Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-04-19

Lawrence to participate in the track
meeting to be held there April 20.
After 80 Years. At Salina Mrs.
| Mary E. Mitchell, after living with
her husband, L. C. Mitchell, thirty
three years, has filed suit for d.
vorce, alleging cruelty to herself and
their two children.
Street Railway for Salina. = Work
has certainly commenced on Salinas
first electric street railway system.
Mayor Shields, taking spade, turned
the first shovelful of earth and then
wished the Salina Street and Interur
| ban railway the best of success.
Equipment for Company H.-W. C..
Dennison, adjutant general of the
Kansas National Guard, has shipped
to Winfield equipment for the new
militia company organized there.
Company H has been organized there,
and the state department is supply
| ing its members with clothing, rifles
and side arms
Dam on Republican River.-Captain
Sherwood A. Cheney, chief engineer
| officer of the northern division of the
army, is in Junction City from st.
Louis making a survey for the War
| department pertaining to the location
of big concrete dam which local
| capitalists have proposed to build on
the Republican river north of Junction
city.
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nation has reached Mound City to the
effect that the Standard Oil Company
will lay inch pipe line from some
where in the Neosho county field to
Paola, where connection will be made
with the large mains from the south
west. 1t is believed the line will touch
| the lately opened Bronson field. An
Independent refinery is being put in
at this latter place.
Got 1t at Shiloh.-J. D. McFall, OF
| Wichita, has just had half Of grape
shot removed from his right leg The
ball entered his limb at the battle of
Shiloh, April 6, 1862-nearly forty
four years ago. The ball was split in
| two at the time it entered his leg and
it weighed nearly a pound. After
carrying this shot around for nearly
| forty-four years, it began to hurt him
for the first time recently.
Toronto Depot Again Closes. = The
, residents of the little town of Toron-
| to, in Woodson county, are again hav-
| ing trouble with the Missouri Pacific
! Railroad Company over the closing of
the station. More than year ago the
residents of the town petitioned to
have the office and waiting room of
the station kept open for the night
trains. 1t was kept open for three
months but is now closed again.
Postmasters Not in Politics. = Ew-
ing Herbert, postmaster of Hiawatha,
I applied to the postoffice department
| for permission to attend the Republi-
| can state convention as a delegate Sc
lected to make the nominating speech
for o. J. Nugent. Brown county's can
didate for auditor The department
informed the postmaster that the
rules prohibiting all federal Office
holders from attending political con-
ventions as delegates would be strict
ly enforced, and therefore his request
was denied.
| Meant to Keep the Land. - In the
case at Topeka in the United States
district court of ]. E. Bilby under in
dictment for Subordination of perjury,
the testimony of three of the govern
ment's strongest witnesses was shak-
en-. Bilby, with others, was charged
with inducing persons to go from Mis-
souri, into Logan county, Kan, and
! there make alleged fraudulent home
stead entries, which those persons
were then, it is alleged, to sell to Bill
by for $50 an entry. The witnesses
admitted that even though their ex-
penses to Logan county and the fl
ing fees were paid by one of Bilby's
employees, it was their intention to
prove up the land as their own and
| then sell it if possible.
Standard Oil Properties. - The re.
turns which the tax agent of the
Standard Oil Company has made tc
the state board of railroad assessors
|
ed little more than 100000 in Kan.
sas property and development during
| the last year. The returns made by
the company year ago showed that
it owned property in the state valued
| at $2,153,S95, and the returns made
| this year show that this amount has
| been increased only to $2,566, 1862.
| The increase has been in the erection
of tanks on the new tank farms es
| tablished during the year. There
have been no new pipe lines.
Generous Neighbors. = About ten
days ago Richard White took up
homestead in Logan county. He sent
for his family and on their way from
| Oakley to the homestead Mr. White
died suddenly. Then Western gen
| erosity manifested itself. Billy"
Sides started subscription and with
in three days farmers and ranchmen
subscribed enough money to build
| the widow a comfortable house on
her homestead and keep her until she
| can raise a crop.
Killed in Driving Belt. = Charles
Riley, an oiler employed in the Hun
ter Touring mills at Wellington, while
trying to throw off the belt driving
large grindstone in the mill base
| ment, had his clothing caught in the
belt, and he was whirled around the
shaft until life was extinct Both
| arms were torn from his body. He
was 20 years of age and unmarried.
Big Gasser at StanIey.-A gas wen
estimated at 100000 feet was struck
on the farm of W. T Quarles, adjoin-
| ing the town of Stanley at depth of
$50 feet
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