Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-03
KANSAS COMMENT

GU .1,OOU POuAuS VI SOdI nan SAAiS
week. He has $50 Angora goats,
which he clipped. The Angora goats
live on brush, and don't require much
attention. l1r. Feldman received 30
cents a pound or $500 for the goat
hair.
Made Wrongful Application. = Mrs.
Matilda c. Hampton has been releas-
ed from the United States prisoners
section of the Sedgwick county jail,
where she was confined because of
a failure to pay a fine for making
wrongful application for a pension.
Mrs. Hampton served thirty days in
jail
Mother Breaks Babys Arm. - Mrs.
]. w. Conklin of Gas City broke the
arm of her 1S-month-old baby by
catching it up by the arm. The baby
was running and started to fall, and
the mother in order to keep the child
from falling caught 1t by the arm and
lifted it up. In so doing the arm must
have become twisted as it was broken
just above the wrist.
Hoch at Fort Scott-Gov Hoch has
notified the members of the G. A. r.
that he will deliver. the principal ad-
dress at the unwilling of the Soldiers
monument at the court house. The
original plan for the unwilling SER
vices to be held on the afternoon of
May Bird have been changed and the
exercises will be celebrated on Deco
ration day, May Both.
Light Famine Ended. 49, The coal
strike, so far as it affects the electric
light plant in Emporia is over, as ar
rangements have been made to get at
least three cars of coal every two
weeks from Usage City. This has
been promised by the Labor Exchange,
a company in Usage City which con-
trolls enough mines to supply good
share of the Usage trade
Boy Shot Through Lung. - Clifford
Depew, aged Is, accidentally shot
himself through the right lung with
a 22-caliber revolver. Depew lives
about three miles from Altoona and
Is a brother of the girl who tried to
commit suicide there recently. The
he saw mouse run under a rock and
sought to kill it. While STOPPING over
to overturn the rock the revolver
slipped from his hand and fell, strik-
ing the rock in such a manner as to
cause the gun to go off.
Kansas Grain Inspection Fees. -
John w. Radford, state grain inspec-
tor, filed a report with the state audi
tor showing the fees collected by his
department for the nire months end
ing March 81 of the present fiscal year.
The total collections amounted to
S36,426.45. The largest amount col
lected during one month was $6,290.30
in August, and the smallest amount
was $1,629.20 in March. 1t is expect
ed that the total collections for the
fiscal year will amount to $4,000.
Wichita's New Building. - A con-
tract was signed by the Wurster Con-
struction Company to erect a six
story business block, with a basement
at the southeast corner of Douglas
avenue and Main street. The build
ing is for the Western Investment
Company and the Emporium Building
Company, and the contract specifies
that the work is to be started August
1 and the building be completed and
ready for occupancy by March Is,
1907. The entire structure will be
occupied by Wallenstein & Cohn with
a large department store, and will cost
approximately s175,0O0. The Boston
store building now stands on this
property.
Kansas Land Sells High. - The
Wathena Republican says: w. T.
Edwards has sold his eight acres of
land to Herman Deeken at 5000 per
acre. 1t adjoins Mr.. DICKENS home
place on the west and has some fruit
upon it, but no other improvements.
1t is well suited for fruit raising and
on account of adjoining Mr.. Deeker's
other place, it is well worth the price
he paid for it. A few years ago when
the old Edwards farm was divided up
the land sold for SIS to 500 per acre,
and many persons thought those
prices high. Now after watching the
results of those investments since
then, some of the same land goes to
5000; what will be the next price?
Hutchinson Gets State Shoot. -
Hutchinson gets the state shoot of the
Kansas State Sportsman's Association
for next year. This was decided upon
at a meeting held in Great Bend 1t
was attended by all of the big shoot
ers of the state and many profession
ais from over the country. The state
shoot is being held at Great Bend
and the meeting decided the matter of
the -aceting place for the coming
year
Mail Clerk Promoted. - John H.
Thompson, one Of the best known
mail clerks in the state has left Sa-
lima for st. Louis, to take a better DO
sition. Eighteen years ago Mr..
Thompson and his family came to Sa-
lima to live. Mr.. Thompson went in
to the employ of the United States
government and was given his first
run as mail clerk on the Lincoln
branch of the Union Pacific. From
that time until his resignation of that
position few weeks ago, Mr.. Thomp-
son ran nearly every day between Sa-
lima and Oakley.
Leavenworth Pioneer Dead. = Fred
Tusher, pioneer business man of
Leavenworth and a resident of forty
nine years, is dead after an illness of
thirteen weeks of a complication of
diseases incident to old age. He was
30 years and months old
Sent $1,000 by Wire.-J. H. Order,
Of Fort Scott, grand master workman
OF the A. o. U. w. lodges of Kansas.
wired $1,000 to the San Francisco suf-
ferers. This action was taken after