The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1905-07-13
Harvest HAND Drowned. - Albert

Harvest Hand Drowned. Albert
Knaublach, harvest hand. was
drowned In the Smoky Hill at Dor.
rance while bathing. The body was
carried down the stream by the swol-
len waters, and has not yet been dis
covered. Knaublach's home was in
Pueblo.
Penetrated His Lung.--A. Nelson, q
harvest hand who came to Allen
county from Pawnee Rock, a short
time ago, was impaled on pitchfork
wher, working with threshing crew
at the farm of H. Busley, northeast
Of La Harpe. The prong penetrated
a lung. Nelson will live.
Killed by Lightning. ~ During an
unusually severe electrical storm
Fred Joiner, son OF W. L. Joiner, a
farmer living northwest Of Galena,
was instantly killed by lightning. The
storm was accompanied by heavy
rain, which was general throughout
this county, and Jasper county, Mo.
Prisoner Wants Release. Thos.
Johnson, a prisoner in the Kansas
penitentiary from Labette county,
filed habeas corpus suit in the dis
trict court at Leavenworth. He al
leges that he was sentenced under
the new indeterminate sentence law
before the law went into effect. He
is serving five year term for steal
ing set of harness.
Killed by Lightning. = George W.
Stone, farmer who lived at Hart
ford, IA miles southeast of Emporia,
was killed by lightning. Stone was
driven from the field where he had
been working by heavy rain storm.
AS he entered the barn to put his
team in, lightning struck the building.
The horses were not injured.
Pipe Line Runs for June. -. The
Prairie OIL Company's statement of
pipe line runs for the month Of June
shows an increased daily average over
the statement issued two weeks ago
for the half month. Daily average
for the entire month was about $4,000
barrels, over $1,000 Of which went
each day into tankage. The Prairie
has now in tankage over 100000 bar
rels of Kansas and Indian Territory
oil.
To Spot Tax Dodgers.-At Burling-
ton County Tax Ferret Wisman has
started petition to get grand jury
to meet in September. The petition
states the principal reason for the
grand jury is to investigate the tax
dodgers. There has been much hard
feeling since the tax ferret was ap-
pointed little over year ago. There
is not much doubt that many signers
will be secured to the petition.
Baseball Fans Disappointed.-Fully
3 900 excursionists were disappointed
at Wichita Sunday when the rain
made it necessary to postpone the
double-header between Leavenworth
and Wichita. An excursion from Ok
lahoma over the Rock Island brought
almost 1000 visitors. Several at
tempts were made to put the grounds
in shape but without success. 1t
would have been a record-breaking at
tendance.
Santa Fe Files Answer.-The Atch-
ison, Topeka C Santa Fe railroad at
Sedan filed its answer in the suit
brought by the Kansas Oil Producers
charging the road with
with the Standard Oil
Company to control freight rates on
OIL The road denies the contention
Of the oil producers and sets up the
statute of limitation as further de-
tense. Testimony in the case will be
heard early in August
canceIling Machines. - At Wichita
the automatic cancelling machines
have been received at the postoffice.
These machines are to replace the
cancelling machines now used. The
present machines are equipped with
the drop feed while the new machines
have an automatic feed. This enables
the clerk to handle the mail a great
deal quicker. The machines are made
by the American Postal Machine Com
pany and are used in all of the large
Offices.
Another Victim.-At Topeka Lester
Maze, 14-year-old boy living at ZIG
Kline street, is at Christ's hospital
suffering from a peculiar Fourth of
July accident. He was carrying a
number Of Al calibre cartridges in
paper sack when for some cause I'M
known one Of them exploded. The
brass shell was blown into the fleshy
part Of his leg below the knee. The
bone was not injured and unless
blood poisoning sets in he is expect
ed to recover.
in Love With Horse.--When Rob-
ert Brooking was arrested at Atlanta
on charge of stealing a horse, pre-
ferred by d. B. Kline Of Haswell,
Colo, he broke down and cried, say
ing to the sheriff, at whom he had
shot from a patch of weeds. that he
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