Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-11-09

is a branch Of the Standard, expects
to have rigs working in this field With
| in a week or ten days.
Killed by Fall of Rock.-Leo Bap
tista, an Italian miner employed in
shaft No. OF the Mount Carmel Coal
Company, northeast of Frontenac, was
instantly killed by fall of rock.
Big Fair at Harper. = The Harper
fair association is having one of the
best old-fashioned country fairs ever
held in southern Kansas. The rail
roads have granted reduced rates.
Fire Destroys Store. = D. S. Phil
bricks general store at Cullison in
Pratt county was burned Monday and
not dollar saved out of the stock.
The loss is estimated at $4,000. The
insurance on stock and building was
$4,000. The origin of the fire is un-
known.
From Topeka Office. = Postmaster
Guthrie issued checks to more than
| 1900 rural mail carriers who will
! draw 100000 of the government funds
/ for their work during the past month.
| AT this rate the annual amount paid
to the rural carriers for the next year
will reach the sum of S1,2O0,0O0
Woman Adiudged Insane. = Mrs
Luella White was adjudged insane by
a commission appointed by the pro-
bate court at Wichita. She imagines
that che ic ha &c
talker and keeps talking continually
to any one near her, or to herself. She
is AZ years OF age and has two child
rem.
Demands IS Cent Gas. - 1t is now
said that the city council will refuse
to grant the Leavenworth Light and
Heating Company any kind of fran
chise unless there is an ironclad pro-
vision making the price of natural gas
25 cents a thousand The ordinances
heretofore introduced placed the price
at SIS cents.
Violated Fish Law.-Charles Sallee,
Is years of age, the youngest game
warden in the state of Kansas, wh0
arrest for violation of the fish laws.
He secured conviction, too. He dis
covered William Leslie, Grover Hen
derson and Noah Henderson fishing
unlawfully in the Usage river near
Mapleton and placed the men under
arrest. They pleaded guilty and paid
fine and costs, amounting to $27.25.
Trouble With Horses. = The State
Veterinarian reports several out
breaks of a trouble in horses in diff
ferent parts of the state, which was
caused by parasites described as the
Palisade worm (strongylus armatus).
Each outbreak has caused loss to
the owner of nearly a thousand dol
lars worth of horses. From the fact
that the trouble does not always
manifest itself in the same way it fire.
quently puzzles the local veterinarian
for some time
lola Jointists Arrested. C. L.
Evans, the newly appointed assistant
attorney general for Allen county, has
caused the arrest of six men charged
with violations of the prohibitory law.
Fixtures seized in several places were
stored away to await an order from
the court for their destruction So
soon as the appointment was made
Known number of men who had been
ENGAGED in the liquor business pre-
pared to leave and there was an ex-
odus of at least fifteen of them
.Dold Will Expand.-There are init
nations in financial circles that some
important change is to be made in
conp o0tion with the Wichita bold
Packing Company. One rumor says
an interest in the big packing house
has been sold. Another rumor is to
the effect that the car shops of the
company at Kansas City will be NOV
ed to Wichita; that the big packing
house will be still further enlarged
and that the entire packing interests
of the Dold company will be centered
in Wichita.
Killing Grasshoppers. = 1t is said
that the recent cold, damp weather
has been doing away with the grass
hoppers. The grasshoppers at this
time of the year generally feed on the
young wheat, close to where there is
hedge fence and at nights they re-
tire to the fence and curl up to sleep.
But it is said that the grasshopper
merchants forgot to lay in a supply
of wooden blankets this fall, and the
result is that the hopper has to go to
bed clad only in the night gown which
nature gave him. This costume being
decidedly brief, the grasshopper be-
comes thoroughly chilled and at last
falls over, frozen to death.
Millionaire Visits CoffeyviIle.-Cof-
feyville was the home for a few
hours of a multi-millionaire in the
person of ]. c. Mcdowell, of Pitts
burg, associate of J. c. Barnsdall, head
of the Kansas Natural and one of
the worlds heaviest oil traffickers.
The gentleman with the ample wad
was paying his first visit to the gas
and oil fields of the Kansas-Territory
belt and seeing for the first time that
of which he owns so much,
Visiting State Reformatory. = The
board of managers of the Wisconsin
reformatory are at Hutchinson visit
ing at the State Reformatory and
making an investigation of affairs in
this part of the world. Superintend-
ent Marshall and other officers are
showing them around
Bad for "kiowa Jim."-James Dyer,
known in early times as "Kiowa jim
one of the famous buffalo hunters of
the west, was thrown from his pony