Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-01-25
KANSAS COMMENT

a provision in his will that $4,000
should be given to the First Baptist
church. This organization is prepar-
ing to erect a new edifice and it was
for this purpose that the money is
given to the church. The estate is
worth $4,000.
Falls In Eoiling Water.-Otis Arm
stead. the 1-2-year old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Andy Arnstead, died at EN-
-poria from burns resulting from hav-
ing fallen into a tub of hot water.
The child backed into the tub. A
doctor dressed the child's burns, but
the water contained lye and this
probably FASTENED his death.
Water Mill at EmdaIe Burns. -
The large water power grist mill of
w. H. Roberts & Co., at Elmdale,
caught fire and was entirely destroy
ed, together with about 500 bushels
of wheat. 500 bushels of corn. 500
bushels of kaffir corn and car loads
of -four Cause of fire unknown.
Building ard contents insured for
$4,000.
Motor Car to Lawrence. - The
Union Pacific has received a smaller,
but better, motor car for the Law
renee branch and it has been put in
operation. The car leaves Leaven-
worth at 9:20 o'clock and returns on
the schedule CT the regular passeng-
er train. The car made the first trip
from Lawrence without the slightest
delay or mishap. 1t is the intention
of the company to run the car regu-
larly from now on.
Mysterious Horse Disease.-A num-
Der of Mcpherson county farmers
have lost horses within the last few
months from a disease which seems
inexplainable, but which greatly re-
sembles the new disease in horses,
which is discussed in a recent bulle-
tin from the veterinary department
of the State Agricultural College. 1t
is a fatal disease and hundreds of
horses have died during the past
two months
Coal Miner Instantly KiIIed.-Gabe
Anderson, coal miner of Weir Git
was instantly killc l by fall of rock
at No. 8, Central Coal and Coke Com
pany's mine. The accident occurred
a few minutes after Anderson start
ed to work in his room. He was min
ing out a shot when the roof gave
way, and his body was caught under
a large mass of rock and coal, and
badly crushed and mangled. Sever
al other miners Immediately began
the work of removing the body. Shaft
No. SO is a new one, opened during
the past year by the Central Com
pany.
Does Not Accept Passes. - Judge
Thomas ]. Flannelly, of independence.
Judge of the Fourteenth district, COM
posed of Labette and Montgomery
counties, refuses all railroad passes
offered him, and has not ridden on
a railroad pass since holding Office
This week he returned all the rail-
road passes sent to him with a let
ter declining to accept them, stat
ing that he did not care to accept
any favors either from the railroad
companies CIR others who were or
might be come litigants in his court,
and thanking the railroads for their
courtesy, but declining to accept any
pass from any railroad company.
With the headquarters of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas located at
Parsons, and three other railroads
running through his district, there is
a great deal of railroad litigation in
Judge Flannelly's court each term.
The most of these are damage suits
Prison Building TRANSFORMATIONS r.
w. McClaughry, warden of the United
States penitentiary, and Major G. S.
Young, commandant of the new mill
tary prison, have finally agreed upon
February 1 as the date for transfer
ring the old prison from the depart
ment of Justice to the war department
In the meantime part of the civil peni-
Tertiary property will be taken over
daily and nothing but the formal trans
fer will remain for the first of the
month. So far nothing definite has
for the military prison.
Leavenworth Real Estate. - The
sale of the opera house to l. B. Win
mig is one of the best indice+.e of
how people feel towards Leaven-
worth real estate ct the present time.
Four years ago the opera house was
offered for $1,000 and a purchaser
could not be found. The present
lessee of the opera house leased for
a term of years with the right to buy
at any time for 10000. And nov
comes Mr.. Winning and he has paid
$4,000 for the property. He expects
to spend $4,000 in remodeling it and
then he figureT that it will pay him
good interest on his money.
Located on the Line.-Peck, Kan, is
a modest town. Its name doesn't ap-
pear in the big papers once a month.
Yet it is so large that it takes two
counties to hold it Sumner and
Sedgwick
Organizinu Civic Leaeue.-A Civic
League has organized Il Wellington
with charter membership of "a.
There were twenty-five people pres
emit. The league is modelled along
lines suggested by the state temper
ance union. a constitution furnished
by that body for subordinate leagues
having been adopted entire.
Marketing Corn crop.-An unusual
sight on the street at Lyons was that
of fourteen full wagon loads of nc =
corn chained together one after the
other and headed by threshing en-
zine.
Buried in Wedding Gown. = Miss
Sadie Oldsen, daughter o. Geo. Old
son. proprietor Of the hotel at Downs
died in st. Joseph's hospital at Con-
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