Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-02-23
KANSAS COMMENT

the ice on the Missouri river at sew
eral points-the first time since the
winter of 1899.
New Postoffice.-Uncle Sam show.
ed his partially to Kansas the other
day when he established postofice
at Corbin City, a brick yard suburb
of Chsrryvale.
Shot Firers kilIed.-Joe Wright and
C.. E. Moore, shot firers, were killed
in an explosion at the Devlin-Miller
mine, north OF Pittsburg. The mine
was badly wrecked.
Greatest on Record.-The slaught-
er of Kansas cottontails and jack
rabbits in the past week has been the
greatest on record. People are afraid
to eat away from home lest they get
rabbit for dinner.
While Thawing Engine. = A. R.
Brown, an employee of the Frisco rail-
road. was killed in the yards at Fort
Scott He was at work thawing out
an engine that had been frozen up
during the night, when a passing en-
CINE caught him, killing him instant
~.
Pringle In The Chair. - Pringle. of
Usage, was called TO preside over the
house in committee of the whole on
the drainage bill today. 1t was the
first time he had been in the chair
this session. His old admirers who
made him speaker two years ago ap-
plauded as he went up. When he rap
ped for order the gavel broke and ev-
erybody laughed. Pringle was kept
busy all the afternoon on the bill.
Injured BY Bursting Pipe. - Geo.
was painfully injured by the bursting
of water pipe leading from the range
to a heating tank in the kitchen Of
the st. James House. The force of the
explosion wrecked the range, and
Nichols face and body were filed
with broken pieces of iron. His eyes
may be injured permanently. Two
other persons in the kitchen when the
explosion occurred escaped injury.
Its Christening Gift.-Senator Dolly.
of Wabaunsee. has introduced a bill
appropriating $4,000 to buy a silver
service for the battleship Kansas, now
being built by the navy department.
1t is always the custom of state af-
ter which battleship is named to
give it a silver service. Senator Dolly
wants the governor and his staff to be
present when the ship is launched,
and his bill sets aside $1,000 to pay
their expenses on the trip.
Student Acquitted. Will Carson,
the second student of the University
of Kansas, whose case for disturbance
of the peace in football celebration
was appealed from police court to the
district court. was acquitted at Law
renee. The only sensational incident
development that Carson was not the
defendants real name. but that he had
given that alias in police court. His
real name is Hale. and his parents are
prominent Western Kansas people.
Shot Shattered Breast. - Ernest
Hathaway, 16 years old. was accident
ally shot in the left breast while hunt
ing with a brother on their fathers
farm near Winfield. He was carrying
a shotgun, which was disarranged, and
he bent forward to examine it.
The hammer caught in the leggings
he was wearing and exploded the
shell. The charge of shot shattered
Hathaway's breast and struck his
lung. He was brought to town, where
he was placed in st. Mary's hospital,
and is in a precarious condition.
Learning to Make Bread. - The
school for bakers recently authorized
by the war department was Inaugural
ted at ort Riley. The first class con-
sists of eighteen pupils representing
the infantry, coast artillery, cavalry
and field artillery. Thirteen of this
number will represent the first two
banches of the service, and come
from Columbus barracks, o. The re-
racks. Mo-, and will represent the
cavalry and field artillery. The pur.
pose of the school is to turn out com.
petent bakers
Gas and Oil inspectors. Senator
Porter, of Montgomery, introduced
two more bills affecting the gas and
oil industry. One provides for the ap
pointment by county commissioners OF
an oil inspector in each county where
crude oil is produced. He is to inspect
crude oil and see that none is wasted
and that streams are not polluted. The
other bill provides for the appointment
by the county commissioners in each
gas producing county of gas inspec
tor, to see that the laws against vast
ing gas are complied with, as well as
all pipe lines and other gas laws.
Worst of the Year. The worst
blizzard of this year prevailed al
Colby. A strong wind from the north
is accompanied by snow.
Rats MutiIate Mans Body.-James
Johnson, sixty years old, was found
dead at his home in the suburbs OF
Ottawa. where he had fallen in an at
tack of apoplexy. The discovery was
made by a little neighbor girl who
went to take the old man valentine
Johnson lived alone in small house
The rats had attacked his body dur
ing the night and had horribly mutt
lated it
Is Worthless Now.-L. c. Judson Of
Rantoul, owner of the farm on which
is one of the states biggest oil wells
says: It's a great well. It's full
of oil. No gas. No water. Just oil
What of it? It's worth nothing now
No market. Some time. maybe, there
will be. if we can get the corporation
clutch from our throttle.
Smallpox in School. - Salina has