Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-09-12
IAN S A S ITEMS
SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS

OI fISuiduu park. InlS IS the HTSl
time natural gas has been found near
Topeka.
4 Drowned at Kansas Ford. = Mrs.
Ed Hem and her 5-year-old daughter,
and Mrs William Johnson and a
young daughter, were drowned in a
creek near Oakley while trying to
ford the stream, which was swollen.
in a buggy.
Fire Burns w. U. Office. : The
office of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company at Arkansas City. to-
gether with all instruments. Office
records and furniture were destroyed
by fire, believed to have been of in
cendiary origin.
Got aa1 Dozen Bad Eegs.-A Lyon
county man wired the board nj
health asking what he should do to Il
man who sold him lot of eggs in
which there were 331 dozen decayed
ones. DR.. Crumbine told him to call
on his county attorney. The suit
will be valuable as test.
Died in Mail Wagon.-P. NJ. Axtell,
a rural mail carrier on route No. 1,
out of Formoso, died in his mail
wagon. He had collected mail three
miles out of town on his return. His
horse came into town and walked in
to SCOTS livery barn with the old
man sitting in his seat dead.
Woman Struck by Train.-Mrs. c.
-. Turney, wife of the fell rr~"~''
tendent of the United States Sugar
and Land Company, for the Deer
field district. was struck by the en-
CINE of Santa Fe passenger train No.
9. at Deerfield, and instantly killed.
She started to cross the track in
front of the train which was moving
faster than she calculated. and was
caught before she got off the track. 6
Skull Fractured; Boy Dies. - Her
bert Meibach died at his home in
Powhattan, as result of being
thrown from a horse. The boy
struck his head, causing fracture CT
the frontal bone and back portion of
the skull, An operation was per-
formed, but he died in "a hours. He
was 16 years old and a graduate of
the '07 high school class of Powhat
tan.
Emporia Man Suicides. - Thomas
Landerbeck, of Emporia. committed
suicide by shooting himself throrgi
the heart, dying within a few min
utes after firing the shot. Family
trouble caused the act He had been
separated from his wife atont a
month and it preyed on his mind. He
was teamster by occupation. His
wife was widow when he married
and the mother of :everal- children.
Dogs Are Killing Stock. - Com
non, ordinary, domestic digs are do
ing as much damage to stock in the
neigbborhoo1 of JNetmore. south If
Sabetha, as the vicious wolf. Rec
Gibbons recently LOST four goats
through the ravages of pack CT
logs. Saturday E. ]. Woo1man
'ound two packs of dogs in his hog
yard. Each pack was tearing val'l-
able hog to pieces. This is four
hogs Mr. Woodman has lost in a !
nOHIu ny Jugs.
Pabst Brewery Quits. = The Pabst |
Brewing Company has paid into the
supreme court s1,565.15 as its costs |
IN the custer suit brought by the at |
torney general to drive the brewing
company out of Kansas. This is the
fifth of the big companies to accept !
the same judgment as was handed
down by the supreme court in the
Anheuser-Busch case. The company |
pays the costs. agreed to sell its real
estate as quickly as possible and
move its personal property at once
Gets $3.50 From Pabst. - The re-
ceivers got another big check last
week. Jointly they received $1,000 |
as their fees in the Pabst brewing
case. The costs were $G5 addition
al.
NJ, X. G. T. Will Bulletin Trains
The Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail- |
road have notified the state board OF
railroad commissioners that it will
comply with the order relating to the |
bulletining of trains.
Women Threaten Lynching. = DR.. |
S. ]. Crumbine, secretary of the
state board of health. has received a
letter from Hutchinson woman say
ing that unless he at once saw that
negroes at Hutchinson stopped dump
inc refuse on the banks of the Ar
kansas river. there would be lynch
ing. Either you proceed at once"
wrote the woman, against these
greasy niggers. or we will proceed
with a rope. We won't stand for 1t.
About twenty-five of US white women
will lust buy a few feet Of rope and
then there won't be any more law
defying niggers." DR.. Crumbine sent
the communication to the adjutant
generals war department.
Cattle Fever in Kansas. - Texas
fever among cattle has been report
I'D to the sanitary live stock com-
missioner and two state veterln-
arians have been ordered to investi-
gate.
Four Boys Drowned in Kaw.-Fou'
BOYS were drowned at Oakland,
suburb of Topeka, in the kaw river
Their names are Earl Fleming, Cnar-
les Fleming, Lauren Rankin and Haf-
nd Rankin. The boys were wadlng
in the river and got out OF the
depth.
Must Open Dead" Cars. = me
railroad commissioners have issued
4 notice to the Pullman Sleeping Car
Company in Kansas to open all OF
its cars going through Kansas. SO
that If the remainder of the train is
crowded the passengers can find
seats in the Pullmans. The order