Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-10-26

vile to Neodesha. The grade is con-
structed to Independence, IS miles
north. Steel has been laid in the
streets of Coffeyville and track laying
has begun on the grade leading out OF
the city.
Stamp of Honesty. = The Newton
postmaster has started a conscience
fund. He received an anonymous let
ter the other day with two 2-cent
stamps inclosed. The writer said ne
cheated the Newton Office out of one
stamp several years ago; that he h =,
now got religion and herewith return
ed the stamp with one stamp for in
terest
Masterson at Wichita.-"Bat" Mas
terson of New York City, a deputy
United States marshal. who was a
terror to bad men when Wichita was
a COW town, is here visiting his broth
er-in-law, James Cairns. Masterson
came here first in 1859 and camped
with Bob" Carson on the Little Ar
kansas river when a log cabin was
the only house on the townsite and
before there was such a place as
Wichita
Made an Exception. = The Kansas
charter board strained a point to help
the government out on its irrigation
project in Finney county. 1t author
lied company to hold stock in 9TH
er corporations. While it isn't against
the 1aW for ono c0nponv m hold stool
in another, the charter board made a
rule some years ago prohibiting that
practice, claiming it was against good
business judgment. But it made an
exception in the present case.
The Rosedale Joints.-Henry Kee-
fer, mayor, said that he would take
no action to close the joints until the
county attorney, James Gibson, acts.
THE police judge and city attorney
may act independent of the county at.
torney and close Them" said he, but
l will do nothing now" There are
eight joints here. They pay the city
$50 and costs of SIS each. This $40O
goes into the general revenue fund
of the city and the sG4 goes to the
police court fund.
Threw Him on the Track.-M. W.
Mossman, secretary of the Woodman
lodge in Maize, was knocked down,
cholled into insensibility and robbed
of SIS by two men near the Missouri
Pacific railroad track ten miles north.
west of Wichita. He had hardly re.
gained consciousness and left the
track when a passenger train pass
ed. He walked to Maize, where a
posse with bloodhounds was organ.
lied. 1t now is securing the country.
The money secured by the robbers
belongs to the lodge.
Indian Graves Desecrated.-Somev van.
dals visited the Indian cemetery on
the Pottawatomie reservation the 9TH
er day and desecrated some gaaves and
stole the skulls of some dead Indians.
The Pottawatomies bury their dead in
sitting position with their head
above ground, but covered with a
mound of earth. These mounds were
torn down and the skulls pulled off
the body and carted away One was
the skull of Chief Rack Racks son.
The old warrior has asked the authori-
ties to run down the vandals. He
claims they were Topeka church poo
pie. who went to the reservation to
dedicate Il Methodist mission.
Black Eye For osawatomie. - The
Missouri Pacific shops here have been
closed permanently and the shutdown
affects about 500 families of machin-
lists, boilermakers, blacksmiths, help
ers, etc. Most of the men will be Civ
en- positions in the new shops Just
opened by the company at Sedalia,
Mo-, but number of the men who
worked in the shops here and who
own their homes have declared their
intention of remaining here until they
can sell their property. The railroad
company will continue to operate its
roundhouse contingent here, but that
will give employment to a mere hand
full of men.
Wichita Church Raises $11,142. =
Since the first meeting in the new
st. Paul's NJ. Z. church last Sunday
S11 JAP has been raised. The mag
nificent sum of $4,000 was raised by
a public donation of the congregation
at the evening service. This sum has
grown since the meeting, the most of
which has been given by the mem.
bers of the church and all of which
will be paid the first of the year.
Three thousand dollars more will
place the church entirely out of debt,
and this amount is expected to be
forthcoming before the first of the
year.
Not EhrenfeId's Body. - William
Ehrenfeld, of Whiting. supposed to
have been murdered on Pixies Peak
three years ago, returned to Whiting
this week. The body of a man with
bullet in his head and his pockets
wrong side out was identified as that
of Ehrenfeld. Ehrenfeld, who has
consumption, has been in the noun
tains of Mexico three years trying to
regain his health. He left Colorado
shortly before the dead man was
found.
Two Humboldt Raids.-Two Joints
at Humboldt were raided by Marshals
Gilbert and Benson, and a quantity of
booze taken. The restaurant of P. F.
Davis was raided and ten cases of
beer and one jug of whisky were
found. Davis was arrested and re.
leased on 5000 bond.
First Steam Pillow. = A. L. Bradley
OF Jetmore is using the first steam
pillow brought to the county in piow-
ing his wheat land. The plow turns
twenty burrows and is proving a sue.
cess.
Assaulted in Court. = Ex-Congress