Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-08-10
KANSAS COMMENT

ordered established in Dickinson
county. total number of routes, thirty.
one; Mitchell county, total number of
routes, twenty-four.
Regulation of Dogs.-The Winfield
officers are vigorous in pursuit of
dogs. Over 80 dogs were killed dur
ing two days. Dog taxes are being
paid on large number of dogs, max
lag the best showing for number of
years.
Drowned in Creek.-Joe Bailey, the
15-year-old son of ]. Bailey, a promin-
ent stock raiser. living near Arcadia,
was drowned while fording Drywood
creek at the Bailey farm. twelve
miles north of Pittsburg. The creek
passes through the Bailey stock
farm.
Large Barn Burned. The large
barn of Carl Osborne. who lives six
miles north of Emporia. was struck
by lightning during a storm and burn
ed to the ground, together with SEQ
bushels of oats, $500 bales of hay,
one mule team, large span of work
horses. wagons. harness and farm
tools. Insurance on the barn was
$700. The total loss is $4,000.
Author Married Quietly. Nv. Cor
don Parker and Verna E. Clark were
married at Valley ranch, the home of
the brides parents, east of Arkansas
City. The groom is from New York
and is the author of some popular
juvenile books which he illustrated
himself He is now engaged in the
stock business here in addition to his
literary work.
New Asylum Superintendent. - Cr.
W. c. Van Mugs, who was appointed
to take the place of DIR. Newton as
superintendent of the asylum for the
feeble minded at Winfield, is the son
of ]. D. Van Mugs, who is now super
intendent of the insane asylum at
Osawatomie DR.. w. c. Van Mugs
was raised and educated in Wichita,
attending the Lewis Academy.
Gas Pipe Line for Topeka. - T. j..
Adams, of Vincennes, Ind. and w. S.
Kilmer, of Kansas City. have been
comforting with business men of To-
peka relative to a proposition to pipe
gas into that city from the Indian
Territory fields. The proposition is
to run pipe line from the Bartles-
vile territory to Topeka The pipe
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being tapped there to supply that
point
Governors Private Secretary. - F.
L. Williams, of CLAY Center, will soon
assume the position of private secre-
tary to Governor Hoch, succeeding
John Smith, of Marion, who was ap-
pointed temporarily to fill the place
after the resignation of T. A. McNeal
on July 1. when the latter became
state printer Smith will resume his
old duties as executive clerk in the
governors office, and Fred Knapp, the
present executive clerk, will become
secretary OF, the board of control
New M, X. & T. Shops at Parson5.
The contract for the location of the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas shops at
Parsons has been signed by the rail-
way company and the citizens of that
city. In consideration of Parsons do
mating a large sum of money toward
the purchase of a site for the shops
the railway company agrees to build
shops that will cost 100000. This
figure is somewhat smaller than was
at first expected, but it is large
enough to insure a good payroll. The
shops are to be completed within two
years.
Burton is SiIent.-Senator Burton
has gone to Chicago. He refused to
be interviewed in regard to the
Chickasaw bond before he left.
Collecting Animal Specimens. D.
E. Lantz. of Washington, D. c.. who
is connected with the United States
biological survey, visited Medicine
Lodge, collecting animal specimens
for governmental purposes He is an
expert trapper and gets about every
thing in this line. Among the most
interesting of the specimens so far
captured are a lot of Kangaroo rab-
bits which he got in the sand hills.
He also has many other small ami
mails peculiar to Kansas soil.
Young Wife a Suicide.-Mrs. c. L.
Shaff of Douglass committed suicide
by shooting herself in the right tenn
pie with revolver. The husband was
in an adjoining room with their baby
when he heard the shot Rushing to
his wife he found her dead. She was
81 years old and had been married
four years. She had been i'll for sew
eral months and had been home from
a Winfield hospital only three weeks.
1t is supposed dependency was the
cause of the suicide.
Linton Wants Second Term.-Lafe
Linton, of Smith county. . wants a
vindication. He was turned down for
year because he played in with the
old machine against the wishes of his
constituents. He will make the race
again next year on the grounds that
he is entitled to another term
cattIemen's Picnic. - Kingman
dropped out of the Kansas State
League. The cattlemen's picnic is all
that Kingman cares to handle in one
season.
Past Chancellor Dead. : Rude G.
Bellew. Of Wichita. aged % years,
died of typhoid fever after two weeks
illness. He was past chancellor of the
local X. of P. lodge, captain of Sir
Knights and member of the Modern
Brotherhood Of America He was. to
have been married in August and had
home ready to move into
Kansas OIL to GuIf.-A trainload of