The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-03

Freight business is so heavy on the
Solomon branch since harvest that
extra trains have to be run UP the
valley to distribute cars to take the
wheat away in.
Charlie Barngrover, once-upon-a-
time a Dodge City baseball pitcher, has
joined the National boomers and is
wearing boomers and appearing as
Lady Rupert, one of the two World
Renowned lady pitchers"
Jewell County Monitor: With the
millionaire sports killing each other,
with congressman drawing knives on
each other in the hall of representa-
tives, we are glad we are only a coun-
try editor and nothing more.
The old-fashioned woman who al
ways does her washing on Monday
lives in Cottonwood Falls The
Courant and Reveille man recently
counted fifty washings on the line be-
fore ten o'clock one Monday morning.
I'VE would like to mention who had
her washing out first" adds the news
paper man. but as we have neither
hair nor cuticie to spare refrain and
say that these fifty washings struck
the line Simultaneous.
The Concordia Blade comes forward
with this one and quotes a preacher in
support of the story. wv. G. Green
Jr., was in the city en- route to his
home in Phillips county from Salina,
where he had been on business Mr.
Green says that DRIFT of hail stones
piled uD by the storm of June % near
his home was still unmelted on Mon
day, July 3, over a month after it fell
The drift near Mr.. Green's place was
about 80 feet wide, in an irregular
three cornered shape, over zoo feet
long and from six to ten feet deep.
The hail devastated a strip of territory
from three to four miles wide and
many miles in length
mike Sutton tells This "a rIy story
Of Dodge in the Hutchinson News:
Thirty years ago about this time of
the year 1 was sitting on a bench in
in front of Beatty & KelIyss place of
business in Dodge City I was in com
pany with young man about 81 years
old, who was then sheriff of the coun-
ty- We were personal friends as well
as political friends, ] being then the
prosecuting attorney. The place where
we were sitting faced the street the
railroad track being the other side and
the street having houses on but one
side. While We were talking three
men came out of the Long Branch sa-
loon some five or six doors west of US,
mounted their horses and rode east on
the street and when they had passed
us they were Shooting up the town
The town marshal was absent and had
left the young sheriff to care for and
keep order in the town In his absence.
As they rode by shooting, the young
sheriff, whose back was toward the
street, turned in his seat and opened
fire on them. He fired three shots two
horses went down and the riders were
promptly dfsarmed and put in the
calaboose- The young officer then i'm
pressed a saddle horse, there being
many hitched nearby, and pursued the
third man and found his horse about a
mile east of town lying dead at the
foot of the bluffs but no man. He
had disappeared in the hills The
young officer had done all this without
help and without scarcely a word The
party that escaped met the stage from
the north with the United States mall
and one passenger woman. He
compelled the driver to turn back and
take him to his herd of cattle twelve
miles away He held his gun in his
hand to enforce his orders. The wo-
man passenger he compelled to sing
all the way back. She told the writer
afterwards that the only song she
knew was The Ninety and Nine but
that she sang it for the twelve miles
faithfully. OF such were the early
days in Dodge. The young officer was
/ Bat Masterson, now one of the United
States marshals in New York city,