The Globe-republican., 1906-03-15

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roadbed is placed In good condition
4 new rails will be laid and the time
i shortened Up betweca Parsons and
Junction City. w
! Charged With Blgamy.-B. l.. Cald-
weil, am anctioneef, was arrested In
Parsons on the charge of bigamy. His
first wife lives in Coffeyyille, where
he has three children. 1t is charged
| he deserted them two years ago and
i went to Newton. where he was mar
ried to another woman. Both women
are how after him and he will be ta-
ken to Newton for trial.
| lola to Have Searchlght.--Mr Mes.
| sengale has completed the plans for
an observation tower. which will be
! 90 feet high. On top Of the tower heS
proposes to place powerful light
| that will reach for miles, making 1t
possible to see the outer edges Of the
county in the dead of night. Work
will be started on the tower within
the next ten days. 1t Is to be placed
in lola's electric park.
CherryvaIe to Vote on Bonds.--The
city council has ordered that at the
regular city election to be held here
regular city election, to be held here
April 3, the proposition to vote
| $4,000 bonds for the proposed Pitts
burg independence C Oklahoma rail
road, will be submitted The propo
sition has been materially changed
from the form in which 1t was voted
upon and defeated at a special cleo
ton held December 2S.
Psychics in silk Farmlng.-Margar-
ct Sauer, alias Margaret Graham,
psychic" who used to operate in To-
peka, has been indicted on thirteen
counts by Texas grand jury on a
charge of working a silk culture land
swindle. She is accused of cleaning
up about 100000 selling stock in a
silk farm proposition in California.
She is now In Los Angeles, and the
Texas authorities are having some
trouble extraditing her.
More Than Million. - The state
now has over $1,000,000 on deposit in
the state repositories. According to
the monthly statement issued by the
state treasurer the balances in the
various funds aggregated $1,317,000.
The receipts during the month
amounted to $267,92l and the dis
bursements $155,0OO. The state
school fund has s7,G44,S57 in bonds on
hand, the university fund $146,215;
the normal school fund $217,715 and
the Agricultural college fund $464.-
214.
Dipthera on the Increase :-Diph-
iberia is on the increase II Kansas.
During tie month Of February there
were 900 cases and twenty-nine deaths,
as.against iifty-five and ten deaths for
the corresponding month last year.
The report of the state board of health
isued today shows that there were
also ninety-three cases g tuberculo-
sis and thirty-scven deaths during the
past month: 1902 cases of typhoid few
er and fifteen deaths; 125 cases of
scarlet fever and five deaths: 1923
cases of smallpox and one death;
three cases Of dysentary and no
deaths: 1877 cases of measles and six
deaths: and two cases of cholera in
fantum and two deaths
Cut Out the Oratlons.-At Wichita
tiro selfrors OF -fhe mig = .sv.re 49, ,ss-l
now exempted from giving orations.
Formerly, when the classes were
small, every graduate was required to
give an grafton. but as the classes |
grew larger the number of speakers
dwindled down to the ten having the |
highest grade standing for the four
years. Then the board. of education |
decided that there was too much dis
elimination in favor Of the pupils with
the high grades, so the classes were
instructed to elect five to assist on the
program. The board, after some dis
cussion, decided to do away with all
of the orators and to bring some
noted educator to the city for the pur-
pose of addressing the graduating
class.
Trouble Seems certaln.-A second
war between Spaniards and Ameri-
cans seems unavoidable in Gas City,
from present indications Six weeks
ago Spaniards began coming to Gas
City and taking places in the smelt-
ers. The Americans have resented
this and trouble was first started
when Harry Munger, who has since
been convicted as deserter from the
United States army, whipped two
Spaniards., A sign has been posted
on telephone post along the path the
men take to work which reads: 'Inl
portant.-All interested will meet at
the pool hall at o'clock this after
noon. We will run the Spaniards out
OF town and get back the jobs they
took from u.s. Committee" In the
afternoon twenty-five men gathered