The Globe-republican., 1908-08-20

home, producing injuries from which
he died. He was SO years of age
and was an old timer. ,
Fought at Wilson creek.-Twelve
old soldiers, survivors of the battle oil
Wilson Creek. met at the home OF
Chas. FRANKIE in Leavenworth and eel
ebrated the fortyseventh anniversary
of the the battle day. T. B. Dawes
made an address. Most of the day
was spent in reminiscent talk
Burns IA Horses.-Fire of unknown
origin destroyed the livery barn OF
| Grant Armstrong, at Arkansas City,
burning fourteen head of horses, thir-
ty-fve or forty vehicles, many sets OF
harness and large quantity of feed
The estimated loss is $4,000, with in
surance on the stock OF $1,000 and
$500 on the building.
No Blue Sunday.--The Solomon city
council turned down a blue Sunday
| ordinance by vote of four to one and
now everyone, that is nearly every
one, in the little city is wearing a
| smile. Father can buy his cigars
and chewing tobacco on Sunday as
he always has and the boys can treat
the girls to chewing gum and ice
cream as heretofore. Solomon has a
nappib1,, onunoi1
No Complete Returns.-Many let
ters and kilograms reach Topeka ask
ing about results on certain election
matters. There is 10 way to deter
mine the results. Official returns OF
the primary held week ago are com.
ing in very slowly to the office OF the
secretary of state, where they will
be canyassed by The state canvasslns
board. About twenty counties have
reported their vote Totals are be
Ing compiled as rapidly as the votes
arrive. 1t will probably be a week
before the grand total will be given
out.
Bio Flour contract.-Word has been
received at the office Of the Hogan
Milling company of Junction City no
tifying them that the firm has been
awarded the contract Of putting UP
100000 pounds of -four in tin cans
for use in the army in the interior OF
the Philippines This contract was
bid for some time ago. There are a
number of mills in Kansas which
passed in bids, but the Hogan Mill
Ing company received the contract
Oldest Veterans FuneraI.-The flu
neral Of Hiram J. Coyal took place
from the Congregational church at
Jetmore. He was the Oldest old sol
der in Hodgeman county being 81
years old He was member of the
G. A. R. post at Pleasanton, Kan,
where he lived prior to moving to
Jetmore.
Seven Children August Born, = A
son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh
Donley. 1t was the seventh child in
the family and all Of them have been
born in the month of August. The old
est child Is 10 years old and twos of
the children have the same birthday.
Mr.. Donley is letter carrier at the
Hiawatha office, and his birthday
falls on July 81.
Baby Born in JsiI.--Lucy Wulf,
short sentence in the county Jail
at Leavenworth because she had no
money to pay a hotel bill which she
incurred, gave birth to boy which
Is probably the first child born in the
county Jail She was given every
care and attention and both mother
and child are doing nicely BY the
kindness Of Mrs. Brown the child did
not actually come into the world in
felon's cell, the mother being al
lowed the use Of 4 room in the shef-
ifs residence The unfortunate
mother will be released fro mail as
soon as she can be moved
Seoregate Dope Fends. - Superin.
tendent This of the state insane asy
lum at Osawattomie has suggested
brand new scheme to handle drunk
ards and dope fends. In his repor'
to the state board of control he rec
ommends that the state establish
separate institution for these unfor-
tunatcs and put thcm to work In
addition to this he suggests that the
stae pension the people who are de.
pendent upon tho drunkards and dope
fends for support.
One Killed, One Injured Mex
lean was killed and one so badly in
1ured that there is small hopes of his
recovery by a work train near May
field. The work train under Conduc-
tor Holmes and Engineer l.. e. Smith
had gone on a siding to let the east
bound passenger by, Two Mexicans
stepped out of the way of the pass
enger and directly back Of the work
train on the siding. When the pass
enger was clear Engineer Smith back
ed his train out on the main line and
hit the two Mexicans, who were stand
Ing on the end of the train. The men
were not employed by the Santa Fe
and were just hanging around the
camp visiting with the other Next
cans.
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Farmers Drain Land.-The owners
of Hampden township lowlands along