The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1914-09-12
Transfer HOLDS DEsERTER
Springfield Man Arrests Former Sol
dier in Hope Of Getting Fifty
Dollar Reward.

When Edward Murray approached
Charles Potter, a teamster, in the
street at Springfield and asked where
he could find a policeman, saying he
was a deserter from the United States
army, Potter Immediately collared
him. Instead of turning him over to
the police, Potter is guarding his pris-
one till he hears from the war de-
partment, in the hope of collecting
the standing reward of $50 offered for
the arrest of an army deserter.
Murray said he deserted from the
army post at Texas City, Tex, April
IA. He was hungry and tired of being
hunted, he said, and decided to give
himself up.
Road to Gulf Routed.-The routing
and marking Of the Sedalia-Spring-
field leg of the proposed Lakes-to-the-
Gulf highway was completed with the
arrival at Springfield of A. G. Nor
ris of Sedalia, representing business
clubs of Sedalia and the state fair
board. Mr.. Norris made the trip by
automobile, erecting large markers
bearing the letters "L-G" at all turns
and crossroads. The route is via
Warsaw and Buffalo, and is $50 miles
long. Sedalia has undertaken the
marking of the leg north from there,
and Springfield will carry on the work
to the Arkansas state line. The con-
struction of an automobile highway
from Duluth, Mimi, to a point IN the
gulf is the object of the preliminary
routing and marking.
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Former Mayor Disclose C. Young,
formerly mayor of Lexington, who has
been in the livery business there for
the last ffty-one years, is dead at his
home after an illness of fifteen weeks.
lntercounty Road CIub.-The five
business mems associations of Spring.
field, operating through the greater
Springfield committee, has made the
initial move toward forming an in.
%tercounty highway association, that
will embrace twenty-five counties of
this part of the state. Each county
seat town will form an Smile road
district. These districts will build
rock highways to connect the towns,
The counties included in the proposed
association include Cedar, Dade, Law,
, renee, Barry, Stone, fancy, Christian
Greene, Polk, Hickory, Benton, Pettis
Dallas, Webster, Ozark, Douglas
Wright, Laclede, Pulaski, Texas, How.
ell and Oregon.
$4,000 Fire at BuckIin.-Fire start
ing from an unknown cause destroyed
the property of the Bucklin Lumber
Company, George Smiths blacksmith
shop and ]. w. Rouse's barn and Other
buildings. The total loss will be $40,
900, with insurance about $4,000
This is the fourth mysterious fire thai
has occurred in the business section
of Bucklin the last four months.
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One Thing to Boast of.-Howel
county boasts of a boy 8 years of age
that weighs two pounds more than it:
mother. The mother weighs 10:
pounds and the 3-year-old lad 104
The parents also have an infant daugh
ter 10 months old, who weighs 81
pounds.
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To Mark Road to IoWa.-A delega
tion from the automobile club of Pet
tbs county will leave SedaIia Septem
Der 8 to mark the Trans-continenta
Lakes-to-the-Gu highway, from seda
liza to Coryden, Iowa.
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May Die From Burns.-While burn
ing paper in a stove at her home, two
miles north of Rich Hill, Mrs. T. S
Garrison was probably fatally burned
The blaze caught her dress. She raj
into the yard, where her children
threw water on her to extinguish tn,
flame.
Hard Weather on Fairs.-The pro
moters Of the Chilllcothe fair CLAIM
that it was not a financial success
due largely to the extreme dry wealth
err which that part of the country Il
undergoing.