The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1895-06-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
BRIEF BITS OF NEWS THAT INTER.
ESTS KANSAS PEOPLE.

The Weeks Review OF PersO nal and
General News Condensed to Short
Paragraphs for the Co0venlencs OF
Hurried Readers.
Ex-Trea eurer Bauer OF Harper coun-
" has been found short in his &C.
counts $40, 600.
The Kansas State Fair premium list
Is now ready for distribution By Sec
rotary w. r Hcwey, Wichita
Hail stones, reported to be an inch
and a half in diameter, fell in North
Topeka Monday afternoon.
The eldest son OF the late Senator r.
B. Plumb, Amos H.. has been sp-
pointed guardian Of his minor sister
and brother, Caroline and Preston
A sealed verdict was returned by the
Jury in the case of Barney Gibbons,
tried at Wichita this weel. for killing
his wife at Wichita last January. The
plaintiffs plea was insanity. but it is
generally thought that the verdict is
murder in The second degree.
Clement George, of Manhattan,
Kan, won the Dc Forest prize medal
at the annual speaking by members
Of the Yale college senior class at
New Haven, Conn, held Friday after
moon. His subject was, "rhe Relig-
Ion of Milton and the Religion OF
George Herbert
Herbert Crawford, aged IL years,
met his dest tn by being suffocated in
bin of corn in the elevator at Patter-
son, near Halstead. He was playing
in the bin with two companions. while
car was being loaded from the bin
and the suction drew Linn down and
he was suffocated before he could be
released.
A movers wagon from Oklahoma is
now going through Kansas, and is At
tracing a good deal of attention and
causing lots of merriment because OF
the following on the covering: "Okla'
ho,na for starvation, Kansas for desc
lation. Texas for devastation, Ne
braska for hell and damnation. going
to Ohio to sponge on wife's relation;
to hell with the Democratic admins
tration."
After being out SIS hours, the jury
in the Matson murder case at Topeka,
was discharged. Eleven OF the jurors
stood for the conviction of Frank A.
Novels. the colorcd man charged with
the crime. while one colored juror
saved Novels from term in the peni
Tertiary by resolutely insisting be was
innocent. There is great indignation
expressed at the action of colored
Juror Jordan.
State Labor Commissioner Bird has
been asked TO resign his Office because
of his acts in eXacting from his clerk,
John Spcer, and his stenogrupher.
Miss Hayes, portion of their month
ly salaries, for the benefit, Mr.. Bird
claims, of contingent fund, which
he hoped to use in the employment of
clerk after the expiration Of the pres
ent fiscal year, June 80. Mr.. Bird re-
fuses 20 resign, and criminal charge
will probably be brought against him.
The debris at the Santa Fc round
house fire at Arkansas City is almost
cleared away. The blacksmith shop
is already enclosed and in running or
der. The temporary machine shops
are well under way, and the sheds for
housing locomotives will be started at
once. The big lathe was loaded to-
day. and will be sent to Topeka to be
everhaulcd. 1t will only be short
time until all trace of the fire will be
gone. and the new shops will be up.
A. W. Stilwell, travelling freight
agent for the Santa Fe and Frisco rail-
roads, who has been travelling all over
southern Kansas and Oklahoma in the
last two weeks. spoke very enthusias.
tlcally to an Eagle reporter the other
day about the prospects for good
crops. He said: 'It is just simply
wonderful to see the change wrought
by tho recent rains. The outlook for
an oats crop in Harvey county was
very poor three weeks ago but now
j. they are sure of an average crop. And
as for corn there never was such
prospect before in this state. It
would be hard to imagine conditions
that would prevent a corn crop now.
''Dolly" Graebcr, popular fisher.
man and boat renter at Lawrence, for
the fourth timo in Is years shot the
dam at that place in 4 boat He took
q light skiff, tied his row locks to keep
his oars in place and rowed back $50
yards to get good start. Then he
was off, rowing with oil the momen-
tum he could muster, straight toward
the dam where the current Is the
swlftest When on lire with the
dam. he gave one last strong sweep
with the oars and quickly turning
about, caught the sides of the boat
FIRMLY with both hands. The boat
shot ave feet into the air. performing
= graceful curve of 20 feet, before it
touched the water beyoud the break.