Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-12

! ROAD commissioners says that the
Santa Fe is very willing and de-
! sirous to give the public correct in
, formation about the arrival and leav
ing time of trains
Two Killed by a cave-in. sec
ton forty feet long. ten feet wide
and four feet thick of the roof at
No. Is shaft of the Central Coal and
Coke Company, at Weir City, drop
ped, burying Robert Hardy and Viii
liam Wallace and killing them IL
stantly.
Kansas Wins 2sth Place. A tele-
gram from General ]. w. F. Hughes
from Camp Perry, Ohio where the
national rifle matches were held,
says that Kansas won twenty-eighth
place with 2,120 points, which score
last year would have given the Kan
sans fourteenth. Roy Slower, who
coached the winning navy team, is
son of Tim Stovey, of lola.
Killed by Gas in Well. = R. \.
White lost his life in well on his
farm. two miles north of Belleville,
| from "damps." He had sent a boy
into the. well to assist in cleaning it
when the boy was overcome by the
gases. Mr.. White went into the well
to the aid of the boy when he was
overcome One physician went into
the well to rescue Mr.. White and the
H"v "nd was also overcome by the
| 3aies and was pulled out by rope
unconscious. The boy was taken
from the well and revived, but Mr..
White never gained consciousness
Drug Shops Raided. Attorney
General Jackson invaded Cowley
county by causing to be issued from
the district court search and seizure
warrants against Joyce Billings and
Cooper Hayes and Scott and Ellis
and Dye, three leading drug firms at
Arkansas City. Sheriff Day served
the writs and took possession of
quantity of liquor, mostly whisky.
$500 pounds in weight. The pro-
pr;etors were arrested and injunc-
tions served at the same time. The
attorney general made out the papers
IN Topeka and sent them to Win
field by H. S. Hines. city attorney IF
Arkansas City. The liquor was TAX
en- to Winfield for storage until the
case can be tried.
"No Mans Land" Raided. - The
roadhouse saloon and gambling den
on the State line half mile south
! of Caney, was burned, following
raid upon it by United States Officer
Keller and Johnson of the Indian
Territory. The officers found two
men in the place, Claud Paradise and
AT err raiding the place and remov-
ing the money from the cash register
the officers set fire to the building.
The liquor and gambling devices
We're destroyed. Following the raid
and fire Robert Hicks. who it seems
owned the place. had the officers ar
rested for taking money from the
cash register that did not belong TO
them. The officers demanded an i'm
mediate trial. This was given them
and a hearing was held before JUS
tice Yost. who refused to hold the
officers. The building was put up re-
Gently on a narrow strip of land on
the State line that the builders be-
lieved mo mans land" having been
omitted from both Kansas and Okla
homa by the government surveyors
They believed themselves safe on
this land and the place was doing
a fourishing business when the OIL
GERS swooped down upon it. The
building was a four-room, onestory
structure.
Over Per Cent AIcohoI.-A series
of malt beer tests have been made
by the board of health to determine
the amount of alcahol in the con-
tents. The average ran up to 2.3l
and the board of health turned the
information over to the attorney gen.
eral with the statement that the mat
ter was properly one for the prohibit
tory law and not for the pure. food
law to handle.
Kansas to Have a SaIe.-Kansas is
going to have "rummage" sale
some of these days. At the meeting
of the executive council recently the
custodian was instructed to prepare
I list of all the old things about the
state house. This list will include
all the old chairs, desks, bookcases,
carpets and the gardening machinery
used on the lawn. When the list is
completed the council will ask for
bids on the lot Some of the state
officials have already begun check
ing I'D their old furniture and seeing
if there is not some of their property
which could be classed as old and
put into the rummage sale and then
they would get nice new furniture
for their Offices.
Narrow Escape for Boys. - ]. D.
Kramer. city clerk of Independence,
by an exhibition of bravery and
prompt action saved the lives of two
little girls from a watery grave in
the Verdigris river. Plunging into
the stream without removing any of
his clothes he brought safely to the
bank the young daughters of Harvey
Huffman, a barber, and Mr.. Wellers,
carpenter, who, with their families,
were camping on the river for week.
Sensational incidents were connect
ed with the rescue of the children
from the treacherous stream.
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mans, fully equipped. went through
entirely empty" The Pullman COM
pany was given thirty days in which
to comply with the order, after
which, if it is not obeyed, a formal
complaint will be filed.
AccidentIy Shot Himself. - Rich
ard Fallee, a young man about II
years old, accidentally shot himself.
He was working on a farm near