The Globe-republican., 1905-01-05
KANSAS COMMENT

n ness: Peoples National bank, {
Sedan, Kas., capital, $4,000, ]. 1
Tullis, president; W. H. Study, vic,
president; Otto D. Stallard, cashier,
Merchants Make Appeal. - Kansa
wholesale dealers asked the asss
ance of the department of justice i
forcing the Santa Fe and the Roc
Island railroads to carry out the Oh
ders of the interstate commerce com
mission in regard To rates of suga
from New York and Gulf ports Il
Wichita and Kansas City.
Killed on Christmas. - Lenia Dun
ham, who lived in Havana, six miles
north Of Caney, was accidentally kill
ed. She, with other members of the
family, had returned from a Christ
mas entertainment and were sitting
around a table when her nephew
Russell Lamb, accidentally discharg
ed a revolver The ball entered her
stomach. She died IN a few hours
Parker Won't Move to Topeka. -
The report that the Parker Amuse-
ment company shops will be moved
from Abilene to Topeka is denied BY
Mr.. Parker. His father, &. W. Parker,
recently married to a Topeka lady,
will reside there, but he has no in
torest in the shops. An increased
force Of men will be put on here az
Ter The holidays, -Four carnival com
panies will be put out next season.
Did Not Assault Striker. - ], NJ,
Horton, landlord Of the Grandvlew
hotel OF Arkansas City, was tried on
the charge of assauljing a Santa lfe
striking machinist and found not
guilty. The case is the outcome Of
some troubles between Horizons wife
and a striker who called at the hotel
to talk to some nOn-uni0n men. The
striker was ordered to set out and
did not obey. The woman seized
handful of red pepper and threw it in
his eyes.
Given Until February 1.-THE Kan
sas Louisiana exposition commission
has not completed its work and Gov
ernor Bailey extended the time in
which its final report may be made
to February /, 1905. The commission |
expected to get through work this |
week and make a final report to the |
governor, but the exposition manage.
ment has not awarded all of the I
prizes won in the competitions and
the Kansas commission will wait for
these awards.
Lost Life in Storm. - Constantine +,
Miller, an old soldier well known
around Hawatha as Little Miller"
started to walk from the country
home of J. E. Peuw to the town Of
Fairyiew, one mile distant. He fail
ed to appear by night time and ,
inquiry showed that he had not reach
ed Fairview, His dead body was dis
covered in q field half a mile cast of
the Peuw home. He had lost his
bearings in the snow storm and vas
frozen to death,
Died on the Balcony. - Carl Noel
ter, an inmate of the National Mill
tary home at Leayenworth, was found
frozen to death on an outside bal
cony at the home opera house The
body was covered with drift Of
snow and was not discovered until
morning. Moelter was last seen Mon
day. and 1t is presumed he came to
his death some time during the biz
card. He was a member of Company
G, Forty-ninth Illinois infantry, There
Is every indication that he became
bewildered in tie storm and mistook
the opera house for his barracks :
Moelter had been drinking. He en-
tered the home in 1899. His former
home Is not known,
Proved His Innocence. Wise NJ,
Holloway, who was arrested at Great
Bend and taken to Newton week 4
ago, charged with completely in the !
theft of a suit case containing notes
amounting to sixteen thousand dol
lars from the Arcade Hotel there, =
proved himself entirely innocent Of "
the affair and was released.
From Overheated Furnace.-Anoth-
or biz fire at Kiowa burned down the
CONGREGATIONAL church, The fire
started from an overheated furnace :,
which was left too hot after meeting
closed.
Buys Presents in Kansas. = Last
week, while Byron King, the lecturer, u
was in Kingman, he made Christmas Z
purchases Of various merchants in I
he city, amounting to moro than $40 o
n value, and had them shipped to his e
home in Pennsylvania. c
New Light Plant. - 1t 'Kingmah a o
,Ig petition will be presented to the :,
,Ity council at their next meeting, |,
lsking that franchise be granted to q
W. s. Grosvenor, giving him the right II
o establish and operate an electric n
lighting plant.