The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1905-06-08
KANSAS COMMENT


Lewis We're struck by lightning and
destroyed. The loss Is $4,000. The
insurance Is said to be $4,000.
Oppose Franchise Extension.--The
business men of Topeka have called
mass meeting to express their senti
ment against the disposition Of the
city council to extend the franchise
Of the local electric light plant.
Bank For rookvilIe.--The Brook.
vile State Bank was organized. Brook.
vile is a village in the western part
of Saline county. The stockholders
are composed of merchants Of the
town and farmers in the vicinity.
Sheriff Destroys Liquor.-Under or
ders from district court in Independ-
ence, Sheriff Pruitt and his deputies
destroyed over $500 worth of liquor,
dumping the stuff in the gutter near
the court house. Between forty and
fifty cases of beer and four barrels
Of whisky were destroyed. The liquor
was taken from joints all over the
county on search warrants.
Gave His Wife the Farm.-A sensa-
ton has been created at Wellington
by the disappearance Of Preston Wy
coff, prominent breeder Of Short
horn cattle, who is alleged to have
left town in company with Mrs. Lin
ton, a divorced woman. Before leav-
ing, he made over a farm and other
property to his wife. Wyckoff was
until recently one of the trustees Of
the county high school and bore
good reputation.
Want Kansas Twine.-Many COM
plants have come from Oklahoma be-
cause of the refusal of the prison
board to sell Irvine to the farmers Of
the territory. Oklahoma people say
that inasmuch as their prisoners are
worked In the Kansas penitentiary
they are entitled to Irvine and any
other benefits arising from this labor.
There are 1914 Oklahoma prisoners or
more than one-third of the 1850 in
mates, in the penitentiary.
Bodies Were Recovered. - The last
of the bodies of Mrs. w. M. Par
sons, Miss Garlic Heithecker, w. e.
Confer and Howard HALEY, Dodge City
people drowned at the Duck creek
ford five miles north of Dodge City
was recovered. Mr.. Confer and Miss
Heithecker, his niece, formerly lived
at Mcpherson. They were proto-
graphers. HALEY was associated
with his father in barber shop. Mrs.
Parsons was the wife of railroad
man.
New Court House.-At a meeting of
the board of county commissioners Of
Doniphan county, Kan, plans and
specifications were approved for a
new court house to be built on mod
ern lines, 72xS0 feet in size, and to
cost upwards of $4,000. Hon. Cyrus
Leland will furnish accommodations
for the county officials until the struc-
ture Is completed. The commission
ers will advertise four weeks for bids
and the contract will be awarded to
the lowest bidder.
Robbed of $1,5oo.-Two burglars en-
tered the home of Joseph Carr, one
mile east of Augusta, and stole 81 900 |
in gold and $500 in currency. Mr.. |
Carr is 80 years old. He is hard of |
hearing and did not awake. His
housekeeper, a woman more than
70 years old, was awakened by the
burglars, but was told If she made
any disturbance before daylight they
would return and kill her. AS soon
as the burglars left she went to a
neighbours and gave the alarm.
Independent Refinery.-The Oil re,
finery now building by the Sunfiower
State refinery at Niotaze, is almost
completed. Oil will be refined within
thirty days. The company is now ne
gotiating with manufacturer for the
building of forty tank cars to trans
port it's oil to its different stations.
The officers of the company are
George Richardson of Leavenworth,
president; e. w. Davis of Saginaw,
Mich, vice-president; Samuel Mott,
Jr, of Rochester, N. Y, secretary and
treasurer.
For Cooperative 'Phones.--A meet.
ing of the Lyon County Rural Tele-
phone Association has been called for
in the school of District 100. The
farmers have organized rural tele-
phone association in view Of getting
a lower rate on telephones or estab-
fishing rural line central for all the
farm lines in the county. The farm
ers pay 81 a month now. The legis-
Iature provided a 50.cent rate, but can
not force the telephone company to
make that rate. There are forty rural
lines in the county with about 1000
patrons. II the farmers establish a
central, they figure they can maintain
the system at rs cents month, on a
cooperative plan.
Accused of Knocking Down." -
John Matteson has sued ]. D. Gilkey,
Of Maple City, for damages for alleg-