Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-11-07


in currency on their vouchers, State
Treasurer Tulley ran out of cash and
had to pay out about $4,000 in
checks.
Dynamiters Scared Away. Am at
tempt was made to rob the bank at
Pawnee Rock by using dynamite The
robbers were scared away before Sc
curing any money. The safe was
partly wrecked and the front of the
building was blown out.
Sets Date for Hearing-A hearing
for pardon has been set for. Novem-
Der 18th by Gov. Hoch in the muir
der case of L. ]. Preston, sent to the
penitentiary for life by Judge Ben
son, now of the supreme court, from
the district court at Ottawa, Kan,
in 1891. The crime charged against
Preston is the murder of his wife
The killing occurred on Sunday
morning at the Preston home. In
sanity was the plea of the defense. 2
Stove Fell on Him.-Thomas Crick,
a retired business man of Atchison,
rs years old, who lived alone, was
found dead. His body was in the
front room of his home with a stove
lying on his head. He had been suf-
fering with kidney trouble and it is
supposed that he fell in a faint and
pulled the stove over on him. His
watch and money was found on his
person. His body was found by rela-
tive who came to look after him.
Crap Game in Depot.-On a plea of
guilty to the charge of maintaining a
nuisance within the meaning of the
prohibitory law and of engaging in a
game of craps R. B. Fanestock, agent
for the Missouri Pacific railroad at
Lane, was fined $1OO and sentenced
to serve thirty days in Jail on the
first count and $40 on the second. 1t
was charged that Fanestock used the
depot as distributing place for the
liquor and as headquarters for the
crap game.
Harvest Hands in Demand. - The
corn harvesting season is on in Kan
sas and the farmers are appealing
to the state free employment bureau
for help. An average crop that is es-
timated at 2S0,O0O,00O bushels must
be harvested, and the work must be
completed by December 1st. The
farmers are paying cents per bush
Ell for huskers. The average husker
can make $3.50 per day and board
Many expert corn huskers make 81
per day. The army of huskers moves
into the fields at early dawn and
works until nightfall, with just
enough rest at the noon hour for
luncheon. These luncheons served
by the wives and daughters of the
farmers are elaborate affairs. The
tables are loaded with the products
of the farm, the dessert of pumpkin
pie being served in abundance
Turkeys Will Come High. = Kan
sas is apt to have big lot of turkey
less Thanksgiving dinners this year.
The gobbler and his spouse are both
scarce and high. The cause of the
trouble is said to be the much-chang-
ing weather of last spring. Last
yOol blC Oli u "oO d ldl avs anu
its price was 25 cents per pound. But
the butchers and produce men over
the state this year claim that the
price will be 35 cents per pound by
the day of the big final football
games. and still street car fare
higher by Christmas. 1t may not
look good to the head of a household.
especially if a bunch of relatives are
invited to share the feast to paw 81
for a ten-pound turkey, or IS for
twenty-pound bird, and the latter is
more like what he will have to put
up.
Cashes in and Gets Out. = After
cashing a check for $4,000, which,
it is alleged, he was to have invest
ed in city property. Sylvester Har-
rison, a resident of Wichita for many
years, drew all of his money. amount
ing to 100000, from four banking in
situations and disappeared. Harrison
received the check from Mrs. Katie
f. Gathers, wealthy widow, who has
lived here several years. The money
was to have been invested in Wichita
cottages.
Kansas Shippers Complain. = Com
plants have been received recently
at the office of the state board of rail
road commissioners that the rail-
roads are using all of their available
cars for the moving of grain out of
the state, and are discriminating in
some ways against shippers of hay,
brick and other low grade commodi-
ties. This fact is emphasized some
what by the record that the COM
plants filed with the state commits
sion against car shortage have all
been made by hay men. No COM
plants have been received from
brick or coal shippers.
Special Election Called. = Mayor
Graham, of wichita, has called
special election to be held Deem
Der 3rd to give the voters an oppor-
tunity to vote on Govt. by Commits
sion. The petition for special cleo
ton bearing $500 signatures was pre-
scented.
Big Land DeaI.-The biggest land
slide that ever occurred in Cowley
county was the sale by Stafford &
Albright of their big Ohio ranch. in
southeast Cowley, to Levi Eckhardt,
of Richland county, Wisconsin. for
$4,000.
Brief Filed in Kelly Case. The
state has filed its brief in the supreme
court in the case against Ex-State
Treasurer T. T. Kelly. relating to the
sale of Oklahoma penitentiary war
rants This opens up an old fight
For a good many years Kansas has
cared for Oklahoma prisoners. Okla
homa has paid in territorial war
rants, bearing 6 per cent until call
ed by the territorial treasurer. The
charge against Kelly was that he sold
those warrants before they were call
ed and in that manner Kansas lost