Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-11-02

fNeosho county.
SaIina Butchers Fined.-In the DO
lice court here Quinn Bros, butchers,
were convicted and fined for violating
! city ordinance by keeping their
| place open on Sunday. The case has
been appealed to the district court.
The defendants will fight the case
and attempt to knock out the ordi-
nance
Preparing for Natural Gas. The
Leavenworth Light and Heating Com
pany has ci hated letters to all con-
sumers of ) that before anyone will
be permitted to use natural gas it will
be necessary to sign a contract as is
stated in the local company's agree
ment with the Kansas Natural Gas
Company's mains not later than No
vember Is.
Charged With Fraud. = r. r. Red.
man, who says he is travelling sales
man for Louisville, KY, liquor firm,
is under arrest at Arkansas City and
is being held for Oklahoma authori-
| ties. Redman is wanted in Fairfax
and Blackwell, Okla. The charge
against him at both places is obtain
ing money under false pretenses by
means of worthless drafts. =
Killed Man With Fist.-Edward z.
Sismolik, a soldier of the Eighteenth
| infantry, was tried at Leavenworth
on charge of manslaughter, and &C.
quilted. Sismolik killed coal miner
named David Pogue, and the testi.
mony tended to show that the killing
was accidental, the blow being with
the naked fist. Sismolik claimed that
Pogue had insulted woman in his
presence
Goes to Oregon Aeency.-Superin-
tendent o. C. Edwards, for several
years past agent in Brown county, has
been transferred to the Indian agency
at Amitilla, Ore, and has moved there
with his family. Indian Agent
Charles Ziebach, from North Dakota,
is his successor here. He has moved
his family into the nAw home recent.
ly built for the agent on the Kicka-
poo reservation near Germantown.
]. G. Waters, OF Topeka, policyholder
in the Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany. has sent his proxy as a stock
holder to ex-President Cleveland, with
instructions to represent him at the
stockholders meetings. Captain Wa
tiers says that all other policyholders,
who by virtue of that fact are stock,
holders in the concern, should send
| their proxies to Cleveland, as he would
see that they got square deal.
Knights of collRnbus.-A gathering
of Knights Of Columbus will be held
here Sunday, November 5, at the es-
adjustment Of chapter of the order
at Chanute. Visitors from Parsons,
lola, Independence, Cherryvale and
other points are expected. A special
train will be run from Parsons, alone
| bringing 800 guests. All the promin-
ent Catholic officials of the state are
expected to attend, including Chancel-
lor Then, of Wichita, who will be
POSTMASTER of the banquet.
Plan for Peace Tower.-James Weir
Croydon, of London, Eng, has writ
ten to Gov. Hoch suggesting that a
contribution be taken up in the civil
lied countries of the world for a
Roosevelt peace tower. Croydon sug-
gests that it be 1850 feet high and be
! erected in the center of the United
States. That would bring it at Kan
apolis. Kan. Gov. Hoch thinks that
Kansas would chip in very literally
on the proposition if the tower came
to Kansas for permanent home
| Greydon's idea is to do something to
commemorate President Roosevelt's
action in bringing Japan and Russia
/ to peace terms,
Hutchinson Does Its Share. - The
committee appointed some time ago
| to secure subscriptions to the promo
| ton fund of the Gulf, Hutchinson &
| Northwestern, has completed its
work. The condition on which the
subscriptions were made was that
none should be good until an aggre-
gate sum of $4,000 had been raised in
Hutchinson. This condition has been
| complied with. The committee has
brought the total up to $3.50 and
will at once turn over the checks,
which were given by subscribers to
Gnnron Vinorc 80
pany.
Negro Boy Craftsman. = Judge
Hudson, Of the juvenile court of Fort
Scott has in his charge a negro boy
IL years of age who has been sentenc-
ed to the reform school for burglary.
The boy, Jerry Green, robbed a safe
in an office where he was employed,
three different times, and on one oc-
| casion he used steel drill and sue
ceeded in drilling hole into the door
of the safe, but was frightened away
before he could use an explosive He
has confessed committing the crime.l
Hurt in Glass Plant.-A swivel used
to shovel fuel into the furnace in the
Coffeyville window glass plant broke
r. H. Vermillion, workman, was
caught beneath it and his leg crush
ed. There was load of 300 pounds
in the shovel when it broke.
Boy Robs Stores at Bellevue. =
Douglass Child, 15-year-old boy, was
arrested here charged with breaking
into the posteffice and several stores
at night. He was charged with break
ing into the postoffice and stealing 50
| in change.
| Drank Wood Alcohol. = Frank Gull
lom, convict aLansing, died as