Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-17

ly opposed to it, as the inconveni-
ence and burden would fall heavily
upon the people, and l do not be-
ieve our men would bring this in
convenience about just to help the
iremen in Texas"
MIR. Park says the coal situation is
now in good shape and at all the
towns on the line there is a fair sup
ply CT fuel. The company is hurry
ing coal to all points and there can
not be shortage unless there should
1e a strike, followed by severe wealth
er. In that event it is hard to say
what the result might be.
wood, president, and E. C. Whitcher,
cashier, of the First National bank,
OF Concordia, together with Kackley
Larties, have organized the State
Bank of Kackley, capital $4,000.
Charge Was Not Sustained. -
Edward T. Martin, a merchant of
Concordia, who was arrested some
time ago on a charge of embezzle-
ment preferred by his brother-in-
law, A. NJ. Gosselin, a merchant of
Aurora, was discharged in district
court
Service is Accepted. - The execu-
tive council formally accepted tho
silver service for the battleship Kan
sas and the voucher for $4,000 IN
paym>-t for it was issued by State
Auditor Wells to Edward Vail, of
Wichita. Mr.. Vail furnished the SER
vice and has installed it in the gov
ernor's Office according to his con-
tract. The service will be kept on
exhibition at Topeka or Wichita I'M
til tine to take it to the battleship.
Covered Tracks With Pepper. -
Although a search is being made
and the officers in surrounding towns
have been notified to look out for
Bloomfield and Mahurine, who
broke jail at ElDorado, they have
not been heard from. Before they
escaped the men put cayenne pep
per in their cells and in their tracks
where they got out of Jail. and as a
result bloodhounds could not trail
them. Mahurine is an old-time pal
of Bloomfield's and they accidentally
got into Jail together
Kansas Fair Dates.-Week begin
ming July 80, Parsons; August G,
CoffeyYiiie, Howard, Anthony; Aug
ust IS, Chanute, Eureka, Harper;
August 20, Fredonia, Ell Dorado,
Kingman; August 81, lola. Wichita,
st. Johns; September g. Ottawa. Nc
Pherson, Great Bend; September 10,
Topeka, Sterling; September II,
Burlingame, Hutchinson, Jetmore;
September "a, Burlington, Newton,
Larned; October l, Winfield; Oc-
tober 8, Blackwell, o. T.
Atchison Trust Co. incorporated
The Atchison Savings and Trust
Company, capital 100000, has been
chartered. The stockholders are
officers of both the Exchange Nation
al and Atchison Savings banks.
Goaded to His Death. - George
Blanchard, who shot at w. D. Goad.
his father-in-law, because he was
ordered away from the house where
his wife had fled from him, later
shot and killed himself in a field
ago Blanchard applied to Goad for
admission to the Goad home for
himself, wife and two children. They
We're taken in and later Blanchard
was ordered to leave, it is alleged on
account of failure to provide TO, his
his family. Afterward Blanchard
returned and urged his wife to leave
her fathers home and return TO him.
She refused. Goad heard the argu-
ment and appeared at the door.
when Blanchard pulled out a revol-
yer and fired at him. The bullet
missed him, but his face was cover
ed with powder Blanchard left and
was not seen again until his body
was found in field about 500 feet
from the Goad home.
Child Is Cremated. Mrs. John
Michand, living near Concordia, left
her two little children alone in the
house while she was absent for a
few moments and her three-pear-old
daughter caught fire at the stove ane
was burned to death.
Two Postmasters Named. - Con-
gresham Philip Campbell has APP
pointed two postmasters. They are
Ernest Hoefle, postmaster at st.
Paul, and Captain James S. Price, a
civil war veteran, for the Baxter
Springs Office.
Bank Will Not Pay Out. - James
T. Bradley, receiver for the defunct
First National Bank of Topeka, has
announced that the institution will
not pay out in full. He says that the
depositors probably will get back
95 per cent of their money.
Died Amidst the Crowd.-John NJ.
Moore. aged "A years. whose home
is near Pawnee. o. T. shot himself
through the head in the street about
block from the home of his daught-
er, in Pittsburg. Dependency on
account of Door health is supposed to
be the cause of the suicide.
James E. Wade Pleads Guilty. =
James E. Wade, ex-treasurer of
Cloud county, who embezzled over
$4,000 of county funds, entered a
plea of guilty in district court and
was given an indeterminate SEN
tence of from one to five years in
the penitentiary.
Drowned in a canal.-Ira Cheek,
aged IL years. was drowned at Ar
kansas City in the water power
company's canal. He was playing
on the bank when he fell into the
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