Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1905-10-19

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Prof. Peasley Acquitted. Profess
scr H. Peasley, the magnetic healer
who has been on trial for ten days,
charged with poisoning his wife last
July, was acquitted at Atchison.
Viewing Newton Wreck. - Three
miles seemed no distance at all to
scores of Newton people when a
wreck was 20 be seen at the other
end of the line. Some of the more
curious rode out to the place. but the
majority rode out in buggies, car
riages or automobiles.
Used Mails to Defraud.-Mrs. Cora
Sohns of Junction City pleaded guilt
in the United States district court to
charge of using the mails TO defrand
in connection with answering the adj
vertisement of man who wanted a
wife. She was fined $50 and SEN
fenced to one day in Jail.
On a Practice March. - A practice
march from Fort Riley to Clay Center
"oo ny IiOOp ~ VI buC
Eleventh cavalry, under the COM
mand of Lieutenant Westmoreland.
The troop is going to Clay Center 10
remain during the Clay county fair
and give exhibitions there.
Minister Was Egged. - Rev. Mr..
Carlton, minister who has been
holding a holiness meeting in the
United Brethren church at Maize
Kan, was egged by mob of men and
boys while returning home from
church. 1t is said that he had been
making uncalled for remarks about
the men and women during his ser
mons.
Elks to Spend $s,ooo.-The Hutch
inson Elks expect to make large adj
dition to their club house The min
strel show to be given will be the
starting of the building fund. They
are planning to build an extension
that will cost about $4,000. 1t will be
of brick, two stories in height, and
will join thel present club house at
the rear.
Wife Beaten Fined 500. - Frank
Faron, Dickinson county farmer
worth $4,000, was fined 500 for
whipping his wife and children. Mrs.
Faron also sued for divorce and
brought suit. to put Faron under bond
for threatening her life. 1t is alleged
that he drove the family from home
recently and the children hid in a
cornfield all night.
Typhoid at Fort.-There is consid-
cradle excitement among the student
officers at Fort Leavenworth over the
appearance of typhoid fever in their
ranks. Two cases were reported and
it is feared that others will follow
soon, as these cases are undoubtedly
the result of drinking impure water,
and the student officers frequently
drink at the same place.
Is Fatally Burned. Mrs. Albert
Fischer, a farmers wife living four
miles southeast of Waverly, was ia.
tally burned from pouring coal oil
from can into the kitchen stove. A
heavy explosion occurred All the
clothing was burned from her body
and she died from her injuries. The
house caught fire from the flames, but
was saved by hard work.
Hutchinson's Oil Road. - The re.
formatory road that was prepared for
the old trail is looming up. Mr. Dick
ems, who was sent here by the state,
has had oil spread on the road The
street was graded about sixty feet
wide for a distance of quarter Of q
mile. The surface was then cut deep
with disk harrow, dragged in all di-
rections with a sharp toothed harrow
to break the surface into small par
ticles, then dragged to a crown at the
center with, a heavy plank road drag
After this it was rolled. This made
it ready for oil, and this was applied
with an oil tank wagon prepared 70,
the work
Lecture Course $500 Out.-At lola
with the present sale of lecture course
tickets the association stands to lose
$500. The talent for the course and
the rent for the Grand theater
amounts to something like s1,1OO and
as yet the sale of tickets has not ex-
ceeded $500. The members of the as
sociation undertook the work of SUD-
plying lola with a meritorious lee.
ture course for the benefit of the city
1t was planned that what money might
be cleared on the enterprise should
be annlied to giving an even better
course the succeeding year. 1t is in
no way calculated to be money max.
ing enterprise.
Scottish Rite Reunion. The Scot.
fish Rite bodies of Topeka will hold
their fall reunion October "a to 26,
inclusive. A large class, made up
of Masons from all parts of Kansas
reunion a banquet will be given in
honor of the class and several prom
inent Masons will be on the program
for speeches. Before the next re-
union the stage in the Masonic lodge
room is to be enlarged and improve,
ments made in the room.
Will Feed New Corn.-When husk-
ing begins the corn is going to hit
the bottom of the crib on nearly ev.
cry farm in Kansas. Instead of hav-
ing several hundred bushels of old
corn to start on, feeders this year
are depending almost wholly on the
new crop to carry them through from
start to finish.
Land in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES coun-
ty has larger acreage in cemeteries
than any other county in the state. 1t
has 300 acres, Leavenworth county
following with POS.
Pardon for Talbert.-Governor Hoch