Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-10-04

Stock Feeding Station Abandoned.
Since tho thirty-six hours shipping
law went into effect the stock feeding
station on Union Pacific. at Junction
City has been abandoned. Heretofore
all stock from the western part of the
state had to be unloaded and fed
there. -
Ptomaine Poison From Chill. -
Harry Canatsey, of lola, died from the
effects of ptomaine poisoning, due to
eating chile. 1t is not known where
he bought the fatal chile, but the
poison is supposed to have developed
from tainted meat used in the making
of it.
Enioin Bond Issue Park. - The
$4,000 park bonds to issue which
| tested in court Rev. e. r. Brown and
Jacob Schopp who own buildings on
the proposed site. the city hall block
have brought suit to enjoin the city
| from issuing the bonds
TweIve-Inch Vein of Coal. - While
| boring a well on A. S. Sargent's farm,
| two and one-half miles north of Lit
tie River, Ellsworth Titus discovered
twelve inch vein of coal at the
depth of seventy-fve feet. AT the
| depth of forty feet a four inch vein
of coal was passed through. A good
depth of eighty feet.
Fight Mandamus.-Wichita negroes.
have appealed to Judge Wilson, of the
district court, for a mandamus to cora
pei the board of education to admit
| their children to all the schools and
the writ was granted. President Hat
field. of the board of education, said
that the board would fight the case
in the courts, even to the extent
of taking it to the supreme court, if
necessary.
! f., Monument to a Late Employe.--The
| Long-Bell Lumber Company, of Kan
sas City, has erected a splendid monu-
ment in Oak Hill cemetery at Bald
win, in memory of the late Edwin S.
Hackett. The monument rests on a
| foundation of concrete, has three sec
lions and represents an expenditure
of $3.50. Mr.. Hackett held response
BILE position with his company. though
but 80 years of age.
Premature Explosion KiIls.-Thom
as Lewis, miner employed at No. 8
mine of the Pittsburg and Cherokee
| Coal Mining Company near Chicko-
| LIN 1NJr+ M
plosion of shot in his room. He was
80 years old a native of Wales, and
was a veteran of the Boer war and
had a number of medals from the
English army for valiant service. His
brother, William Lewis. is living in
Kansas CITY.
Special Prizes For Farm Exhibits
The merchants of Wichita are offer
ing special prizes for exhibits during
the Wichita Southwestern Fair. The
Wichita Board of Trade announced
that it would offer $25 in special
prizes of So each for the best half
bushel of hard wheat. soft wheat,
white corn, yellow corn, red oats.
This is in addition to the regular
prizes to be contributed by the fair
association for the best exhibit during
the week.
Kansas Troops Want to Fight. -
The members and officers of the Kan
sas National Guard hope to have a
chance to do some real fighting in
Cuba this fall and winter and some
of. them are making preparations to
be called upon at any time. w. A.
Pierce. inspector general, said that
the Kansas soldiers are ready and
that they are in much better shape to
be called out than at the beginning
of the Spanish-American war.
FciIed by Grandmother. George
Old. clerk in the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas railway Offices at Parsons,
attempted to kidnap his son from his
grandmother, Mrs Ella Ballard. Old
drove up in hack and secured the
boy while his grandmother was in the
back yard talking to a neighbor The
boy screamed and the grandmother
and several neighbors went to his res
cue and took him away from his
father. The father will attempt to Sc
cure the boy through the courts.
Burned For Five Weeks-At juno
ton City about six weeks ago the
Union Pacific Railroad Company stor-
ed over 10000 tons of coal in its yards
for use on the Kansas division of the
road One pile of the coal, contain
ing more than 1000 tons, caught fire
Ill
combustion and has been burning for
about five weeks. Streams Of water
have been PLAYING on the burning
pile night and day for several weeks
but the fire cannot be stopped. All
of the coal is practically destroyed
and the cinders are being hauled
away and used as ballast.
Missouri Children Marry. - James
Diggs, aged Is, and Lucy Patton, IS,
of Postum, a small central Missouri
town, eloped and were married in
Tulsa
Winfield to Have Orphans Home
A Lutheran society known as the Kan
sas District of the Missouri Synod of
the Evangelical Lutheran Church will
in course of the next six months es-
tablish an Orphans Home at Win
field. The site has been selected and
will be in the east end of town. At
the present time nothing more can be
said.
Killed by a Train.-Anton Stuewe
father of Stuewe brothers, bankers. of
Alma, was struck by a Rock Island
train and instantly killed.
Jointists Found Guilty. = The Dis
trict court at Abilene concluded the