Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-08-09

| General Coleman has appointed JOnn
Marshall, of Winfield, to be assistant
attorney general of .Cowley county
Mr.. Marshall's appointment becomes
effective Immediately and he is ex
pected to take charge of the joint
situation of the county.
DR.. NeeIys Insurance. : DR.. S. F.
Nicely, the ex-mayor of Leavenworth,
who died suddenly, left $4,000 life in
surance. He had a policy for $4,000
in the knights of Pythias order and
a policy for $4,000 in the Mutual
Life of New York. The Mutual Life
policy was taken out only year ago
and only the first annual payment
was made on it.
Killed With a Pocket Knife.-Wil-
litm Merritt is charged with killing
John Volger in fight by cutting his
jugular vein with a pocket knife. The
parties belonged to a threshing ma
| chine gang twenty miles south of Kin
sley, and were at supper when the
trouble occurred. Merritt was cap
tured after several miles chase and
is now in Jail at Kinsley. Volgers
relatives are said to live at Louis
vile, KY. Merritt says his home is
in Pueblo.
Can't Get Laborers. - Mr.. Sher-
wood, foreman of the Union Pacific
round house at Junction City, wants
a large number of men to work in the
! U. P. yards, unloading coal. He has
| several months work for them at con-
tract prices that insure good wages
Inside of the next few months the
Union Pacific will unload about 10000
tons of coal in the yards there. 1t
has no place to store the coal so it
will be dumped onto the ground.
There are 40 carloads of coal in the
yards at present ready to be unloaded
and the shipments will be received
every day from now on.
kansans Are SeIected.-J. H. At
wood, Democratic national commit
teeman from Kansas, has been ap-
pointed to select ten Kansas Demo
Gratis to attend the reception to w. ].
Bryan in New York, August 80. He
has selected the following: w. A
1loll Law w. lydH,
ard; Thomas Morgan, Ottawa; David
Overmyer, Topeka; Sam Amidon,
Wichita; Hugh Farrelly, Chanute;
w. w. Rhoder, Kansas City; w. P.
Dimard, Fort Scott; Samuel Bishoff
Lawrence; E. E. Murphy, Leaven.
worth.
PRICES Soar in Dickinson County,
The prices of land in Dickinson coun.
ty that were considered almost pro
hibitive last spring seem to be go
ing up as fast as before summer
come. The price list of local real
estate firm was reprinted this week
and every farm was marked up from
last winter Is to 20 per cent. The
old prices were discarded for new
| ones more in keeping with the ideas
of the farmers concerning the value
of their land. The farms selling fol
$50 an acre last year are nearly all
held at $75 and the prices of cheaper
indicate generally good crops for the
present season.
Freak Pig Born Near Oswego. -
The greatest freak among swine is
male pig at the Deming ranch,
| Oswego. This freak of nature is one
of litter of six pigs. 1t has human
hands, three fingers and a thumb;
| the nails are as perfect as human
nails can be and are of a pretty pink
color. The hands are lying on the
breast. The pig is a jet black in
color except the breast, arms and
hands. they being as white as can be.
The spot on the breast is hairless
and resembles the skin of child.
The eyes are those of a frog, the nose
belongs to the bat family. the ears are
large and lie back on the shoulders
like those of an elephant. The freak
has no hind legs, the body is long
and round and tapers on the end like
a nice hoe handle. The tail has
natural curl which will not uncurl
1t lived sometime after birth. There
was birthmark on top of the skull
that resembles a mulberry.
Girl Is Drowned at Ford. - Misses
Ruby and Cora Kinley, of Ell Dorado,
elIlClhPlCu " lnS l1llllG w
| in buggy. The stream was swollen
and the horses feet were washed
from under them. Miss Ruby was
washed down the stream in the
| buggy and drowned Miss Cora
| jumped out, succeeded in getting to
the shore and went to a farm house
for assistance. The drowned girls
hndu +bO
stream.
Irrigation Delegates. - The names
of the delegates selected by Govern,
or Hoch to represent the state at the
national irrigation congress to meet
in Boise, Ida, September to s, are:
Otis L. Benton, of Overlin; Victor
Murdoch, of Wichita; W. A. Reeder,
of Logan; ]. F. FARRELL of Holton; |.
L. Diesem, of Garden City; J. H. Mil,
Ter. of Manhattan; S. S. Ashbaugh, OF
Wichita; Henry Hatch, of Gridley; ].
L. Finley, of Dodge City; Henry
Block, of Syracuse; E. R. Moses, of
Great Bend; Will Beck, of Holton w.
H. Kinnison, of Garden City; Erasmus
Haworth, of Lawrence, and E. B. Cow
! gill, of Topeka.
President Roosevelt to Come. -
President Roosevelt has made
known his intention to witness the
| maneuvers at Fort Riley as soon as
the camp is thoroughly organized. 6
Mr.. Postewaite Is Wanted. - The
police have been asked to make a
search for David Postlewaite of Leav-
enworth. who disappeared a week ago.
Relatives thought he would turn up
in few days and did not notify the
authorities at once. Postlewaite's
dog came home the day after he left
and had his masters bunch of keys
tied to its collar -