Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-08-17

Farmer and sons Drowned. - John
Walters and his two elder sons were
drowned in Hickory creek near Nc
Cune while fording the creek with a
load of hay
Install Manual Training. = The
board of education of Winfield has de-
cided to put manual training in the
city schools. C. ]. Smith of Wichita
will give the preliminary instruc-
tions
Santa Re Brakeman Injured. =
Charles Moser, Santa Fe brakeman,
was caught between the bumpers of
two cars at Salina and will probably
die as a result. He has been with the
Santa Fe here fifteen years.
Good Well at Garnett. - The Gar
nett Gas Company has struck one of
the strongest gas wells yet found in
this field. The pressure was so
strong that water could not be kept
in the well to wet the sand Another
was commenced
Buggy Struck by Car. w. r. Du
laney, manager of the Wichita Union
Stock Yards. was seriously hurt and
is now in st. Francis hospital. While
driving on North Main street his
buggy was struck by street car and
he was thrown to the pavement. His
right ankle was shattered. and he
was otherwise painfully bruised.
Say Melvin Is Insane.-C. L. Mel
wins attorneys announced that the
wrecker would plead not guilty to all
charges against him. His counsel
will try to show that he is insane and
save him from the pen by having him
sent to an asylum. There has been
no demonstration of any kind against
Melvin. Visitors are not allowed to
see him.
Voting Orient Bonds.-At Emporia
the city council has ordered an cleo
ton for $4,000 bonds for the Kansas
City, Mexico and Orient railroad to
take place September 5, on the same
day elections for township bonds will
be held in Jackson, Emporia and Pike
townships. So far as can be ascer-
tanned there will be no opposition to
the bond proposition.
Becomes Warden Sept. 1. - w. H.
Haskell, of Smith, resigned as a d.
rector of the penitentiary. He will
go in as warden on September 1. He
will be succeeded as director by Cap
tain John Seaton, of Atchison. Has
kell's commission as warden and
Seaton's as director have been made
out and will be signed by Governor
Hoch upon his return from the East.
Drank carboIic Acid.-W. W. Ham
ilton, prominent farmer and stock
man living near lakewood station,
committed suicide by drinking car
bolic acid. He had been suffering
from nervous prostration for year,
and it is thought his suicide was the
result of melancholia. He left no
communication and the family had
no intimation that he contemplated
killing himself.
Veterans Object to carnivaI.-Some
of the old soldiers interested in the
Pittsburg reunion are advocating max
ing a radical change. The veterans
who want the reunion to be a reunion
of old soldiers in the true sense pro-
pose that the carnival feature be done
away with. They claim that the side
shows, grafters, takers and rough
crowd which cannot be eliminated at
oh f4 hA
union
Has Surplus of Teachers.-Salina,
port that they have surplus of teach
ers and can supply a dozen each to
Western Kansas counties. In addi-
ton to this Usage has 20, Johnson 10,
Wyandotte 20 and Crawford rs that
they can spare. This makes 120 that
Western Kansas can draw on. Wash.
ington still needs %, Stafford 30,
Smith 20, Phillips rs and Jefferson 8.
All information can be obtained by
writing the county superintendent OF
those counties.
Found Dead In an Oil Tank. -
Word was received at Chanute
that Dudley w. Chambers had
been found lying dead at the bot,
tom of an oil tank, five miles south.
east of Chanute. Mr.. Chambers was
field manager for the Southwestern
Oil and Gas Company. He went out
to the property in the morning His
horse was found hitched to the fence
1t is thought that he was asphyxiated
by the gases arising from the oil.
The top of the tank was broken in,
showing that it had given way be-
meath his weight, and he had been
unable to climb up the greasy sides
of the tank. There was only about
sig inches of oil in the tank
Kansas Reciprocity Delegates. =
These delegates were named by the
national reciprocity conference at
Chicago on August 1917: Calvin
Hood, Emporia; A. w. Smith, Nc
Pherson; C. K. Wells, Kansas City;
E. H. Funston, lola; w. E. Stanley,
Wichita; E. N. Morrill,. Hiawatha; +.
B. Dawes, Leavenworth; R. W. Blue,
Columbus; J. B. Adams, Eldorado;
Fremont Leidy, Leon.
Profits of Wheat Raising. - Many
100-acre wheat fields in Rocks county
are paying clean profit Of $500 af
ter counting all the work done on
them as cash expense. Where the
work is all done by the man himself
and his family the cash returns in
many cases are about the $4,000
mark.
Three Churches Unite.-Rev. W. F.
Harding and family went from Arkan-
sas City for their new home at Garden