Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-06-07

superintendent f. H. Harris has an
nounced that the county spelling con-
test will be held in Mound City on
June %. Thirty contestants are en-
tered.
To Enter Naval Observation-Disclosures
Hicks of Junction City has passed his
first examination to enter the naval
academy and has been directed to go
there June 20, when he will enter the
academy.
higgins Case at Fort Scott. = The
murder charges against Belle Higgins
and her husband, George higgins, who
starved to death their little son some
months ago, have been dismissed
against them in district court and they
were allowed to plead guilty to cru
city to the child and were fined $3.50
and sentenced each to one year in
jail
Move to Kansas CITY. = The ]. H.
James Manufacturing Company which
has built up fine business in the
manufacture of window display fix
lures in Fort Scott. will move the fac
tory to Kansas City about September
1, and go into the business on lar
ger scale. Mr.. James has built up a
business that extends across this con-
tinent.
Hog Cholera Cure.-The veterinary
department of the Kansas Agricultur-
al college has been experimenting for
a year or two with a hog cholera
remedy of its own manufacture. DR..
Schoenleber wants to know of the
earliest cases of hog cholera and will
either go in person or will send a
small quality with careful direction
for testing.
Dies Suddenly at Mcpherson. -
Mrs. Nellie Zug, aged So was stricken
with paralysis. while chatting with
her brother and friends. She breathed
only a few seconds after the stroke.
Mrs. Zug had invited friends over to
spend the evening and while she was
chatting in a pleasant mood she was
stricken. Her brother caught her be-
fore she fell, but she died in his arms
from Waterville in Marshall county
says the telephone troubles have been
adjusted by the company granting
nearly all the demanCJ made by the
patrons. However, Miss Alice Death,
the operator over whom the conten-
ton started, was not reinstated. She
has accepted a position in the cen
trail of the Denver, Colo, exchange
and will leave for that city shortly.
TipIess Era in Wichita.-No tips"
to walters or other employees is an
order put into effect in Wichita by
the newly organized Chamber of Com
merce. Guests are required to not
give tips and employees are forbidden
to accept tips" under penalty of i'm
mediate dismissal from service. The
new house rule reads: 1.-The giving
of tips to walters or other employees
is forbidden and the acceptance by
them of such gifts will result in their
dismissal
Advertising Western Kansas. -
Western Kansas is to have an oppor-
tunity to exploit its resources. Coun-
ties throughout western Kansas are
to be given an opportunity to make
up an advertising train to be sent
East, to at least go as far as Chicago
on an advertising tour. Syl Dixon will
engineer this excursion. A man from
each town interested is to represent
his county The following cities are
interested so far: Garden City. SYRIA
cuse, Dodge City, Larned and Kin
sley.
Leavenworth Battery Leaves.-The
Sixteenth battery of field artillery will
part in the annual target practice. The
battery will leave here fully equipped
as in war times and with a full sup
ply of ammunition. This is the first
time ammunition has been carried
overland by the troops for this pur-
pose Five wagons will carry the
ammunition. Each projectile weighs
105 pounds. The troops will pass
through town and travel overland as
they did last fall.
Daub High School Building. - A
crowd of rowdies and toughs, many
of whom never attended the high
school and many of whom will not
attend it next year, made a raid on
the high school building at Wichita
at night and daubed it with red and
white paint. This is about the fourth
tri-monthly decorating which the old
building has been treated to.
Council Grove to CeIebrate.-Thfs
town is making great preparations to
celebrate July. 4. Hon. Phil Camp
bell, congressman from the Third dis
trict, and Hon. ]. M. Miller, of the
Fourth district, will be present and
deliver addresses, as we'll as other
speakers of state reputation. Some
excellent attractions are being Sc.
| cured and the merchants will spend
over 81 900 to entertain the visitors
An effort is being made to secure the
government mounted band from Ft.
Riley. Excellent horse races, auto
mobile races and a baseball tourna-
ment will make it a busy day. The
celebration will be he'd in the park
which the city just recently purchas-
ed and which is one of the most beau
| tiful natural parks in the state.
On Charge of Bigamy. = Mrs
Blanche Mattock Young, of Independ-
ence, was held to court on 1000 bond
on charge of bigamy preferred by
Mrs. Estella Lenora Young, claiming
to be wife No. 1 of Oklahoma. Young
has disappeared.
Garnett After Ice Plant. indie
pendence men are negotiating for the
purpose of building an ice plant. They
will put up one that will make Is tons
of ice daily and will cost about
$4,000. There will be cold storage