The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-09-20
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DUH IdS Deen Hlcu III Inc Lynn
county district court by the state COM
missioner Of labor, w. L. A. Johnson,
Z charging the contracting firm Of Has
Z kns & Ralsey with violating the eight
hour labor law. This firm Is putting
down pavement in Emporia,
4. May Dam Blue For Electricity. -
"A committee from the Manhattan
Commercial Club has been appointed
to investigate the possibilities OF
damnng the Blue river at Rocky
Ford. four miles north Of Manhattan,
for the purpose Of creating power to
be utilized in operating an electric
plant to, furnish electric power in that
sclty.
v. Suicide at Mcpherson. - Pete Mel
!, ison, Swedish farmer living north
aS, west Of Mcpherson. committed sui
Jcide BY drinking blue .vitrol. He was
va wellto-do farmer and no. cause IS
a known for his taking his life aside
from dependency over the deaths in
'lhis family, his second wife having
: died few weeks ago. Mr. Nelson
was about GO years of age. ..
NJ Finley Gets Short Term.-Govern-
or Hoch has appointed Gordan Il. Fin
YIN ley, Of Dodge City, as Judge Of the
j sThirty-frst judicial district to sue
{. coed Judge Madison, who resigned to
run for congress. Judge Frank
z & Price, OF Iceland, has been nominal
led for Judge of the district but he
did not care for the short term APP
pointmcnt His friends Endorsed Fin
ley for the short term.
r Swell Special Beats RooseveIt's.
Much interest is being manifested
IN the forthcoming trip Of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas &c Texas officials. 1t
will be the annual fall inspection and
will be very complete. The official
: train Of private; cars which will run
as a special will be one Of the finest
ever seen in the Southwest, not even
4 excepting that on which President
y Roosevelt travelled
n Calf Spreads Texas Fever. - DR..
"a John B. Baker, state live stock SAM
N tary commissioner has received q re,
9 port Of an outbreak of Texas fever in
b Sumner county, which was caused in
q an odd manner. A few weeks ago a
calf with herd being shipped
through Caldwell, escaped from the
car. 1t spent its time in pastures ad-
Joining the town and now Texas fever
ticks have been found on number
of the milk COWS used to supply the
town with milk. .....
Issue chaIeng. to Whole State. -
The Republic county fair association
officers have sufficient confidence in
the exhibition to issue the following
challenge: Republic county chal-
ienges any county in the state on the
products of the farm, including live
stock and grain, to be shown in any
county or city in the state, the county
or city getting the show to pay the
transportation of the live stock and
products, the newspapers to deslg-
nate the town.
Dropped into a Hole. - 7he $4,000
concentrating plant of the Palmetto
Z" Mining Company at Galena was al
in. The hole made by the cavein,
which occurred while the plant was
In operation is about fifty feet wide
and eighty feet deep, having caved to
the second level. Six miners were at
work in the lower ground. but escaped
injury Among the machinery lost
are two steam jigs, two sets Of rolls,
elevators, etc. The ground cayed to
a point a few feet under the large
boilers but these and the engine will
be saved The Palmetto is the Ca
lena mining property in which ex-
Senator ]. r. Burton, of Kansas, was
Interested,
Father and Son Sent to Prison -
John Dwyer and his son, Frank, two
of the three crooks who were caught
at Pittsburg some time ago. on sus-
picion. and who were afterwards
found to have been the crooks who
burglarzed a country store at Iantha,
Mo. were both sentenced in court at
Lamar, The father being sent to the
state penitentiary and the son to the
state reform school. Both pleaded
guilty TO the charge of burglary.
Work on Water Plant 5egns.-Con-
: tractors have began work on the exca-
yations Of the water basins of Otta-
was new water phnt.
Four-MiIjon Gas Well Brought In.
THE Fred Horton Drilling Company
has Just brought in four million gas
well on the Young "'ace, two miles
north OF lola. The well was drilled
IN for the l.anyon Zinc Company. The
Horton Drilling Company has also
brought in well on the Krueger
place east of the Kansas Portland
Cement plant which will measure in
tha neiyhborbOOd of 1000 900 cubic