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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
STATE OF KANSAS
HAS MANY HEROES
POSSESSES MORE THAN SHARE
OF CARNEGIE MEDALS.
Rewards Given Eight Men Are Nearly
s1o,ooo-Averase Only Seven
Total Awards for Acts Of
Heroism Reach 1886.

Lawrence.-Kansas has heroes.
More than its share, according to the
recently issued report OF the Carnegie
hero fund commission. In the last
year the total awards for acts Of hero
Ism have reached 1856, which Is an
average of seven for each state In the
union. Kansas, however, has received
eight medals and $9,100 in cash for
charitable purposes.
In the last year two Kansans re-
oeived $4,000 and silver medals for
attempted rescue of two comrades.
They were VIM. Bayless and Clarence
NJ. Thompson of Cimarron, Kan.
Thompson slid down rope to the
bottom of a 45-foot well, where the
two men lay overcome by gas, fas-
tened the rope to each in, turn, lost con-
ter they had been drawn up, lost con-
seriousness. He was rescued by Bay
less and recovered. Davis and Nelson
Thompson were dead.
The first Kansan to receive recog-
milton Of bravery was Charles L..
Hayes, a 15-year-old school boy who
saved a companion from drowning
near Neosho Rapids in 1905.
The same year, Andrew j. Hedger, a
county superintendent living near
Pierceville, saved two men from death
In a cavern. He received medal and
$4,000 for the education of his child
rem.
At Olathe Earl Ames, Thomas Her
man and Rollo w. Eastman tried to
rescue a deaf mute who had broken
through the ice. The two latter were
themselves drowned and Aimes was
forced to return to the shore after try
ing vainly to lend the trio assistance.
He received $4,000 for educational pur-
poses.
In 1908 e. G. McCue, colored, saved
a 2-year-old babe from being run over
by train. McCune ran $50 feet, part
of this distance on the track ahead of
a passenger train running 40 miles an
hour, and grasped the baby and Its
carriage, which had rolled onto the
track, threw them aside and cleared
the track himself, the pilot beam OF
the engine missing him by few
inches. He received $500.
Pecuniary awards to date total 1882,
S6S. While only 336 medals have been
granted, the commission has refused
3,494 applications.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
sss25, 900 TURNED BACK.
Money Could Have Been Used for Past
Fiscal Year.

49,
Fiscal Year.
Topeka.-James NJ. Nation. state
auditor, is working upon the books
for the past fiscal year, and finding
out how much Of the money appro-
priated for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1910, was not spent. The books
for this year have not been closed
entirely, as there are some bills
which have not come in yet, but which
will be paid from the appropriations
for the past year.
There will be about 1925, 900 in un-
expended balances turned back into
the treasury. This money could have
been used as 1t was appropriated.
Much of it was reappropriated and
can be used during the present fiscal
year. There is not a cent left In the
funds of the state auditor, academy
of science, historical society, G. A. r.
pensions, official state paper, legisla-
tive reference library, insurance de-
partment, state architect, supreme
court, state aid to hospitals, Dodge
City forestry station, or interest on
state bonds. In all the other tunos
there are amounts to be turned back
into the state treasury. The largest
amount is in the memorial building
fund, where $4,000 is not spent.
The board of control has $4,000 and
the penitentiary $4,000 left in its
various funds. All the state institu-
tons and all the state officers except
the auditor, state architect and SUI
preme court have small amounts left
in their funds.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Farmers Win Fight With chIneh Bug,

Indications now are
that the farmers of Kansas have won
this years battle with the chinch
bugs" said Prof. P. A. Glenn of the
department Of Chronology of the
University of Kansas, who has Just re-
turned from a trip of observation
over the state. THE bugs have not
made the inroads into the corn fields
that they seemed likely to make a few
weeks ago, and 1t is likely that the
corn crop will be cut down but little
as result of their ravages.
But it is true that the bugs COW
cred larger area this summer than
they did last year. The northern anl
northeastern part Of the state have
been treest from the pests"
Prof. Glenn is arranging to publish
a University bulletin from the state
printers office on the subject of
chinch bugs in few days. The tab
ulations and observations made by
the university chronological survey
agree with those made by E. o. G.
Kelly, the government entomologist,
stationed at Wellington.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Asks s1s.1ss for His Wife.

