Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-06


union. The building will be 80 feet
wide and 300 feet long. 1t will be
completed by September 20.
Former Kansan After Grafters. -
Milton McVean, former Mound City
boy, has been sent out by the govern
ment to Oregon to assist in the prose
cution of alleged land fraud cases in
Oregon. Mr.. McVean is now attorney
to Clifford Pinchot. chief forester of
the United States.
The Balloon Fall FataI.-Mamie Ma
pier, who was fatally injured at Wich-
tia in fall of 100 feet from a balloon,
died the next morning. The woman
had been a resident of Wichita seven
years. She answered an advertise
ment inserted in local paper for an
aeronaut. She had made three ascen-
sions, receiving SIS for each trip. She
was 50 years old.
Pensions to Home Veterans. - Ma
jor Martin, treasurer of the Soldiers
home at Leavenworth, paid s114, 900
in quarterly pensions to the veterans.
Of this amount $4,000 was paid in
cash and the remainder sent out in
checks. After the payment twenty
eight veterans took out transfers to
other soldiers homes and 10 left on
furloughs.
Penitentiary Guard Promoted. -
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federal penitentiary, has accepted the
appointment to be deputy warden of
the New Mexico territorial prison at
Santa Fee. His resignation from duty
at Leavenworth will become effective
September 1 and he will enter upon
his new duties Immediately after
wards
Piano Factory in Sieht.-Ten thous-
and dollars, just one-third the requir-
ed amount, has been pledged to Sc
cure for Lawrence the Weber Bros.
Piano Company factory. The pro-
moters require a pledge of 100000,
but when $40 900 has been pledged
work on the factory will be begun,
as it will then be settled that the
entire sim can be raised.
Kills Two and Himself. - Omar
Young, of Lacrosse, it is charged,
shot and killed Alexander Walker,
Jr., and Grant Pettyjohn, at McCrack-
en-. Young started for home at Alex
ander, eight miles south of McCrack-
en-, and shot himself when two miles
out of town. The killing was over the
settlement of an estate. Young was
a bachelor. Walker and Pettyjohn
were married men with families.
Fish and Game Car.-After Septem-
Der Is, Kansas will be equipped with
a fish and game car for the first time.
The car is under construction by the
Hicks Car Company in Chicago now,
and will be delivered to Del Travis,
fish and game warden, within the next
two or three weeks. The car is the
coach and has facilities for carrying
fifteen thousand live fish and several
hundred game birds.
Admits His Guilt. - James Wade
who was serving his second term as
treasurer of Cloud county, writing to
Commissioner Price at Concordia un
der date of Colorado Springs, COL
August 10, confesses the embezzle-
ment of about $4,000 of county funds
and states that he will not return
The county is amply secured with a
bond for $50 900. Later Wade return.
ed to Concordia and was arrested.
Charged With Murder-U. S. Mar
shall w. H. Mackey arrested Nell Barr
at Junction City on the charge of be-
ing implicated in a murder Of an old
man at Bartlesville, l. T., in the spring
of last year. The woman was indicted
at Vinita, l. T. and was traced here
by a secret service agent from Dallas.
1t is charged that she was aided by
three men who killed an aged farmer
and robbed him of about 5000. The
woman will be kept in the county
Jail until her trial comes up in the
federal court.
Monster Petition.-The largest pc
tition ever filed in the Neosho county
district court, and, for that matter,
probably the largest ever filed in any
court in that section of the state, is
that in the suit brought by A. N. AL
len, trustee against Fred Hetrick and
Eliza Hetrick, for the possession of
the Hetrick theater, filed by Jones &
Finley. The petition consists of 45C
causes of action, nearly 1900 pages
of typewriter manuscript and weighs
20 pounds or more. District Clerk
Null is making copy for Brown &
Grigsby, attorneys for the defendants
and it will cost only $3.50.
A Pardon For William Dean.-Gov
Hoch pardoned William Dean. of Allen
county, who has been serving an in
Discriminate sentence in the peni-
Tertiary.
Killed by Falling SIate.-John Griz-
zie, workman employed in the new
shaft of the Columbus Coal Company
at Pittsburg, was instantly killed. The
SHAT 10 NEARLY lEO lccI uScp anu uc
was working in the bottom. He had
sent tub of slate to the top and a
piece of slate dropping from the tub
fell striking him on the head, crush
ing his skull.
EngIewood Will Be Moved. - The
town of Englewood, Clark county,
with a population of 400. is to be
moved about one mile southwest of
the present site. The town is to be
moved because there is a flaw in the
titles to the land on which the town
now stands.
Kansas Trotter Is Dead. - Harry
McGregor. one of the best known trot-
ting horses of Southwestern Kansas,
is dead at Pleasanton. McGregor was
brought from Topeka twenty years
ago.