Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-02-22

Snow at Junction City. Over an
inch of snow fell. The wheat fields
of this county are beginning to show
the need of moisture. There has been
very little rain or snow on them since
fall
Killed by Engine. = Earl Moss, a
Rock Island switchman, was struck
by an engine and instantly killed
while working in the yards at Belle
| vile. He leaves a widow and one
small child.
| Two Badly Hurt in Wreck. = C. V.
Perry and Nicholas Baxter, eastern
! home-seekers, were dangerously hurt
! and several other persons were slight
ly injured in a wreck on the Panhan-
die division OF the road near Kiowa,
Kan.
Boy Slabs Another.-Jesse LAYERS,
10 years old, was stabbed in the leg
by Harold Hart, another boy, at Eure-
ka. LAYERS was on his way home
from Sunday school, when Hart
knocked him down and stuck a knife
in his leg.
Death From Burns.-Mrs. S. H. An
drews. o: of the oldest residents OF
Lawrence, died from the effects of
being burned a week ago. Her
clothes caught fire from a natural gas
stove. This is the first natural gas
accident in the town.
Profits From Eggs. = Mrs. Edith
Reader, of Derby. believes that it
pays to raise hens, and she certainly
can give a good reason for her belief.
During the year just ended she sold
1900 dozen eggs from 215 hens, re-
ceiving therefor the sum of Splits
Two Companies Mustered Out. -
Company c, at Sterling, and Com
pany H, at Ellsworth, were mustered
out of the Kansas militia on account
of lack of interest and inability to
keep up efficient organizations. Gar
den City will get one of the com
panies. What town will get the 9TH
er is not yet settled.
Will Breed Pheasants. Expert
ments in the Feeding of game birds
will begin shortly at the Kansas State
Agricultural College. About thirty
birds of the variety known as Chinese
or Torquatus pheasant will be secur-
ed to start with. The state game COM
mission will bear the expense of fit
ting up the enclosures and breeding
pens.
Haskell to Use Natural Gas. - SUI
perintendent H. B. PEARS of Haskell
| institute, at Lawrence, is considering
using natural gas for fuel and power
at the institute. He has just return
T ed from an inspection of Chilocco In
dian school, where the natural gas is
used and has found it is satisfactory.
Mr.. PEARS will consider the Eudora
wells before piping the gas.
Fifty Years of Kansas. - John W.
ed out a half century as citizen of
Kansas. In that line he has improv
ed nine places, put in thirty-nine
crops, buried two wives, six children,
drove cattle across. or part way
across, the plains seven trips, pack
ed" a musket in the Thirteenth Kan
sas regiment three years and now
resides with his third wife and two
small children, on the Horton and
Hiawatha road. He remembers when
he often crossed the ground upon
/ which Hiawatha has since heen built
| through prairie grass knee high.
! Money Belonged to Kansas. - A. A.
| GODDARD, formerly attorney general,
paid to the state treasury the sum
! of s257.S0. which represents the in
| terest earned Oh $123, 900 of Comanche
! county bonds after the time they were
/ taken up by the state and before the
purchase was approved by the state
board of school commissioners. The
| recent investigation of the state
treasury established the fact that the
money had been paid to Mr.. GODDARD,
! and that he was not entitled to it. The
| states money was used to take up
! the bonds. and the accountants re-
port showed that the state was en-
titled to the interest. This is the first
money which has been paid to the
| state as a result of the recent inyesti-
| cation.
| Quarter Cost Ten Years. Ten
| years in the Denitentiary for 25 cents
is the fate of Roy King. a young man
tried before Judge Stillwell at Cha
mute for snatching purse from some
| Chanute women one night few
weeks ago. King pleaded guilty and
will be given the minimum sentence
for highway robbery. ten years. The
pocketbook taken contained S176, and
| when arrested King had only spent
/ % cents of that amount. Immediate
ly after King pleaded guilty another
man admitted stealing an overcoat at
a Chanute hotel, and was sentenced
to six months in the county Jail, the
charge being that of petit larceny.
Quail Shipment Expensive Will
liam Howard, resident of Burton,
pleaded guilty at Newton and was
| fined 500 and costs on two counts.
for having killed and shipped $50
quail to a Hutchinson hotelkeeper..
| December 10. Howard it is claimed,
has been making a practice of sup
plying several Central Kansas hotels
with quail, and it is probable that
some of the hotelkeepers will be prose
cuted, as the law is equally severe on
| them.
Get Plenty of Cars Now.-Oil men
who are shipping their product for
fuel are satisfied with the treatment
which they are receiving from the
Santa Fe Railroad Company. They
say that they have no trouble now )
securing cars. =
Norton's improvements. = Norton
continues to grow and the prospects
for the coming season are brighter
for larger growth than last season