Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-08-08
It Happened p X a n S a S
OUR WEEKLY GIsT OF CONDENSED ITEMS

| Gov. Folk for Jack Hudson, who is
| wanted in Cherokee county on a
charge of grand larceny. Hudson is
under arrest in Joplin. Mo.
Long Canoe Voyage. A canoe
voyage four hundred miles long with
ST. Louis as the objective point, and
| to cover the Marals des Cygnes, the
Usage and the Missouri rivers. was
begun at Ottawa by Proofs. Richard
Freeman and William U. Moore of
the University of Kansas. They ex-
pect to return by rail from st. Louis
to reach Lawrence September IS.
Their boat is 15 feet long.
Stay Of Execution Granted. =
Chest Thurston, Frank Thurston and
Philip Thurston, of Ellis county,
were granted a stay of execution by
Judge Porter, of the supreme court,
from the sentence imposed upon
| them by the Ellis county court on
the conviction of arson in the third
degree. The bond was fixed at
$1,000 each. until the appeal is de-
cided by the supreme court
Deadly Bolt From the Blue. A
bolt of lightning from cloud in ap-
pearance no larger than a mans
hand instantly killed George A.
Quandt, Company NJ. Third bat
talon, of engineers, while he was
holding horses on the target range
at Fort Leavenworth. The horse he
was riding was killed, and a second
horse was so badly injured that it
had to be shot. Three years ago
this summer an officer of engineers,
Lieutenant Bower, was killed by
lightning near the same place; the
bolt coming from a small cloud, as
in this case.
No Pardon for Tucker.-The presi-
dent has denied an application for a
pardon made on behalf of H. H.
Tucker, who was sentenced on June
5th last to three months imprison-
ment for contempt of court by Cir
cult Judge Hook in the United
States circuit court for the district
of Kansas. The alleged contempt
consisted in filing an affidavit ask
ing for a change of judge and max
ing charges against Judge Pollock
of the district court. Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparte recommended to the
president that the application be not
granted.
Put Bulletin on FIag.-The words
Haywood not guilty." attached to a
United States flag which hung over
the middle of the principal street at
Arkansas City, caused several old
soldiers to go to Mayor Brown with
complaints that the flag was being
desecrated. The mayor called the
attention of the persons who were
responsible for the flag and sign be-
ing there to the Jaw passed by the
legislature of 1905 and it was re-
moved. The flag and sign were put
up when the news of the Haywood
verdict came by members of the
union trades council.
Gets "a Guns at GRANDFATHER the
news was received at Girard that the
jury had rendered a verdict of not
guilty in the case of William D. Hay
wood. Fred D. Warren, editor of the
Appeal To Reason, sent the follow
ing message to President Roosevelt:
''The Appeal To Reason and its one
million readers extends congratula-
lions to you for the services render
ed in securing the acquittal of the
| Undesirable Citizen at Boise, Id.
You will be asked to explain your at
titude to ten million workingmen
during the campaign next year." At
the same time man was employed
to fire cannon every fifteen min
utes from midnight until 6 O'Clock
next morning.
Rock Island Clerks Discharged. -
All the clerks in the office of the
master mechanic of the Rock Island
railroad at Goodland were discharged
for refusing to don overal1s and clean
and dress cars during the short
strike of the carmen.
She Cut Her Throat. = Mrs. Ed
ward Graves, farmers wife, living
AOoi 1OAdt hl1lCQ hCloCll WIN a loLOA
She cut her throat and fell through
her bedroom doorway into the yard,
where her children were playing.
To Germany for Machinery. - The
huge Touring mills of Larabee Bros,
at Stafford, which recently burned at
loss of $4,000, will be rebuilt i'm
mediately. The location has not yet
been selected but will be in some
town with good railroad facilities
and in the center of the wheat belt.
Wichita is offering inducements but
no decision has been reached, nor is
any bonus wanted. I'VE propose to
build the best mill in the United
States. We have sent to Germany
for machinery for a 1000 barrel mill.
Completed it will cost, with storage
watts, 100000" is the statement of
Frank Larabee.
Atchison's Mayor Defies Veterans.
The Veterans League at Atchison,
an organization of old soldiers, has
| fled a complaint with the county at
torney, asking that custer proceed
| ings be brought against Mayor S. s.
King because of his failure to OBJ
serve the old soldier preference law
| in making his appointments. Mayor
| Kings contention is that he has fill
ed positions where they are physi.
cally competent to fill them with old
soldiers and that he will stand pat on
his appointments. The county at
! torney has a month to consider the
case before the district court con,
venes.
Fast Kansas Horses. Marion
county is almost equaling the famous
Blue Grass country of Kentucky in
its production of fast horses. To the
list of now famous horses from
Marion county recently should be
added several owned by DIR. NJ. J.
Gilman, of Florence, that last year
made sensational time on the eastern
| circuit. Mr.. Gilman has selected
three and entered them for the races
at Detroit, Dayton and Lexington
| Dpyt month Whera the stakes are for