Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-03-23

Wichita Man Wants Them.-Gov-
ernor Hoch received a telegram from
L. 8. Naftzger. president of the
Fourth National bank of Wichita, Of
fering to take the entire state bond
issue for the branch penitentiary and
the state oil refinery. This is in re-
Spouse to the publication of Governor
Hoch's idea to sell the bonds at popu-
lar subscription. The issue will be
100000. A Hutchinson bank has also
wired the governor that it would like
to take 100000 of the ISSUE
Found Lost Daughter.-E F. Wood
worth, Denver banker. found his
daughter at Parsons, of whom he has
had no trace for fifteen years. Wood
worth and his wife separated fifteen
years ago. The child was given to the
mother by the courts. Mrs. Wood
worth afterward married a man nam
ed Langdon and the child was known
by that name. Langdon recently
deserted his wife. and the girl was
working in a laundry. She will re-
turn to Denver with her father.
Encampment May 22.-In answer to
an inquiry from General Black, COM
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army
,of the Republic. the department COM
mander, Charles Harris of Emporia,
has fixed the date for the next de-
partment encampment for Monday,
May %. at Parsons. On that evening
a big campfire will be held in honor
| Of the Ommander-in-chief,. who will
arrive from Grand Island, Neb., where
he Will attend the Nebraska encamp-
ment.
Birds Endanger Bridge. = At EN-
poria woodpeckers and yellowham-
hammers have honeycombed the
heavy timbers of the King bridge
across Eagle creek until the county
commissioners have condemned the
structure as unsafe, thus freeing the
county from any claim for damages
the oldest bridge in the county, and
was built mostly of wooden timbers
Twenty-Five years ago.
To Teach in PhiIippines.-Amos A.
Davis, acting president and instruc-
tor of the Highland university, in
Highland, will leave early in May for
Manila to teach in the government
schools in the Philippines. Both Mr..
Davis and his wife took civil service
examinations in Kansas City last
year, and have both been appoint
ed teachers in the Philippines. Their
combined salaries will be $4,000
Negro Sergeant Retired. - Regi-
mental Quartermaster's Sergeant
Richard Miller, Ninth cavalry, a ne
gro, was placed on the retired list at
Fort Riley after having served in the
army for thirty consecutive years as
an enlisted soldier. He put in more
time than that in the army, however.
His service dates back to the civil
war, when he enlisted with the Third
Kentucky.
Charged With Assault. - Chief of
Police Stahl and Patrolman Hutton
were arrested at Topeka on a war
rant sworn to by R. F. Hodgins,
charging them with assault. The
trouble arose over an alteration in a
drug store. Hodgins charges that the
two officers threatened to shoot him
unless he retracted statements he
made charging them with corruption
in Office.
Both Legs Cut Off. - Switchman
Lyster, employed in the Santa Fe
yards at Chanute, was brought to To-
peka for treatment at the hospital
Both of LISTERS legs were cut off by
a switch engine. Lyster is a man GO
years of age and has worked for the
Santa Fe for a number of years. The
legs were cut off below the knees.
Resurfacing Road Bed.-A gang of
fifty men are resurfacing the grade
of the Rock Island road, preparing it
for gumbo ballast to be laid from
Harrington to Turon this summer. A
steel gang will shortly commence lay
ing eighty-pound rails from McPher-
son to Bucklin.
Went Violently Insane. - Frank
Barber, a Leavenworth mail carrier,
became suddenly violently insane and,
after terrorizing the neighborhood
where he lives, disappeared. de-
ldCuluSAI Vi opCuI several
sarching for him, but he could not be
located.
Squibs Are Dangerous. - At Pitts
burg the shot firers are strongly op-
posed to returning to the old system
of firing shots with squibs instead of
fuse. which was recommended by the
commission sent into the district to
inquire into the cause of the fire.
quency of such explosions. The shot
firers are unit in the opinion that
squibs are more dangerous to life
than fuse, and that the work cannot
be done as quickly with squibs as
with fuse. A meeting will be called
of all the shot firers in the district in
the near future, when a protest will
be sent up against the use of the
squibs. Many of the old shot firers
have signified their intention of quit
ting if they are compelled to return
to the squibs.
Swedish Mission College. = The
plumbers have begun work on the
plumbing of Walden conservatory,
part of the Swedish Mission college
at Mcpherson. This will be the lar
gest job of the kind in this part of the
state, including water and heating
pipes. The masons are now through
with their work up to the second
story of the building.
Records Destroyed. A strange
and sensational crime was committed
in the city building at Howard, and
valuable records were destroyed. The
city attorney and collector for the
gas plant have an Office together on
the second floor of the city building.
Some time during the night the door
was broken open and the books, pa
pers and fixtures of the city belonging