Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-11-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

REGENCY d requisition from the dcv'
ernor Of Iowa to the Goveriior 1T Kansas
was filed in the executive office 1or 10
Grand Byington, charged with having a'.
tempted by malicious attempts to extor1
money from one n. B. Moore. The requisi--
ton of the Governof of Iowa was issued
upon indictment based upon an afhdavis
made by N. B. Moore, who resides in Page
County. Iowa, in which Byington Is
charged with attempting to extort Ss,oVo
from Moore to shield the latter from prose-
euti6n,
IT is stated that Rogers 6 Rogers have
discovered the whereabouts Of young Fred
T. Brown, a representative Of their hrnf,
who disappeared from Topeka some time
ago and who was believed by some to nave
been murdered, as with him were missing
several thousand dollars of the firms
money. 1t is also stated that arrange-
ments for the young mans arrest and res
turn have been made and he will be
brought back to answer the charge of en-
bezzlement.
The State Treasurer recently made
purchase for the sinking fund of S3.OoO
worth of State bonds. The bonds are part
of the 100000 issued July l, 1866, to aid
in the construction of the State Penl'
Tertiary at Lansing, under the act OF Feb'
ruary "a, 1866. The purchase was made
from Coffin & Stanton, brokers, on Wall
street, and. as the old bonds are not due
until next July, a considerable saving Is
made to the State.
THE jury in the case of Willie Baldwin,
charged with the murder of his sister at
Atchison, found him guilty of murder in
the first degree. Miss Baldwin was found
dead in her room last spring, having been
killed by the use of chloroform.
JOHN NJ. CRowELL, who for so many
years has been the terror of evil.doers in
the United States Mail Department for the
District of Kansas, has rendered his resig.
nation. 1t is stated that his resignation
vas surprise to the officials at Washing
ION, who are endeavoring to persuade him
70 retain the Office another year, which he
declines to do.
AMONG the west-bound passengers on
the Santa Fe Road recently was an officer
from Sedgwick County, who had in charge
a prisoner whom he had secured in Chi
cago. When the officer went to dinner at
Topeka he shackled his man to the car
seat, but upon returning found he had es-
capped. Search was commenced and late
at night the prisoner was found concealed
in shock of corn in q field northeast of
the city. The prisoner is charged with
embezzling 5000 from a firm in Wichita.
PosT-oFFIcE changes in Kansas for the
| lol A.. tah a..
Bird City, Cheyenne County, Charles j.
Kemdt, postmaster; Norcatur, Decatur
County, Jonathan D. Riggs. Discontin'
ued, Berwick, Saline County; Elvenia,
Wabaunsee County; Key West. Coffey
County.
| THE Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
celebrated the completion of their new
freight depot at Atchison by giving ball
and reception in honor of the editors OF
Northwestern Kansas.
The Wa-Keeney Land office is reported
doing an immense business One day last
month there were 1873 entries, or 2o,2SC
acres, and one night recently the four ho-
tells were full, and sixty-five land seekers
slept in livery barn for lack of better &C
commodations.
The contract for the new Orphans Home
has been let to an Atchison firm.
TOPEKA has been selected as the next
place of meeting of the National Educa.
tional Association.
AN ex-convict by the name of White,
who had been doing wholesale business
of horse stealing in Kansas, was recently
traced to st. Joseph, Mo-, and arrested.
SEVERAL ricks of hay were burned the
other day Just west of Salt Creek, in Will
son County, by the grass catching fire
from passing locomotive, and a few days
later lot more hay was burned between
Fredonia and New Albany from the same
cause.
THE residence Of colored man named
Wilson was recently burned at Parsons.
His family narrowly escaped.
TIE Governor has appointed delegates to
the Farmers National Congress at Indian
apolis, Ind. the following gentlemen: AT
large, A. w. Smith, Mcpherson County
Joshua Wheeler, Jefferson County. First
! Congressional District, J. S. Codding and
! Matt Edmonds; Second District, Wiley
Bolinger and F. D. Coburn; Third District
E. NJ. Hewins and Daniel McTaggart
Fourth District, j. w. johnson and D. w
Tinney; Fifth District, r. W. Jenkins and
B. F. Wallace; Sixth District, Charles A
Norton and Robert H. Zimmerman;
Seventh District, H. c. st. Clair and 7. D.
Foulk.
The steam mill at Coyville was re.
Gently burned together with 1900 bushels
of grain.
The total school population of Shawnee
County is IA, sos; average salary paid male
teachers, $52.36; average salary of female
teachers, S44.G6 per month; number OF
school buildings in the county, 81; number
of school rooms, AS; estimated value Of
school property, $4,000.
A NEARLY fatal accident happened al
the State House, Topeka, the other after.
noon. John Dowding, a stone mason, was
working in the Senate Chamber on a plat.
form twenty feet above the floor, when he
fell, striking on his head, inflicting a dan.
gerous wound.
1T is stated that applications are pouring
in to Governor Martin, who is manager Of
the Soldiers Home at Leavenworth, for ad
mission into that institution, no less thar
fifteen transportatons having been sent out
one day recently to old soldiers whose APP
plicatons have been approved. The Sol
ders' Home will not be completed unit
next April, but temporary barracks have
been sufficiently completed to take care OF
those needing immediate admission.
A RECENT fire in Comanche County de-
seroyed large quantity of hay, corn and
millet.
WICHITA has twenty Cinnamon.
PATENTS lately issued to Kansas invent
ors: Stock watering trough, T. W. Botes
of Beloit; tree protector, Frank McMaster