Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-08-30

While crossing an iron bridge at
Ames, eight miles east of Concordia,
| a traction engine carried the bridge
down to the creek bed, twenty feet be-
low, severely injuring Philip Lapaile
| and Grant Fuller and wrecking the
| engine.
Lost Everything But His Life. =
Eugene C. Calhoun, son of M. c. Cal
houn, of Wichita. was at Valparaiso
during the earthquake. Mr.. Calhoun
received a telegram assuring him of
his sons safety, but stating that he
lost everything but his life. The
young man is in. the employ of an
English construction company.
Mind Unbalanced by Illness. =
Henry T. Moore, who had been sick
for some time at his home in Elk
City, and whose mind was thought
to have been unbalanced thereby, was
taken to independence. his case tried
in probate court and he was adjudged
insane. An order has been issued for
his admittance to the State asylum
at Osawatomie. Moore is a married
man and about 35 years of age.
Good Prospects For Farmers. At
the prevailing price of GO cents
bushel the Kansas wheat crop will be
worth to the farmers of this state in
the neighborhood of $5O,000,000. The
price is better now than it has been
ct the close of harvest for number
of years, and it is probable that the
greater part of the states crop of
81 100000 bushels will be sold with
| in sixty days.
Prize Winners at kingman.-At the
Cattlemen's Picnic at Kingman Glenn
Barley, of Fort Worth. Tex, won the
| first prize in the broncho riding;
Samuel E. Hayes, Barlow, Kan. Sec
third. In the roping contests Jim
Warren, of Cedarvale, Kan, won first
price; time in roping two steers,
l sc 1-2. Pitts Beatty Fairfax, o. T.,
second. and ]. E. Morris, Fairfax, o.
T., third
Chambers in Cherokee. A report
has reached the office of the state live
stock sanitary commissioner that
there is an outbreak of CHAMBERS
among the horses of Cherokee coun-
| ty. The report comes from Columbus
and John Barber. live stock sanitary
commissioner, has instructed the
| sheriff of the county to keep the
horses in close quarantine and has or
dered the state veterinarian to go to
| Cherokee and make an investigation.
Three Attempted Suicide. Three
attempts at suicide have been made
in Topeka within twenty-four hours.
The physicians say that Otto HUM.
one of the trio, will die. HUM quar-
relied with his wife and took poison.
Carl Boode, a Dane, who became in
sane. was found with bottle of
strychrine with which he intended to
take his life. Bessie Lane. a negro
character, tried suicide by inhaling
gas IN the city prison, but was found
and revived.
Female Alexander the Great.-Linn
county has at least one girl whose
pluck and energy are admirable. Miss
| Florence Alexander is now carrying
the rural mails twenty-five miles every
day for her father, w. H. Alexander,
carrier on route No. 2. She takes the
team and wagon and makes the
rounds just as puncrually as her
| father. More than this-She cares for
the three horses used in the service
and keeps the wagon in running or
der.
Dead Babe Found in Car.-The dead
body of a new born girl babe was
found by Frisco train men in stock
car at Columbus, Kan.
Street Railway Sold. - The Union
street railway in Winfield has been
sold to H. D. Siggins. of Warren, Pa.
Mr.. Siggins and associates own the
interurban line that is building from
independence to Cherryvale and pro-
pose to build an electric line here
that will eventually connect with
Kansas City and Chilocco They are
negotiating with former interurban
promoters to take over the right of
way and franchises already secured.
Want More Definite information
The members of the board of county
commissioners of Kearney county
have been asked by the attorney gen.
eral to make more definite statements
concerning alleged corrupt trans
actions which occurred in that county
nearly twenty years ago. The state
has a suit for the collection of Kear-
ney county bonds and the commits
sioners have refused to pay $1,000 of
the debt because it is alleged that the
bonds were issued for an Illegal
debt.
Stahl. secretary of the Farmers Ma
tional Congress, has asked Gov. Hoch
to appoint 800 delegates to the next
congress, which will meet next month
in Rock Island, Ill. Mr.. Stahl ex-
plains that the delegates will have to
pay their own expenses.
Collision May Be on Program. A
duel to death, a destructive combat
between two monster railroad 1ocomo-
tives is the spectacle Mack A Con-
molly, of Des Moines, Ia, proposes to
offer Wichita and Kansas visitors dur
ing the week of the Wichita fair.
Elevator FeII.-George Hugg, a Ia
borer IN the employ of the Continental
Creamery Company at Topeka is dead
as the result of the fall of an over
loaded freight elevator. ]. Large, an
other employee. sustained a broken
leg.
Convicted of Running a Joint. II
took Salina jury three minutes TO
convict William Cutler of conducting
a joint. When Cutters joint was
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