Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-10

Lightning Fires Big Barn. During
a severe electrical and thunder storm
lightning struck a large horse barn
on the farm of NJ. H Radell, dairy
man residing 2 IL miles northeast of
Pittsburg, causing fire which de-
stroyed several large barns and en-
tailed loss of $1,4OO. fully. covered
by insurance
Fight San Jose Scale.-Prof E. A.
Popenoe, state entomologist, left for
Dodge City and other points in West
ern Kansas with material for fight
ing the San Jose scale. The state ex-
pertinent station council has appro-
priated $1,000 or more for fighting
this pest of the Western Kansas fruit
grower.
No Wolf Market. = Something over
twenty live young wolves have been
brought in to the Washington county
clerk the past week for the bounty
and the clerk is kicking about run
ming slaughter house. The clerk
says: Don't bring your wolves in
alive. Kill them and bring in the
scalp-it is worth just as much as the
live wolf for bounty purposes
Will Talk on Dairying.-T. A. Bor
| man of the Continental Creamery
Company has just written to the
president of the fair association, that
he has arranged with Prof. Holden of
the Iowa State college, Prof. Ten
Eyck of the Agricultural State col
lege, who with himself will be the
speakers on the program farmers day
at the Dickinson county fair, October
9TH
lola Gas Dividend of $4,000. - The
held a meeting at the gas Office and
declared a dividend, of $4,000 for the
month of April. This means that this
sum will be applied by the city on
the purchase price of the plant for
the month of April. 1t may be few
dollars more than that This reduces
the amount due on the plant to ap-
proximately $22,469.S0.
Hummer, who lives near Beaumont,
brought to the Office of the county
clerk at Eureka nineteen wolf scalps,
the result of an outing in the Flint
hills. Erasmus Aagard, a farmer liv-
ing about six miles northwest of
Eureka, also brought in six scalps.
The farmers living in the western part
of Greenwood county say that wolves
are more numerous this spring than
they have been in years.
Calhoun Released on Bond. - H.
Calhoun, recently convicted in the
Sedgwick county district court of for
gerry in the fourth degree, has appeal
ed to the supreme court from a de-
cision sentencing him to the peniten-
tiary for an intermediate term of
years. Calhoun has been ordered re-
leased from the penitentiary on $4,000
bond. 1t is alleged that he deposited
forged notes with the Fourth Nation
al Bank to secure a loan.
Newton Woman Kills Rather. -
man in the Santa Fe yards, killed an
immense rattlesnake. The serpent
was in the yard of the Taylor home
and was discovered by children who
notified Mrs. Taylor. Armed with
hoe she bravely attacked the snake
and quickly dispatched it. A count
was made of the rattles and seven
button. The snake was an unusually
| large one.
Iron Moulders Out at lola.-Twen-
ty-ive iron moulders employed at the
United Iron Works walked out on
strike at lola in an effort to secure
from the company reduction of their
hours from ten to nine a day. Practi-
cally every foundry in Missouri and
Kansas is affected by the strike and
all three of the works of the United
Iron Works Company are having
trouble The head Offices are at
Springfield, Mo-, and there are
branch foundries at lola and at Pitts,
| burg.
lola Banks Big Bond.-The North.
rup National Bank filed with the coun.
ty clerk bond of s1,100,000 as Sc
curity for the county funds which
they handle for the county. A bond
of 100000 only is required, but the
bank raised the bond voluntarily to
| S1,100000. The bank handles $4,000
of the county money per year. The
commissioners will pass on the bond
at their next meeting
Body Found in River. = The badly
| decomposed body of a man supposed
to be John Mcpherson, of Columbus,
| o., was found in the river near Fort
| Leavenworth. In the pockets of the
| clothes of the deceased were found
lot of key rings and name tags, and
also bunch of keys bearing the name
| The man was clubfooted
Arm Crushed in Feed Grinder. -
E. ]. Carey, who lives near Maryville,
on rural route No. 6, met with "a pain
full, if not serious, accident. While
engaged in grinding feed for a neigh
Dor his arm became caught between
a casting and the sweep of the mill
and the flesh was ground into a
/ pulp.
Wichita Pipe Line Soon. - By the
18th of May the first shipment of pipe
will have arrived at the Montgomery
county end of the pipe line that is to
be built from that county to Wichita
for the purpose of piping natural gas
there, and before the first of next
month work on the line will have be-
gun This statement was made by
]. o. Davidson to the city council
when he asked for an extension of the
| time granted in his franchise for be-
ginning work on the line. The fran