The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1905-03-02

OF 100000 office building in Arkan
sas City to accommodate the officials
of the Oklahoma division. The com
pany will also reduce the grade be-
tween Arkansas City and Chicago. Ii
Is announced that the tracks leading
to the railroad bridge across the Cana
dian river at Purcell are to be raised
five feet above the present grade and
the bridge Is to be raised like dis
lance. This is to prevent the stop
ping Of traffic over the road as re-
suited from the foods of last sum-
mer,
Makes Standard Pay.-The Arkan-
sas City Oil and Gas Company; oper-
ating in the Peru field, is one Of the
few companies in Kansas that has
hold on the Standard Oil Com
pany and expects to take advantage
Of its position. The former company
supplies gas for power in the Stan
dard's pumping station for the pipe
line at Peru and has the entire sup.
ply. 1t forces the Standard to pay
$3.50 a month for the same supply
that it receives in other fields for
$780,
Violated Fish Law. - Deputy State
Fish Warden U. S. Stoner arrested ].
F. Noggle, a farmer, on charge OF
violating the fish laws. He had cap
tured wagon load of carp as they
were passing over the rifles. Nog-
gle pleaded guilty, claiming he did not
know he was violating the law, He
was fined $25 and sentenced to thirty
minutes in the county Jail. He paid
his fine, served his sentence and was
released. 1t is the first prosecution
under the fish law in Fort Scott.
Killed The Observation-Disclosures of
the senate has been killing amend
ments on the insurance trust bills in
troduced by Senator Wagner, or
those tackled on other bills. Wag.
geners last effort was to introduce a
bill instructing the attorney general
to be authorized to act in the anti
trust insurance matter as soon as the
bill he introduced became a law. The
senate has not yet taken action CD
this last move.
Died From SIugging.-Leon Jodrey,
a jeweler was slugged near his place
of business in Topeka by an unidenti.
fed person and died in hospital.
Jodrey went to the back part Of the
lot on which his store stands near
Fifth street and Kansas avenue about
midnight and was struck in the head. |
His pockets were ritied and the con-
tents taken. In semiconsci0us con-
dition he crawled 10 the street where |
he was found.
Charivari Was Fatal. - Last week |
party of young men appeared at
farm house in the southern part OF
Atchison county to charivari couple |
just married. They were invited in
and given refreshments. One Of the
number, a man named Nick LummiX,
was taken sick while at the house and
could not be removed. He continued
to grow verse and died at 10 o'clock
II night,
Secured Winters Coal. - A long.
headed farmer living near Auburn tied
an empty beer bottle 10 a fence post !
along the railroad track, Every time
q coal train passed that way The
brakeman fired a lump of coal at the
bottle, and all winter long while the
rest of the world has been wrestling
with the coal famine this farmer has
had plenty of fuel and to spare.
Negro Kills White Man.-With ap.
parenlly no cause whatever, Arch
Macklin, a negro, drove miners pick
into the brain Of Frank Emmons, an
aged white man, in the shadow Of |
Joplins station. Emmons died dur y
ing the night at The hospital. The
murderer has been captured and taken
to Carthage for safe keeping.
Died From Heart Failure. - VIII
liam Daugherty, an unmarried man
about So years old, living by himself
on farm near Ottumwa, was found
dead in his wagon at his home of
heart failure. His body was burned
and his hair and mustache singed off
by his clothing catching fire from his
pipe,
Corn Is Scaree.-John Patton, who
has farmed three miles east of Atch-
ison for thirty.siX years, says that in
all his experience this is the first year
that farmers in the vicinity have had
to send away for corn. Farmers are
paying a. cents a bushe for corn, and
are sending 10 Nebraska for it.
Preparing for Spring. - With The
beginning of March the Kansas farm
ers are getting ready to push their
spring work forward, and blowing
will be going on in every field. There
is plenty of moisture and the ground
generally is in prime condition.
Baby Smothers. - A baby was