Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-11-15

with the murder of Abe Rutherford,
a young man at Broken Arrow. The
anti-thief association is in pursuit.
charqed With Murder. - Frank
Ellsworth and Joe Burk were arrest
ed, at Wichita, charged with the
murder of young man named Dock
ray. near Amarillo, Tex, about four
months ago. One of the men has
been identified by picture furnish
ed the police here by the authorities
1T Amarillo.
Saved the Baby.-While Mrs. I. P.
Mccall. of jamestown, was carrying
a little baby In her arms. she trfpped
on a piece of bailing wire imbedded
in the ground. In the fall she broke
one arm, dislocated the other at the
elbow, wrenched her shoulder and
bruised herself severely. but saved
the baby from any injury.
Insect Specimens From Utah. A.
o. Garrett, principal of the High
School of Salt Lake City, Utah.
graduate of Kansas University with
the class of '92, presented Or. Snow
and Kansas University a few days
ago with $50 rare specimens of In
sects from his country. DR.. Snow
prizes these late additions very high
ly, as they were collected in the Cot
tonwood canyon. Utah, which is $3.50
feet above sea level.
Kansas Corn Is B;llionaire. -
Secretary Coburn has made state
ment in regard TO Kansas corn that
is very Interesting reading: "In
corn Kansas is a Millionaire; In
the last twenty years the state has
raised 1857 ,122.161 bushels, worth on
the farms where grown over $751;
100000. The value of the Kansas
corn crop of 1902. from only Is per
cent of her area, was sufficient to
more than five times cover the cost
of the entire Louisiana purchase and
nearly eleven times as much as the
United States paid for Alaska. Uncle
Sans reports point out that IN the
five-year period ending with the year
IJuV Tie COlllDllCo NoluS Vi AAN--~-o
corn and wheat exceeded that of the
same crops of any other state in the
Union. Illinois came next, but fell
behind Kansas by a little less than
100000. The three or four states
excelling Kansas in total corn pro-
duction are her immediate neighbors
of the prairie. OF these she is neith-
er Jealous or envious, and to over
come any deficits in meat making
food caused by a decrease in corn
she has only to utilize one of her
three, four or five cuttings OF alfalfa
harvested each year. Missouri for
example is admittedly one of the
worlds foremost corn states; yet
Uncle Sans reports show that Kan
sas in 1896 and 1899 raised more
corn by 40 per cent than was raised
by Missouri. In 1899, according to
the -~vernment's reports. the Kan
sas corn yield was greater than that
of all the New England states, New
York, New Jersey, Delaware, Michi-
gan, Virginia, South Carolina. Flori-
da. West Virginia, Maryland. Mime
sofa. North and South Dakota, Mon
tana Wyoming. Colorado, New
Mexico. Utah, Washington, Oregon,
California and Oklahoma combined.
Five years later, in 1904, in spite Of
her destructive floods, Kansas pro-
duced more corn than all New Eng
land. Pennsylvania, Minnesota and
thirteen additional states and terri
tories. In almost any year three or
four of the more northern of the
states los counties produce more
corn than the entire Dominion of
Canada. In 1889 the yield of corn
in Kansas was 273,SSS,321 bush
els
Sold Mortgaged Property. w. P.
Nelson of Concordia was arrested,
charged with having sold mortgaged
property to the amount of about
thousand dollars, on which a bank
at Beloit had the claim. His wife Is
lying i'll at the hospital and they
have three small children and the
officers are in a dilemma to know
what to do. They will probably be
taken to the poor farm, as there is
no other way to care for them DUR
ing the unfortunate predicament OF
the parents.
Fatally Shot While Hunting'-Wil-
liam E. Norstrand, of Ellinwood, was
accidentally shot and killed while re-
turning from a hunting trip on
Cheyenne bottoms. The gun Nor
strand was carrying was Win
chester repeating shotgun and 1t in
some way became tangled with the
laprobe. Norstrand had one hand
over the muzzle of the gun when 1t
was exploded, the shot going through
the hand and into his head at the
eye. He lived until they reached
Ellinwood and about ten minutes af-
ter. Norstrand was AZ years old and
leaves a wife.
Ap.iication to Sell Devlin Property.
Application to sell the Illinois Dew
lin properties belonging to the re-
ceiver of the First National bank has
been made in the district court at
Topeka. Other applications will be
filed later on to dispose of all the
property held by the receiver.
Aged Woman Killed by Horses
Mrs. Pangrace. an aged widow. liv-
ing near Niles with her son, Wesley
Pangrace. was run over by team
of horses which young Wesley was
unhitching, receiving injuries from
which she died within an hour.
Meeting of Kansas Teachers.-The
North Central Kansas Teachers
Association will meet at Abilene, No
vember 90 and 80 and Dec. 1. DR..
Clark, of the Chicago University,
will entertain with dramatization OF