The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1907-01-17
KANSAS ITEMS.
SUMMARY OF WEEKS HAPPENINGS !,

of court will go to Shawnee county
for the support of the common
| schools. This in effect Is the opinion
handed down by Attorney General
| Coleman.
To Have Sewer System.-Larned Is
| to have a sewer system to drain the
business part Of the city, and finally
to be extended to the residence por,
ton. Active work Of laying the sew
| ers will begin soon after February
/. A good system of drainage is
badly needed to preserve the health
of the citizens of this little city,
Ducked the Teacher. - The crowd
of County High School boys at Wei
ington went to the residence OF
Aaron A. Richardson, deliberately
broke a window, climbed into PROF.
Williss bed room. carried him out
and ducked him in horse trough,
They informed Mr.. Richardson that
they were ready to pay all damages
done his property.
Fire Destroys Six Buildings. -
Fire at Almena destroyed six build
ings and damaged others Included
in the loss was the First State bank
two drug stores, grocery store
and an empty building. The amount
of the loss is not known, though
quite heavy. There was partial III
surance.
Captured a Jail Breakcr.--Ed But
Ter, wanted for Jail breaking IN
Woodson county. was captured at
Hartford by Sheriff Stephen Hill
shaw. He located his man in the up
per story of an Office building. Full
Ter had barred the door on the m
side, but Hinshaw got crowbar ana
pried the door off.
Livingstone Arraisned. - Albert
Livingstone, who is charged WIN
robbing the Skiddy postoffice three
weeks ago. when only $40 was Sc
cured, was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Roark al juno
ton City. He waived preliminary
hearing and Is being held In the
county Jail awaiting his trial in the
federal court.
Scott City After R. RAT a mass
meeting of the business men and
leading citizens of Scott county
committee was selected to go to-
Garden City and confer with the
promoters of the new proposed
North and South railroad, to be
built from Garden City north and
west, with a view Of getting it rout,
ed through Scott city.
Alleged Robber Arrested. - Floyd
Landon, young man wanted for
robbing the postofIlce at Seneca,
Neb., was arrested at Horton by
Deputy Marshal Wilkinson. With an
accomplice he Is charged with bur
glarizing the Seneca postofiice last
May. He escaped from the Jail at
that town after the grand jury had
indicted him. He was taken back
for trial.
Shot by Negro Thieves. - Frank
Napotnick, known as Dutch Frank
an Austrian saloonkeeper, was shot
and killed in his saloon at the
edge Of Cherokee, supposedly by
negroes, who robbed him after kill
ing him. Two negroes entered his
Joint and demanded money. He
elected them. Later on, after every
body else had left the place, leaving
the old man alone, two shots were
heard, and neighbors who hurried to
the place found him bleeding on the
floor, MORALLY wounded, with two
bullet holes in his body. In his dying
statement he declared that the ne
groes he had elected returned, at
tempted to rob him, and when he re-
sisted they shot him.
Band Of Boy Thieves. - The Off
GERS at Ottawa have rounded up
gang of four boys who in the last
few weeks have stolen electric light
wire from the city and contractors
working for the city, and brass from
the Santa Fe amounting in value to
several hundred dollars. All con-
fessed. Some of the stolen prop
erty was fished out of the river
where it had been sunk to await
marketing.
He Dropped Sixty Feet. = w. A.
Barnett, a steeple jack, Lying in
Memphis, Tenn. fell from the top Of
a sixty foot chimney at the Howard
Mills, In Wichita. He suffered a
broken collar bone but was other
wise uninjured Barnett was en-.
gagged to paint the chimney. Just as
he had got into position at the top
where he could work nicely the rope
holding his scaffold broke, and he
was precipitated to the top of a
tank, sixty feet below. He struck
on a board across the tank, bounced
about twenty feet to the roof Of a
shed nearby and from that fell to-
the ground.
Fifty Ansora Goats klIled.-Two
cars Of a Missouri Pacific stock