Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-07-20

worry was the cause of his death.
The farm on which he and his moth
er were living was only recently pur-
chased. An older brother lives in
Hoisington. Moffet was an indus
trious, pleasant young man about %
years of age.
Board Of Control secretary.-Brown
Corby. of Harrington, will probably be
the secretary of the state board of
control. J. N. Johnson. of Oskaloosa.
came down to take the job, but after
he found out the duties of the Office
concluded that he didn't want it. 1t
would keep him confined too closely.
Corby was figuring on going into a
bank at Marion, but this other open
ing came up and he may take it.
Southern Yards at Davidson.-Cat-
tie are being shipped from the Mis-
souri, Pacific stock yards at Davidson,
Kan, under orders from the Kansas
live stock commission, which allow
ed the yards to be opened as South
ern yards. The yards were closed
last year after the farmers of the sur
rounding country had taken the case
into the courts and had them declar-
ed public nuisance because the
Southern cattle shipped from there
spread Texas fever in the native
herds.
Railway Men Desert.-The work in
rebuilding the railway line between
Kinsley and Dodge City is at stand
still owing to the men having desert
ed for the harvest. The hills are be-
ing cut down between Wright and
Dodge City. The railway yards at
Kinsley are to be changed and en-
larged and a new gravity coal chute
is to be built at the east end. Agent
C. w. Class wants new freight de-
pot for his patrons and may get it.
His freight receipts for June were
$4,000 in excess of a year ago.
crease in runs of Kansas territory
oil is shown in the bulletin issued at
1 Chanute of runs for the first week Of
July. 1t was the first announced cut
made since tie order was made to
take all oil. The increase for the en-
tire field of daily runs is over 5000
barrels. The deliveries to refineries
remains the same as before, showing
that nearly all of the increased oil
runs was put in tankage. One hun.
dred and eighty-four thousand barrels
were put in storage tanks for the sew
en- days. The greatest increase in
runs was in the Chanute-Humboldt
district
In Love With Horse.-When Rob-
ert Brooking was arrested at Atlanta
on a charge of stealing horse, pre-
ferred by D. B. Kline of Haswell.
Colo, he broke down and cried, say
ing to the sheriff. at whom he had
shot from a patch Of weeds, that he
was in love with the horse. He was
working for Kline at the time of the
theft. Later when he was taken back
for prosecution, and while Kline was
identifying his horse at stable,
young Brooking broke down again
and running up to the horse, threw his
arms about It's neck and cried like
child. The horse is a beautiful
black.
No convicts to Spare. - When the
board of directors of the Kansas peni-
| Tertiary was in session, Chicago
firm manufacturing pants, overalls
and blouses, made application to lease
convict labor and locate shop with
in the prison. The firm wanted the
labor of at least 100 prisoners and as
many more as could be spared. The
firm has leases for convict labor in
the Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan and
other state penitentiaries. The repre-
sentative of the firm was informed
that there was no prison labor to
lease here. At present there are
only about $50 prisoners leased to
both the furniture and overall fac
tories
Harvest Hand Murdered.-A strang-
er whose name is supposed to be Rob-
ert Ross, was killed by footpads in
the Union Pacific yards at Salina
Ross Is supposed to have been return
ing from the harvest fields. His part
ner states that two negroes held
them up and took what money they
had, and then he and Ross separated
Later he heard a shot fired which is
supposed to have killed Ross. This
is the second man murdered here this
week. Both bodies lie at the morgue
awaiting Notification.
Killed by Lightning. - During an
unusually severe electrical storm
Fred Joiner, son of w. L. Joiner, a
farmer living northwest of Galena,
was instantly killed by lightning. The
storm was accompanied by a heavy
rain, which was general throughout
this county, and Jasper county, Mo.
scaIded by Hot Fruit.-Ca-los, the
14-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Asher, living south of Great
Bend, who was playing about the
room, fell into pan of hot plum pre-
serves. His arms are badly burned
up to the shoulder, and his condition
is critical
Traffic Insufficient. - The Missouri
Pacific has filed it's answer in the case
to compel it to re-establish passenger
service on the lines between Fort
Scott and Topeka and between Win
field and Larned. 1t states that the
service has not been paying and gives
the amount of business done for the
three months prior to the time of TAX
ing the passenger trains off the lines.
In December the average number of
passengers carried per mile was IL,
the same number were carried in
January and in February the traffic
dropped to 6.