The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1904-11-24

loWer house which, II passed, Will pre-
vide that Indian children who attent
schools supported by government az
preparations shall receive $3.50
month for tuition and board. II THU
act becomes law 1t will effectuall,
break the movement among thu
Chickasaws to refuse appropriation,
to assist in the support Of any schoo
where government money Is beins
used to enable white children to at
tend. On account Of this opposition
the government refused to ALLOW
Chlckasaw Indian children to attent
schools receiving a share Of the
100000 appropriation, and It is also
ordered that no more schools be es
tablished In the Chickasaw nation
with this money until the attitude Of
the Chickasaws was changed.
Caught In His Own Trap.-Lester
Taylor, blacksmith at Fulton, ten
miles north of Fort Scott was
brought to Mercy hospital in Topeka,
suffering from gunshot wound re-
ceived III a peculiar manner. Bur.
glars had been stealing tools from his
shop and he fixed loaded shotgun
so that the opening of the door would
discharge the gun. The next morn
ing when he went to his shop he had
forgotten about the gun and when
he pushed open the door received the
entire charge in his hip. He will re-.
cover,
Heir to S100,o00.-Joe Freegard,
formerly cook in one of the Har-
vey eating houses, but now an ODD
job man, has just received a letter
from his brother-in-law in England
telling him that he Is heir to 100000
sterling, beQueathed him by his
father. The elder Freegard died o.
tober "a, and made his will just a
week before he passed away. Joe
Freegard came to this country
twenty-five years ago and settled in
Sedgwick county.
Gen. Bells Plans-Geperal j.
Franklin Bell, U. s. army commandant
of the infantry and cavalry school at
Fort Leayenworth post, has sent to
the chief Of staff plans and descrip-
tons in detail of elaborate improve
ments in the college section of this
post. General Bell utilities all of the
present buildings, arranged with the
idea Of slightly charging the facil-
tiles Of the institution and increasing
the accommodations for instructors
and student officers
Bridge Pier slipped.-Oscar Bour.
quin, foreman of the bridge gang that
is constructing an iron bridge on Elk
creek, four miles west of Hobart, was
seriously hurt. The accident occurred
while unloading from wagon one of
the large piers for the bridge. The
pier slipped from the men, catching
the foreman, passed over his body, in.
fictlng painful injuries about his hips.
His ankle was also dislocated.
To Prevent Wrecks.-E T. Atwell,
of Waukomis, has invented a block
system of automatic mechanical dan.
ger signals, which he believes will
prevent railroad collisions. At points
where the trains arc concealed by
curves, and at grade crossings or
other dangerous places the approach
Of a train is signaled half a mile
ahead thus enabling the engineer to
stop his train.
Town Was Saved, - The report
comes from Cache, town sixteen
miles west of Lawton, that 200 men,
women and children Of that place
fought the flames Of a prairie fire that
threatened the town on three sides.
The principal loss is said to be q large
area of grass, with outhouses and
farm buildings.
Enacted Into laW.--The people of
the Usage reservation will ask Dele,
gate Mcclure TO use every effort to
have the court bill separating the re.
servatlon from Pawnee county in
court matters enacted into a law by
congress.
Go Coon Hunting,-A diversion in
the way of society functions took
place at Manhattan when forty young
men and women spent the night in
coon hunting in the woods of the
Blue river. Some fine coon doge were
imported, and as result of the
nights hunt, twenty-pound coon
and large poSsum we're captured.
Alfalfa Queen Abroad.--Miss Mary
Best, the alfalfa queen of western
Kansas has left Medicine Lodge for
trip through Europe. Her noighborS
think there will be an alfalfa king
when she returns.
Praise Western kansas.-Western
Kansas, some day, and that not far
distant will be one of the most pros
porous, contented and healthful local.
ties in this broad land. 1t is coming
nearer and nearer as the story of its
real adaptation is learned, as 1t be.
comes palmer and palmer that it has
a soil and climate entirely Its own.