The Globe-republican., 1905-03-30
KANSAS COMMENT

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pull along before the Standard
came.
Completed Arrangements. - Ar
fangements have just been complet'
ed for the State Pharmaceutical Asso'
citation to hold its meeting at juno.
ton City this year.
Club to Have a Home.-The Topeka
Club, the swell club of the city, has
purchased a site and will build a
100000 club house on the corner op
posite its present quarters.
Asks Ottawa Gas Franchise.-A. c,
Stick, of Independence, Kan, has Sc
cured the Kansas Natural Gas Com
panys rights at Ottawa and presents
an application for franchise The
maximum rate is fixed at Is cents.
paroled Prisoners Gone.-At Leav-
enworh Charles Adams and Frank
Rorkowsk, two paroled prisoners at
The fort suardhouse, disappeared from,
HE reservation. One of the men had
month to serve, while the other was
sentenced for nine months.
Independent Taking oiI.-At Paola
work on the independent refinery is
progressing rapidly. The Office build
Ing is completed and the rest OF the
plant is so far under way that the
company has been able to take oil.
About 1000 barrels have been Ia
ken.
Guilty Of Attempted Assault. $50 At
Salna Willis Kessler, one of three
men charged with statutory rape be-
fore the district court, has pleaded
guilty 10 the charge of attempting to
commit a criminal assault, The cases
against the other men are to be s
tried.
Fort Hays Park Located. - The {
board of regents of the Agricultural I
college adjourned after special SEES S
sion during which they located pub I
lie park on Fort Hays reservation, full l.
filing the requirements of the fed 4
eral government The reservation
was coded to the state five years ago, 6
The new park will border on the edge n
of Hays City. =
Big Irvine Order-C. A. Gambill Of Il
Wellington called on Il. B. Jewett, il
warden of the Kansas penitentiary, t.
and contracted for ten carloads of S
binding Irvine. The price has not been S
fixed yet, but IT will be below that "
asked by the Irvine trust Each car
load of Irvine is worth about $1,000 r.
and this is the biggest order ever re- n
ceiyed at the prison Irvine plant. :,
Verdict Of MansIaughter. - In the g
district court at Lyndon, the trial Of e,
" Shorty Evans for the murder of lie
Sherman Kelly in Burlington last De- in
cember which has occupied the atten- Ia
ton of the court since March "A, was &C
concluded, the jury finding a verdict
of manslaughter in the fourth degree. ;,
The murder was the result of feud H.
between the parties which was ended ~
by Evans shooting and killing Kelly e. e.
when they met on the street of Bur =,
lingame, r..
Smashed Five Saloons. - Two wo. ha
men, Mrs. Stab and Mrs Mitener pa
five saloons at Olmutz, Kan oil
These Carrie Nation proselytes, arm
ed with hatchets and guns, success i,
fully destroyed all the joints in the ",
town. They fired a shot which pass o ,al
ed through the livery barn. just miss ~, n'
Ing man who was inside, Mrs. ~ -,
Stabb is the wife of an eX,salo0n. 'ns
keeper. Olmutz is made up Of Rus. w.
slams and Germans, and is a dry LUZ
town probably for the first time in its III,
history NJ
Must Put In New Rails.-The state
board of railroad commissioners has ~" ny,
made an order requiring Me Missouri I
Pacific to put in some new ais in its ~ ~
road between Downs and Lenora on a
the western end of the Central -
Branch, Some of the people up there ~,
reported that the road was in bad Wv
and the board made an in 9.l
spection a short time ago. 1t found 49,
the roadbed and most Of The ties all ~
right, but there were a good many g..
broken and worn rails. These the ~,
board has ordered taken out and new a
ones substituted
Drowned in Neosho. - DR.. Ross
Kl0ck, OF Ottnmwa, was drowned in '''
the Neosho river near Strawn. KlOck "'
was young physician, and started va ~"
for StraWn to examine candidates for ~
the Modern Woodmen lodge. He had ~
trouble in fording the ""
Ne0sho river. just before he arrived ''O
at Strawn, and came very near stay ~ ~,
ing there over night, but finally de. wv
clded to make the return trip. The Nv
river had risen during the day and III
bis horse and buggy were swept away ~e'
by the current. Klock threw off his Wv
coat and vest and cut the horse loose, D''
but was unable to escape himself His ny
body was found about 200 yards be. Gu
low the ford caught on a fish line. "
DR., Klock's parents are among the VI
oldest settlers Of Coffey county. VII
On Independent Ticket - At Peru
Mayor VIM. Geiser, president of the w
Oil and Gas Co., represen. ne
alive nf thp Standard 0il IN ntn vs.