Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-06-01

vile was destroyed Dy IRE. ne lOSS
is $4,000, with insurance of 100000
The fire is supposed to have been of
incendiary origin. :,
Generally Benefited by Rain.F- A
good general rain is falling over
western Kansas This is greatly need
ed to aid the wheat which has been
suffering for want of rain. The
spring crops viii also be greatly bene
fitted.
Hurt by Train : John Morgan, a
stranger. was run ovtr by Missouri
Pacific freight train at Leavenworth
and is said to be mortally injured. He
was trying to jump from the train
when he fell. Morgan's home is in
Kane, Pa.
Rain Came Too Late. = Copious
rains that were badly needed fell al
Concordia, but the wheat will not
make over three-fourths of crop and
oats will be very light The Hessian
fly has done much damage to wheat
in parts of Cloud county.
In Her Husbands Memory. : The
Law lCnCG lItS llOl lCSClNCd
from Mrs Theodore Poehler gift
of 1 900 volumes of new books for the
juvenile department, and a gift of $50
volumes of German books. The gift
is to be known as the Theodore Poeh-
Ter Memorial library, and is given by
Mrs. Poehler in memory of her late
husband
Auction Drilling Machinery. = Al
Cherryvale the Santa Fe will auction
off a car of oil well drill machinery,
valued at about $4,000. to satisfy its
claim for freight. The machinery
was shipped by A. Moore to Cherry
vale from Mountain View, o. T., a
year ago. Moore disappeared then
and has never been found No other
claimant has ever appeared.
WinfeId's New Bank. = The old
Winfield National Bank building on
North Main street, now occupied by
the WeIls-Fargo Express Company as
an Office, was bought by C. L. Crook
ham, of South Haven, DR.. c. E. Hin
shaw, C. T. Franks, j. c. Page and
others of local financial Importance.
who will start new bank at once.
This will make four banks for Win
field
Horses Burned With Barn.-During
a severe rain storm accompanied by
much thunder and lightning, a barn
belonging to NJ. ]. Glenn, well-to-do
farmer and pioneer of Pottawatomie
county, was struck by lightning and
burned. Seven head of horses were
burned to death. During the night
wind blew down barn just north of
here. Four and thirty-hundredths
inches of rain fell during thirty-six
hours.
No Pardon For Sell. = Governor
Hoch declared that he could not par
don Willie Sell. He says in part: 81
have given much thought and study
to this case but frankly confess that
l have come out of it all with no well
defined conviction. 1t is the most
mysterious and difficult problem
ever undertook to solve Others
seem to have a clear conviction of
Willie Sells innocence, and still 9th
ers of his guilt, but can reach no
clear side. l have doubts of his guilt,
but 1 have also doubts of his limo
cence. So for the present 1 will con
tent myself with declining to issue
the pardon. >
Oil Production Large,-The Prairie
Oil and Gas Company, which last
January strung pipe for an eight-inch
auxiliary pipe line from Bartlesville
to the storage tanks in Kansas, and
upon which line it discontinued work
under the famous shut down Or
der, has resumed work of construc-
ton, and a gang of men is laying the
line from Bartlesville to Caney. 1t
will be completed in few weeks The
Standard Oil Company is taking near,
ly 1000 barrels of oil day from Kan.
sas producers this month than it has
since the last legislature. The pro.
duction is so large, however that only
part of it can be run at best.
Adopts the Blake Signal. = Profes.
sor Lucien I. B. Lake, of the Univer-
sity of Kansas, has received word that
the German government has adopted
his ocean signaling device, and will
equip the coast of that country with
the invention This is the system that
has been tested by the United States
government and declared successful
1t is also employed on one of the
American yachts in the race across
the Atlantic.
Drowned in CeIIar.-At Topeka Es-
Their Underwood, the 2-year-old dau-
ghter of NJ NJ. Underwood, fell into
an abandoned cellar that was filled
and was drowned. The mother fished
the body out with a garden rake.
Bishops Assigned. = At Topeka the
United Brethrens conference adopted
the report of the committee on sal
aries, leaving them in the main I'M
changed. A slight change in the To-
cation of the bishops is shown by
report. Bishop Matthews goes to the
central district. Bishop Mills to the
eastern, Bishop Weekly to the west,
Bishop Carter to the south and Bish-
op Bell to the Pacific coast
hospital Contract - The proposals
for the construction of Fort Riley's
new hospital were opened. The low
est bid was submitted by J. B. Belts,
of Topeka, for $41 900. The hospital
will be built of stone. Work on it
will be commenced in June, and the
building is to be completed by July
of next year.
Killed by Neeress = At Chanute
Herbert Porter, aged 10. from Pitts
burg, was fatally stabbed during the
carnival by negro woman while she
was robbing him of $50. He leaves
a widow and child.
Visits Fort Riley. = Briagdier Cen