Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1916-08-31
WILL TRY TO CURB RIVERS
State Is to Get Aid From Federal Gov.
eminent in Effort to Con-
troll Floods.

Army engineers are going to tackle
the job of curbing the flood waters
Of the Kansas rivers, to the extent,
at least, of recommending some plan
for stopping their destructive effects.
Governor Capper recently received a
letter from Col Curtis Med. Town
send of the corps of engineers, sta
toned at st. Louis. Colonel Town
send said he had been ordered by the
chief of engineers to prepare report
in compliance with the provisions Of
the Rivers and Harbors Act, approved
July 81.
This provides for an examination
of the territory of the Kaw river and
its tributaries and the Neosho and
Cottonwood rivers, and recommends
tions based on this examination and
such data as already has been COM
piled are to be made in his report to
the department.
T. ]. Strickler, engineer for the Kan
sas Public Utilities Commission, has
been asked by Governor Capper to
assist Colonel Townsend in every
way possible. Systematic agitation
for flood control was started with the
organization of the Kansas Flood Con-
gress by Governor Capper in Topeka
year ago, following the devastating
floods of 1915. Floods since 1903 have
destroyed more than $30,0O0,O0O worth
of property in Kansas.
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Elephant Stops Fast Train.-The
fast Santa Fe train No. All was
brought to a sudden stop on the hill
just north Of Udall recently when the
bell cord was given two quick jerks.
The conductor ran forward to find out
what made the delay. After some in
vestigation an elephant, which was be-
ing shipped in the baggage car, was
found with his trunk over the bell
cord. He wouldn't let go, and the
cord had to be cut on both sides of
the trunk before the air could be re-
leased and the train could proceed.
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Killed in Motor Smash.-Dr. e. e.
Flagg, physician at Moorehead, Ok,
was instantly killed when his auto
mobile overturned on an embankment
while on his way to Wichita. His wife
was dangerously injured.
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$4,000 Rabbits Killed In County,
More than fifty thousand pairs of
rabbit ears, the result Of eight
months work by bounty hunters, are
packed away in the basement of the
court house at Scott City. The county
pays 5 cents bounty on every pair
brought into the office of the county
clerk.
Marysvlle Hotel Man Dead.-J. w.
Anderson, "a years old, who conduct
ed a hotel at Marysville twenty-five
years, is dead at Los Angeles, Cal.
A widow, seven daughters and one
son survive.
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Pioneer M. e. Minister Dead.-Dr.
w. ]. Martindale, for fifty-three years
Methodist minister, eighteen of
which he occupied positions as pre-
siding elder, either of the Wichita,
Pratt or Dodge City districts, is dead
in Wichita at the age of IA years.
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Smothers In Cinder Pit.-P. e.
Bruner, laborer employed by the
Edgar Zinc Company at Cherryvale,
was smothered to death recently in
cinder pit where he was working.
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oIathe Paper Suspends.- Olathe
Independent has suspended pu5lica.
ton. 1t was started about four years
ago on the heels Of Progressiveism.
Stockholders, about fifty in number,
lost the $4,000 paid in stock. LiabilI-
ties are said to be almost $4,000. The
plant is to be sold by the receiver.
William Speer.
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Bolt Kills Man and Wlfe.-Clarenc
Baker, formerly of Kingman, and his
wife were killed by lightning near
the Colorado line the other night