Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-11-04
Greeley County Citizens Will
Try to Run the Animals to
Death With Autos.
TO Be GALA DAY At TRIBUNE
Members of Party Will Assemble
Early and Attend Church in Town
After Chase.

the management of Col. George Thy |
fault of Tribune and Col. William Car.
ter of Horace.
Those who take part will be there
with automobiles at 7 o'clock a. M
Colonel Thyfault, plainsman for
forty years, and Colonel Carter have
made many wolf drives and it is eX-
pected that there will be more than
100 automobile parties assembled to
participate.
Greeley county is on the Missouri
Pacific railroad in the extreme west
ern part of Kansas, and the southwest
ern part of the county is as level as
floor. A township will be surround
ed by automobiles and the chase for
the coyotes will continue until either
they are overtaken or fall to the
ground from exhaustion. No guns will
be used.
This is always considered as Gree
ley county's gala-day. The drive will
not last more than two hours, and all
the hunters will then return to Trib-
une and attend church.
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Death in Dropping Weapon.-Brooks
Hardy, 20 years old, was shot through
the heart with a revolver at Kingman
while packing his sachel to go on the
road to cover his territory for the
Menke Wholesale Grocery Company
of Kansas City. The revolver was dis
charged while it was in its scabbard,
probably as he tossed it into the bag.
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Emporia's Sheep Pens Biggest
Work has been started on an addition
to the sheep pens at the Santa Fe
Stock Yards in Emporia, which when
completed will provide feeding facili-
ties and shelter for forty Thousand
sheep, making the Emporia yards the
largest sheep feeding station in Amer
lea.
New Catholic School for Salina.-
Mother Antoinette, superior of the
Sisters of st. Joseph, announces that
q new academy will be erected at Sa-
lima at cost of 100000. This will
take the school away from Concordia,
and the Nazareth academy there prob
ably will be used as a mother house.
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Kansas Banker Dead.-James II.
Lane, thirty-two years a conductor on
the Missouri Pacific Railroad, died
suddenly in hospital at Wichita fol-
lowing an operation for appendicitis.
Mr.. Lane was vice-president Of the
First National Bank of Conway
Springs, Kas., and with his brother
owned that institution.
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Shoots Himself by Accident.-Bryan
Heckroot, 81, accidentally shot him
self in the right breast while hunting
near ottawa the other day. He prob
ably will die.
Women Motorists lnjured.-Mrs. o.
B. Kiehl of Pittsburg was dangerously
injured and two other women slightly
injured when a Frisco passenger train
struck the motor car Of Mrs. Kiehl
at crossing IN PlttSDurB.
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Aged Emporia Woman Dead.-Mrs.
Hester Marshall Goodell, who was
born in Brooklyn, N. Y, in 1925, is
dead at her home in Emporia. Her
grandsons are S. H. Marshall and
Frank Warren of Emporia.
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Kansas Fair Building to X. IT,
1t is probable that the Kansas build
ing at the San Francisco exposition
will be moved to Lawrence to become
the womans building at the Univer-
sity of Kansas
Dead In Kansas HoteI.-John M.
Reynolds, travelling salesman for
st. Joseph, Mo-, firm, was found dead
in his room in hotel at Hanover the
other morning. Death was caused by
paralysis.
Ottawa Has New naily.-Ottawa's
new evening daily, the Ottawa Even
ing Journal. published its first issue
recently. The Journal is published by
Glenn C. Wilson of Waterloo, Ia, and
F. w. Hemenway, former editor and
owner of the Junction City Sentinel.
A. E. Johnson, formerly of the Atchi-
son Champion, is city editor The new
paper is Democratic.
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Farmers Form Welfare Cuba ru-
raj welfare club was organized the
other night in Hayes township, Frank
lin county. 1t is an organization for
community improvements.
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Funeral Of Warden's Wife.-Funeral
services for Mrs. Jennie Morgan, wife
of Thomas W. Morgan, warden of the
federal prison at Leavenworth, we're
held at the old family home in Ottawa.
Several hundred persons attended. A
delegation Of prison officials was In
the funeral party.
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