Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-02-22
Kansan Killed in Utah.-A Telegram

Kansan Killed in Utah.-A telegram
received at Concordia from Salt Lake
City announces the killing of Charles
Lawyer, a railroad man. whose home
is in this city in railroad accident
there.
QuarreIed Over $3.50. -, For $3.50
tory have gone into expensive court
litigation. the costs of which will
amount to nearly $500 so the report
of Referee Brewster made public in
dictates.
Drove in Front of Train.-George
Hays, of Coyville. west of Chanute,
was killed by Santa Fe passenger
train No. 2GS, which runs between
Chanute and Emporia. He was driv-
ing team and wagon and tried to
pass in front of the train.
Fire Near Leavenworth.-Ther resi-.
dence, stable and small buildings sur
rounding the home of Sherman Me-
dill of Leavenworth county, eight
miles west of Leavenworth, burned.
The fire burned so fiercely that mem
bers of the family had scarcely time
to escape from the house and did not
save any personal effects. The loss
is estimated at $4,000. 1t is partly
covered by insurance.
HaskelPs Baseball Schedule. =
The following baseball schedule of
Haskell institute has been arranged:
Baker, April z; Emporia college, APP
ril II; Missouri State Normal, April
10; aMnhattan, April %; Oklahoma
College, about May 5. Two other
dates remain to be filled. This is the
greatest number of games to be play
ed on the home field in several years.
Game Warden Busy. John R.
White, proprietor of a fish market at
Coffeyville. pleaded guilty to the
charge of buying wild ducks and was
fined S. and costs. amounting to $21.
One of the deputy wardens stated
that there is sufficient evidence tc
land several who have been indulging
in quail hunting, and as soon as Mr.
Whites case was settled a general
crusade would be started.
Lead and Zinc Lower.-1n the Mis-.
souri-Kansas zinc district the ore buy
ers succeeded in lowering the price
81 per ton. The highest price re-
ported as h;ving BEN paid was s53
for the output from the Toys mine,
making the basis price for go per
cent ore $40. The decline of SIS per
ton in the price of pig lead at st.
Louis resulted in a reduction of $3.50
per ton in the price of lead ore.
Wants Rates Reduced. - Emerson
Carey, a salt manufacturer at Hutch
inson, has brought another suit before
the board of railroad commissioners
asking for a reduction in the rates on
slack coal. A case of this nature was
heard last fall, but the decision gave
to competitive points an advantage
over the rate allowed to Hutchinson.
The case will take up only the slack
coal rates from the Kansas fields.
New Refinery for chanute. - Ne
osho county is to have a fourth indie
pendent refinery, which will be locat-
ed half a mile southwest of Chanute.
The Chanute Commercial Club has
just made a contract with strong
put in the plant. 1t will start with a
capacity of 500 barrels and will be
in operation before the end of the
year. The company agrees to run
its plant for five years and not less
than nine months of the year. Ma
terial has been purchased and work
on the plant will commence at once
Wichita G. A. r. Protest.-Five hun
bred veterans of the Civil war living
in Sedgwick county will send a petit
ton to President Roosevelt asking
him to prevent the erection of monu-
ment to the commander of Anderson
vile prison, as is proposed by ex-Con-
federates The petition has already
been signed by several hundred of
the men who wore the blue, and as
soon as every member of the G. A. R.
posts has had an opportunity to at
tach his name the petition will be
sent to the president. G. A. R. posts
throughout the entire state will be
asked to join in the movement.
Gusher at Arkansas City. The
drillers for the Arkansas Valley Oil,
Gas and Improvement Company
drilled in one of the biggest gas wells
in the field. 1t is estimated to flow
100000 cubic feet per day.
Soldiers Fighting Fire.-A prairie
fire has feen burning on the Fort Ri
ley reservation for more than a week
and has swept over several thousand
acres of the reserve. The six bat
teries of artillery in the post, about
700 men. Were sent out to fight the
fire near the community ammunition
magazine The Republican bottoms
north of Junction City have been
burned off.
Prize for Mixed Crops.-The Santa
Fee has offered a s10O prize for the
best crop of mixed products raised
on forty-acre plot. Each town repre-
sented in the Federated Commercial
Clubs of the Englewood branch will
have forty-acre garden for the pur-
pose of showing what can be raised
with the proper care and attention.
The tract making the best showing
will he declared the winner of the
prize.
Ideas on How to EuiId Jail. = The
board of county commissioners of
Franklin county, together with Coun-
ty Attorney Pleasant, Sheriff Cody
and Architect Washburn have re-
turned from central Kansas, after
visiting jails at Salina, Marysville and
Topeka. Franklin county is beginning
the erection of new $4,000 Jail.
Farmers Institute at colony-The
first farmers institute ever held here