The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-04-12

Helped Make Kansas History. ~
Captain Curtis M. Benton, who took
an active part in making Kansas his
tory in the early days, died at Leav'
enworth in tho hospital at the Sol.
diers' home.
f6 Military Prisoners Received. =
Sixteen military prisoners coming
from Fort Robinson, Neb., Fort
Brown, Tex, and Fort Meade, s. D.,
were received at the military prisoY
at Fort Leavenworth
inspect FL Dorado X. N. G.-Majo
7. J. Lewis, regular army officer of
Fort Riley, and p. M. Hoisington OF
Newton, colonel of the Second regi-
ment, X. N. G., inspected company
X after which the women Of the town
gave them banquet. The company
here is one of the best equipped in
the state.
| Kansas Sportsmen's Shoot. The
seventeenth annual shoot Of the Kan
sas Sportsmen's Association will be
held In Great Bend, April IS, 10, 20.
The coming shoot promises to be the
largest Of its kind ever held in the
state. An unusually large amount Of
entries are on hand and many yet to
come in; $500 Is the added money, to-
gether with several special events
Killed In Driving Belt. - Charles
Riley, an oiler employed In the Hun
ter Touring mills at Wellington, while
trying to throw off the belt driving
large grindstone in the mill base
ment, had his clothing caught in the
belt, and he was whirled around the
shaft until life was extinct. Both
arms were torn from his body. He
was 20 years Of age and unmarried.
New Road to Coal Field. - C. D.
Perry, a prominent ranchman of En-
glewood, says a gang of surveyors Is
running line west from Englewood
through Liberal to Trinidad, Colo.
There were ten men in the party and
they stated that they were making
the survey for party of Trinidad
capitalists who were seeking an out
let for their coal into this part of the
country.
Kansas Bankers Close Meeting. -
The annual meeting Of the bankers
OF group five, comprising the south
west quarter of the state Is closed.
The meeting Of the group next, year
will be at terling. The new officers
chosen are: President, Thomas At
kinson, Sterling; secretary, T. A. Eng
fish, Sterling; member state nominal
ing committee, F. 8. Larrabee, Stat
ford.
Pool Hall Regulation. AT Concor.
dia Judge w. T. Dillon, in case in
district court, has held the law of
1886 requiring owners Of billiard and
pool halls in unincorporated towns to
secure license from the township
clerk to be unconstitutional. The eff
feet of the decision will be to Lake
it impossible for any unincorporated
town to collect a license from billiard
or pool halls or to prevent thei
operation.
Pioneer "reminiscences. = In pion.
eer "reminiscences of Cawker City and
the Solomon Valley 1t is learned that
Judge Clark A. Smith. now supreme
court judge, taught the first regular
district school in that town as early
as 1912. In those good old times
people came to Cawker City fer a dis
lance of $50 miles for their mail, aLl
1t is said that in 1873 the deposits in
the money order business alone were
as high as $4,000 and $4,000 a week.
Fish In Kansas Streams. - Harvey
county streams have been stocked
with fish from the fish warden's
ponds at Pratt, Kansas. County Game
and Fish Warden A. r. Ainsworth re-
ceived from Del Travis, the state fish
warden, seven large cans Of small
fish including the croppie and the
black bass varieties. Each can con.
tanned 500 fish little more than
finger length in size and Mr.. Aims
worth promptly took the fish to the
country streams and turned them
loose.
investigating Land Frauds. - The
federal grand jury commenced its de-
liberations towards ferreting out land
frauds in this state in Topeka on
April 8. One hundred and forty wit
nesses have been summoned to ap-
pear. Just very small per cent of
the jurys work is other than land
Investigations. Judge Pollock in his
charge from the bench dwelt exhaus-
lively upon the point that each indi-
vidual juryman must let nothing of
the proceedings escape him either by
action or word of mouth, ,e
Standard Oil Properties. - The re-
turns which the tax agent of the.
Standard Oil Company has made to