Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-04-08

posed and went to the cupboard to get
some ginger. She got paris green and
took a dose of that The poison had
been put in the cupboard by mistake.
Her husband is an employe of the
Rock Island. railroad.
Prefers Ranch to Office-Represen-
tative, Lot Ravenscraft of Clark county
declined the office of state tax com
missioner. He said he could not neg
lect lis ranch. The governor proposes
to appoint a big land. owner of West
ern Kansas to the vacancy. Il will
have western Kansas land holder"
said he, "if 1 have to give the place
to a Republican. Ishad hoped Demo
cratic land owner could be found to
take the job" Ravenscraft is Dem
ocrat.
Last of the Wilson's Disbarred.-
Clement L. Wilson, a Thomas county
attorney, and brother of A. P. Tone
Wilson, the Shawnee county attorney
who was disbarred a short time ago,
has been disbarred by the supreme
court and under the decision of the
court he can no longer practice in the
state. The charge is that he received
$13.12 to which he was not entitled
The papers in the case show that he
sold some real estate as an agent for
the owners and took a fee from both
the seller and the purchaser of $6.o6
which he claimed was to pay taxes
on the property. The taxes were
never paid and the property was sold
to satisfy the taxes. Action was
brought against Wilson on the ground
that he had not acted in good faith.
Another charge made against him was
that he had retained 500 in the same
transaction which did not belong to
him. Wilson was disbarred in the
lower court and appealed to the SUI
preme court where the decision of the
lower court was sustained.
indictments by Federal Grand Jury
The U. S. federal court grand jury
in session at Wichita, returned five in
dictments. The jurors were discharg-
ed. Mrs. A. H. Miller of 1928 East
Second street, Wichita, was indicted
on charge of using the mails wrong
fully. Mrs Miller was arraigned be-
fore Judge Pollock after the indict-
ment had been returned. She pleaded
not. guilty and was released on $1,000.
bond. The case will be tried at the
September term of court. Robert L.
Pollard, trainman of Wichita, was
indicted on the charge of having de-
frauded Henry T. Sherman of $94.
Pollard was Sherman's guardian. Pol
lard pleaded not guilty. His bond was
fixed at $500 and the case was con-
tinued until the September term. A
bill was returned against John Vail
of Mitchell for using three two cent
cancelled postage stamps on letter.
Judge Pollock was lenient toward
VAIL as he has a family dependent
On him. He pleaded guilty and was
fined $500 He paid the fine. J. w.
Softer was indicted on the charge of
having violated the anti-pass law in
that he used pass for transportation
on the Santa Fee railroad from Wei
lington to Belva, Okla, with the
agreed intention OF going TO work
! for the Santa Fe, when in fact he was
not in, the employ of the company.
! John Marshall, assistant attorney gen.
oral of Topeka, who represented Sal
ter, made motion that the case be
continued on $500 bond which was
iGore. Jesse Henry, 10 years old, was
| indicted on the charge Of robbing a
rost office at Lamont, Okla. He plead
ed guilty Judge Pollock paroled Hen
" Oh $500 bond conditioned on good
| behavior.
| pcIdges S3,e25 in Thirty Minutes
The new $4,000 Methodist church
was dedicated at Greensburg, Bishop
J. /. Nuelson and District Superintend-
ut w. J. Martindale officiating. The
| Balance of the debt due. $685., was
pledged in Just thirty minutes. This.
puts the church free of debt.
Memorial fer "Old-T;neFs. "-The
stars of Lawrence want the privi-
lego OF building a memorial hall on
! the university campus q resolution
! giving them the privilege OF doing so
was pass ea~ by TIE legislature. The
state is not asked to spend a cent
! either for the creation of the building
| or its maintenance All the Lawrence
! oldtimers WANTS. fore the state to fur
Inish the site.
Eighth iEcend5agg sFire-The-Ca
livery stables in Wichita, owned by
iC. L: Tippler, togetAeE with seventeen
horses. were, burned Carriages, hacks
and many private. rigs were in the
bst&bies and a few IF theat@were taken
cut. as the fire spread rapidly. Tie
loss is estima ed q s5.CC0. Fhis is the
q eighth incendinary livery stable fire
in the city in the past six months. l
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