Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-21
Sixty DAYS For BootIegeer


for bootlegging, pleaded guilty il
Justice Gilmore's court and was
sentenced to sixty days in the
county Jail and to pay fine Of
5000.
Veteran Struck by Car. Char
les E. Thomas. veteran of the Sol
diers' Home, at Leavenworth was
struck by an ell Actric car and badly
injured He was walking on the
track. His right leg was broken
near the hip and his head injured
Thomas served in company K
Twenty-frst Illinois infantry, in the
civil war
Names Son-in-Law. 1t is under
stood that Congressman Bowersock
in-law, for the postmastership ap-
pointment at Lawrence. Mr.. Hill is
at present manager of Mr.. Bower
socks -four mill. A man by the
the appointment He is in Wash
ington and it is stated that he pro
poses to see President Roosevelt in
behalf of his own claim
Swindler Is Caught. D. F. Bar
nett, the gold tooth swindler, who
is alleged to have stolen Geo.
MichaePs overcoat at Lawrence
and who otherwise swindled people
in that vicinity, was captured at Ell
bling. Kan, by City Marshal Chas.
Marsh, of Peabody. The evidence
leading to Barnett's capture was Sc
cured from D. R. Mcintosh of Burns,
and after some conversation traded
a fine fur overcoat for the one
which Barnett had taken in Law
renee. Barnett was trying some
kind of a swindle on some Elbing
men when City Marshal Marsh ar
rested him.
Lincoln in Kansas. Kansas
within her borders of Abraham Lin
coin The great Civil War President
spent NEST of the first week of De
cember. 1859, on Kansas soil, ac-
cording to the records in existence.
He spoke in Kansas six times be-
tween December 1 and Decembr :,
each time in the Northeastern part of
the state, along the Missouri river
towns. The first address which
Lincoln gave in Kansas was at the
town OF Elwood. opposite st. Jo-
seph, Mo. Then he appeared at
Troy, Doniphan. Atchison and twice
in Leavenworth.
Dewey Is Free. The supreme
court has reversed the decision of
the district court of Norton county
which dismissed the cases pending
against Chauncey Dewey. Clyde VIII
son and William j. Mcbride with
out prejudice. In the opinion hand
ed down by Judge Porter the court
holds that the defendants are en-
titled to their discharge, and so or
ders. The three men were charged
with taking part in the murder of
the greater number of the Berry
family in Rawlins county in June,
1903. They were tried in Norton
county on a change of venue, but
not within the limit of three terms
of court after the, indictments had
been returned against them. The
court holds that a person cannot be
longer held for murder after a de-
lay covering three terms OF court
at which defendants demanded trial.
This ends one of the most famous
and long-drawn-out criminal cases
in the history of the state.
To Insure Banks. A movement
is on at Mcpherson for the organiza-
ton of a Kansas Bankers Surety
Company, capital S1,OOO,0OO to be
subscribed by the bankers of the
state and the fund to be invested in
government bonds. This company
will issue insurance policies for the
protection of depositors, charging
the banks insured a fraction of one
per cent on their average daily de-
posits for the year. That this
should be the solution of guarantee
ing the bank deposits in Kansas and
not the proposed plan now under
consideration by the legislature is
the idea of the men behind the
plan.
Jury Is Discharged. At PaoIa
the jury in the case of Carl Baker.
% years old, charged with the muir
der of Eugene Vohs, wealthy
farmer. who lived near Louisburg,
failed to agree and were discharged.
Vohs was shot to death in his
wagon on the evening of November
"a. The evidence against Baker
was all of a circumstantial nature
Six of the jury voted for acquittal. G
Farmer Loses HIS Arm. Elmer
Chronister, a farmer, living near
Abilene, caught his left hand in a
corn shredder and had it tom off
near the elbow before the machine
could be stopped. 1t will not re-
suit fatally.
insane Spaniads, who was in the
county Jail at Girard. preparatory
to being taken to the asylum, died
in his cell in the jail. The cause
of death was probably from his gen.
eral broken down condition.
Died in Dentists Chair. Mrs. ].
E. Swingle, of Manhattan, died in a
dentists chair while under the in
fuence of an anesthetic administer
ed by a physician. After inhaling
death took place before
the dental operation had been per-
formed
Ate Strychninc TabIets.-The 49,
months-old son of Rev. W. T. Will
liams, pastor of the Congregational
church at Fort Scott, accidentally
swallowed a half dozen tablets con.
tanning strychnine and died in coz