The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-05-10
Lightning Fires Big Barn. - During


severe electrical and thunder storm
'shtning struck a large horse barn
on the farm of M. H. Radell, a dairy
man residing IL miles northeast of
Pittsburg, causing fire which de-
stroyed several large barns and en-
tailed loss Of $1,4OO, fully covered
by insurance.
Fight San Jose ScaIe.--Prof. Il. A.
Popenoe, state entomologist, left for
Dodge City and other points in West
ern Kansas with material for fight
ing the San Jose scale. The state ex-
pertinent station council has appro.
priated $1,000 or more for fighting
this pest Of the Western Kansas fruit
grower.
Body Found In River. = The badly
composed body of a man supposed
to be John Mcpherson, of Columbus,
o., was found in the river near Fort
Leavenworth. In the pockets Of the
clothes Of the deceased were found
a lot of key rings and name tags, and
also bunch Of keys bearing the name
John Mcpherson, Columbus, o."
The man was clubfooted.
Col. Taylor Ordered West.--Colonel
Sidney w. Taylor, commanding the
artillery subpost at Fort Riley for the
past two years, has been ordered to
Fort Worden, Wash, to take COM
mand Of the artillery district Of Puget
Sound. He will move from here to
his new station at once. The district
Of which he will take command com.
prlses Forts Worden, Flagler, Ward
and Casey, garrisoned by twelve COM
panies Of coast artillery, about 1,400
men.
To Move Division Point. - During
the first or second week in May the
Missouri Pacific will move every en-
CINE, with the exception of those me-
cessary for the operation Of the Nc
Pherson branch. from Ell Dorado to
Wichita, With these engines will
come nearly every machinist and EN-.
ploye of the round house and yards
at that point. The division headquar-
tiers at FL Dorado will be declared
abolished and brought to Wichita. |
Postal Changes In Kansas. - The
Postofflce department has ordered the
establishment of an additional rural
mail route out Of Kiowa, Barber coun-
ty, Kan, to be effective June 15 The
length of this route will be thirty |
miles and will serve 400 patrons, or
100 houses. Rural letter carriers ap-
pointed for Kansas: Howard KEGS
ling and William Loflin at Fredonia,
John s. Thomas at Pomona, Frank
Arvidson and l.. r. Rose at Isabel.
convicts Building Dike.-A force
of sixty prisoners from the military
prison is at work putting in dixie
along the Missouri river bank to pro-
tect the farm land in the bottom
northeast of the post. The dixie will
be mile and half long, six feet
high and ten feet wide. 1t will pro-
tect the prison farm and the soldiers
gardens from an overflow, especially
during the June rise of the river. Of
ten the crops are spoiled by the regu-
lar annual June rise.
La Harpe Strikes Coal. - The drill
ers who were working for Readicker
e. Pruitt on the we'll which is being
drilled for the w. c. Gum Gas Com
pany on the DOMAIN farm south OF La
Harpe, made a discovery which may
mean much to Allen county. A vein
of coal something over IS inches thick
only 20 feet down was passed through
in drilling The well. The coal was
ground up so that it was difficult
matter to tell the quality of 1t, but it
Is bought that it would be good.
Rebuilding Harvey House.-The Ar
cade hotel the best Harvey house on
the Santa Fe system and the pride of
Newton, is being increased in its ca
pacity. Men from the bridge and
building department of the Santa Fe
are fixing up the rooms in the east
wing of the building, and as soon as
they have finished their work, the
rooms will he furnished with the hand
some and comfortable furnishings the
Harvey people always put in their
hotels and tweDty-three rooms will
have been added to the house.
. Iron Moulders Out at Iola.-Twen-
ty.five iron moulders employed at the
United Iron Works walked out on
strike at lola in an effort to secure
from the company reduction of their
hours from ten to nine day. Practi-
cally every foundry in Missouri and
Kansas is affected by the strike and
all three of the works Of the United
Iron Works Company are having
trouble. The head Offices are at
Springfield, Mo-, and there are
branch foundries at lola and at Pitts
burg. tea "a
To Use independence cement.--In-
dependence, Kan will furnish the
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