Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-12-14

m1tted suicide by shooting himself in
the head with a revolver He leaves
a widow and four. sons, two of the lat
Ter residing in Kansas City.
Gratified Loneng.-"Pap" Johnson.
of Cawller City has always had a
hankering 10 experience the sensa-
/ ton of having leg cut off. The 9TH
er day he deliberately stretched his
leg across the rail and let an engine
pass over it. His "hankering" has
been satisfied, The surgeons don't
think he will recover
Judge Little Dead = Judge G. F.
Little. formerly of junction City. died
at Aeon, Panama, recently. He went
from Kansas to Honolulu. where he
served as judge of the Hilo court for
one term. Then he went to Panama,
where he had lived for the past two
years. He was the pioneer American
attorney of the canal zone
Price Pronounced Insane. Lester
Price. of Richmond. was pronounced
insane upon trial in probate court.
Price struck his father in the head
with a hammer at the family home,
crushing the skull. The elder Price,
is still in a precarious condition. Les
ter Price is &c years old and will be,
held in custody al Ottawa for The
present
Convict Wants Pardon.-John Bur
rell. sent up from Reno county two
years ago for burglary, wants par
don. He was sentenced TO serve five
years. Carr w. Taylor, who prose
cnted the case. is urging the pardon
He says Burrell has been adequately
punished. Burrell lost an arm in a
railroad accident a few weeks before
ne committed the crime.
Holds Out for ascent Gas-Mayor
Everhardy vetoed an ordinance re-
Gently granted to the Leavenworth
Light and Heating Company, to SUD-
ply natural gas here at 80 cents. His
veto was sustained by four members
of the council. who were loudly ap-
Dlauded by the citizens who packed
the council chamber. The mayor gave
high rates and unsatisfactory terms
as his reason for vetoing the ordi-
nance. Leavenworth is making a
fight to get 25-cent gas.
AcetyIene Plant Exploded. - Pat
rick Kennedy, houseman at Mount
carmel academy, Catholic girls
seminary, was killed by the explosion
of the schools acetylene lighting
plant at Wichita. He entered the
building with a lighted lantern. when
the explosion occurred, hurting his
body hundreds of feet into the air.
The body went over the stable a hun
dred yards distant. and was torn to
shreds. The explosion wrecked the
plant and building and shattered the
windows of the main building. caus-
ing panic among the 800 girls at.
tending the school.
Ben 5ugg Pardoned. = The fearful
letter of Ruth Bugg, a 9-year-old girl.
struck responsive chord in. the heart
OF Governor Hoch, and. he pardoned
Ben Bugg from the penitentiary over
the protest of 200 members of the
Anu-Horse Thief Association. Bugg
was sent to the penitentiary in 1903
from Crawford county for stealing a
can OF lard out of a farmers smoke
mouse. There seemed. to be no
special pull in favor of Ben Bugs
except his little sisters letter. She
said that her big brother was needed
al home, that unless he could come
pretty soon their father and mother
would not live to see him. Both of
them have to have the DOCTOR" SAYS
the little girl, land the doctor saws
that no medicine he can give them
VIII do them as much good as to have
Ben home again. They are almost
heartbroken. Please, Mr.. Hoke, let
my brother come home. and God will
bless you"
leaVenworth Bridge SoId.-It is re.
ported that the old Rock Island bridge
at Fort Leavenworth, which was
abandoned several years ago. has
been bought by Kansas City parties
and will be taken down and moved to
Kansas City. The bridge was built by
Dutch capitalists in the early davs
and is splendid structure. but was
located at the fort instead of at
LeaVenworth, and upon the comple-
ton OF the terminal bridge at Leay-
enworth the Rock Island abandoned
it. About a mile of wooden approach
TO the bridge was taken down this
summer
Santa Fe Did Not suy.-The attor.
ney for the Atchison. Topeka and
Santa Fe railroad at Arkansas CITY.
Kan. is in receipt of word from Gar
diner Lathrop, general solicitor. that
the deal for the Midland Valley road |
Is OFF. 1t is likely that the Santa Fee |
will not get the new road unless 9th !
er negotiations are opened There |
have been persistent rumors that the |
Santa Fe has already commenced to |
check in its agents along the Mid
land
Ordained and Naturalized. = Rev
John Kramer of innsbruck. Ger
many. was ordained priest at Con-
cordia by Ri. Rev Bishop Cunning |
ham. who said solemn high mass.
This is the first ordination of a priest
in Concordia. Father Kramer also
took out his first naturalization pa |
pers.
Stole the JUDGES Aat-Tbia,,oc -.
Mankato are no respecters of persons.
Recently they stole a watch from the
court stenographer, and the very next
night swiped hat belonging to Judge
DICK Pickler. of the district conrt