Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-04-05
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its state of preservation shows that
it has rot been in the river long. The
authorities are now trying to locate
the body.
To. Inspect Soldiers Home. - Col.
w. E. Elwell, inspector general for all
the National Soldiers homes, arrived
at Leavenworth and will spend sew
eral days making a thorough inspec-
ton of the records. accounts and con-
ditions at the military home located
here.
Plan to Drain Swamp Lands. - Il
linois capitalists are buying up a
large tract of the Neosho river bot
tom lands southeast of Oswego and
plan to dig drainage canal with feed
ers, adopting the plan by which many
fertile acres in Illinois have been re-
claimed from the swamps. A part Of
this land is inclined to be swampy and
some of it is covered with lakes.
Phillips County $1,000. - State Ac-
countant Gafford is now checking up
the state school land account with
Phillips county. Some time ago the
county treasurer of Phillips abscound-
ed. Mr.. Gafford has been informed
that the missing treasurer took about
$4,000 in cash belonging to the state
account on school lands. He is now
checking up to find out. The state
will hold the county for the debt.
Expert Swordsman.-Harold D. Bur-
dick, formerly of Kansas university,
1907, now a midshipman at the Uni
ted States naval academy at Annap-
oils, has become an expert swords
man. At the recent tournament at
Annapolis he was selected as one of
the naval academy's team of five to
meet the West Point team at the an
nual fencing contest to be held in
Madison Square Garden, New York.
Mrs. Colt From Kansas. - Kansas
scores again: One of the wives of
Thomas Kiley, the Brooklyn banker
now facing the charge of bigamy, was
Kansas girl. Her maiden name was
Flora Brown and she lived in Marshall
county with her parents for some
years. Later she married J. B. Colt,
an Oberlin banker. She was divorced
from him and went to New York,
where Kiley wooed and won her, al
though he had and still has another
living wife.
Clever SwindIe Is Charged.-D. T.
Palmer was arrested on a state war
rant charging him with working
swindling. game in connection with
the life insurance business. 1t is
charged that he would represent him
self to be the agent of a big insur-
ance company, would write a man,
get his note. cash it at the bank. and
then never deliver a policy. He is
accused of working the game in Ora
ham county, Dodge City and Esk-
ridge.
Zinc Mines to Shut Down. - At a
meeting held by several of the large
mine operators of the Missouri Kan
sas district, shutdown of a majority
of the big zinc mines of the district,
effective March 81, was agreed upon.
The producers announce that the
shutdown will be for an indefinite per-
iod, as remedy for Strengthening
the price of ore. The surplus ore in
the district is estimated at $4,000
tons, and is sufficient, the producers
say, to enable the buyers to keep the
price down.
Kansas Collecting Interest. - John
Dawson, assistant attorney general,
returned from Grand, o. T., with a
judgment against Day county, o. T.,
for $1,000 interest due on Day coun-
ty school bonds held by the Kansas
state school fund. Day county sold
the school fund $4,000 in bonds, and
afterwards tried to redeem them,
claiming they were Illegally issued.
The bonds are not yet due, but the
county sued for 1,200 back interest
and got judgment. The county will
appeal to the Oklahoma supreme
court.
Brought Territory Prisoners. -
Twenty-eight prisoners were
brought in one bunch to the federal
penitentiary by United States Mar
shall Pritchard and several deputies
from Durant, Indian Territory This
is the first big bunch of prisoners that
has been received at the prison since
the authorities have moved into the
new institution.
For 2-cent Railroad Fare. - R. A..
Rosenthal, president of the National
Commercial Traveners' League, is in
Topeka to organize branch among
travelling men who make Topeka
their headquarters. The object of the
league is to arouse sentiment in favor
of a 2-cent railroad fare and law re-
quiring railroads to carry $50 pounds
of baggage free.
He Swallowed the Watch.-Two In
dams named Dear Eead and Swift
Horse had a fight on the Pottawato-
mic reservation about small silver
watch. Dear Head, who had the
watch, put it in his mouth for con-
venience, and swallowed 1t. Swift
Horse claims tn, watch, and has had
Dear Head arrested. The defendant
still has the watch.
Their Own Scene Shifters- = The
stage hands at Crawford's theater are
on strike at Topeka. They only re-
ceived so cents for each show. They
want 81. They say they work from
6 at night until after midnight and
that they should be given more pay.
While the strike is on the theatrical
troups must shift their own scenery,
Municipal ownershIp.-Judge w. B.
Glasse came to Columbus to-.certify
to a case made in the supreme court
in which the price of the waterworks
will be settled, as the city has con-
Guided to 4try municipal ownership.