Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-21

S. Hopkins. of Mountain. Pa, a Kan
sas City Southern brakeman, aged
80 years, and single, was instantly
killed at Fuller, by a freight train
and his body literally ground to
pieces.
Walker Found GuiIty.-The second
trial of Edward Walker, at Wichita,
on the charge of shooting William
Nolan resulted in verdict of guilty.
Walker shot Nolan while attempting
to eject him from Santa Fe train
IL Wichita last March
Ran Over by His Wagon. ]. M.
Shockley. a coal hauler employed by
the state at the Soldiers Orphans
Home. at Atchison, was accidently
killed. He was -unhitching his team
when the horses started. Shockley
was knocked down and the wagon
struck him, inf1icting internal in
juries from which he died in a few
minutes.
Rhodes Scholarships in Kansas. -
The Rhodes Scholarship Trust has
notified Chancellor Frank Strong, of
the State University, that the next
qualifying examination for the
Rhodes Scholarship will be held for
Kansas candidates at the University
of Kansas January 81 and %, 1908.
The attention of all interested in the
Rhodes Scholarships is called to the
action of the committee on Rhodes
Scholarships taken December 2S,
1906. 1t was unanimously agreed at
that time that all institutions desir
ing to be represented in the rotation
in the appointment of scholars must
present candidates at the qualifying
examination January II and Is,
1907, and that only such institutions
as qualified at that time shall be
placed in the succession until the ro-
tation has again been completed. The
institutions whose representatives
have been successful in the examina-
lions are the University of Kansas.
Washburn College and Baker Univer-
sity. These are qualified institu
lions and by the rotation agreement
must each be represented at Oxford
by another scholar before any other
institution can be eligible to repre-
sentation
2,6oa,574 Hogs in Kansas. - The
swine population of Kansas, accord
ing to figures given out by F. D. Co
burn, state secretary of agriculture,
is 2,6OS,574. Mr.. Coburn says:
While vegetarians have inveighed
against eating pork there seems to
be no appreciable abatement in the
rearing of swine. In spite of the
warnings of Moses and the sad fate
that befell the wine of Gadara, the
demand for the toothsome ham con-
stantly increases, and the Kansas
farmers have found it profitable to
increase their hogs. Kansas, with
her abundance of alfalfa, which, eth
er as pasture or hay, is now recog-
nized as one of the most valuable
foods for hogs, her plentiful supply
of corn and her salubrious climate,
probably presents conditions unsur-
passed in any other territory of the
same area for the hogs health and
development Kansas has more hogs
than all New England and fifteen
states and territories added. and
strong testimonial to the popularity
of the pig in Kansas is found in the
live stock statistics of this year now
being compiled by the state board Of
agriculture. Nearly every county re-
ports an increase in its porcine popu-
lation. and the aggregate for the
state is 2,G0S,574, net increase over
the preceding year Of 491,449, or
more than % per cent In but one
year of the states history has the
number been larger and that was in
1898, when the total was 2,766,021.
Kansas Boys Strange Suicide. -
Andrew Mills, aged Is years, who
committed suicide at Enterprise by
hanging himself in the barn on his
fathers farm, had no reason for so
doing that the coroner can find out.
He was we'll and seemed to be happy
and contented.
Sues Man Who Sold Liquor-Mrs.
John Sullivan, wife of railroad
man at Atchison, has sued w. R.
Burk, of that place, for ten thousand
dollars damages. She charges Mr.
Burk sold her husband liquor and
that it caused him to fall and sus-
tain permanent injuries.
Paid $2,a27 for Charter. The
state is richer by s2,327 since the
granting of a charter to a new cor
poration. That was the charter fee
for the big lola Portland Cement
Company of West Virginia which was
granted a charter by the State Char
ter Board. The capital stock of the
new company is $4,50O,000. Its bust
ness will be to manufacture cement
in a factory it will build at lola. The
officials and stockholders are all
fasteners.
Mcpherson to Try City Ownership.
city has taken steps to
assume the control of its water and
electric lighting plant. At present
the plant is owned and operated by
a Boston company. At meeting of
the city council it was decided to
purchase the plant under the terms
of the franchise and committee was
appointed to confer with the company
in Boston to secure a price on the
plant Steps were also taken to pro-
cure an extension of the water mains
and to procure more arc lights for
the city streets.
italian murder, the fourteenth near
Pittsburg in four years, was brought
to light when the body of Salvador
Pallichino, aged 20 years, was found
at Chicopee. He was shot three
times. Pallichino had been in Ameri-
ca four months and it is believed he
was followed from Italy by someone
with whom he had personal feud
or a member of some secret society. 5
Honors Kansas COMMANDMENTS
lingame gave a banquet to Captain
Vreeland, of the battleship Kansas