Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-10-14
AN indian HONORED
Bronze Tablet Placed on Grave
OF William Walker, Early
Kansas Governor.
WAS A CHIEF OF WYANOOTTES
Marker Unveiled in Kansas City, kas.,
In Presence of Large Crowd of
Distinguished Persons.

Distinguished Persons.
On the grave of William Walker in
Oak Grove cemetery, Kansas City,
Kas., the other day, was unveiled a
bronze marker in honor of the early
day governor of a territory now in
cluded in Kansas, Nebraska and Colo
RADIO. Indians who knew Governor
Walker were in the crowd that attend
ed the ceremony.
Following the address of welcome
by Mayor Green to the Indians and the
members of the Daughters of the
Founders and Patriots of America,
who had charge of the services, the
Rev. Sherman Coolidge, a son of CHIEF
Strongheart of the Arapahoes, and
president of the Society of American
Indians, spoke on the advancement OF
the Indian and eulogized Governor
Walker. The Rev. Philip Gordon OF
Washington, ID. c., an Indian Catholic
priest, spoke. He said it was the de-
sire CT the Society of American In
dams, in convention at Lawrence, TO
get Congress to free" his race, ana
give it the ballot. Besides rather
Gordon there is only one other Catp'
Ollie priest who is All Indian, Father
Albert of Oklahoma.
Governor Walker was born in ONO
March ), 1900. He was u chief of the
tribe of the Wyandottes and postmas'
ter of Upper Sandusky, 0. He came
with the Wyandottes to Kansas in
1S43. He was named provisional gov
ernor in 1859. He served in that ca
pacity only short time, retlrlng
when President Pierce signed the Dill
which made Kansas territory in
1854. He died in 1874. He was pio-
neer Mason. Oak Grove cemetery
was originally part of his family
holdings
Ottawa Theater Burns.-Fire de-
stroyed the Rohrbaugh Theater here
early the other morning when names
started probably from crossed electric
wires Just beneath the roof The
building and practically all fittings
were a complete loss, estimated at
$4,000. The company which con
trolled the theater carried $4,000 in
surance.
They Paraded for HeaIth.-With
the day observed as a public holiday
schools throughout the county dis
missed, every town and hamlet par
ticipating, Wilson county celebrated
the conclusion of the sanitary survey
begun last May. 1t is the first made
by government officials in the state
of Kansas.
Sold Farm for $500 an Rcre.-Twen'
ty-five acres of land east of Salina
have been sold by Joseph Duncan tc
the Gothardt Schippel estate for $4OC
an acre. 1t was formerly the home
site of Col. w. A. Phillips, eX-congress
man from the Fifth Kansas district.
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Train Killed rakeman.-F'ranR
Tumble. a Frisco brakeman, was
killed near New Albany by a passen
ger train as he sat on the rails on
curve. Tumble was tagging for
work train. He lived at Wichita.
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Atchison Twins are 72.-Mrs. AIDE
laide Estes and Mrs. r. II. Bailey
twins, celebrated their seventy-second
birthday anniversary at Atchison re
Gently. They have lived in Atchisor
sixty years, coming from their birth
place in Erie, Pa, in 1855.
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$50 ~ After Church Supper.-Can
ned peas cooked in chicken pie served
at church supper at Ottawa caused
most of the $50 persons who attend
ed to become ill., They were afflicted
with ptomaine poisoning. None was
in a serious condition.
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Says Asylums Need Inspection
Kansas physicians have been advised
to inquire into conditions at the Kan
sas State Hospitals for the Insane by
DR.. Amelia A. Dickinson of lola. Doc
tor Dickinson, who recently caused az
investigation Of conditions at the Iowa
Insane Asylum at Mount Pleasant bl
her charges, was speaking to the mem
bers of the Southeast Medical Society
While not making definite charge
Doctor Dickinson said from what she
had learned of the Topeka asylum she
believed the doctors of the state
should make an investigation.
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Morgan in "Suf" Fight.-Lieut Gov
w. Y. Morgan left recently for New
York state to devote the next three
weeks campaigning in New York, New
Jersey and Massachusetts for equa
suffrage.
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Operation Fatal to Pastor.-Th'
Rev. Theodore Bundenthal, pastor o
Trinity German Lutheran Church a
Atchison for eight years, is dead, fol
lowing an operation for appendicitis
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