Sycamore-Davivd A. earns Of Syca
more has filed suit in the district court
for $15,155 damages against the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway. as the result
Of the killing of his wife by train
last May. Mrs. earns was crossing
the railroad track in buggy when the
accident occurred. She had stopped
to permit q freight train to pass and
as she started to drive across the track
a work train crashed into the buggy
The case will be tried in the October
term Of court.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
FOOD STUFFs PRICES GO UP
FIGURES COMPILED SHOWS Llv.
ING HIGHER THAN SIX
MONTHS AGO.
just a Few Articles Cost Less, But
There Is an Increase on Large
Per Cent Of Necessities.

Topeka.-In almost every respect,
80 far as food is concerned. the cost
Of living has increased in Kansas
since the first Of the year. The state
board Of health has done great deal
OF investigating along this line and
has compiled the figures showing the
differences in the prices of different
foods in January and July. The fig
ures were taken from the actual mar
ket quotations given to officials Of
the department of grocers and butch
ers when the goods were purchased.
The following figures tell the story:
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28

A novel use Of the water cure is re-
ported from Evansville, Ind. A young
man Of that place wished to enlist In
the navy, but upon examination was
found to lack a pound Of the minimum
weight. Thereupon he went out
drank gallon Of water, returned and
submitted to another test, which he
passed successfully, and he is now
duly enrolled among the gallant fell
lows who make our warships efficient
in war or peace. There Is no use Of
worrying about that young mans fu
ture. Anyone who is so determined tc
serve his country will make a good
sailor. And he is likely to stick to the
water wagon.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Death Follows School District Quarrel

Corning.--As the result of school
district quarrel, William Bleisner is
dead and Fred Bleisner, his father, is
wounded, probably fatally, and Fred
and August Keehn are in the county
jail at Seneca. William Bleisner and
Fred Keehn were both members of the
school board Of what is known as the
Ward district, five miles southeast Of
here. Following quarrel, William
Bleisner was shot and instantly killed
by Fred Keehn, and his father struck
on the head with chain by August
Keehn and one eye knocked out. The
Keehn brothers tried to escape but
were captured.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Killed and Thrown from Train?

Wichita,-A- coroner's jury investi-
eating the death of Edward Williams,
found dead along the right of way of
the Santa Fe railroad near Valley
Center, north Of this city, July 10. re-
turned a verdict that he had been
killed and then thrown from NOV
ing train. The train crew of No. 434,
a freight, is involved by verdict, as
hanging to the trucks of the tender
OF this train, shoe believed to have
been worn by Williams, was found.
Williams home is at Mountain Grove.
Mo.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
woRklNe BEES OVERTIME.

Honey bees are remarkable for a
capacity TO organize for the common
defense, while their intelligence gen.
orally is one of natures marVels. Yet
such is their relish for sheer work that
they appear to take kindly to an OPP
pressive arrangement which has been
successfully experimental with be-
tween Loney men In Southern Califor-
mia and in Utah. In Utah, as In all
sections where the seasons change
from hot to cold. the bees stop work
ing during the winter and doubtless.
too. many OF them succumb to Its rig
ors. But Southern California. where
II is always warm and sunny. being
conveniently at hand, the Utah honey
men have hit upon the scheme OF
shipping their bees there at the APP
proach OF winter, thus keeping them
busy all the year around. From one
county alone six carloads of bee colo
mics have just been shipped back to
Utah after their winter sojourn. The
Journey is made at an expense OF less
than $3.50 a carload, and the thrifty
Utah apiarisls find that 1t pays to
let the bees take it, Did their apti-
tude for organization enable them to
form a trade union the bees might
some day go on strike against this in
genious arrangement and administer a
singing rebuke to the greedy apiar-
lists.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Guaranty Law Effective.

