Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-07-20
Authorities Of City in COntinu-
Gus Clashes Wlh The |. w..
W. AgilatOrs.
FORM VIGILANCE COMMITTEE
Citizens Armed with Riot Guns Guard
Public Building-Beat Men and
Burn Grain.

of the |. w. w. and city and county
authorities, Sheriff August Anderson
of Saline county deputized vigilance
committee of fifty citizeRs to help
guard the county and city jails.
r. L. Gray, district organizer of the
l. w. W., was arrested and leaders OF
the organization have made public
threats to raid the Jail. Deputies
armed with riot guns have orders to
shoot any one entering the Jail yard.
]. p. O'Brien, another organizer,
was arrested for making speeches on
a strset corner to arouse the |. w. w.
In a fight between |. w. W. and har-
vest hands at Bavaria, small town
near Salina, three men were shot and
two others ceverely beaten. ]. l..
Barnes Of Ava, Mo-, is in hospital at
Salina. He was beaten and thrown
from a moving freight train following
his refusal to join the !. W. w.
Gray, the authorities say, declares
that all threshing and harvest hands
who are not members Of the |. w. w.
will be killed or chased from the coun-
try Several ex-soldiers who are in
the organization, have been drilling
the men in camps near here and many
of them are armed with automatic
pistols.
At Wakeeney where the sheriff and
his deputy were locked in the county
Jail by the I. w. w., fifteen wheat
stacks and one house have been
burned. The fires are started by
phosphorus bombs, several Of which
the officers have found.
One !. w. w. member was shot
through the arm when crowd Of $50,
who had reached town on a freight
from the west, attempted to mob two
railroad watchmen in the Union Pa
ciic yards. The officers dispersed
the crowd.
Accidentally Shoots Mother.--Mrs.
Frank Chambers, who lives southeast
of Winfield, was accidentally shot and
probably fatally wounded by her g.
year-old son recently. The boy took
a rifle from buggy in the yard of the
Chambers home and playfully pointed
It at his mother. The gun was dis
charged, the bullet entering Mrs.
Chambers left breast just above the
heart.
Stock Shipper Dead.--C. S. Lyons,
one Of the oldest settlers in Jewell
county and stock feeder and ship
per, Is dead. Mr. Lyons was known
to every commission man in the Kan
sas City stock yards, having shipped
regularly from Formoso the last
twenty-five years.
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Farmers Up in Arms.-The farmers
In the northern part of Barton coun.
ty are up in arms over the burning of
several stacks of wheat on the w. w.
Truxall farm, near Hoisington. Seven
stacks of new wheat on the Truxall
farm were burned, all catching fire
about the same time. An investiga-
ton of the other stacks is said to have
disclosed wet rag in which some
substance, probably phosphorus, was
wrapped. The evidence has been
turned over to the county authorities,
but no arrests have been made. 1t Is
suspected that tie work was done by
ultra radical members of the /. w. w.
who were run out of Hoisington the
other day
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Wild Auto Injuries Four.-Mlss Ma
RE Petit Of Winfield was seriously
injured and three other persons re-
ceived painful injuries when a big
automobile escare1 control of the
driver and backed through the gates
at the entrance of Island park Just as
people were leaving the Chautauqua
grounds.
$1,000 for Soldier Rellef.-Salina's
war relief fund, which will be used
to assist the families Of married men
Of the local militia company, has
reached nearly $1,000. Company NJ
has sixteen married members.
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Big Wheat NeId.-Wheat averaging
65h bushels to the acre has been
threshed on the farm of Frank Feigh-
ly near Abilene. The grain tested
6S pounds to the bushel. This is the
biggest yield reported In that section
OF KanSas up to the present time.
Smallpox Near Horton.-SMallpox
has appeared in two Atchison county
households south of Horton. There
are, nine cases In the home Of Mrs.
Ida Walls and two in M. U. Cuslck's
home.
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Lightning kilIs.-Frank Scantlin of
Kansas City was struck and instantly
killed by lightning on the farm of
Bing Lessor, Eve miles northwest of
Lincoln, the jther night. Dora Pierce
of Lincoln was dangerously injured
by the bolt.
Victim Of Runaway DIes.-James r.
Green, farmer who lived five miles
north Of Winfield, is dead in a Win.
field hospital. Green was found un.
conscious in his pasture after a rim.