The Globe-republican., 1905-02-23

q was sent him forty years ago from
Old Mexico by an uncle. 1t has tn,
- markings Of United States sol'
= coin, but is not denominated. II wal
weighed today and tested as to Its
quality 1t weighed five and one-hal
pennyweights and stood the gold test
) The date of the coin is 1900 and II
has thirteen stars. Crabtree does not
say what he has bt en- doing all these
years with the coin, but would like
to know how much 1t is worth.
Would Raise Flash Test.-Senator
Brewer has introduced another bill
which will have tendency to make
the Standard Oil Company sit up and
take notice. 1t provides that the
flash test of kerosene shall be raised
to $50 degrees. The law now fixes
the test at 110, 1.-THE Standard not
only robs us on The price Of oil, y
said Brewer. but it gives us a quail
ity that smokes up lamp chimnoys
My bill will not stop the robbers, but
it will stop the sale Of chimney smok.
ing oil. -
Monument For Tom AIIen.-At a
meeting of the Commercial Club at
| Junction City movement was start
ed toward the erection Of a monu-
ment over the tomb of a pioneer
kansan and the late city marshal, 7.
A. Cullinan, who died in Kansas City |
last summer. 7. A. Cullinan was bet
ter known in the stale as Tom
Allen, - He was one of the few Dor
der town city marshals to die a nat
lral death He was marshal in juno
ton City for over thirty years.
Summer Bible Class A meeting
of ministers Of Eastern Kansas to-
sethcr with representatives of the
Ottawa Chautauqua assembly, was
held at Ottawa and plans were
agreed upon for summer Bible
school to be held at Forest Park, July
10 to 90. Dr. G. Johnston Ross, of
London; DR.. John Robertson. of Scot
land, and a number of prominent
Bible authorities in this country have
been invited to take part in the pro {
gram.
New Trolley Line. - The Spring
River Power Company, which has q
just finished a large concrete dam q
on Spring river, three miles from G
Baxter Springs, has submitted to the p
council franchise providing for the y
building Of an electric road from -
Ialena to this place, The road is to .,
be finished in time to handle the :,
,rowds which come yearly to the big =,
Baxter Springs reunion, and will be :,
line miles long
Oldest kansan Pauper.-The old g,
st man in Kansas is an inmate Of :,
he Cherokee county poOrhouse, His >,
ame is Patrick Harrington, and if W. W.
e lives until March 7 he will be ",
0S years of age. He was born in w w
reland, and was a peddler for forty =" =,
ears out of ST. Louis, finally drift ~
lg 10 Cherokee county. He is in WI
lir health and talks freely Of his 81
fe
S75,000 Exchange. The Belle VI
telephone Company, which some "'
me ago secured a controlling inter Wv
t in the Mutual Telephone Com D"
my Of Fort Scott, has arranged a 'O
ttlement with the minority stock 'P'
'lders of that company, and will "''
nsolidate the two plants, A new a
change will be put in at a cost of is
5000 and connections will be ar. bet
nged with local rural lines. ma
Coal Near Robnson,--E, A. Black, S0''
farmer, noticed coal cropping out pN
the ground on the farm of Mrs. law
.ry Ellis near Robinson, and dug ''''
shaft about twenty feet deep. He v
uck a 1Ginch vein of coal which hun
rms as well as any that is shipped ton
here. The vein was under water bor
L Black had to build a drain to ties
'ry the water away, Gina
Rats MutIate Mans Body.-]ames teri
lnson. sixty years old, was found p
I'd at his home in the suburbs of the
ava, where he had fallen in an at moi
* of apoplexy. The discovery was meet
de by a little neghbor girl who the
mt to take the old man valentine. n,ou
lnson lived alone In a small house.
e rats had attacked his body dur. VI
the night and had horribly mutt. was
I'd 1t. "
Med
telephone Merger.--The Bell Tcle brn,
ne company which sometime ago bom
lred controlling interest in the
.ual Telephone company Of Fort ~
tt, has arranged a settlement vi
l the minority stockholders of Ai'o'
company and will consolidate W Il
two plants, A new exchange uef
be- put in at cost of $4,000 and Joo'
1ections will be arranged with Nv
| rural lines. be C,
he Deal Closed. --- The Kansas sas y
lral Gas company has closed " al
for forty acres Of land six miles ment