Topeka.-After having been held
imperative for several months, the
state bank guaranty law Is again eff.
fective. Sixty days ago the United
States court of appeals at st. Paul dis
missed the temporary injunction Sc.
cured from Judge Pollock Of the fed.
eral court here by the national bank
ers, restraining the enforcement of the
law. AS is usual in the court of ap-
peals, the order was held up for 60
days, the temporary injunction being
in eject during that time. The sixty
days have expired
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Spraying Case Appealed.

Steve B. Balch has filed notice Of
appeal in the district court of Sedg-
wick county from judgment rendered
In civil action and also from the or
der annulling his motion for new
trial.
This was a sensational suit and at
tracted wide attention last fall, when
Mr. Balch ordered off his farm the
representatives of the state entomo-
logical bureau and emphasized his or
ders with shotgun. The suit is en-
titled s. w. Balch vs.. A. p. Glenn, the
Inspector of orchards for the southern
division of Kansas; the entomology
cal commission of Kansas; F. D. Co.
burn, secretary of the state agricul-
tural society; Walter Wellhouse, Sec
rotary of the Horticultural society;
r. H. Stannard and T. J. Headlee.
Mr.. Balch argues that the compul-
sorry spraying of his orchards for
killing San Jose scale, coddling moth
and other vermin was against the bill
Of rights In the Kansas constitution;
that the spraying of the commission
and taxing his lands was confiscatory
and he defied them. He entered suit
Of injunction against the state author
tiles asking for a restraining order
to prevent the compulsory spraying,
and was defeated in court. He now
files notice of an appeal to the SUI
preme court.
AS it affects every orchard in the
state, the outcome of the legal battle
Is watched with interest.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Mrs. Smith Was Not Drowned.

Hutchinson.-A. NJ. Smith, who was
drowned at Corpus Christi, Tex,
leaves widow and children here. 1t
was enormously stated in Corpus
Christi dispatches that Mr.. Smith and
his wife had been drowned. The wo-
man proves not to have been Mrs.
Smith. Smith, who was in the auto
mobile business here, left Hutchinson
for Arizona five months ago.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Minister Is Found Guilty.

Salina.-Guilty on six out of nine
counts on charges of immoral conduct
is the verdict found against Rev. ]. T.
Bivins by committee of preachers
and laymen of the Free Methodist
church after two days hearing. AS
a result of the findings of the COM
mittee Rev. Mr.. Bivins, who protests
his innocence, has formerly seeded
from the Free Methodist church.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
pottorton Free Again Pending Trla

Arkansas City.-Louis w. Potter.
ton, who has been in the county Jail
at Winfield since last April and who
is to be tried on the charge of causing
the death of his wife by administer.
ing arsenic poison last July, is again
breathing fresh air. He has been re-
leased on bail of $4,000 Pending the
decision of Judge Swartz of the dis
trict court in the habeas corpus case
to secure his permanent release, the
justice court here fixed his bond at
$4,000 and the district Judge reduced
it to $4,000.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
ssth Member Prison Bankers Colony

Leavenworth.-Cha E. Billings
ley, at one time president of the Capt.
tai National bank of Guthrie, Okla,
was brought to the federal penlten-
tiary. He is under a sentence Of seven
years and five months. He was con-
victed OF falsifying the books and rec
ords of the bank Of which he was the
head, Billingsley will be assigned to
work next week. He makes the 3Sth
member Of the bankers colony in CON
finement here.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
sacrificed Himself for Three Children

Cottonwood Falls.-In aneffort to
check team of runaway horses and
save the lives of three children in the
wagon to which the horses were
hitched, John Montgomery, farmer
60 years of age, was thrown beneath
the plunging horses, run over by the
wagon. and is now in very serious
condition. Montgomer ycaught ore
of the horses by the bride and was
thrown in front of the team where he
was dragged nearly 200 yards before
losing his hold.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Gear Co. Farmers Use Auto.Thresher

Junction City.-Will Smith and G.
G. w. Kaiser, who own one of the larg
est farms in the county, have purchas
ed an auto-thresher, the first one in
this section of the state. A six-cylin.
der, 70-horse power gasoline engine
furnishes the motive power, moving
the machine and running the separa
tor. The latter is self-feeding and
stacking and all that has to be done
is to get the wheat to the machine
The speed is four miles an hour aid
the machine weighs eleven tons.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
AGED Man Jumps to Death.

