Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-12-06


ed with robbing several dental ofices
In Leavenworth of the gold used in
filling teeth, pleaded guilty to bur
quarry in the first degree and larceny
and was sentenced to serve an indie
finite term of from five to ten years
in the penitentiary.
Struck by Street Car. - Mack
Shields, a restaurant keeper, was
struck by a street car in Wichita.
Shields was crossing the street. He
waited until one car had passed and
not noticing another car going In an
opposite direction. stepped In front
of it. He received serious injuries
about the head and face.
Two New Banks for Junction City.
j. H. Grentner, of Junction City,
has announced that he will open a
state bank there on January 1 and c.
H. G. West, of Concordia. also made
the announcement that he will open
state bank there on the same date.
Both banks will be capitalized at
$4,000
Wedding Follows Funeral.-C. W.
Coulter. an old citizen of Salina, died
aged &C years. A peculiar incident
in connection with his death is the
fact that Thanksgiving day was his
wedding anniversary. and 1t was to
be celebrated by the marriage of his
son, Roy Coulter, to a young woman
at Con- Ordia. 1t was the fathers re-
quest that the marriage take place
Notwithstanding his death
Needed Fund Is Raised. - Eight
months ago Mr. Carnegie proposed to
give $4,000 to the library fund of
Baker university, at Baldwin, when
friends of the college had subscribed
a like amount President Murlin has
announced that subscriptions had
been secured aggregating s25,S54.
The building has cos; $4,000, and
the new endowment added to the old
endowment makes a total of about
100000 that Baker has invested in
this building and it's endowment
Burton to Write Book - 1t is re-
ported that when ex-senator Burton
passes through the portals of the
Ironton county Jail in Missouri and
breathes the air of liberty he will
publish book giving the inside his
tory of the incidents which led up
to his conviction. The book will be
written during his Incarceration He
will then take the lecture platform
and probably the Independent politi-
cal stump when it is expected he will
startle the country with a bitter ar
raignment of President Roosevelt.
former Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General ]. l.. Bristow, William Allen
White, the magazine writer. and Cy-
rus Leland former boss of Kansas
politics. 1t is these prominent per-
sonages that Mr. Burton holds as be-
ing directly responsible for his down
fall.
Who Said Bleeding Kansas? - A
summary of the yields, numbers and
values of agricultural, horticultural
and live stock products of Kansas
for the year of 1906 has been issued
by the state board of agriculture. F.
D. Coburn, secretary of the board.
says that this has been an evenly
balanced prosperous year with an
immense wheat crop, a big corn
yield. an abundance OF other grains
and forage, with good prices for all.
The bulletin continues: Never be
fore have the soil products repre-
scented so much wealth. and the re-
wards of industry are revealed in the
years values of farm products and
live stock, amounting to s424 ,232,277.
or s15,5S2,45 in excess of their value
in the best preceding year. They
are about IS per cent more than the
value of the same items of ten years
ago.
Would Make Virus. Because of
the gradual increase of diphtheria
and smallpox in Kansas, Secretary
Crumbine in his Board of He1lth
bulletin, just issued, suggests th-t
tie state furnish antitoxin and va
cine virus to citizens of the state free
of charge. He suggests that a labo-
ratory be established at the State
University for the purpose Of manu-
featuring these agents.
Frisco Using Much Kansas Plaster.
Cars can not be furnished fast
enough to haul out the orders for
Blue Rapids plaster that come from
San Francisco to be used in the "a
huilding of the city. There are four
plaster mills at Blue Rapids and
each one of them is running at full
capacity trying to keep up with the
orders that are pouring in daily for
their product. More than half of
these orders, 1t is said, are from San
Francisco Blue Rapids plaster was
used extensively in old San Fran
cisco and since the destruction of the
town orders have been pouring in SO
rapidly that the mills are taxed TO
their utmost to supply the demands
made upon them.
Fine and Imprisonment. - IN the
district court at Junction City J. W.
Williams was sentenced to serve
thirty days in the county jail and
fined 500 and costs He was con-
victed of running joint
Enriehlng the solI.-Jim Lair, nf
Nemaha county, ran manure
ipreader over eighteen acres Of land
once a year for two years Last
spring he planted the land to corn
and 1t raised eighty bushels to the
acre. to say nothing of forty wagon
loads of pumpkins.
Man Shot by Burglar Dies. - J. J.
Breene who was shot by a burglar in
his home AT Arkansas CITY On the !
morning Of November 18th. died from
he effects Of his wound. The bur
lar has not yet been located.
Parker Increasing His Faetories.-
C. W. Parker is increasing his fac |
tory at Abilene by building three |
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