The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1907-01-03
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KANSAS ITEMS
SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS

Salvation Army of Wichita gave
LOO dinners TO the poor Of the city
on Christmas day. Besides this
they gave away 5000 garments.
NJ His Seventeenth Annual Dinner
Thomas Shaw, the Wichita music
man, gave his seventeenth annual
dinner to the boot-blacks and news
boys Of the city on Christmas day
It was attended by about seventy.
I'VE Of his boys"
Kaiser Sent Him Calendar. -
Charles Walkenwitz. a citizen OF
Leavenworth, who twenty-five years
ago was body guard Of Kaiser vii,
helm Of Germany, received from the
emperor German calendar as a
Christmas present.
Musical Director Dead.-Frank N
Hair, for thirteen years In charge
OF the musical department Of the
Baker university. at Baldwin, died
suddenly at Excelsior Springs. He
and his wife went to that resort for
the benefit of Mr.. Hairs health. S
Wants $1,000 Damaues-W. H. Nc
Herman has begun suit In the dis
trlct court at lola against the Kan
sas Portland Cemer4 Company ask
Ing for damages in the sum of $1,000.
He was workman at the plant and
was Injured in an accident while at
work at one of the Griffin mills.
There Should Be More. - The Uni
ted States government has made an
Investigation Of Kansas highways
and finds we have 101.196 miles of
public road. or this 1853 miles are
surfaced with gravel, III miles with
stone and three miles with shells,
making only 272 miles of improved
road in the state.
Arrested at Prison Door. - c. C.
Hutchinson, wanted in Logan coun-
ay, Oklahoma, for murder, was ar.
rested as he was leaving the feder-
al penitentiary at Leavenworth,
where he had just finished term
for larceny under the name Of Tun'
nell. Hutchinson is accused of kill
lug German farmer.
In Presence of Family. - Frank
Stewart, aged 46. carpenter. COM
mitted suicide at his hone in Ga
lena by drinking three ounces of
carbolic acid Stewart drank the
acid in the presence Of his wife and
two children who had just returned
to their home from town. Excessive
drinking was the cause Of the sui"
eide.
Bank Robber in Prison. - Joseph
g. Kern, the Great Bend bank rob-
Der. has been taken to the state
penitentiary to serve sentence of
from ten to twenty-one years. Kern
also confessed to having robbed the
bank at Newton and he may be tried
for that crime after he has l.nished
his sentence for the Great Bend rob-
berry.
HospitabIe Pratt. - A young man
landed in Pratt recently broke and
entertaining a bad case Of tuber-
culosis. The free-hearted fellows OF
Pratt made uD small collection
and sent the poor fellow on to Buck
lin. There he waited for his train
in a waiting room without any fire,
and when his train arrived he stag
gered on and went to Dodge. He
fell dead there in the depot imme-
diately after arriving.
Shot by Train Porter.-Two young
men claiming to be from st. Joe
we're put off the Rock Island Golden
Gate Limited at Galya and claim that
after they had been put off the negro
porter opened fire on them with a re-
volver with the result that one was
shot through the knee. The bullet
tut Its way through the joint and the
doctors think an amputation will be
necessary.
Big Car of Cement. The lola
Portland Ccmeut Company recently
shipped out what Is believed to be
he largest car of cement ever sent
rom lola. The car contained 2S5
,arrels, or LAO sacks, or 10000
pounds of cement. The cement was
old to the government and was
hipped to the west. The car in !
which the cement was shipped was
me of the new cars - longer and G
eeper than the old regulation car.
McNees Was Probably Murdered.- !,
he coroner's jury at Lawrence in
sstigating the death Of Houston M
lees, concluded its work at No. 10 g
chool house by finding that the de- a
eased came to his death by I bullet a
round inflicted by John Lewis ard a
Dung Anderson. No one seems to e
now what the fight really was t
bout It was an old grudge that II
ropped out. At first the various e
arties threw rocks at each other Il
nd John McNees was so seriously o
urt that 1t is still feared that he t
lay die. Lewis is in jail but Ander- c
On has made his escape. The Off a
srs will locate him If possible. IL
CattIeman Seriously Injured.-Fred
horne, cattle man residing near s
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