Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-05-03

Theater for Independence. An
nouncement has been made here that
theater company had been organic
ed with $4,000 capital and will erect
a modern ground floor theater.
Hutchinson Boy Injured. = George
Koontz, 10 years old, was run over
by Rock Island car which was be-
ing switched and both legs and one
arm were cut off. He may not live.
Winfield Jointist Found Guilty. =
Oscar Schmidt, an alleged jointist.
was fined $500 and sentenced to serve
six months in Jail by Judge Swarts in
the district court for violating an in.
junction.
Strike at Cherryvale. - The two
hundred men at the smelter. who
walked out of the works and refused
to return to the plant until their
grievances were settled are still out
and very determined.
Boy Drowned at Manhattan. = Jo-
seph Boiler, the 10-year-old son of
Marshal James Boiler, of Manhattan,
was drowned here while swimming
in the Kaw river. Several com
panions saw the little fellow go down,
but could not rescue him. The body
was recovered half an hour later.
Progress in Fire Fighting. = Great
Bend has passed an ordinance max
ing it a crime for boys to jump on
the dray when it is hauling hose to
fire. The boys have had a habit
of jumping on and loading the dray
down so that the horses could not
drag the hose to the fire until the fire
was out.
Caught in Fly WheeI.-At Galena
while making some repairs on the en-
CINE in one of the mining plants
Charles Frazer, aged 10, was caught
in the fly wheel and whirled around
with it. One leg was broken in two
places and he received other injuries.
But for fellow workman hearing his
cries and stopping the engine he
would have been killed.
SplitIog Drag.-Cherry township in
Montgomery county is to give the
King splitlog drag a trial, and if there
is any virtue in this system of max
ing good roads, the trustees propose
to find it out. Twelve have been or.
deTed and will be put to work at once,
and if they prove a success other
townships will follow suit, and the
work will probably be made perman-
ent.
Can Sell All Its Output.-The Paola
Refinery Company has purchased of
tie Bayse Crude Oil Company 100
acre oil lease on the Killy farm, mile
southwest of town. The considera-
ton was $4,000. A short time ago
the Bayse company sold a twenty-five
acre lease from its holdings for
$4,000. The company paid $1,000 for
these leases in the first place and has
marketed from $4,000 to $4,000
worth of oil. The Paola refinery has
a ready market for all the products
it can turn out, and the company felt
that it needed the Bayse lease to guar
antee a steady supply of oil for the
refinery
Santa Fe Improvements. - Before
the end of the present summer the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe will
complete many new improvements in
Arkansas City, which will improve
greatly it's property there and add to
its value. Some of the improve
ments are now under way The elect
ric light plant will be ready for use
in few weeks, providing there is no
delay TO the material already order
ed The linemen are now setting the
poles and preparing to string the
wires throughout the company's
property. When the plant is in opera
ton the depot, shops, round house,
offices and right of way from the city
to the south yards will all be lighted
by electricity. Work is progressing
in nice shape and this is going to be
O. of the most important move
ments. The plans for the new freight
depot are now in the Office of the
architect and engineering department
and are expected to be in shape for
the work in short time.
May Get Another Factory. - There
is a strong probability of new manu-
featuring institution being brought to
Wichita. Secretary Resting of the
Commercial Club, is in correspondence
with a firm in Stafford, Kan, with
reference to locating another factory
in Wichita The industry in question
is a pillow and ,cultivator works. At
present the factory is located at Stat
ford, but the railroad facilities are not
large enough to give the business the
company can handle. 1t will employ
thirty men.
Farmers Institute at Hays City. -
The greatest farmers institute ever
held in western Kansas was held at
Hays City. Over 300 people were in
attendance The forenoon was spent
by the farmers at the Hays branch ex-
pertinent station, examining the
various experiments now being con-
Quoted in wheat, grass, corn and in
feeding cattle. There was lectures on
farm, dairying and soil culture, an
organization being perfected, and next
fall an institute and agricultural ex-
hibit will be held. Professors Err and
Quenick of the Kansas Agricultural
College were the speakers.
Salinas New Depot. - The Rock
Island will build a new depot in Sa-
lima if it can not succeed in getting
the other roads to go in on union
depot. There have been rumors to
this effect, but this is the first time
that an official announcement of such
intention has been made.
Doniphan County Man Missing. -
The people living in the vicinity of
Doniphan will not talk about anything
except the disappearance of Newt