Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-01-31


on his place in a serious condition
Four head of horses on the farm OF
William Burney are victims and John
O'Malley, 4 farmer, lost four head OF
horses in one week.
Defeat Caused His Death.-Cleo D
Brunette, prominent young attor-
ney of Cowley county, died at his
home in Oxford from the effects of a
paralytic stroke For the past two
years he has been fighting in courts
an action to disbar him from the
practice of law and the rendering last
spring of a final adverse decision by
the Supreme Court was a blow from
which he never recovered and has
been failing in health steadily since
that time.
Successful Oiling of Public Roads.
The sum of $4,000 appropriated by
the legislature of 1905 for oiling Kan
sas highways has been expended I'M
der the direction of Professor Albert
Dickens, of the state agricultural col
lege. Professor Dickens believes that
the experiments have proven success
full enough to call for more funds to
be used in the same way.
Kansas Soldiers to Be Paid. - The
members of the four Spanish-Ameri-
can regiments from Kansas will soon
get their extra enlistment money. The
original claims filed against the gov
eminent were for S29,345.57 The
auditor of the war department allow
ed S22.09G.13 and disallowed S7,249.44
There was no record in the adjutant
generals office of the approved and
rejected claims, and Il was necessary
to send to Washington to get copy
Of the records showing how much
each man was entitled to.
Fire Destroys Engine Fuel. The
fire that began in the big pile of Hig-
bee coal in the Union Pacific yards
at Junction City a couple of months
ago is still burning and at this time
it is reported that over 5000 tons OF
coal has been destroyed by the fire.
The ashes are being used to fill in
the low places in the yards. The fire
can not last much longer for the rea-
son that the supply of Higbee coal
will soon be exhausted. No other
kind of coal in the yards caught fire
from spontaneous combustion
Made a Record Fun. - Engineer
John Teadway, on enrine No. 53S.
made a record run from Dodge City
to Hutchinson. He started out of
Dodge City with the Santa Fe's fast
est train, No. 4. forty-five minutes
late, and brought it into Hutchinson
On time. II w1s running at the rate
of 10 miles an hour all the way from
Dodge City, and it is a record that
Mr.. Treadway may be proud OF. He
lives in Hutchinson, although his
runs are on Nos. and from New
ton to Dodge City.
Fire Crippled Parker Shows. - The
Elks' carnival that was to have been
given at Salina was declared off. A
telegram was received from Harry
Raver, the manager of the show
which was to have been, stating that
it would be impossible to fill the dates
for that city, as fire had practically
put the show out of business. The
wardrobes of all the actors were de-
stroyed and many of the features
were likewise destroyed. Upon re-
ceipt of the telegram efforts were
made to induce Mr.. Parker to bring
another attraction to Salina next
week, and proposition was made to
put on a combination of good attrac-
tons, but they were not what the
Elks had been advertising and rather
than disappoint the people It was de-
cided to declare the entire show off
Practicing at 1o1.-Dr. Peter Dock
Ter of Onasa celebrated his 10Ist
birthday October 5, 1906 He is prob
ably tie Oldest practicing physician
in the world. Only a couple of weeks
ago he made a professional trip to
Frankfort. He hired a team at the
Onaga livery barn and drove across
the country, about twenty-eight
miles.
He Got off Easy. - Indignant citi-
zens of the town of Hunnewell, in
Sumner county. inflicted summary
punishment upon a young fellow who
in drunken rage assaulted his wife.
The man was arrested and taken to
the lookup. where after dark he was
visited by a party of citizens, who
took him out, tied him to a telegraph
pole and whipped him with rawhides
until he howled for mercy. He was
then escorted to the Oklahoma line
and ordered to vacate the vicinity.
The citizens say in justification of
their actions that the man would
have escaped from the flimsy Gala
boose and gone scott free had they
not taken the law into their own
hands.
They Fear Diphtheria.-At a meet
ing of the school board and the city
council at Kingman it was decided to
close all schools, Sunday schools and
churches and to stop all meetings of
a public nature, owing to threaten
ed epidemic of diphtheria. Three
deaths have resulted from this dis
ease, two of them being in one family
and a number of new cases are re-
ported. Governor Hoch was billed to
speak there and a travelling amuse-
ment company was to have been
there. These, together with a num-
Der of other minor engagements,
were Cancelled.
$500 For Muneie Man. - Joseph
L. White. a convict who has just fin
ished term of two years in the fed
eral penitentiary at Leavenworth for
robbing a postofice at Fulton, Mo-.
was rearrested at the gate when re-
leased. The arrest was made by
Sheriff Boyle, of Muncie, Ind, who
has warrant charging White with
robbing a bank at Muncie three years
ago. White was identified in the pris-
on several weeks ago by citizen of
Muncie who recognized him in big
gang of prisoners. He was taken to
Muncie The man who identified him