Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17
X AN S A S ITEMS
SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGs

ings and damaged others. Included
two drug stores, a grocery store
and an empty building. The amount
of the loss is not known, though
quite heavy. There was partial in
surance.
Captured a Jail Breaker.-Ed But
Ter, wanted for jail breaking in
Woodson county was captured at
Hartford by Sheriff Stephen Hin
shaw. He located his man in the w
per story of an office building. Full
Ter had barred the door on the in
side, but Hinshaw got a crowbar and
pried the door off.
Changes in Kansas Postoffice. -
Joseph c. Colin has been appointed
postmaster at Argonia, Sumner
county, to succeed j. W. Rutherford.
resigned; VIM. Robertson at Cay
vile. Wilson county. in the place of
F. NJ. Robertson, resigned; George
T. Mallatt at Townsend, Cowley
county, vice :. N. Pointer. resigned.
Worried Over His Studies-John
Frederick Terhune, student &c
years of age, who resides at Soldier.
Kan, but who was attending col
lege at Emporia, committed suicide
by drinking carbolic acid and shoot
ing himself through the head with
a revolver The only cause that can
be assigned for the act is that he
was worried about his lessons.
Died While in Jail. - Louis Phil
lips, glass cutter employed b. tie
Western Window Glass company at
independence, was found dead in a
cell in the city jail. He had been
locked uD for drunkenness and al
though he was very drunk, it was
not supposed that his condition was
serious. He leaves a wife and five
small children.
Band of Boy Thieves. - The Off
GERS at Ottawa have rounded up
gang of four boys who in the last
few weeks have stolen electric light
wire from the city and contractors
working for the city, and brass from
the Santa Fe amounting in value to
several hundred dollars. All con-
fessed. Some of the stolen prop
erty was fshed out of the river
where it had been sunk to await
marketing.
Was a Great Meeting.-One of the
greatest meetings of its kind ever
held in any state was that just clos
ed at the State Agricultural College,
at Manhattan, where over one thou
sand stockmen and farmers from
Kansas and other states gathered
seeking knowledge in all lines al
lied to stock breeding and agricul-
ture. One hundred and forty men
were enrolled in the nine days
stock and grain judging school.
Bee Sting Almost Fatal. - Two
physicians worked all night on H.
H. Beal, well known farmer living
near Princeton, to save his life
from tbs effects of bee sting. In
eating some honey from tie hive
Mr. Beal took a bee into his mouth.
The bee stung him on the tongue
and in a short time the tongue and
throat were swollen so breathing
was almost impossible. Mr.. Beal is
now out of danger.
Kansas Manufactures. Statistics
have been compiled by the state
bureau OF labor and industry giving
the totals of the manufacturing IN
'ius-r-es &c Kansas for the year
1906. The report shows returns
from zoos industries with the total
capital invested in the business of
SS6,054 .465. The cost of materials
used in the manufacturing industry
was S156, 544,241 for the whole NUM-
Der reporting, or an increase over
1905 of As per cent. The value of
products was S2O7, 7S9, 492, or an in
crease over 1905 of 5.3 per cent.
1t Cost Him His Foot.-Bert Mack,
16 years old, had a foot cut off by
the passenger train on the McPher-
son branch of the Union Pacific at
Salina. He had been to Assayria
visiting and as the train neared his
home in the western addition he
stepped to the platform to wave to
his mother when he lost his balance
the train passing over one of his
legs.
StaIlard Arrested-On a complaint
sworn to by D. J. Moore, cashier OF
the Pc-D1e'~ National Bank of Sc
dan. Otto D. Stallard, former cashier
of that bank, was arrested charged
with the embezzlement of 100000 of
the banks funds. He waived exam
ination and was placed under bond
of one thousand dollars for his ap-
pearanc, before the February term
of the district court which sits at
Sedan. His bond was promptly
signed by ten of the best citizens Of
Chautauqua county, whose aggre-
gate wealth is a quarter of million
dollars. Stallard has practically adj
mitted that he alone is responsible
for the shortage but maintains that
he does not know what became OF
the money.
Falls to Death in Mine. - w. A.
Harper, a colored miner, died from
injuries received from falling 25
feet from the ascending cage to the
bottom of the shaft in the Atchison
coal mine.
Geary Co. Jointist Convicted. - In
the district court at Junction City j..
w. Wilkens of Milford, was SEN
fenced to sixty days in Jail and was
fined 800 and costs for selling
liquor. 1t is the only liquor case
that the county had had for nearly
three years.
Seriously injured by Horse. -
Lloyd, the eleven-year-old son of
BENZ. Vincent, a farmer. residing
near Cortland, was thrown from a
horse and his skull was crushed so
badly that he will die.
They Have a CIue.-For some time
the relatives of Jess Swanson, of
Blue Rapids, thought that he was
dead They had NOT heard from him