The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1903-02-26

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Stanley is confirmed for member Of I'll
Indian commission. Tams Bixby
made chairman Of that commission,
THIRTY CARS or LUMBER-The
2 have been unloaded at Burns in tw
weeks. There is much building !
progress and in prospect.
5EvENTY-FIvE oMEs.-There ar
now in course of erection in lola
homes, some of them small cottage
and others large residence buildings.
ENROLMENT AT Decentralization
Murlin Of Baker university, granite
the students holiday in honor Of tn
colleges enrolment reaching 300: tn
largest in the history Of that institu
ton. The enrolment represents 8
counties Of Kansas, eighteen states ant
territories and five countries.
CHARGED WITH MURDER. The cor
oner's jury on tlGease Of Amos L
Maxwell, who eglAled in the Kan
sas insane asylujfs retutped a verdic'
charging Attendants Patterson and
Neil with The hopser They were ar
rested after tl4 will tefused to testify
in their own y ind ~ Inquest
wonk AT pA.Sss AT the new asy.
lum the main building, Accommodating
about 200 patients, will be ready for
occupancy about the first Of May, after
which the other three buildings will
be finished as rapidly as possible.
Probably by the first of July the four
buildings will be open for patients.
ZINC SHELTERS SoLD.-It is said that
the CRANKY Smelling and Mining COM
pany has purchased the big Lanyon
zinc smelters at Neodesha, Kansas.
The consideration is notknown. Three
hundred thousand dollars is to be ex-
pended at once in enlarging the works.
The new smelters will employ 600
men.
AFTER 40 YEARS. -Richard Hazel, Of
Harper, who is a member Of The Kan
sas legislature, met his brother, Thorn
as NJ, Hazel, in Atchison after separ.
alton Of nearly forty years. While at
Topeka Hazel nude inquiries at the
pension office and learned that his
brother lived in Atchison, and he took
the first train for that city. The
brothers had known nothing Of each
others whereabouts since the civil
war.
A KANSAS FEDERATION. AT a meet
ing in Topeka an organization was ef-
fected to be known as the Kansas Fed
GRAFTON of Commercial Interests. The
Kansas towns represented were: Hutch
inson, Arkansas City, lola, Winfield,
Independence, Wellington, Dodge City,
Marion Frontenac, Chanute, Kingman,
Great Bend, Anthony, Coffeyville,
Plainville, Blue Rapids, Lyons, Linds-
borg, Cedarvllle, Topeka, Beloit, Sa.
lima and Wichita.
HAD TO PAY The TAX. in 1899 Hia. |
watha put in sewer system. James
Falcon, q lawyer, enjoined the county
treasurer in order to avoid the pay
ment Of $50, which was assessed against
bis proper., ', as sewer tax, claiming !
that the city had no right to place a
sewer in his alley If he did not want II.
In the district court Judge Stuart de-
cided in favor Of the city, but Falcon
appealed to the supreme court, which
has just sustained the decision Of Judge !
Stuart Besides the costs in the case,
which may amount TO more than $lOO,
Falcon will have to pay the original
taxes and fifty per cent interest, which
will bring the total up TO another
SlOO.
KILLED BY ENGINE. Frederick Hall,
a convict from Sedgwick county in the
Kansas penitentiary, while handling
traction engine hauling rock, was ad.
justing some machinery, and his cloth
ing caught, throwing him down and
wheel ran over him.
CARLOAD A DAY.-A Concordia com.
mission man who is shipping eggs at
the rate Of acarload day, sent two
cars up into British Columbia last
week. The Blade says the consignees
will have to pay a duty Of dollar q
case on them.
AN IRRIGATINa PUMp.-Nathan Full.
Ter, of Lakin, has contracted for q
pump which will raise 800 to 1000 gal.
Ions Of water a minute. The pump
will be run by an eight horse power
gasoline engine, and will supply water
enough to irrigate Mr. Tuller's large
beet fields.
WAS CURSED WHIskY.-When Harry
Kelly, Of Emporia, was about TO re-
ceive sentence Of years in penitentiary
for clipping with his sister-in-law, he
said: "Itwasnot Harry Kelly thatcom-
mitted the crime but cursed whisky"