Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-09-27

near Cherryvale, was struck by light
ming out of clear sky while fishing
and killed instantly He was II
years of age.
Injured in Runaway. = Lucy Rol-
ston, the 3-year-old daughter of JEFF
Rolston, prominent stockman near
Westphalia, was thrown from their
spring wagon when the team became
frightened at merry-go-round and
probably fatally injured.
Couldn't Establish Their Guilt, =
After two days trial in district
court at Manhattan. Norman Jeeter
Promise" Roberts and Turk
Wright, all negroes. who were charg-
ed with breaking into the Rock Is
land depot and taking s23 and two re-
volvers. were acquitted.
Wellington Grants Gas Franchise.
The city council of Wellington
| granted a franchise to parties repre-
senting the Wichita Natural Gas Com
pany to supply the city with natural
| gas for period of twenty years at a
iolS W private CONSUMERS nOC eS-
ceeding 80 cents per thousand
Evans to San Francisco.-Dr. Cope
land Evans, pastor of the First
Methodist Episcopal church in To-
peka for the past two years. has been
assigned the task of rebuilding the
Methodist churches in the devastated
city of San Francisco and conserving
the interests of Methodism in that To-
siding elder of that district and has
accepted the appointment.
Swell Special Beats Roosevelt's.
Much interest is being manifested
in the forthcoming trip of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas & Texas officials. 1t
will be the annual fall inspection and
will be very complete. The official
train of private cars which will run
as a special will be one of the finest
ever seen in the Southwest, not even
Roosevelt travelled
Father and Son Sent to Prison. =
John Dwyer and his son, Frank. two
of the three crooks who were caught
at Pittsburg some time ago. on sus-
picion, and who were afterwards
found to have been the crooks who
burglariZed country store at Iantha.
Mo-, were both sentenced in court at
Lamar, the father being sent to the
state penitentiary and the son to the
state reform school. Both pleaded
guilty to the charge of burglary
Cigarettes His Undoinq. Frank
Brown barber of Kingman, will be
sent to an asylum for the benefit of
the insane as the result of an inquiry
made by a jury before the probate
| Judge of Kingman county. Prominent
doctors testified that Mr.. Brown was
losing his mind and stated that the
probable cause was excessive cigar
cite smoking. Mr.. Brown is married
and has been living at Kingman sew
eral months
| Dropped into Hole. The $4,000
concentrating plant of the Palmetto
Mining Company at Galena was al
most completely destroyed by a cave
| in. The hole made by the cavein,
which occurred while the plant was
/ in operation, is about fifty feet wide
and eighty feet deep, having caved to
the second level. Six miners were at
work in the lower ground. but escaped
injury. Among the machinery lost
are two steam jigs. two sets of rolls,
elevators, etc. The ground caved to
a point a few feet under the large
boilers, but these and the engine will
be saved. The Palmetto is the Ga
lena mining property in which ex-
Senator J. R. Burton, of Kansas, was
interested.
Victim of Gasoline. - Miss Nettie
Karrick, of Wichita, was terribly
burned by gasoline and may not re-
the Wichita hospital, swathed in sur
geon's bandages from her shoulders
to her feet, and as helpless as an in
FAINT
The cave-in Caught Him. - While
engaged in digging along the west
/ sue VI lAO SAChNdLIOh lOI lue H6W
Boston Store building in Wichita a
workman was caught by the sudden
caving in of the wet dirt. He was
buried in the ground up to his should
ers and was unable to move hand or
foot
Issue Challenge to Whole State. -
The Republic county fair association
officers have sufficient confidence in
the exhibition to issue the following
challenge: Republic county chal-
lenges any county in the state on the
products of the farm, including live
stock and grain, to be shown in any
county or city in the state. the county
or city getting the show to pay the
transportation of the live stock and
products. the newspapers to desig-
nate the town.
Good Days Work.-Over 400 men,
some from Oklahoma, but mostly
from Central Kansas, were natural
lied at Hutchinson in one day, bring
ing in about $4,000 in fees to the dis
trict clerks Office.
Is Charged With Murder. - Upon
his preliminary hearing at Wichita
Roy Sing Stevens. of Schell City,
Mo-, was held without bond to appear
for trial at the October term of the
district court to answer to charge
of killing Dora Bright, of Foster, Mo-,
in an apartment house September 8. 1
Forty Inch Vein of Coal. = A Al
| inch vein of coal has been reached in
the shaft of the Girard Coal company
which is located about mile east
from Girard. 1t is seventeen feet be-
low the present vein which is being
worked and is said to be a splendid
| quality of coal with good roof and
| Ill h. Sil1r- 1rnrlzad Ii iS the in