Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-10-17

For Buying Wild Ducks. - A. T.
Krahe, restaurant man of Belo.t.
was arrested by Deputy Game War
den D. S. Curtis for buying and serv-
ing wild ducks. He was fined SIS.
which he paid.
The Wealth of Kansas. = Accord
ing to the quarterly balance of the
state treasury reported by Treasurer
Mark Tulley. he is now custodian OF
s17,6S3, 7715O. On August 81 the bal
ances in the various funds was
$3.50, For the past month the
receipts into these funds amounted
to $149,035.14; the disbursements
s342,214.52, leaving a balance on
September 80 of s4S7,139. The bonds,
securities and cash of which the
treasurer is curtodian amounted to
S1,935, 1921. A new record is being
kept of the bond accounts, and all OF
the coupons are being checked up &C
cording to a cooperative system de-
vised between the Offices of the state
treasurer and the state accountant. .
Snake In the Wash.-At her home
near Brookville, Mrs. Earl Lambotte
was engaged in washing clothes. She
had the wash piled up on the floor OF
the kitchen and in reaching to pick
up a piece to wash, she felt sharp
twinge as though knife had passed
through her arm. The sense of the
pain was followed almost immediate
ly by warning rattle and jerking
away some of the clothes. Mrs. Lam
bottle saw, curled up, large rattle
snake 1t prepared to jump at her,
but she evaded it. There was mark
on her arm and that member com
menced to swell at once. She called
for help and was taken Immediately
to the Office of a physician. He in
jected medicine into the wound to
draw out the poison.
History of the Kansas Militia. -
The Kansas National Guard is IN in
teresting organization and Adjutanf
General Hughes is preparing to issue
a history of it's doings since its or
ganization. He will tell of all its "ac-
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men in arms at each call, the officers
in charge and the cause of the call.
He will tell the cost to the state and
if possible the names of the men en-
goged Few people can remember
more than three or four occasions
when the guard has b, en- called OFT
for active service. Yet the records
Of f6,a ri hos
been called out thirteen times. TIE
only time the entire guard was call
ed out was during the legislative war
in 1893 The following list shows the
occasions on which all or a, rortion of
the guar1 has been called out for SER
vice: 18SG-Parsons, on account Of
the Missouri Kansas & Texas rail-
vay strike: one regiment of eight
COMPANIES ordered out. 1SS7-Wich-
tia county seat fight; two companies.
1SSS-Sherman county seat fight;
special detail 1SSS-June 6. first ex-
petition to Stevens county on &C
count of Sam Wood fued; two com
panies. 1SSS-July %. second expedi-
ton to Stevens county; four com
panies. 1889 - Garfield county seat
fight. 1SS9-90-Fued at Avtell. Mar
shall county. 1Sa3-Leeislative war.
1S95-Topeka Medical College body
snatching. Battery B and Company
A. 1S9G-St John, circus riot, Bond
Brothers circus; one company. 1903
-Topeka food Battery B and Com
pany A called out to guard property.
19O9-Cheyenne county, Dewey-Berry
feud: one company 19n6-Winfol4
company called out by Sheriff Wei
felt to protect prisoner in county Jail
Wealthy Farmer Killed. = J. II.
Leedy, one of the wealthiest men of
Chautauuua county. died on his farm
near Cedarvale from the effects of
blow on the head received in a fight
with VIM. Hines, a neighboring farm
er. Hines was arrested and taken to
the Sedan jail. Hines is brother of
Fred Hines, register of deeds of
Chautauqua county.
Kansas to Send Another Train. -
Kansas will send to the East in No
vember the longest train of its pro-
ducts ever sent beyond the borders Of
the state. A train of forty cars haul
ed by two monster engines will leave
Topeka November 10th for Chicago,
New York and Boston. The route Sc
lected is via the Santa Fe and Penn
sylvania railroads. Stops will be
made at Galesburg, Streator and
Joliet. Ill, and at Chicago the train
will be switched into the Polk street
station for a day. Syl Dixon, TIE
manager of the expedition, has Sc
cured the largest caliope in the mi
ted States for use on this trip. II c7n
be heard five miles and on apnro- -
ing town the operator will give The
people one of the national airs Wit
inspiring variations.
Muster Out corpenv L. = Adju-
tant General Hughes has issued ord
0rs for TIE mastering out of Com
amy L, Kansas Nationnl Guard, of
hyde, for failure to send a full quota
{ men to Fort Riley at the state en-
ampment.
Ksrs-s Is Growing a ccord'ng to
he annu"l report of the state board
f he7Ith there we're 1854 marriages.
N Kansas in 1875, 25,S2G births and
491 deaths. In 1906 there were
eco marriages, 25,367 births ana
600 don+He
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Butler Court HOUSE Case Appealed.
The Rutl-r corrt house fight has
lacked the Supreme Court Under
w rasse1 at TIE last session OF the
legislature authorizing county COM
issioners to levy taxes for the con
truction of court houses when the
unties have $4,000 in the county
treasury, the county commissioners
If Butler county prepared to make
he levy The court house was to
ost not to exceed sG0.o60- Tax paw
rs who were opposed to the court
.ouse proposition brought suit in the
district court for an Injunction re-
Kansas Corn -crops.-E- ]. Smiley,
secretary of the Kansas Grain Deal
rs Association, from personal inves-
cation and the renOrtS of several