The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1907-06-13
It Happened p Tx a N S a S
OUR WEEKLY CIsT OF CONDENSED ITEMS

Jdl DanK uepOSlJS IN Kansas lnCredS-
ed $6066,458.76 between January &c
and May 6, according to the report
made public by John c. Royce, state
! bank commissioner. There are 72l
banks In the state, an increase of
twenty-six since January 26.
| Depositors VIII Not Lose. - Terri
torial Bank Commissioner H. H.
Smock announces that depositors in
ire Farmers State Bank at Berlin
and the Bank of Hamburg, which fail
ed May 20, will be paid in full
through assessment Of stockhold-
ers.
More Business for Caney. - The
commercial club of Caney has closed
deal with the Baker Bros, of In
dianapolis, for the removal of their
glass plant from Arcadia, Ind, to
Caney. The factory is thirty-six
blower plant and will employ 200
men.
Fell Between Cars and Killed. -
Ralph Garfield, son of Conductor H.
E. Garfield, of Wellington, was run
over and killed at Kiowa. His train
was dropping some box cars on a
sidetrack, and it is thought he lost
his balance when the cars struck
and was thrown upon the track. He
was 20 years of age and unmary
ried.
Had $500,000 Insurance. - Lucius
H. Perkins, secretary of the state
board of bar examiners and former
president of the Kansas Bar Associa- |
ton, who died as the result of fall
from the roof of his 100000 home,
Upton Court" at Lawrence, carried
more than half million dollars
worth Of life insurance, and was one
of the heaviest policy holders in Kan
sas
Crushed to Death in Car. - Roy
and Harold Noel, sons of ]. E. Noei,
blacksmith of Tonganoxie, Kan,
and John McEnulty, a farmer living
near that place, were killed in
Union Pacific freight car at Junction
City. The young men were bound
for Western Kansas, where they
have been going each year to work
In the wheat fields as harvest hands
and threshers. At Lawrence they
boarded a westbound freight train
and got into a large furniture car
that was loaded with lumber In one
end of the car there was a couple
feet of space between the pile of
lumber and the end of the car, and
in this space they were seated on the
floor, out of sight of the train men.
The car in which they were riding
received a jolt, which caused the lum-
Der to slide and catch them against
the end of the car, where they were
crushed to death.
Acquitted After 81 Years. - Bud
McCracken, sheriff of Barber county,
KAN, was tried at Chickasha before
United States Judge Dickerson,
charged with numbering Adam Ward
On July 6, 1880, and was acquitted.
McCracken and Ward were cowboys
serving different owners. A dispute
arose over a brand on cow Many
shots were fired and Ward was
inally killed by McCracken. The
shooting occurred on the c. B. john
son ranch, 16 miles from Chickasha
The indictment was returned twelve
,ears ago and A. Cruce, then prose-
cutting attorney, of Indian Territory
ordered no warrants issued. Last
all when McCracken ran for sheriff
he old charge against him was re-
lived and another indictment was
ound. The testimony given proved
Wheat Report Dscouraging. -
Coburn's wheat report to-
lay is discouraging. Crop condi-
ions on the 100000 acres which
low seem likely to be harvested
lverage for the state SGT per cent, y
,r 27.3 per cent less than the condi-
ion reported by the same CORE {
,pondents on April "a, when it sum-
ned "a per cent.
Schools Get $4,000 Less. - BY a
decision rendered by the attorney
general upon the request of the
state treasurer and the state super '
ntendent the Kansas schools will be
deprived annually hereafter Of about
100000 charter fees which now go
nto the general fund.- A law passed
n 1901, amending a law passed in
1898, directing that the fees received
or charters granted in Kansas
should go into the permanent school
und, was repealed by the last legis-
AZURE by a new act relating to pri-
rate corporations, which absolutely
'ails to mention what disposition
shall be made of the fees received
or the granting of charters under its
1t says nothing at all
about them.
Kansas Brick to Mexico. The
prick plant at Buff City, whose head
quarters are at Neodesha, has just
received an order for several car