Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-05-02

AN unknown man was run over
and killed by Kansas City. South
ern train near Pittsburg. He was
apparently S5 years old, sandy mus.
tache and beard
Pounded With a Pickax. - A Rus
sian laborer was picked up along
the Katy tracks near Fort Scott His
face is mass of wounds and the
Uranium shows evidence of having
been pounded with a pickax.
Hagerman Kansas Product. -
Herbert Hagerman, who is to quit as
governor of New Mexico by order of
President Roosevelt, was a former
resident of Kansas. He was reared
at Muscotah, Atchison county His
father was in business there for
many years.
Appointed Deputy Commissioner.
John Kelly. of Topeka. a brother
of ex-Treasurer 7. T. Kelly, has been
appointed deputy bank commission
er for building and loan associations.
Harry Findlay has been appointed
field deputy bank commissioner.
Findlay is son-in-law of Cyrus Lee
land
Body Found in Ditch.-The body
of John Veroda, single man who
lived on a farm in Republic county.
about eighteen miles north of Con
cordia, was found covered with
brush in a ditch near his home. His
head was crushed. A 1G-year-old
boy named Svojgr. employed by
Veroda. was missing. together with
team and buggy. He was caught
near Munden. but refuses to talk.
Accident at Wellington. - During
the competitive drill by cantons of
the Patriarchs Militant. in connec-
ton with the |. o. o. F. eighty
eighth anniversary at Wellington an
awning on which some twenty peo-
pie were standing collapsed. pre-
clpitating them upon the heads of
the crowd below. Among the more
seriously injured were w. NJ. COST
gan. Wichita, arm broken and inter
nally hurt: ]. C. Smith. Jr.. Yelling
ton. hip dislocated; Charles F. Mar
tin. Wellington arm broken; George
Tracey, Argonia, arms and back
bruised, condition serious; Mrs. c.
H Barnard. Wellington. hip crushed
and hurt internally; ex-senator w.
]. Lingfelter, Wellington. injured in
back and limbs. Mrs. Port Campbell,
Caldwell. seriously bruised about
back and head.
Banks in Western Kansas.-With-
in the past two weeks seven state
banks have been instituted in West
ern Kansas by Deputy Bank Com
missioner Harry Troville. And this
recalls the fact that two-thirds of the
new state banks instituted within
the last two years are in Western
Kansas. There are now about 1000
state banks in Kansas. meaning that
there are about eight banks for towns
of 1000 population in the state.
One bank in Pawnee county is SAID
to be paying 100 per cent year &c
its stockholders. The banks insti
tuted by the bank commissioner
within the past week are: The
Grant County State Bank, Ulysses;
The Citizens State Bank. Clafiin,
Barton county, capital $4,000; The
Lake State Bank, Lake City, Barber
county. capital $4,000: The Citizens
State Bank. Liberal, Seward county,
capital $4,000; The Peoples State
Bank. Garden City: capital $4,000;
The Farmers State Bank. Larned,
Pawnee county, capital $4,000; The
carlton State Bank, Neosho county,
capital $4,000.
Negro Killed by Police. - A negro
named Piummer was shot and killed
at Coffeyvilie by ]. H. Fletcher, a
policeman. Fletcher shot the negro
to save the life of Charles Bliss. an
other officer, whom Plummer had at
tackled with a razor. A coroner's
jury exonerated Fletcher.
One Year For Perjury. - William
D. Stamford, of Sharon Springs,
who was convicted by jury in the
United States district court at To-
peka, charged with perjury in a
homestead matter, was given one
years sentence in the penitentiary
and 1000 fine.
Claim Violation Of Bill of Rights
The Prairie Oil and Gas Company
! has filed its reply to the action
which the state took last year to
GUST the Standard Oil Company on
| the charge of unlawful combina-
| tions or pools. A general denial is
entered. Then the action of the at
torney general is declared to be in
violation of the bill of rights and in
conflict with the fourteenth amend
ment to the constitution of he Uni
ted States.
Prisoner Attempts Suicide. - viii,
| liam Wann. "a years old. who was
serving a sentence in the reforma-
| tory at Hutchinson under the name
of Frank Mannern, jumped over a
railing in cell house, striking his
head on the concrete floor. eighteen
feet below. and crushing his skull.
He died the next day. Wann
was sent March IA. 1904, from
Garden City for burglary.
Hand MangIed in Plant. - Edward
Vollmy, a cabinet maker at the
| Western Furniture and Manufactur.
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| Gas to Burn. - The greatest gas
we'll ever drilled in the Western
country has been brought in al
| Caney. 1t was drilled by owen &
WATSON for the Lanyon Zinc Com
pany, on a lease one mile north OF
the great gasser developed last year
but discounts that well two to one
1t blew away three sections of an
eighty-foot derrick along with the
heavy tools. AS near as it could be
gagged the well has capacity ap
proximately of 100,000.000 feet pei
day. Only one other well ever drill