The Globe-republican., 1907-07-04


| Another Wichita Boy Drowned. =
While swimming in the Little Ar
sansas river in Riverside Park, at
Wichita, Ralph Helm, the 16-year-old
son of Judge A. e. Helm, was drown
I'd. The boy had been in the water
or several minutes when he was
seized with cramps and before the
other boys could get to his rescue he
sank from sight beneath the muddy
water The body was recovered az
ter five hours.
Bouquet for kingman. - Secretary
j. s. Crumbine, of the state board OF
health, says he believes the city OF
Kingman has the best water supply
In the state and that it is going to
spend $4,000 on a pipe line in order
to make use Of it. There is a big
natural spring about three miles
from town in the sand hills that runs
the year around and the city council
Is going to have pipe line con-
structed from the spring to the city. l
Quilting Through College. Two
boys from Sabetha, Lloyd Mosser and
Lloyd Beegley, have just closed out
at Abilene quilting factory with
which they have started their way to
college. They began last fall and
made exhibits at the fairs. They
arouse much interest among the wo-
men of that community and quilted
over five hundred quilts. Some Of
the quilts were very interesting, one
having been made during the war
and never put together. 1t was
visit of much interest for the women
who came to Abilene when they call
ed on the "quilter boys" as the two
young men were generally named.
The walls of their rooms was cover
ed with quilts and the varied figures
were novel and unique. The boys
sold the business they had built up
at a good price and expect to enter
college this fall. They will set up
quilting establishment In some col
lege town and the work they do af-
ter school hours will they think,
carry them through their college
course. They graduated at the Sa-
betha high school and their pluck
and enterprise have attracted much
favorable attention from all who
have watched them.
Ties Are Rotten; Spikes Loose. -
Charles A. Ryker, member of the
State Board of Railroad Commission
ers, made smile inspection Of the
Missouri Pacific track northwest of
Hutchinson. Mr.. Ryker also walked
for three miles along the Missouri
Pacific northeast of Anthony. Mr..
Ryker did not hesitate to say that
the. track inspected on the Hutchin-
son division Is unsafe for heavy traf-
fic and for passenger trains. He said
that the conditions found near An
thony are even worse There every
two or three ties were in bad shape
from one cause and another, he said.
A sample of what was seen is con-
tanned In his report Of what was
found between mile posts 4S and 40,
west from Wichita. The east end Of
this mile is about mile west Of
Hutchinson. The defective ties were
counted and S07 bad ties were found
in the mile There is an average OF
$500 ties In mile of Missouri Pa
cific track in this division. This
means that almost one-third Of the
ties are defective. 1t grew worse as
the inspector went west. AS many
as five bad ties were found in sue
cession. Only ties under which there
was no support or which were so rot
ten that they would not hold the
spikes were regarded as defective. l
Old Man Starving.-The sight of n
man over 70 years of age, feeble and
starving. was presented In lola re-
Gently. The man, according to recon-
mendations he carried, Is honest and
has always been sober and hard
working. His working days have
passed, however He told Captain
Seeds, of the Salvation Army, that he
had not eaten since early the morn
ing before and had made his way the
best he could from Olathe An effort
to send him to relatives in Kingman
county was made.
Auto Ambulances for Army.--Fort
Riley, Fort Leavenworth and per-
haps other of the larger army posts
are soon to be equipped with auto
mobile ambulahces. The vehicles
will be of the same pattern as one re-
Gently purchased for the military
academy. Each car will have a 30
horse power compound condensing
steam engine and will be capable OF
making speed Of from forty to
forty-fve miles an hour. They will
carry ten persons each inside and
two on the front seat. They will cost
about $4,000 each.
Coburn to Speak in N. Y. - F. D.
Coburn, secretary Of agriculture, has
accepted an invitation to address the