Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1907-03-28
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IL LAND OF PEACE. PROSPERITY PLENTY, II
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ROSPERITY AND PLENTN

Travis. of Pratt, state fish and game
warden, is now liberating Hun
garian cartridges in various parts
OF the state. The Hungarian part
ridge greatly resemble the native
| quail but is larger and harder, with
brighter plumage. The partridge
hatch two broods of from ten TO
fifteen each season. If the birds do
| as well in Kansas as Mr.. Travis an
ticipates it will be but a few years
until they are quite plentiful in the
state.
Killed Mother, Wounds Babe. -
While Mrs. Arthur McKaig was sit
ting in her home, FIVE miles south of
Olathe, with her 6-months-old baby
in her lap, a shotgun which had
been left on the front porch by her
husband fell from some unknown
cause and went off. The charge
passed through the wall of the
house, striking Mrs McKaig in the
breast and the child on the head,
killing Mrs. McKaig almost instant
ly and wounding the child so that
its recovery is doubtful.
Board of Education Sued. - Suit
asking $4,000 damages and an in
junction were filed in district court
at Galena by Attorney General
Jackson, Of Kansas, against the Ga
lena board of education and three
local mine operators who have been
mining land and zinc ores from
school land within the city. The
damages asked are to cover the
value of ores mined from the land
The attorney general alleges that
the school board exceeded its au.
thority in granting the lease.
Old Age and Blooming Youth. -
Old age and blooming youth were
given a permit to wed by Probate
Judge Kirk, when a license was is
sued to ]. L. Franklin, aged S3, of
South Pattie avenue, and frankie
Seal, aged 10, also of Wichita, but
recently of Arkansas. When the
aged bridegroom was offered a chair
by the court officials, with a due re-
spect for age, the old gentleman
seemed somewhat insulted. and to
show his vitality stood the entire
time that was occupied in writing
the necessary papers.
Can't Get Rid of It.-Adjutant Gen
eral ]. w. F. Hughes has now paid
out all but $4,000 of the $4,000
which John C. Nicholson, Kansas
fiscal agent at Washington, collect.
ed from the federal government for
the members of the four Kansas
regiments of volunteers organized
for service during the Spanish.
American war. He has gained
track of many other former mem
bers of the regiments and expects
to be able to disburse the entire
amount within short time THAT
is l expect to send the checks to
the ex-soldiers to whom they be-
long" says General Hughes, "but
am afraid that some of them will
never be cashed and that the state
will have a useless fund on its
hands for a long time. A number Of
the parties in favor of whom these
checks are drawn in small amounts
are not cashing the checks but are
keeping them as souvenirs. OF
course if the checks are not cashed
the money will still be to the credit
of the adjutant general but it will
do him no good as he will be un-
able to use it. 1t is surprising the
way the members of the four regi-
ments are scattered. Checks have
been mailed to every state in the
Union, to the Philippines, Cuba
Porto Rico, Alaska and Panama
The Kansas volunteers are certainly
scattered
Three Alaska Burglars. - Char.
les Hendrickson. James Thornton
and Clarence E. Maitland. three
noted burglars from Alaska, were
brought to the federal penitentiary
at Leavenworth from McNeil's Is.
land.
| Fell Under the Train. Charles
Mabry, Missouri Pacific fireman
was run over by freight train and
| lholdAtly ACol GluOl N1oc
ry was firing on an extra freight
when the pin between the engine
and tender broke and Jared him
from the engine. He fell under the
cars and the entire train of fifteen
cars passed over his body.
Contract For Public Library Let.
"A Junction City firm was awarded
the contract for the construction of
the George Smith public library at
that place. to be erected at a cost
of $4,000, as provided for in the
will of the late George Smith, who
left an estate worth more than
| 100000 to the city to be used in
building a public library and pro-
| viding for its maintenance
testants except those in the corn
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