Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-01-25

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Club Women to Meet.-The last of
this month meeting of the officers
of the State Federation of Clubs will
be held in Lawrence to make ar
rangements for the state federation
meeting, which is to be held in May
Found Only Dead Man.-After raid
ing two gambling houses at Parsons
the police broke into the Eagles hall.
They were dumbfounded when they
found the room empty, save for the
body of a dead man lying in state.
Rural Routes.-Kansas ranks ninth
on the roll of states ON the basis of
the number of rural routes. There
are 1,46S of them in the state and
their maintenance cost the govern
ment $944,354 during the last fiscal
year.
Killed by Freight car-Claude A
Watson was killed by a Santa Fee
freight. He was on top of box car
and fell between two cars. He was
about twenty-seven years old and was
engineer at the electric light plant at
Lyons.
Parsons Gamblers Raided. The
police raided all the gambling houses
of the city, arrested the men running
them and seized the outfits. This
is part of the plan to close all the
gambling houses of the city and I'll
the drug stores charged with the vio-
lation of the prohibition law.
Quickly Taken.-G. G. Harrison, OF
Jewell county, was asked by Chas.
Beeler what he would take for his
home farm of eighty acres. Harris
on didn't want to sell, so he thought
he would saw off the trade by saying
that he would take $4,000. Make
out your deed" replied Beeler to
Harrison's great establishment. Then
Harrison had to crawfish. This is
the first time in history that a West
ern Kansas man has refused $110
an acre for his farm.
Invents Sewer CIeaner.-A device
which will, with four men and two
teams, do in four weeks what 9TH
erwise requires forty men three
months to do. has been invented by
Edward Fitzpatrick, sewer inspec-
tor of Wichita This is not an ex-
IRENE statement made upon theory,
but it is made after the machine has
been given a practical test. 1t is
certainly a splendid device and all
who have seen it predict that Mr.
Fitzpatrick will soon be able to re-
tire from active life and enjoy the
fruits resulting from his inventive
genius.
A Pioneer Dead. B. Cramer, a
pioneer citizen of Mcpherson coun-
ty, died suddenly at his home in
Galva of paralysis. His wife was in
the house alone with him at the
time. Mr.. Cramer was almost go
years old and was apparently in
good health. He leaves a widow and
five children. He came to this coun-
ty from Illinois in 1872 and home
steaded several miles south of Can
ton. He was one of the earliest set
tiers in the county and for many
years was prominent in his COM
munity and in the county.
Linament Exploded. - H. d. Hall
and H. NJ. Hall, druggists of Lincoln,
have been sued for $4,000 by H. T.
Brann, a farmer near that town
Brann went to the Hall drug store
for liniment composed of one ounce
of aqua FORTS and one ounce of tur-
pentine compounded The linament
home. He had not gone far until the
bottle exploded in his pocket and
pieces of glass and part of the COM
pound struck him in one eye, causing
him to lose the sight In his petit
ton Brann alleges that the proper
way to mix the compound is to place
both ingredients over a fire in an
open vessel until the gases escape.
This, he alleges, the druggists should
have known.
Begins Road Building. - Captain
RoudeZ, quartermaster at Fort Riley,
has just let contracts for building a
road north from Junction City. The
government will pay for the build
ing and the first work will be done
by c. E. Paulson, of this city Con-
gress appropriated $4,000 to start the
work and an additional appropriation
will be asked for
Cat and Rabbit Crossed.-Mr. Van
diver, of Wellington, has a white fe
male rabbit. He also has a house cat
Thomas. A Dassing acquaintance
ripened into a warm friendship and
that in conjugal friendship. The re
suit is batch of young rabbits, il,
every way like the mother, except thai
each little bunny has long tail like
papa cat. They ought to sell well.
Penny Subscriptions for Trail. -.
Mrs. w. E. Stanley, member of the
committee to devise ways and means.
of marking the Santa Fe trail, an
nounced at Wichita that school child
rem of this state will be asked to con.
tribute to the fund which will be usec
to purchase markers. No child will.
be permitted to give more than !
cent. The money will he sent to Mrs
Clarence S. Hall, of Lawrence, Kan
Farmers Institutes. Arrange
ments are being made to conduct G
series of farmers Institute in south
western Kansas over the Santa Fe
The state institute director and Mr.
n Il
out tentative schedule and nov
correspondence is being had will
the towns marked in the schedule.
Harvesting Ice.-With such a milo
winter as Kansas has bad. one can
scarcely realize that the ice men are
getting the best crop of natural ice
right now that they have cut in sev-
eral years.