Wichita.-George Bodley, an aged
man, fell or jumped from the tenth
story of the new Beacon building here
and was killed instantly. His name
and address were found on three slips
of paper in as many different pockets.
Bodley. who is past 10 years old, has
lost practically all his property in real
estate ventures and by mortgages and
the theory is advanced that he COM
mitted suicide.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
TO school on Proceeds Of Patient.

anhattan.-Herbert Knapp, a 15-
year-old boy of Olathe, Kan, recently
patented an alarm for notifying a
chauffeur when tire is pumped tight
enough and when it needs pumping up
again. He sold his patent for $4,000
and expects to enter X. S. G. A. in
the fall and take an electrical engin-
eering course and thus profit by the
fullest extent of his invention.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28

Peabody.-Roy Morgan, foreman OF
J. L. Heath's farm southeast of here
was stabbed five times by a fellow
worker named Payne, who is tran,
silent. Payne's work on goodwill was
unsatisfactory, subjecting him to re,
peated reprimand and when Morgan
descended from the alfalfa stack
Payne cut him badly, though probably
not fatally. Payne disappeared.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28

For the first time in many years
Mexico is having something like rev.
olution. But that country has made
such progress, politically and indus.
trially, that long-continued disturb.
ance, with consequent commercial and
other decentralization. is not likely to
be tolerated. Mexico has learned to
govern itself in more civilized fash.
ion.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
KANSAS OPICS
Auto and Phone Burglars UndoIns

Auto and Phone Burglars UndoIns
Chapman.-By means, of the two
modern inventions, the telephone and
the automobile, the three burglars
who entered the Drain Mercantile Co.
store were apprehended and delivered
to Jail. One was tried and sentenced
for receiving stolen property and the
other two bound over to the district
court for burglary and grand larceny
within twenty-four hours from the
time the offense was committed. The
prisoners are boys who have come
west from Boston to see the wild west
but their career has been cut short.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Farmers Son is Drowned.

Anthony.-Will Cotterill, 2O-year-old
son Of Joe Cottrill, wealthy farmer
living near Manchester, Okla, was ac-
cidentally drowned in small lake at
a Sunday school picnic The only wit
ness was small boy who can give no
account of the tragedy.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
EnaIneer seaIded, Probably Fatally

MISREPRESENTATION Foreman, an
engineer at the plant of the United
Portland Cement company at Lehunt,
five miles from here, was badly scald-
ed when one of the boiler heads blew
out. He was scalded from his head to
his knees and all the skin came off.
The young man is in hospital here.
His recovery is doubtful.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Sues for Railroad for Death Of viii,

MISUNDERSTANDING earns of Sy-
camore filed suit against the Missouri
Pacific Railway company for $15,155
for the death of his wife who was kill
ed by Missouri Pacific train at Syca-
more on the morning of May 10. Mrs.
earns was returning from Lehunt
where she had taken her husband to
work, and while crossing the track
near the station was hit by work
train going fifty miles an hour. The
railway company's claim agent is re-
ported to have offered earns compro-
mise of $500.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Antitrust Cases to Supreme Court.

We ONSSS ~ SdP' WV OOa'e
The antitrust suit brought against
the fire insurance companies operat-
ing in Kansas by Attorney General
Fred S. Jackson will be appealed to
the supreme court from the district
court of Shawnee county. The case
was decided against the state in the
district court by Judge Dana. The ac-
ton charged the insurance companies
with operating a trust, with using
the Eldridge rating sheet and main
tanning those rates uniformly. All OF
the fire insurance companies operat.
ing in the state, with the exception OF
the mutual companies, were made de-
PENDANTS in the action. The case was
dropped for several months following
the decision Of the district court but
It will be taken up again and pushed
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
kansan Goes to Hawaii.

