Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1906-11-15
HAPPENINGS
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bun, living near Fort Scott, has a pc
culiar ear of corn. 1t Is a decided
freak. Hardly two grains of corn are
the same color. Some are blue, some
blue-black, white, morse color, red,
purple, in fact, the ear in variegated
| colors, containing as many and more
| colors than the rainbow.
Sent to Jail.-James Enloe. Jr., a
l6-year-old boy of Carona, was ar
rested upon the charge of checking
cars, that is exchanging checks on
cars not his own as they came from
| the mine and placing thereon his
own. When taken into court he
Headed guilty and was sentenced to
sixty days in the county Jail in Col
umbus.
Pack Trains Of For Cuba. The
pack trains at Fort Riley have left
for Cuba under command of Chief
Packer Thomas Mooney. In the
trains are fifteen men and 100 r-ules.
They went by express to Newport
News from where they sail imme-
diately upon arrival. These are the
| same pack trains used in the island
| during the Spanish-American war.
Presidents Note to Lansing GIRL
| Cleo. Crouch, the 11-year-old daught-
er Of Captain Crouch, of the Lansing
prison guard is the proud possessor
of letter from President Roosevelt.
Roosevelt's birthday was last month
and as Miss Cleo's birthday was on
the same late she wrote to the prcsi-
dent congratulating him. The presi-
dent replied in his own handwriting
thanking her for the letter.
w." Fast Mail.-A Santa Fe pos
tai clerk made an expensive egg
omelet at Scranton the other day. lie
threw mail pouch out of the car
as the train whizzed through town
at 60-mile an hour gait The pouch
demolished four cases of eggs on the
depot platform, and the mail clerk
had to dig up SIT to pay the dam
age.
Pretty Girls to Convent.-A whole
car load of Irish Urls. right from the
land of the Shamrock. passed through
Kansas City enroute to Wichita,
where they were taken in charge of
by the Sisters of st. Joseph. The
ages of the young wmen ranged from
16 to 25 years. Upon their arrival in
Wichita they entered convent and
became Sisters of Mercy.
Criminal careIessness. After an
all-day session the coroner's jury re-
turned verdict charging Hugh
Cline with criminal carelessness in
the shooting of Lloyd Kinlev on Hal
loween night Young Kinley was
with a crowd celebrating Halloween
when Cline stepped out on the back
porch of his home and shot to scare
the boys. Kinley was killed.
Three Buildings Drrned. - The
Cutmyer meat market, the Core bak-
cry and the Ballenger harness shop,
which are located in the center of
one of the principal business blocks
Of Eureka. were damaged by fire.
The two-story meat market building
is almost a total wreck and the
stocks in the other two buildings
were iniuro1 by fire and water. The
cause of the fire is not known.
Fire Burned Corn. prairie fire
that was supposed to have been
started by sparks from Frisco loco
motive. ruined a field of corn belong
ing to James Morgan near Kirkwood.
and if it had not been for the prompt
work of the neighbors it would prob
ably have destroyed his home. Mr..
| Morgan was not at home at. the time
and did not know anything of his
loss until he came home from his
work.
Epidemic of Skin Disease.-A skin
disease, known in medical nomencla.
ture as impetigo. is quite prevalent
among the small children in Leaven.
worth. The skin. especially the face
of those afflicted with the disease. is
covered with large sores and scabs;
making a very unsightly appearance,
although there is no serious conse-
| QuCAlCC Oy thC ihcAoNy. IL
is highly contagious and is not abso-
lutely confined to children. as num-
Der of adult victims have been seen
on the streets. 1t is spread among
men through the medium of BARRIERS,
and once it gets a foothold 1t is hard
to extirpate.
Broke Her Fathers Within the
district court at Wellington Maggie
Snow of Belle PLANE sought to de-
stroy the effect of will left by her
father. Mr.. Carrothers. in which he
left $500 each to his two daughters,
and the residue of his property
amounting to about $4,000, to his
three sons The case was fiercely
contested and the jury returned a
verdict declaring that the will should
be set aside and property equally di
vided
Miss Dollv Curtis Engaged. - For
nal announcement has been made OF
the engagement of Miss Dolly Curtis,
sister of Congressman Charles Cur
| tbs. to Mr.. Frederick Phillip Metzger,
| of Hardy, o. T.
Right Kind of Stuff.-over 43 per
cent of the students of the Univer-
| sity of Kansas are wholly self-sup-
porting or partly so. The percentage
| of women students who are paying
their own expenses is fraction over
90. 1t is estimated that 100 students
are earning their expenses while in
the University.
Hunters License to Man of g.
| One would naturally think that q
man who had reached the age OF SO
years would not care to hunt any.
thing but County Clerk Kelso, at
lola, recently issued license to Viii
liam Winkler, who is SO years of