Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-02-21
KANSAS KERNELS
BRIEF ITEMS GATHERED FROM AROUND THE suHFlowER STATE
Arrested For swindIina

Arrested For SwindIing. Char
les Carson, a young man living
about five miles south of Wichita,
was arrested on the charge of lar
ceny- -,
High Price For Hogs. The top
notch price for hogs was paid at a
sale held near Frankfort. Chas.
Pratt sold forty head of Duroc Jer-
sey hogs that averaged s92 per
head. The top price was paid for
last spring gilt. This animal brought
$500. Pratt is one of the prominent
hog breeders of northeast Kansas
and stock men from four different
states were in attendance at the
sale
Fell From Porch on Head. - AL
bert NJ. Green, veteran of the sol
diers' home, at Leavenworth, fell
from the barracks porch and struck
on his head. He died in short
time. Green was 20 years old. He
served in the Sixth Kentucky cav
airy in the Civil war He had been
a member of the home eighteen
years.
For German Orphans Home. -
The German Baptist Brethren of
Mcpherson have organized an Or
phans' Home Society, and the char
ter of the association has just been
received. Arrangements will be
made for the accommodation of the
orphans of the church, but no home
will be built for their accommoda-
ton until later.
Hccoughs Cause Death. B. F.
Smith, well known resident OF
Weir City, died at his home after
short illness He was taken several
days ago with severe spells of hic-
coughing. The physicians were I'M
able to stop the terrible strain on
his system and death resulted after
| about sixty hours of hiccoughing.
Other complications developed
which probably fastened death
List Is Arranged. - The Demo
Gratis have arranged for the entire
list of speakers who will participate
in their annual banquet at Topeka.
| February %. A. C. Shellenbarger.
of Nebraska, will be the principal
speaker of the evening. Six young
Democrats will be given an oppor-
tunity to talk for ten minutes each.
They are George J. Benson, of FL
dorado; P. J. Deane, OF Ellis. Wen
dell W. McCandless. of Lawrence;
Clyde L. Davis, of Emporia; Seward
l. Field, of Medicine Lodge; and J.
W. Gormley, of Garnett.
Another Skyscraper for Wichita.
Work on another skyscrape.' for
Wichita will begin within sixty
days. The new building will be
built by Smyth Bros, on the north
east corner of Lawrence and Doug
las avenues, and be occupied by
Geo. Innis & Co.'S dry goods estab
lishment. 1t will have a frontage of
10 feet on Douglas avenue and
13S IL feet on Lawrence avenue.
The material will be reinforced &C.
ment, which is absolutely fireproof
and which grows stronger and bet
ter the longer it stands. All along
the front on both avenues the first
story will consist of one long. I'M
broken eXpanse of plate glass with
not pillar to be seen. This will
give Innes & Co. the largest and
handsomest show windows in the
west, as well as the largest dry
goods house in Kansas. 1t is ex-
pected the new building will be
ready for occupancy by Sept LIST.
Fire at Bridgeport. - The little
town of Bridgeport had fire which
entailed loss of between $4,000
and $4,000. which was covered by
insurance in the sum of $4,000. The
building destroyed belonged to John
Shelberg, and it was occupied by
disc store, by the postoffice and the
long distance toll telephone office
Accuses a Legislator. - Members
of the house have received from
Will X. Reeme. of Kansas City, cir
cular letters declaring that the
conduct of John A. Edwards, chair
man. of the special legislative COM
mittee Sent u Kansas City to inves-
tigate the stock yards. was unbe-
coming of Kansas statesman. The
Tof+ hor hoF
while there, and that he refused 10
investigate charges that the stock
yards company had used money to
defeat the passage of laws against
their interests two years ago. Ed
wards says that Reeme is a "he
Myra McHenry," and that the
charges he made were absolutely
false.
Brakeman Ground to Pieces. -
H. Dillon, Santa Fe brakeman, fell
from the top of his train in the
Spearville yards and was ground to
pieces and his remains scattered
for 800 feet along the track. Dillon
was a student brakeman and this
was his first trip
Can Now Have Its Park. The
city council of Abilene compromised
injunction suits against the park
bond issue and will at once improve
a block in the center of town for .
park and Carnegie library site.
Child Killed by Cancer. Louis
Ryals at Weir City, aged four
years and six months, died last
week at the home of his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Ryals, of can
Ger. The little one had been sick |
about two years and all that medi- |
cal skill could devise was done for |