Meade County news., 1915-01-07

Men Employed as Attendants in In
sane Ward at Lansing Beat
Patient to Death.

Frank Miller, a convict in the state
prison at Lansing, died recently under
circumstances which have resulted in
an investigation by Coroner Davis.
Miller died shortly after receiving a
severe beating at the hands of con-
victs employed as attendant in the
prison asylum and 1t is believed his
death is the direct result of the beat
ing.
William La Trasse, a Kansas City,
Kas., desperate, who is serving a SEN
tence in the prison for robbing Mis-
souri, Pacific train north of Kansas
City, Kas., is one of the men accused
of beating Millce. He has been sent
to the coal mines and does not YET
know of the death of Miller.
The other men accused are Frank
Miller, no relation to the dead man,
and a convict named Campbell. These
two men are now being questioned in
an effort to get the facts of the beat
ing Of Miller.
Miller, who was 20 years old, was
sent to prison from Harper county for
burglary and larceny last June and his
sentence was for from six to fifteen
years He was slightly unbalanced
mentally at times and is said to have
been unusually obstreperous. When
he refused to be quiet, at the COM
mand of the prison attendants, it is
said, he was attacked by them and
beaten into unconsciousness. Miller
died without making a statement.
Warden Botkin refused to make a
statement until after the autopsy.
4 x X
Built Tabernacle in Day.-ln order
to accommodate the crowds that are
promised for the revival opening at
Wellington, the merchants and profes.
sional men got together and built a
tabernacle of wood and iron that will
seat four thousand persons. The work
was started at o'clock in the morn
ing and by 6 at night the structure
was finished A gospel team from
Wichita will dedicate it.
x x X
Fence Staple in His Lungs-L. T.
Wheeler, farmer south of Wichita,
left for Pittsburgh, Pa, with a fence
staple in his lungs, in the hope that
he could find relief in a surgical oper-
alton by lung specialist there recon-
mended by Wichita surgeons. Wheel
er sucked the staple into his lungs
while building a wire fence.
X X X
sabetha Won Debate.-The two Sa-
betha high school debating teams won
from the two Seneca high school
teams in the First district high school
contest at Sabetha.
y
Newspaper Change. - Harry w.
Bouck, who has been in partnership
with R. E. Lewis in the publication of
the Alma Signal for nearly two years,
will leave January l to go into part
nership with Thomas Evans in the
publication of the Crawford County
Enterprise at Girard. Mr. Bouck will
retain his interest In the signal
Killed in Mine ExpIosion.-A gas
explosion recently wrecked the shaft
of mine north of Pittsburg, and
killed Thomas Franklin. Thomas Lee
gard of Franklin, escaped uninjured.
X
Ottawa Newspapers Consolidate
R. A. Harris, editor and owner of the
Ottawa Evening Herald, has bought
Thomas w. Mcrgans Daily Republic.
This leaves only one daily newspaper
there. Mr.. Morgan is warden at the
federal prison and had published the
Republic ten years.
4
Victim of AecideptCArthur Noble
of Wichita was killed near there
when a shotgun among a party OF
four hunters was discharged by a
sudden stopping of the sleigh in which
fha marty rode