Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-04-04

Small Tornado Ragged. - A lorna
dc of small proportions struck the
outlying portion of Chanute, dam
aging half dozen houses and caus-
ing other minor damage. No one
was hurt. as far as could be learn
ed.
Public Park For concordia. =
George E. Kessler. the landscape
artist. who has charge of the Kan
sas City parks, is in Concordia un-
der contract with the Concordia
Park Club to plan the identifying
of the city park of fourteen acres
which has been turned over to the
club, composed wholly of women
by the city council.
Two Fort Contracts Let. - Bids
for the construction of the big rid
Ing hall at Fort Riley that will &c
$50 feet long by ITO feet wide were
opened at the post A Manhattan
firm was the lowest bidder, at
$4,000. The constructing quarter
master at Fort Riley was notified
that firm of Junction City was
awarded the contract for the school
OF equitation stable at Fort Riley,
which is to cost S17.77O.
Appoints Five Inspectors. - Gov.
Hoch has announced the appoint
ment of five state deputy oil in
spectors to serve for the next two
years. OF the old inspectors George
S. Boyd, of Garden City, and w. D.
Mitchell, of Fort Scott, We're drop
ped from the list and Nick Simeon,
of Pittsburg, and A. l.. Gilbert, of
Doniphan county, appointed in their
stead. The other inspectors are:
N. A. Turner, Colby; Fred H. Jew
ell, Topeka, and A. c. Husey, Wich-
tia.
Good Sale of Shorthorns.-One of
the most successful Shorthorn cat
tie sales ever held at Manhattan
took place last week, when thirty
eight head were sold at the State
Agricultural College for an average
of $15S, said to be double the aver
age made at Shorthorn sales in
Northern Kansas and Southern Ne
braska. OF the whole offering, but
three animals sold below $1,000. Girls
Wilson, of Glasco. Kan. who bought
$4,000 worth. paid the top price.
$3.50, for Mary Bell.
Salt Plant to Be Rebuilt. - JOY
Morton. of Chicago. president Of
the Hutchinson Salt Company, has
put fifty men to work clearing
away the debris caused by the FIRE
which destroyed the big Morton
salt plant Mr. Morton stated that
work is to start at once in rebuild
ing the plant and that it will have
q capacity of $500 barrels of salt
daily. The new plant. when iii
operation. will have nearly double
the capacity of any plant in the
world and its output will be larger
daily than the entire output of the
Kansas field five years ago.
Lion Chews Woman. - During
the performance of a wild animal
show at the Crawford theater in
Wichita. Dolly Castle, who does ii
turn with two lions, was horribly
mutilated by one of them. Miss
Castle was in the cage with her
lions. Prince and Bob. when Prince
suddenly leaped on her, threw her.
and getting her forearm in his
mouth tore the flesh from the bone.
Again grabbing the arm he broke
the bone in two places. Professor
knocked the beast senseless with a
bar of iron. At the first leap of the
animal the audience became panic
stricken and the house was quickly
emptied.
Incubator Baby Is Dead. - Little
Joe Markell, the smallest child ever
born in Wichita, died at the Lennox
Sanitarium. The infant at the time
of its birth one week ago weighed
1 IA pounds and from that time IN
til the time of its death was kept in
an incubator
Another Big Gasser. - The Ar
kansas Valley Gas Company drilled
in another big gasser in the field
north of Arkansas City. The well
will produce about four million
cubic feet of gas day. 1t will be
connected with the city mains,
which now supply the residents. G
Walls Fell, Four Injured. - Four
men were buried under the falling
walls of wrecked building at WITCH
tia. A crowd of workmen who were
ON in 11-ra0l-ipu he h,,iI
were quitting work when a high
wind which had been blowing all
day blew down the walls. The
most seriously injured are Fred Da-
Wis. who was injured internally and
both legs broken. H. H. Montgom-
cry. Larkin Green and H. White
were injured internally and about
the head.
Wichita Beacon Is Sued. - The