From the Lawrence Daily World for Aug. 24, 1909: L.C. Miege, the KU professor who was arrested on Aug. 12 at Emporia for fraudulent use of the mails, was given a preliminary hearing before the U.S. commissioner at Topeka. He had been employed to teach French and Spanish at KU but has resigned. His bond is $300 and he has been bound over to the federal court for trial. This closes the incident for KU which will hire someone else for the job. . . . George Seagraves, son of Pat Seagraves, a farmer living north of Perry, is the inventor of a device knwon as the Seagraves Automatic Railroad Switch. He has been working for a year n his invention and is now confidence it will be a success. He says his invention is far superior to anything else on the market and that the switch system can save many lives and much damage. . . . Undisturbed by the flies and heat, a big steam plow on Randall Doolittle’s place south of town has been turning up the earth at the rate of 15 acres a day and doing a good job of it. Plowing by steam is a practice never before tried here but it is likely to become far more common in the times ahead.