Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-06-27
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Der gained entrance to the home of
Miss Pearl Rogers. at Wellington
and awakened Mrs. Rogers. her
mother. by attempting to choke her.
The woman fought and screamed I'M
til neighbors were aroused. Several
shots were fired at the man as he re-
treated but he made good his
escape.
$500 Pounds of PIug-It requires
just 1900 pounds of chewing tobacco
to keep the Jaws of the states wards
in the charitable institutions going
for six months. This amount costs
the state $1,000 and the contract for
it was let by the State Board of Con-
troll to Theo. Poehler, of Lawrence.
This tobacco will go to the following
institutions: Topeka State Hospital,
1,SOO pounds; Osawatomie State Hos
pital, $500 pounds; Parsons Asylum,
$50 pounds; School for Feeble Mind
ed Youths, at Winfield, GO pounds.
The favorite brands are Horse
SHOE" 81. T." and Star"
Big Damage Suit Filed. The lar
gest damage suit ever brought in
Bourbon county was filed by billiard
& Padgett. as attorneys for Stout &
Herman. The suit, which is against
the Chicago Life Insurance Company,
asks for $4,000. At the time of this
dissolution of the Chicago Life in
surance Company, last September,
Stout p Tiornor r.
agents in the Southwest. The petit
ton alleges that the plaintiffs enter
ed into contract with the company
for given number of years and that
there is now due them on future
premiums which would. under the
contract not mature for nineteen
years over half a million dollars.
Since the dissolution of the Chicago
company, Stout & Herman organized
the Central Life Insurance Company
with Fort Scott as headquarters.
"Kansas-Her Story" - Secretary
Coburn, of the State Board of Agri-
culture has just issued a report I'M
der the title, kansas = Her Story
and Statistics It covers the quar-
ter ending March, 1907. This re-
port is not intended for Kansas peo-
pie as much as it is for residents of
the eastern states,'' said Mr.. Coburn.
at will give outsiders information
regarding the state and at the same
| time answer the purpose of mirror
| held up in front of Kansas that she
may learn something concerning her
self" In the introduction Mr.. Co.
burn makes statement of what
Kansas is now and how she came to
be what she is. 1t contains agricul-
tural history, statistical facts and in
teresting comparisons with other
| states. 1t tells many things of his
| torical nature that are not told by
| the so-calied histories.
jackson Is Threatened.-It is Cup
to- Attorney General Jackson and
| his assistants to go to Hutchinson
and show the saloon element what
he can do when he is ''riled." He re-
ceived an anonymous letter from
| Hutchinson telling him what may
happen if he or any of his hired men
set foot in the town on Cow creek.
The letter was as follows: Mr..
Attorney General: You may clos
al the joints in the other towns but
We voted wet. church peepul and all.
County and city eleted officers are
with us in sympathy and the leeding
newspapers to the railroad men and
all our collard folks and if you or
your hired men gets to busy here
| you'll hotfoot it out of this town
| quicker than you com in. A word to
| the wise is enuff. There is more
ways sellin goods than over a bar.
Committy.''
| Killed by a Live Wire. - Clarence
Smith, a boy aged IL years, was in
stantly killed at Salina by picking
I'D a live wire. Workmen had cut
the wire and it was hanging near the
home of the boy, who saw it and took
hold of it.
No 2-cent Fare Order Vet. - A
story is in circulation that the board
of railroad commissioners will on
its own motion order the establish
ment by the railroads of a 2-cent
fare in Kansas. C. A. Ryker, mem
Der of the commission. fatty denies
this rumor. There is no truth in
it, he said. THE board has not
planned to make an order for 2
cent fare. &c board has believed
right along that it should wait until
Missouri and Nebraska have fought
out their tests. We have not chang
ed from that policy" S. S. Ash
baugh, attorney for the board, said
I'VE are going to await the reports
from Missouri and Nebraska. especi
ally Missouri. 1t may be three
J months before We take up the mat
ter"
S. w. Kansas Veterans Reunion
Joseph G. Cannon, speaker of the
) house of representatives; Senators
Long and Curtis, Herbert Hadley, At
torney General of Missouri; F. S
Jackson, Attorney General of Kan
sas, Gov. Hoch, Past Department
Commander R. A. Campbell, George
Curry, Gov. of New Mexico, Con
gresham Victor Murdoch and Henr!
, j. Allen have accepted invitations tt
speak at the fourteenth reunion o
the southwestern Kansas veterans
, which will be held at Dodge City
August 6, z, s and 9.
I kansan Drowned in a Pond.-Wal
{ ter Fullerton, aged 81, was drowne'
I in a pond near Horton by getting be
| yond his depth. His body was not sc
, cured for several hours. Fullerton
; was an employee in the Rock Islam
shops and had been in Horton only
short time.
Buried His Gold in Cans. - Tire
: thousand eight hundred dollars il