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SEEDLIN WEEKLY REVIEW OF KANSAS Broke His Jaw With an Ax. Heavy Fine for Neglecting Wife. young man named Cole, while Willis Smith, of Garnett, was given ting wood east of Emporia, sli a heavy jolt in Judge Harder's court. and his ax struck him in the Smith was charged with vagrancy He received a gash from the ey and refusing to support his wife and the lower jawbone. The jawbone family. After hearing the evidence shattered. Judge Harder promptly fined the said Smith $300 and costs. It is said Mr. Governor Grants Another Pa Smith will take an appeal to the dis-Len Lewis has been pardone trict court. Gov. Hoch. He killed "Bum" H in Hutchinson four years ago Sugar Factory Breaks Record. was sent to the penitentiary for The twenty-four hour record at the years. Lewis was shot first in sugar factory at Garden City was fight. His release was generally again broken, the total amount of ed for in Reno county. beets handled being about one hundred and fifty tons more than the run To Hold 50th Session.-On De of the twenty-four hours preceding, ber 7th a joint meeting of the which held the record. The total houses of the first free state 1 amount of beets converted into sugar lature of Kansas territory will in the twenty-four hours was 1,254 held at Lawrence, Kan. It will tons. a part of the thirty-second an meeting of the State Historical To Relieve Judge Pollock. - Judge ciety, and will be the fiftieth D. P. Dyer. of Missouri, has been asversary of the territorial legisla signed by the United States circuit of 1857. The senate was then court to sit at Topeka for Judge Poled the council. The representat lock at the regular term, which comhowever, called their body the h mences December 2nd. Judge Dyer as at present. will hear both the Tucker and Perkins cases. Judge Pollock asked to Want $3,000 More, - The brie be excused from trying the Tucker the state in the case of Haskin case and will sit for Judge Dyer at Sells to collect $3,000 for making : Hannibal, Mo., during, December. investigation of the treasury, in dition to the $12,000 which that To Teach Wrestling at University. has already secured, is being pre -Regular instruction in the art of ed. Haskin & Sells are a firm wrestling will be added to the varied foreign accountants. The state assortment of things that may be of Kansas provide nothing for learned at the University of Kansas. corporation of such concerns. A room in the new gymnasium is set state's attorneys will hold that apart for wrestling. The floor is profirm has no right here, and no cl vided with a mat that is four inches because it has no incorporation in thick and the walls are padded to state. match from the floor to a height of four fect. Says Banks Are Sound-John Royce, state bank commissioner, Are 66 County High Schools. - In just made a week's visit over the two years in which the Barnes sas, in which he made examinat high school law has been in operaof various institutions that had tion the number of county high affected to the point of closing d schools in Kansas has been trebbled. as a result of the financial troul When the 11w became effective tere "Every bank in Kansas is in ti were only twenty-two high schools in shape," said Mr. Royce, "excep the state and now there are just three, and I think that they car sixty-six. A levy of 3 mills for high brought out all right. I am g school work can be made, but the back to Kansas City soon to records show that in no instances what more I can do. The condit have the county commissioners ex in Kansas are splendid and ther ceeded a levy of 1½ mills. not a bit of room for further W Cannot Handle Output. - The right now if everybody keeps coc Cherryvale Glass Co. has turned out Horse Nailed to R. R Track.the fires in the chimney furnaces of ter nailing the hoofs of a horse twenty-eight shops and laid off about curely in the Rock Island rail one hundred men. This action is tacrossing. near Kechi, in Sedg ken because the company has got county, over which a train W ahead of its orders and has all the soon pass, unknown parties wa ware in stock they feel warranted in away and left the animal to carrying. The factory is not entireThis inhuman act was attempte ly shut down, as the company is still about 8 o'clock at night. To E making gas globes, lantern giobes and neer Hoy of the Frisco local t cigar jars. The factory has not yet No. 95 is given the credit of dis started the tumbler factories, but exering the animal and averting pect to do SO in ample time to care Sendish crime. It is surmised tha for the spring trade, which will per belonged to some travelers pas haps be within a month. through the country in a wagon who were camped in that vicinit Eagles' Lodge Is Raided.-Chief of Police Wood and Detective Remspear To Prison for Life Ble raided the Eagles' hall at Wichita field, who shot and killed Jesse and arrested Frank Sprague, who ser, shot a constable, was the e was in charge, on a charge of violat of a sheriff's death, robbed a S ing the prohibitory law. Fourteen stole a horse, broke jail and who cases of "Budweiser" beer and one convicted of first degree murde case of "Val Blatz" beer. besides a El Dorado for the shooting of keg of whisky. were found. Sprague ser, was sentenced to life impri was permitted to put up a bond of ment. Bloomfield is a despe $200 to insure his appearance in poman. He was sentenced to the lice court for trial and was then reform school when a boy and leased. Aside from a couple of raids sent from that school to the on the "Business Men's League" this tentiary for assaulting a guard. is the first arrest of persons connected with any club or lodge made by ter getting out of the penitentiar served in the regular army in the Wichita police under this adminPhilippines and was a brave, da istration. and the outcome of the case soldier. will be close ly watched. Bloomfield Convicted of Murder. Bryan to be There.-William Lew Bloomfield, on trial at F1 Dorado nings Bryan has accepted the for the murder of Jesse Sesser, was tation of the Democratic state convicted of first degree murder, the tral committee to speak in Topel February 22, at the annual D jury having been out all night. The cratic banquet. defendant was not affected in the least by the verdict, maintaining his Chicopee Girl's Horrible Death The 8-year-old daughter of Mr. perfect composure exhibited all durMrs. Nazrini, of West Chicopee, Ing the trial. with an accident which caused Bank Will Resume Business death. It was the same old stor Harry Hagaman, bank examiner, has "start a fire with coal oil when t authorized the Hesston State Bank of is fire in the stove" which cause Harvey county to resume business. girl's tragic death. An assessment of $55 a share has Democrats to Meet Feb. 22. been made to cover losses caused by Democratic state central comm the failure of the Bankers' Trust will meet in Topeka on Februar Company of Kansas City Nearly all 5 according to an announcement 1 the assessments were paid in cash. by W. H. Ryan, the chairman. Gas Explosion at Leavenworth. is the date of the annual Democ A natural gas explosion occurred at banquet. Leavenworth. wrecking the building Blows Out His Brains.-John 1 and injuring three people. A plpe in the cellar leaked and when the a young farmer, who has lived various farms near Conway Sp gas was lighted in the stove it blew the door and front of the building for several years, and was gene out. Albert Galend, Timothy Fitzknown as a good renter and a, farmer, committed suicide by gerald and James Parsons were blown out into the street and burned ing himself through the head w 44-calibre revolver. Poor meal and bruised. None of them received fatal injuries. assigned as the cause of ac inspections a great many 10,000 Inspections in 8 Months. been corrected Within the past eight months the in spectors working under the super-
