shipped from Shawnee, o. T.
Try Again For Pardon. = Another
effort will be made to secure par
don for Willie Sells. The application
will be presented to Governor Hoch
on May 1. Mrs. Hanna Sylvester is
pushing the case. Sells is serving a
"hang'' sentence for killing his
father, mother, sister and brother
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a mere boy and was convicted on cir
cumstantial evidence
Dairymen at Saline. = The Eight
eenth annual session of the State
Dairy Association met at Salina. The
first meeting was well attended, many
of the officers being present. 1t is
estimated that $50 visitors will be
present. The meeting was addressed
by James A Kimball, president of the
Salina Commercial Club, and Hon. J..
A. Glover, associate editor of Hoard's
Dairyman, Atkinson, Wis.
Guaranteed 1000 Sheep. - c. j..
Keishner, state live stock inspector,
arrived at Emporia and put 1000
sheep in the Santa Fe stock yards
under quarantine, claiming that they
are suffering from scabies. The sheep
came from the Southwest and were
unloaded to give them q rest. The
law requires that sheep so affected
must be sheared and dipped before
resuming their journey to market,
and a large force of men are now
working on the sheep.
Oil Operations at StandstiIl. - At
Humboldt all the oil operations in this
part of the oil fields are practically
stopped There is no drilling going
on and all the wells west of the Santa
Fe tracks are disconnected, and none
are being pumped. P j. Mckinley,
the gauger, says that he has been
laid off, as his territory was in the
cut off district How long this thing
is going to last is hard to tell, but it
is crushing the life out of many COM
panies, and throwing hundreds of peo-
pie out of employment
Col. Godfrey Leaves Fort Riley
Colonel E. S. Godfrey, commandant
of Fort Riley, left the fort for Omaha,
where he will be in command of the
department of the Missouri during the
absence of the department command
er, Brigadier General Whit, who will
take vacation. In the absence of
Colonel Godfrey, Lieutenant Colonel
James Parker will be in command at
Fort Riley. Colonel Parker arrived
here this week from st. Louis. where
he was on duty as military secretarv
of the Northern division.
Deserves More Prominence. - An
other institution in Kansas that de-
serves greater prominence is the Anti
Horse Thief Association. 1t is an in
ter-state association covering Kansas.
Missouri, Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tory. There are districts in Kansas
where the association has been so we'll
perfected that it is almost impossible
for man with a stolen horse to get
away. A number of captures by that
organization has given a black eye to
that old idea that the simplest wav
to get horse is to steal it.
Extension of Lenora Branch.-Dan-
Tel Eicher has received a letter from
the Missouri Pacific headquarters, st.
Louis, informing him that the COM
pany is seriously considering the ex-
tension of the Lenora branch on west
to Denver, following the county lines
between the north teir of Kansas
counties, and the next tier south, and
asking him if he thought the town
ships along the proposed line would
vote bonds in aid of the proposition
Charged With Murder.-Charles H.
Stokesberry, the supposed murderer
of Charles Ferguson last July, was ar
rested south of Ellis and taken to
Wakeeney. After his arrest Stokes.
berry had very little to say of the
murder, but since the disappearance
of Ferguson, it is said he told several
times of having committed the crime
and said that Ferguson's body would
be plowed up one of these times. One
theory advanced for the crime is that
the murdered man was about to give
information regarding the alleged cat.
tie stealing that had been going on for
some time southwest of here and in
which it was alleged that Stokes
berry was implicated.
Don't Want Burton to Speak. = A
few weeks ago the G. A. R. post OF
Beloit invited Senator j. R. Burton
to deliver an address Memorial day
This offended some of the old-time
politicians and they are now trying
to get some of the old soldiers to sign
a protest against it.
Foot Crushed by Bumpers.-W. E
Federline of Junction City, had his
right foot crushed between car bum
pers west of here yesterday. He was
taken to the hospital at Kansas City
He is one of the oldest and best known
conductors on the Kansas division.
In the Oil FieId.-The oil producers
of the Cherryvale district sold little
oil to the Standard during the past
week, but the runs were very light
Since the recent ruling of the Prairie
folks to take but $50 barrels ner dav