Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-10-25
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HAPPENINGS

Many Horses Dying. - A serious
epidemic of distemper is raging
among the horses around Weir City.
Harry jenkins, strip pitter, two
miles south of here, has every horse
on his place in e serious condition.
Four head of horses on the farm of
William Burney are victims and John
O'Malley, farmer, lost four head Of
horses in one week.
Trainmen Ask Readjustment.-The
Brotherhood of Railway Carmen of
America have definitely decided to
ask for readjustment of the wage
scale on the Missouri. Kansas &
Texas. 1t is understood that the mat
ter is to be taken up at once, the
demands formulated and presented to
the proper officials. In asking for the
readjustment there will be no demand
for an increase in wages. The effort
will be made to obtain a better agree
ment with the company in regard to
time, the class of men who are to
be laid off when working forces are
reduced and in general to better the
conditions under which car men are
working.
Two TalIest Men in the State. -
During the last week two of the tall
est men to be found in the state be-
yond a doubt, were in st. Johns Hos
pital in Leavenworth. One was the
circus man, who was run over by his
wagon and sbecame infected with
lockjaw, and the other was George
V. Orr, who was discharged from
the hospital after being confined there
for several weeks on account of ty-
phoid fever. Parkinson is seven feet
and Orr is seven feet four inches tall.
Special beds had to be made for both
of the patients by placing two ordi-
nary beds together, foot to foot. When
Orr began to recover he would stalk
about the halls of the hospital and
peer into the other patients rooms
through the transoms without stretch
ing his neck in the least.
Reeswax Crop Startled coburn. -
Leavenworth county produces many
times as much beeswax this year as
last. The figures sent to Secretary
Coburn by County Clerk Niehaus so
startled that gentleman that he felt
sure a mistake had been made and
wrote back and asked that the fig
ures be corrected. According to the
figures submitted to Secretary Cob
urn, and they were correct, Leaven-
worth county produced 1000 pounds
of beeswax this year. OF this amount
lilo pounds came from Delaware
township. Last year Delaware town.
ship reported only 40 pounds. L. NJ.
Anderson of Delaware township re-
ported that he produced 1000 pounds
durin~ the year. or half of the coun-
tvs production. John Fleming had
60 pounds and c. ]. Carlson so
pounds.
Child Burned to Death.-The home
of John Kelley. farmer living TWEEN
ty-five miles northwest of Leaven-
worth, was burned to the gound and
a 2-year-old child persisted in the
MI. hGlley was
tally burned trying to save the child.
Two boys are so badly burned that
they cannot live. The fire started on
the second floor of the house. The
father went to the room where the
youngest child was sleeping, but see
ing that the rest of the family were
imprisoned in an adjoining room, he
laid down the child on the floor and
broke down a door and made an exit
for the imprisoned ones, but found on
his return to the room where the
babe was that it was filled with
flames and smoke. The piteous cries
of the child drove the father to fran
tic efforts, and he sustained terrible
burns in attempting a rescue, but
could not reach the child.
Wichita Fair Very Successful. -
In a head and head race that brought
the people in the grand stand to
their feet with a shout of enthusiasm
the Wichita and Southwestern Fair
came to a close. The fair associa-
ton are well pleased with the man.
ner in which all events were handled.
Everybody with whom they have
talked praised the arrangements and
the order maintained.
He Got off Easy. - Indignant citi-
zens of the town of Hunnewell, in
Sumner county, inflicted summary
punishment upon young fellow who
in O dr,1plyep raUa occou1tod b;o ,ry;fo
The man was arrested and taken to
the lookup. where after dark he was
visited by a party of citizens, who
took him out, tied hiri to a telegraph
pole and whipped him with rawhides
until he howled for mercy. He was
then escorted to the Oklahoma line
and ordered to vacate the vicinity.
The citizens say in justification of
their actions that the man would
have escaped from the flimsy Gala
boose and gone scott free had they
not taken the law Ito gheir own
hands.
All Records Broken. The Santa
Fee railway broke all previous records
dS W luc ldIScSI I'll pSOpl6
ever hauled in a single coach, when
2S3 people were taken to the Wichita
fair in one car. This is an average
of ten passengers to each seat.
Children EIope and Are Married.
Goldie Jackson, a 15-yea.old girl, and
Elvi Jackson, a 19-yaar-old boy,
eloped from Galena and were mar
ried by Probate Judge Wilson, at
Columbus. The step was caused by
objections of the girls father to the
proposed match.
Feagans Indictment Was Surprise
The grand jury in the United States
District Court at LeIvenworth re-
turned an indictment against Harlem
Feagens, deputy collector of internal
revenue The indie tment charges