Manhattan.-Ed. H. Dearburne,
graduate this year in mechanical en-.
cheering at X. s. A. c., has been elect
ed to position as instructor in manual
training in one of the territorial
schools in the Hawaiian islands.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28

Now French aviator devlses a ma.
chine which will rise from the water,
accenting the fact that with the art
of flying perfected all the natural ele-
ments will look alike to inventive
man.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
troops Ordered to instruction Camp

I'VOP0 = N1S' " y '''SN' ''SS'V'' S~'''F'
Junction City.-The following troops
of the regular army, serving in the De-
partment of the Missouri, have been
ordered to Fort Riley to attend the
camp Of instruction to be held at the
post from August Is to September 15:
The headquarters band, machine gun
platoon and the first and second bat
talions of the Fourth infantry, in ad-
dition to detachment from the hos
pital reserve corps The troops will
march to Fort Riley and return home
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
New station for Eredonla,

Fredonia-The Santa Fe will erect
new depot, costing $22,50O, here
within the near future. At the pres.
ent time the Santa Fe and Frisco use
the same station.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28

II the birds have any sense Of hu.
NOR it must amuse them to see men
making so much fuss over what they
have been doing all along.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Anxious to Take Part in Encampment

Anxious to Take Part in Encampment
The various organized militia troops
of the state, both officers and privates
are very anxious to take part in the
maneuyers this fall. From letters re
ceived here and at Fort Riley 1t is evi
dent that all of the National Quart
troops that are to take part in the en-
campment will come with a full com
plement of men. All of the militia reg
iments of the middle west that are t
take part. already have the full com
plement Of men,
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28

According to the census takers a
Colorado couple have been married for
80 years. Can this be so, or does 1t
only seem that long?
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28

Where would you rather be, in a
motor Loaf with broken rudder and
mile from the shore or in an airship
with a broken plane and mile from
the ground?
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28

Why do men always figure on the
use of ;.eroplanes in warfare after a
sensational fight has been nader
Sunday school picnics are so much
pleasanter.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28

The aviators insist on demonstra.
ting that 1t is possible to tumble with
an aeroplane and yet save few
bones.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28

Doctor Wiley's declaration that
women ought to learn to cook puts
him under suspicion of trying to re.
yive the Northumberland to
make joke.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28

OF what use is 1t to denounce race.
suicide while the joy-riders are al
lowed to- run al Target
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28

Paying kisses at five dollars is
cheaper than being caught violating
the Washers ordinance.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1910-07-28
Where He came In

"Have you ever figured in a divorce
suit2"
mo; the lawyers did the figuring.
Just paid the bills"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-02-23
A Common Cold.

We claim that II catching cold
could be avoided some of the most
dangerous and fatal diseases would
never be heard of. A cold often
forms a culture bed of germs of in
fectious diseases. Consumption.
pneumonia, diphthefia and scarlet
fever, four of the most dangerous
and fatal diseasea, are of this class.
The culture bed formed by the cold
favors the development of the germs
of these diseases, that would not
otherwise find lodgment. There is
little danger, however. of any of
these diseases being contracted when
good expectorant cough medicine
Ike Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
is used. II cleans out these culture
beds that favor the development of
the germs OF these diseases. That
is why this remedy has proved SO
universally successful in preventing
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-02-23

mercial Club Saturday night the fol-
lowing census enumerators were ap-
pointed for Albany: J. w. Fonger,
Perry R. Conn, j. F. Powell and l..
II. Coins.
Mrs. II. c. Jordan, of this city,
died yesterday of heart disease. She
was AZ years of age. She leaves a
husband, son and daughter, and a
6-weeks-old baby, Mrs. Jordan was
a member of the Women of Wood
craft.
The Wizard Club of this city Will
give another of their popular dances
tonight. The proceeds of the dance
will be turned over to the Ladie,
Auxiliary Club, for the city pork
fund, which is rapidly growing.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-02-23
bany with the above named cities.

bany with the above named cities.
Accordingly Messrs. Lee and Paul
Driver, of this city, are in Eugene at
the present time in the interest of the
league.
The fans and players of this city,
however, are not in favor of such an
organization, as the upper valley
cities have the advantage over Albany
Late today an Independent team
was organized with the following
players: Gaulsberry. Patterson, ID.
Patterson, Dooley brothers, Bilyeu,
Switzerland and Baker.
Albany Notes.
At a special meeting of the Com