Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-12-05

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was sent to the penitentiary for ten
years. Lewis was shot first in the
fight. His release was generally ask
ed for in Reno county.
Heavy Fine for NesIecting Wife. =
Willis Smith, of Garrett. was given
heavy jolt in Judge Harder's court.
Smith was charged with vagrancy
and refusing to support his wife and
family. After hearing the evidence
Judge Harder promptly fined the said
Smith $500 and costs. 1t is said Mr..
Smith will take an appeal to the dis
trict court
Fell on Red-Hot Stove. = John BLY,
of Salina was taken with fit and
while in this condition he fell with
his face on a red-hot stove. Rela-
tives hastily pulled him off the stove,
but in SO doing a bucket of boiling
water fell on his already burned face,
scalding him severely. His eyesight
is temporarily lost and it may be
permanently.
+ Murder in County JAIL. Penn,
a negro, serving the last day of
ninety day sentence in the county
jail at Independence, killed Frank
Emerson, also colored, by cutting his
throat with razor in the Jail. EN-
erson was about to begin serving a
sentence of five years for the killing
of Thomas Clark, colored. at Coffey-
vile. 1t was shaving day at the jail
and Penn in this manner secured the
razor.
Baby Burned to Death.-While the
little son of Mr.. and Mrs. Wedel of
Elyria was playing near the stove his
clothing caught on fire and before the
mother could stop it was entirely
burned from the child. Mrs. Wedel
had left the children in the house for
a few minutes and she thinks they
began playing with the fire and got
some Goals from the stove. She was
called by its crying. The child's body
was completely burned over and it
lived but two hours
|. To Hold 5oth Session-On Deem
Der 18th joint meeting of the two
houses of the first free state legis-
lature of Kansas territory will be
held at Lawrence, Kan. 1t will be
part of the thirty-second annual
meeting of the State Historical So
ciety, and will be the fiftieth ami
versary of the territorial legislature
of 1857. The senate was then call
ed the council. The representatives,
however, called their body the house
as at present.
Will Try to Save the Guard.-In an
attempt to save the Kansas National
Guard and the Guards of other states
Gov. Hoch dictated a letter to the
United States Secretary of War pro-
testing against the enforcement of
the recent order to the effect that I'M
less there are fifty-eight men in a
company it must be disbanded or at
least be cut off from the yearly ap-
sropriation from the government.
This order will go into effect Janu-
airy 81 unless it is rescinded.
Alleged Forgers HeId-C. A. Don
nell and wife and James L. Howard
of Arkansas City were bound over to
the district court on the charge of
forgery in the second degree. They
were arrested for passing worthless
bills issued by the Merchants and
Planters Bank of Atlanta, Ga. This
entire section of the country and as
far south as Texas has been flooded
with these bills. They looked like
genuine and were made more deceiv-
ing by FASTING two together, back to
back.
Are &c County High Schools. - In
the two years in which the Barnes
high school law has been in opera
ton the number of county high
schools in Kansas has been trebbled.
When the law became effective tere
were only TWENTY-FIVE high schools in
the state and now there are just
sixty-six. levy of 8 mills for high
school work can be made, but the
records show that in no instances
have the county commissioners ex-
ceeded a levy of ~ mills.
Receivers Report Filed - A re-
ceiver's report of the Uncle Sam Oil
Company, covering the period of the
receivership of ]. C. o. Morse, begin
ming April 10 and continuing until
November 8, was filed with Judge
Hazen, referee in bankruptcy. Dur
ing the management of the receiver
s55, 55S.16 was received and $54, 565.5S
was disbursed. In the list of re-
ceipts is $4,000 borrowed money.
The sale of oil brought in s30,344.77,
while tar brought s7,77S.77. Receiv-
er Morse presented private bill of
expense for SLABS, exclusive of what
he may ask for his services as the
receiver.
Injured by a Street car.-Jacob E. !
Rife, aged sixty-five years, was run
down by street car at Wichita and
probably fatally injured. Rife is par
TALLY deaf and did not notice the ap-
proach of the on-coming car.
City Secures Conviction. = A con-
tried in the district court of Sedg- I
wick county at Wichita in many
years where the defendant was
charged with selling liquor contrary
to law, by the city in its suit against
]. f. Cadwallader.
Says Banks Are Sound-John Q.
Royce. state bank commissioner. has
lust made a weeks visit over Kan
sas, in which he made examinations
of various institutions that had been
affected to the point of closing down
as a result of the financial troubles.
Every bank in Kansas is in tiptop
shape" said Mr. Royce, excepting
three, and l think that they can be
brought out all right. l am going
back to Kansas City soon to see
what more 1 can do. The conditions
in Kansas are splendid and there is