Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-06-29

Wants to be a City. = The county
commissioners have granted the pc
tition of a delegation of williamsburg
citizens for the incorporation of their
town as a city of the third class.
Southern Kansas MiIIers. = The
Southern Kansas Millers' Commercial
Club was in session in Wichita
Crop prospects, prices and freight
rates on grain were the main topics
for discussion. The meeting ended
with banquet.
Was Out on Parole.-A negro CIV
ing his name as Gatewood was ar
rested at Emporia, charged with be-
ing paroled prisoner from the IL
linois reformatory. The officials of
that institution were notified. They
will send for him at once.
Killed by the cars.-A young man
giving his. name as George Williams
and his age as 81 years, was killed
by the wtst bound through freight
train in the Union Pacific yards at
Manhattan. The wheels of a dozen
cars passed over his body.
State Bank of SoIomon.-Another
bank has been started in Central
Kansas, the stockholders being
principally farmers. The State Bank
of Solomon will open for business
July 1, with F. Hagerman, president
of the National Bank of America, of
Salina. as president.
Teach Violin at X. U.-Announce
ment was made that Miss Helen
Phipps of Chicago had been select
ed to take charge of the violin de
partment at the University of Kan.
sas. Miss Phipps is from the Ameri
can Conservatory of Music in Chi
cago and has been concert master
of the conservatory orchestra.
Acid in His Face.-At Pittsburg an
unknown man called w. R. Scott,
lumber merchant. to the latter's door
here and threw pint of carbolic
acid in his face. Scott was burned
terribly about the face, neck and
shoulders. He may live but probably
will be blind. The assailant escap-
ed. No motive for the attack is
known
Society Will Incorporate. With
Mrs. F. A. Parsons, formerly of the
Kansas City Humane Society at it's
head, society for Prevention of Cru
city to Children and Animals has
been organized at Chanute and will
soon inoorDOrata Tho or0ani1atiop
is the result of recent alleged brutal
ity to children in this city, over
which the police had no control.
chanute Wants Lawson.-Chanute
tation to Thomas w. Lawson, of Bos-
ton, to visit Chanute and the oil fields
when he comes to Kansas. Lawson
speaks at the Ottawa assembly July
s, and it is desired that he come to
Chanute before filling his next en-
gagement at Fairbury, Neb, July IL.
Several Chanute men have met Mr..
Lawson when on business trips to
Boston.
Arkansas City's Water Supply. -
An investigation was conducted by
State Geologist Erasmus Haworth
and the city officials to develop a
plan to increase the water supply of
Arkansas City. The city can get
plenty of water from series of
springs northwest of town and the
state geologist was called in consul
tation to decide whether or not the
cuDnIU would hQ
Adds Insult to Injury.-After Myra
McHenry left the Arkansas City Jail
and went to Winfield, she mailed
back to the city marshal a drawing
she made while doing time for con-
tempt of court. The picture shows
the city attorney, police judge and
a jointist- with locked arms headed
for a door over which appears the
word Saloon" The picture was
drawn June II while she was in Jail.
The judge and attorney say they will
have her locked up again should she
return to Arkansas City. She was
allowed to go before her time was
up.
Major Scott at Winfield. Major
Winfield Scott, retired United
States army chaplain, for whom Win
field was named in 1871, is in that
city from Scottsdale, Ariz., on his
way to Woodward to visit brother.
Fire in Kansas Mine.-A DESTRUCTIVE
fire started from a spark from the
smoke stack in the roof of the boiler
house at Wear Coal company's mine
No. 5 at Pittsburg and destroyed all
of the outbuildings of the mine ex-
cept the blacksmith shop. The fire
also spread into the main shaft and
burned all of the cribbing and timber
in the bottom. The loss is estimated
at $4,000 with insurance of $4,000.
Is Injurying corn.-During the past
week the web worm has been very
destructive in a number of corn fields
destructive in a number of corn fields.
South of Junction City about five
miles is a field of about five acres
where the corn has been completely
killed Every stalk of corn in the
field is wilted and is lying on the
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left by the worm. The worm has
already made its appearance in many
other fields in that vicinity.
Carnegie Gives $1,000. = Andrew
Carnegie has promised $4,000 for a
building for the free city library at
Russell, Kan. as soon as site is pro-
vided, and $500 a year is pledged by
the council to support library. The
present library was established by
popular vote in 1900 A site will be
secured as soon as possible.
Fatal Runaway. = E. H Miller,
prominent Neosho county farmer liv-
ing four miles west of st. Paul, re-
ceived fatal injuries in a runaway at