The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1907-05-02

uuu klIleu by Kansas Clty, OOuJI
ern train near Pittsburg. He wa
apparently IS years old, sandy mus
tache and beard. 3. ...,s T.. ,,-,s
Pounded With a Pickax. =. "A Rus
sian laborer was picked up f'alon
the Katy tracks near. Fort Scott. HI
face Is mass of wounds and tn
Uranium shows evidence of, hayinl
been pounded with a pickax. ,se AZ,
Hagerman' a. Kansas Product. 8
Herbert Hagerman, who is to quit al
governor Of New Mexico by order o
President Roosevelt, was a forne
resident of Kansas. He was reared
at Muscotah, Atchison county, Hi
father was in business there fol
many years., a. s ~ =
| Appointed Deputy Commissioner
John Kelly, of Topeka, a. brother
Of ex-Treasurer'T. 7. Kelly, has beer
appointed deputy bank commission
er for building and loan associations
Harry Findlay has been appointed
field deputy bank commissioner
Findlay is a son-in-law of Cyrus LIE
land. ..l.44t o..
Body Found In a Ditch.-The body
OF John Veroda, single man who
lived on farm in Republic county
about eighteen miles north of Con.
cordia, was found covered with
brush in a ditch near his home. His
head was crushed. "A 16-year-old
boy named Svojgr, employed by
veroda, was missing, together with
team and buggy. He was caught
near Munden, but refuses to talk
Accident at Wellington. During
the competitive drill by cantons OF
the Patriarchs Militant, in connec-
ton with the I. o. O. F. eighty
eighth anniversary at Wellington an
awning on which some twenty peo-
pie were standing collapsed. pre-
cipitating them upon the heads OF
the crowd below. Among the mora
seriously injured were W. M. COST
gan, Wichita, arm broken and inter
naliy hurt; j. c. Smith, Jr., Yelling
ton, hip dislocated; Charles F. Mar.
tin, Wellington. arm broken; George
Tracey, Argonia, arms and back
bruised, condition serious; Mrs. c.
H. Barnard, Wellington, hip crushed
and hurt internally; ex-senator W..
j.. Lingfelter, Wellington, injured in
back and limbs; Mrs. Port Campbell,
Caldwell seriously bruised about
back and head.
Banks in. Western, kansas.-With-
In the past two weeks seven state
banks have been instituted in West
ern Kansas by Deputy Bank Com
missioner Harry Troville. And this
recalls the fact that two-thirds of the
new state banks instituted within
the last two years are in Western
Kansas. There are now about 1000
state banks in Kansas, meaning that
there are about eight banks for towns
of 1000 population in the state,
One bank in Pawnee county is saiG
to be paying 100 per cent year tC
its stockholders. The banks inst
tuted by the bank commissions:
within the past week are: The
Grant County State Bank, Ulysses;
The Citizens State Bank, Claflin,
Barton county. capital $4,000; The
Lake State Bank, Lake City, Barber
county, capital $4,000; The Citizens
State Bank, Liberal, Seward county,
capital $26,0O0;" The Peoples State
Bank, Garden City; capital $4,000;
The Farmers State Bank, Larned,
Pawnee county, capital $4,000; The
carlton State Bank, Neosho county,
capital $4,000. I'll
Negro Killed by Police. = A negro
named Piummer was shot and killed
at .Coffeyyille by j. H. Fletcher, a.
policeman. Fletcher shot the, negro
to save the life of Charles. Bliss, an
other officer, whom Plummer. had at,
tackled with a razor. A coroner's
jury exonerated Fletcher.
One Year For Perjury. William
D., Stamford, Of, Sharon Springs,
who was convicted by jury in the
United States district court at ,slTo-
peka, charged with .lperjnry in a
homestead matter, was given one
years sentence in the penitentiary
and a $1,000 fine. ~
Claim Violation Of Bill of Rights
The Prairie Oil and Gas Company
has filed its reply to the action
which the state took last year to
Gust the Standard Oil Company on
the charge of unlawful combina-
tions or pools. A general denial is
entered. Then the action Of the at
torney general is declared to be in
violation of the bill Of rights and In
conflict with the fourteenth amend
ment to the constitution OF he Uni
ted States.
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Prisoner Attempts Suicide. - VIII
liam Wann, "a years old, who was
serving a sentence in, the reforma
tory at Hutchinson under the name
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