Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-08-16

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Oklahoma City was identified as
Johnnie Brinkerhoff, whose parents
live in that city.
Strike Gas Near Garnett, Kan.
The Garrett Light and Fuel Company
struck a fine gas well two miles
southeast of that city. 1t is one of
the best found in this territory.
Fire Does $4,000 Damage. = A
large cooperative store at Assaria,
Kan, together with a residence near
by. were destroyed by fire. The loss
is estimated at $4,000. Origin of the
fire is unknown.
Must Afford Daily Ssrvice.-The
state board of railroad commission
ers has ordered the installation of a
daily passenger service over the St
Louis & San Francisco line from
Cherokee TO Girard. There has been
no daily passenger train on that 2line
for some time and the people have
been petitioning, the board for relief
To Make Paving BIocks.-Misouri
capitalists are interested in a scheme
to erect a 100000 plant for the
manufacture of asphalt paving block
in Wichita. This city has been Sc
lected as desirable site for an in
dustry of this nature. owing to the
immense quarries of limestone To-
Gated in Butler and adjoining coun-
ties
Gas Main Exploded.-Frank Smith,
a workman for the Lanyon Zinc Com
pany at lola, was probably fatally in
jured by the explosion of a gas main.
With other workmen he was repair
works. Just as the workmen had COW
cred the ditch the main blew up
Smith, who was STOPPING over the
main at the time, was hurled twenty
five feet and rendered unconscious.
Escapes From AsyIum.-Wesley D.
Wright, taken to the asylum at Osa-
watomie last week from Wichita,
escaped. Wright was arrested at
Wichita on March &c, on charge of
burglary. On the 10Th of the month
a brother from Oklahoma went to
Wichita and swore to a complaint
in the probate court, charging him
with insanity. A jury found Wright
insane
Forgot to Cash Warrants. The
records in the Office of the auditor of
state were overhauled for the purpose
of ascertaining how many warrants
have been issued and not paid dur
ing the past ten years. While the
work is not completed. yet it is found
that the state has saved considerable
money by the failure of the employees
to cash their warrants. In the list of
uncashed warrants now in the Office
of the auditor are two belonging to
Victor Murdoch. congressman from the
Eighth district. The warrants were
for services performed by Murdoch
in 1908, when he was clerk of a COM
mittee in the legislature. Shortly be-
fore the end of the session. Mr.. Muir
dock decided to become candidate
for congress and left Topeka. The
auditor of state issued two warrants
in his name after he became a can
didate. One was for $50 and the 9TH
er for S24 Another warrant which
has been issued and never called for
is for $4,000 and was issued to Sen
ator E. r. Fulton, of Marshall, for
mileage travelled to attend the special
session of the legislature of 1908. An
other warrant which was issued and
never returned to the auditor was to
w. G. Eastland, district judge, and
was for his salary of s20S.30 for the
month of August, 1905.
Will Practice Dentistry in India
Willis Winder, of Peabody, who
graduated from the st. Louis Dental
College, has been chosen from his
class to go to Calcutta, India, and
practice his profession in large den
tai institution.
Manhattan Water is Pure.-Several
cases of typhoid fever have been re-
ported in Manhattan and vicinity and
one or two deaths resulted. in an eff
fort to ascertain the source of the
. sickness the city hea!th officer had
the city water: analysed by the Kan
sas state bacterologist at Topeka.
Both well and city water was exam
ined and reported by the bacterolo-
gist to be above the average in pur-
ity.
New Road to the GuIf.-A railroad
to run from Kansas City through
Eastern Kansas counties, the Indian
Territory and to Denison, Tex, has
been chartered. The line will have
a branch to Joplin, Mo-, and another
to Shreveport, La. The name of the
company is the Missouri River G
Gulf Railroad Company. The COM
pany is organized with capital stock
of s1,0O0.OOO. !.
For Harvest Festival.-The Holton
Commercial League fixed October 8
and 4 as the dates for the annual Har-
vest festival, 1t was decided to in
vite Gov Hoch, w. A. Harris and F.
D. Coburn to make speeches. ]
Wheat Sprouting In Shoek.-Long
continued and excessive rains are
seriously damaging wheat. Much
that has been standing in the shock
especially on low grounds, has already
begun to sprout. The rains are fine
on the corn, which now promises the
biggest crop in years, and on fall
pastures. ]
Used to Live in Kansas. = ca A.
Stockslager, who was nominated by
the Democrats for governor of
Idaho, is a Kansas man. He former
ly lived in Galena and was a lawyer
and miner there. He was mayor of
the town for two years and in 1892
President Cleveland appointed him
territorial judge of Idaho. He went
to the western territory and remain
ed there after his term of Office ex-