Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-08-30
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| Daniels, eX-caShier. of the Stone bank
of Independence, shot himself at
Sycamore. where he had gone after
losing his position.
Committed Suicide While Insane-
James S. Daniels, aged 35 years, shot
and killed himself at Sycamore. He
had been acting strangely for several
days and was undoubtedly mentally
/ unbalanced.
While two women. wives of farmers.
were crossing the post reservation
at FIT. Leavenworth they were held up
and robbed by negro troopers. The
soldiers escaped.
Red Cross to Help. - The Kansas
branch of the National Red Cross
Association has sent out an appeal to
all charitably disposed people of the
state to contribute toward the relief
of the sufferers from the Valparaiso
earthquake.
X. C. Southern Shops Being Built.
"A force of about 200 men are at
work on the excavations for the new
Kansas City Southern machine shops
at Pittsburg The main shops will be
| 356x152 feet, with accommodations
| for sixteen locomotives.
Horton Boys Body Found.-Ralph
Pierce, the 1G-year-old son of w. R.
Pierce, of Horton, was found dead in
an alley back of his home. He had
been spending the evening at a neigh
boris. He did not return and his faith
| er went to search for him. There
were no marks of violence on the
body and it is supposed that he died
of heart disease.
Preparing For Big Wolf Hunt. -
! Chickasha sportsmen and others in
terested are preparing to have the
biggest wolf hunt in several years,
beginning September 5. Dogs have
been ordered from Texas and towns
| in the territory. None but fox hounds
will be allowed, as the hunt will last
five days.
AsyIums Are Crowded. - H. C.
| Bowman, member of the State Board
of Control of Charitable Institutions,
says the various counties over the
state must either build asylums. for
is provided by the Kansas law or that
the state must add to her asylums.
The conditions in the several insti-
| tutions of this nature in Kansas are
so congested that it is impossible to
care for the states insane properly
| Labor Scarce in Kansas. 1t has
been many years since labor was 50
scarce in Kansas as it is at present.
| OF course there is always a scarcity
of men during the harvest season but
it is seldom that at this season of the
year there are not enough men to fill
all vacancies in the state. T. B.
Gerow. agent for the Kansas Free
State Employment bureau, has re-
quests for at least 800 men and has
been able to find only two men with
! which to fill the vacancies.
Arrested as Soon as Released. -
Four members of an outlaw gang
which terrorized Southern Missouri
and the northern portion of Indian
/ Territory a few years ago, were re-
leased from the United States peni-
Tertiary and were Immediately re.
arrested by Sheriff Ball and three
deputies of Dent county. Mo-, where
they are wanted for a robbery com
mitted about six years ago. The
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burn, James Wallace and Nicholas
Gardner
Forty Pound Cat Fish.-Three small
boys who weigh not much over fifty
pounds each, managed to pull forty
pound catfish out of the Neosho river
near lola.
Will Suggest Several Changes.-H
C. Bowman, of the Kansas board OF
control. has just returned from IL
! linois, where he has been visiting
charitable institutions with a view to
securing ideas for improving the sys
TEN of caring for public charges in
Kansas. Mr.. Bowman will suggest to
the next legislature that the state in.
dustrial school for boys at Topeka be
utilized for an asylum for IDIOT or in
durable insane.
Some Postal Changes.-L. o. Mont
gomery, postmaster at Danville, Har
per county. Kan, has been removed
for cause. The postmaster general
appointed Lou Emma Saler as his sue
cessor to the office. Alrlent Thomas
was also named for the postmaster
ship at Rala, Riley county, in the
place of Mai Trudel, resigned. A new
postofice has been established al
Beaverview. Rawlins county. Kan
Arthur E. Everett was named post
master.
Drowned in Water Knee Deep. =
Hugh McFarlane, an 11-year-old boy
of Burlingame. was swimming with {
party of boys at Dennings pond. e
half mile east of town, and was
drowned in water scarcely knee deep
so it is probable that the lad was
overcome in some way before falling
backward.
Soldier Drowned in the kaw. -
Private Susteska, of the Twenty nintl
battery. field artillery, was drowned
at Fort Riley while swimming witt
a number of comrades in the Kav
river.
Eliza Monroe Is His Name. = The
Wichita hospital authorities are now
quite positive that the name of tn.
young man who was injured by fall
tn
than a week ago. is Eliza Monroe.
Veterans Elect Officers. = The
Chickasha veterans in session at Wei
lington elected officers of the associa
ton for the ensuing year as follows
President w. Miller Smith. Lamont
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