Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-11-29

cot Hudu III NeHldild COUNTY, was
run over and killed at Hiawatha by
a Rock Island passenger train.
Wheat Elevator Collapsed. - The
elevator of Colborn Bros. of Grove
ioaded with wheat. On account of
the railroad company not furnishing
cars for shipment the wheat had &C
cumulated until the elevator was fill
ed beyond its capacity. Considerable
Of the wheat will be lost.
kansan Is Champion Husker. -
Mount Boone of Howard lays claim
| to the title of champion corn husker
If Kansas. In fourteen days of the
resent month he has husked 1,429
bushels of Elk county corn. This is
IN average of more than 102 bushels
l-Boone's employers are ready to
vouch for his record.
! Fort Scott's Method. In Fort
| Scott every man who goes before
Police Judge Mckinney on charge
If drunkenness is fined 500 unless
that made him drunk. This new GUS
tom has two effects: 1t secures evil
| lence against whisky sellers and it
keeps men sober. The town is abso-
lutely dry.
| Rose Must Pay His Fine. - The
Kansas supreme court has refused to
remit tie $1,000 fine imposed upon
former Mayor w. W. Rose for con-
| tempt of court. Rose had entered
plea for leniency, saying that he had
not willingly been in contempt of the
court, and that the actions for which
he was fined were made upon advice
/ from his lawyers.
Deny the Report.-Some one in or
Fear Hutchinson has reported to tie
State Board of Health that the Ar
| Kansas river here is full of footing
dead animals and that the board
# health is not doing its duty.
The health offer sa.; the river is
| free from trouble Of tEis kind and
that Hutchinson people are not al
lowed to dump anything of the kind
n the river.
Under Charge of Murder. - Joseph
/ Fisher, his wife and Bud Wright,
young man. members of a party of
horse traders. are in Jail in Pittsburg
charged with killing John Bloodsaw,
i in the timber of Brush creek. near
Weir City. He was a jCnk buyer and
&c. hot hn no, +r1V vol: T1.y
with the Fisher family The Fishers
and Wright were trailed to Seneca,
Mo-, near Joplin, where they were ar
rested.
Another Corn Husking Record. -
w. S. Bell. a farmer who lives north
of Marysville, has a 10-year-old son
who probably holds the state corn
husking record for boys of his age.
Besides going to school he helps his
father in the corn field every morn
ing and evening before and after
-chool hours and manages to handle
one row of corn whilst his father
SIS 80 rows. The boy can husk
fifty bushels of corn a day
'pg in pitiful tate of restitution.
death came to Mrs. Y. F. Martin in
tent just south of Garden City.
within a stones throw of the hotel.
With her husband and several small
children she has been existing in g
scanty tent. Drawing the severe cold
and snow of the past few days and
oil Of sict1r ont
and care. Mrs. Martin had Eeen i'll
for some weeks with typhoid fever.
Leaves Money to Schools. Mrs.
Catherine Maynard, of Emporia, died
md left her property to the Emporia
city schools. The exact terms of the
will have not been made known. but
there is no doubt that the bequest
las been made. The money and real
estate will aggregate $4,000 or
$4,000 Mrs Maynord's daughter,
Hiss Mary Maynard who died last
July. taught in the Emporia schools
for % years. They had no relatives
and Mrs. Maynard was the last of the
family.
Quarterly Expenditures. The
auditor of state has completed the
compilation of figures showing that
the amount of money expended by
the state from its general revenue
fund for the first three months of the
fiscal year was s434, 421.04 The bal
ance in the general revenue fund at
the end of the last fiscal year last
July was s1O1, 4O3.55. The amount
collected by the state for this fund
for three months was $72S,572.37.
The total of collections and balance
was 1929 1882 The balance re-
manning in the treasury October 1
was G95.S7S.O6.
Hard on the Mail Man. - The re-
cent storm has been severe on rural
route carriers in Kansas. In many
instances they were unable for two
days to cover their routes.
Three Die Within "a Hours. -
Three children lay dead in Scammon,
all dying within practically twenty
four hours, and within a few hours
of each other. The symptoms in
each case were practically the same
and the physician in charge of all
three cases pronounced death due to
Group.
Dsaf Mute Walked on the Track.
Daniel MURRAY. a deaf mute, was
run over and killed by an east-bound
eek Island freight train at Denton.
Murray was walking in the center
IF the track when the train struck
him.
Wife Beater Given Limit.-Justice
Dryer of Emporia gave Joe Mayes, a
wife-beater. ninety days. and when
Maves. who had pleaded guilty. pro
| tested that the sentance was ton Sc