The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1906-03-01

this part Of the state.
Reformatory Inmate Dies Felisia,
no Mondez, IL years old, died at the
state reformatory. and will be buried
In the prison cemetery. Consumption
was the cause Of his death. He was
a native Of Old Mexico, and was sent
up from Summed county year ago
for larceny from railroad depot.
Producers Are Putting Up. ~ on
producers Of the mid-continent fields
have guaranteed considerable fund
FOR the purpose Of inducing some COM
pany, independent of the Standard OH
| Company, to come into this territory
and establish a system of refineries,
tank farms and a pipe line to the Gulf
of Mexico.
Cheap Fraterncl Insurance.. The
Beneficial Brotherhood Of Industrial
Societies Is the name of new frater-
nal insurance concern organized by
State Labor Commissioner Lee John
son, ex-State Treasurer +. e. Grimes
and other Topeka men. The object
OF the company is to furnish laborlng
people cheap fraternal insurance.
Stock Sales Success. - That the
Butler County Stock Sale Association
will be Of great benefit to Butler coun-
ty stockmen was proven by the Sec
ond sale, held at Ell Dorado. There
was an enormous crowd present and a
hundred head Of horses, mules and
hogs were sold at good prices. There
were several horse buyers from east
ern markets.
Her Romance Ended.--Susie Grace
Hunt, wife Of Albert Hunt, who on the
date Of their marriage November rs,
1905, was student in the Leaven-
worth high school and Is years old,
Saturday was granted decree divorc-
ing her from her husband and re-
stored to her maiden name, Susie
Grace Haight. Nonsupport was the
cause.
Riotous Pupils sus2ende 1.-The
boys in the fourth year class of the
Holton high school attempted to place
flag on the new high school build
ing, and when the third year boys in.
terfered fight followed. Eggs were
thrown and several windows were
broken. The school board suspended
the fifteen boys who participated in
the riot
Original SettIers.-Out CT 144 quar-
ter sections of land in Wellington
township, Sumner county, only two
are owned and occupied by the orig
inal settlers. Hiram Vandenburg set
tied on his farm thirty-eight years
ago and still lives there. Wesley G.
Foraker, distant cousin of the Ohio
senator, settled on his farm in SO and
still runs it.
Money In Mouse Nest.-A Brown
county farmer, Jack Berry, hid s25 in
bills in lox in his barn. Later he
went to get the money to attend
sale and 1t had disappeared. Finally,
after nearly teari- 6 up the barn, the
money was found in mouse's nest.
The little animal had taken the bills
and woven them into a nest without
destroying the value of the green
backs.
Another Holland Fortune.-Captain
De Rooy, ex-captain in the Boer
army, who has been in lola for sew
eral weeks, has received word from
the representative of the Holland
government at Kansas City that his
aunt in Holland had died, leaving a
small fortune to him. The estate
is large one, but owing to the fact
that 1t is to be divided among sew
eral heirs, leaves about $4,000 for
each.
ASTONISHING OIL Figures. - For the
first fourteen days of February the
Prairie Oil and Gas Company reports
pipe line runs Of ga $3.50 barrels, or
a daily average of 45,356.33 barrels;
deliveries to refneries and shipments
to the Whiting trunk line, 205, 1907 |
barrels, daily average of 14,655.77 |
barrels; put in storage tanks, 42S,-
S0756 barrels. These figures are
practically the same as every day
since January /.
Get Auto Fever.-A numbt. Of Be-
lott merchants, physicians and capt.
talsts are becoming interested In the
more modern method of transporta-
ton, that of the automobile process
They have placed orders to the num-
Der of seventeen with two Beloit
agents for the same. The local agents
have additional prospective purchas-
ers. Beloit has not until lately taken
a serious thought of the automobile.
The good roads" movement is doing |
1t.
Brewers Given Blow.-There are |
in the basement CT the Saline coun-
ty jail over 200 cases Of Pabst beer,
taken in raid by the county officers. |
The beer was secured In local store
bouea IN fhe ground of the Santa To |