The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-03-08
KANSAS COMMENT

rignting Competition.---The Stant
ara Oil trust has adopted q novel pla
q campaign against the independen
renneries. It has agents going fror
town to town giving demonstration
showing the good qualities Of Standar
Oh and poor qualities Of Independent
OIL. After the demonstration Is owe
the Standard agents give q banquet t
the business men. .i
Auto Owners Must Pay.--A case 0
interest was decided at independence
when a jury brought in a sealed yer
dict awarding Mrs. Amanda Brock
wife Of ex-Sheriff J. T. Brock, $500
damages for injuries received In |
runaway caused by an automobile
driven by George Francis, manager o
the Coffeyville Brick Company, an(
his son Charles.
Good Roads for Harvey.-Fully twt
hundred and fifty farmers, TOWNSHIP
officers, rural mail carriers and bust
ness men attended the good roads
convention held at the Harvey county
district court room. Men interested
In the movement to make good roads
came from every part of the county
The meeting was an enthusiastic one
and many points in regard to good
roads were freely discussed.
Mother at Age Of Eleven. - Pearl
Weeks, a colored girl of Pittsburg,
who is II years and two months OF
age, has given birth to a DAUGHTER.
To be a mother at the early age of
II Is something never before heard of
In this climate. The mother is in q
serious condition but the baby, a
daughter, Is said to be as bright as
II its mother was as many more years
older as her age at this time.
VIII Have It Patented. - Ludwig
Larson, young Doniphan county
man who lost his foot in runaway
not long ago, could not get an arti-
fcial foot to suit him and together
with Gabriel Gerady, Bendena ma
chinist, set to work to make foot
after his own ideas. 1t is a complete
success, being arranged with bands
and springs. Being unlike anything
else on the market. they will have it
patented.
Missouri Pacific Extends. - The
Missouri Pacific railway will extend
from Tuka to Dodge City the line of
The Denver, Memphis & Atlanta run
ming from Conway Springs to Iuka.
This will open up to the Missouri Pa
,ific the wheat lands of Pratt and
Xiowa counties in Kansas. Officials
If the company are now going over
he route to secure right of way and
will begin as soon as
hey have completed their work.
Investment That Paid. - In 1895,
along In the years of drouth. Mic Ber-
,cheidt, living near Ellinwood, pur-
chased section of land for $1,000.
His neighbors had doubts as to wheth-
,r he had any business ability. They
,ven congratulated him on the fact
hat he was able to get through the
leal without having two sections
)almed off on him. Today, ten years
alter, he wouldn't accept $4,000 for
he place, and he has had the benefit
If years Of good crops, too.
Brought Lover to Time. - Maude,
he 17-year-old daughter of John De-
new. who lives three miles north of
Altoona. took an ounce of carbolic acid
With suicidal intent because her
sweetheart, John Doty, neighbor
boy, had broken o.; their engagement.
rhe girl Is now out of danger. Doty
was present during the girls suffer
ng. After she recovered the couple
again plighted their troth in the pres
snce of and with the approval of the
girls parents.
With Their Threats Cut.-William
Arnold and his wife were found with
heir threats cut in the home of H. Fl.
Arnold, an engineer, In Harrington.
rhe husband was dying from his
when discovered. The body Of
he wife indicated she had been killed
several hours before the discovery.
William Arnold was railroad man
who came here short time ago from
Rock Island, ILL.,, and had been york
ng at Mcfarland. His wife had been
staying here at the home Of his broth
Dr.. No reason for the deed is known.
Farmer Burned to Death. - Fred
yullisen, prosperous farme. living
TX miles sout', of Lawrence, was
burned to death while burning the
Did grass off his pasture. 1t is not
known how the accident happened.
rullisen was subject to heart trouble,
md 1t is supposed he was overcome
,y heat and fen. When found his
,lothing was entirely burned off, and
both feet burned so badly the flesh
aropped of. He rallied and lived
bout Ave hours after the accident,
- .,nal,1a RI feI1 how II hannah