Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-12-24

st. Joseph Il Western Railroad from
Marysville to St Joe. The rate is the
same as the rate on the Central Branch
for the same distance, and only one and
One-hah cents higher than the rate on the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe and Union
Pacific. The st. Joe & Western is several
millions of dollars behind hand in its inter-
est payments, and is in bad shape finan-
cially. It can not afford better rates under
existing conditions. Besides, the beard
has no power to fix rates on grain from
Marysville to st. Joe. The powers Of the
board do not extend beyond the State of
Kansas. The power of the board to fix
rates is limited to rates on shipments made
wholly within the limits of Kansas"
| Miscellaneous.
| Z. WOOD DAVIS has brought suit in the
United States Circuit Court at Topeka
against the St. Louis & San Francisco
Railway Company for overcharges and
damages. There are four cases, two being
for overcharges, amounting to between
$1,000 and $780, and the two others being
| damage suits growing out of discrimina-
| ton in cars and other facilities in transpor-
tation. The original claims in the two dis
elimination suits were for $4,000; they
now, by adding interest, amount to over
10000. In addition to these cases, two
suits to recover overcharges are pending in
the District Court at Wichita, in which the
amount involved overruns $4,000. The
plaintiff alleges that the road Disseminated
against him in charges for coal, which he
mined and shipped from Pittsburgh, and in
favor of a rival company owned by the Of
ficerS of the road and by which his bust
ness was ruined.
In a case recently decided by the Su-
preme Court that tribunal held that where
an agent such as is usually denominated
drummer or commercial traveller" SIM
ply exhibits samples of goods kept for sale
by his principal, and takes orders from
purchasers for such goods, which goods are
afterward to be delivered by the principal
to the purchasers, and payment for the
goods is to be made by the purchasers to
the principal on such delivery, such agent
is neither a peddler nor a merchant. Nor
does there seem to be any authority under
the statute for cities of the second class to
levy license taxes upon drummers or COM
mercial travellers.
One recent Sunday Mrs. Theodore 8. Fer
rier, an old lady seventy-two years of age,
living just east of Meade Center, while
standing in front of her house, observed a
wild goose flying over. Nobody but her.
self being at home, she obtained gun and
at the first shot brought down the game.
j. E. MORSE, a Fall River teacher, was re-
Gently taken before Justice of the Peace,
charged with excessively whipping six
year-old pupil. He pleaded guilty and was
fined five dollars and costs.
Mr.. MORGAN, residing near Walton, while
recently crossing the railroad track with
his team was struck by switch engine,
both horses being killed and himself seri-
ously injured.
L. D. CowEN, who was recently taken to
Topeka and lodged in the County Jail, was
released on giving bond in the sum of
$1,000. Cowen is charged with being impli-
Gated in the land steals which have lately
been going on in Finney County.
AT a recent spelling match between To-
peka lawyers and printers, for the benefit
of Christ's Hospital in that city, the law
yers were beaten, the score being seventeen
Eaisspelled words for the printers and
twenty-five for the lawyers. The printers
"stuck'' on the word 'prohibltion."
SUPERINTENDENT LAwnEAD has issued a
neat card for mailing to the Kansas teach
ers who may desire to attend the State
Teachers Convention, giving list of the |
hotels and the rates of charge per day, by
floors, for room and board; also the prices |
OF meals, etc., at the principal restaurants |
in Topeka.
The new town of Springfield has COM
pleted its public well, having obtained On
inexhaustiDle supply of excellent water
LATEST patents granted Kansas invent
ors: Railway tie, L. NJ. Clark, of Harper;
sugar cane harvester, Charles H. Lee, of
Centralia; ice machine, Thomas L. Rankin,
of Quenemo; machine for cleansing clothes,
]. NJ. Chamberlain, of Winfield; rotary en-
CINE, John Harrington, of Caldwell; ag-
gregate cube, Henry Keller, of Oskaloosa
g. L. MCDoNAUGH, General Travelling
Agent of the Southern Kansas Railway,
recently stated to reporter that the out
look for business to Southern Kansas next
year was very promising A large num-
Der of farmers and others from Dakota
and other Northern places wbo have found
inc winters there too severe are writing for
about Kansas, and will prob
ably flock to the State next spring in large
numbers.
LATE post-ofice changes in Kansas: Es-
Lskeland, Meade County, Ed
ward McQuin postmaster. Names changed,
Dallas, Norton County, to Oronoque;
Naomi, Mitchell County, to Excelsior;
Ozark, Anderson County, to Kincaid;
Waseca, johnson County, to Holiday Dis
Lebreten, Leavenworth County.
JUDGE GRAVES, of the District Court of
Lyon County, has rendered decision in
he case of the State of Kansas VS.. the EN-
'oria Mutual Endowment and Benevolent
Association, doing business on what is gen.
rally known as the 'Texas Endowment
plan," that the association is
mutual insurance company, and not q
merely benevolent organization, and must
1--WE $4,000 bond and comply with the
ther provisions of the law to regulate mu-
ual insurance companies.
The mad dog scare has been revived.
DURING the past year the State Board Of
;harities has disbursed about $685., 900 for
obstruction purposes at the various State
Institutions.
The Tax Commissioner of the Kansas
,ity &. Fort Scott and the Kansas South I
I'm Roads recently paid into the State I
reasury 81, S4337, the amount of taxes
ne the several counties along the lines Of {
be above roads, for which State Treasurer ,
lowe issued certificates, which are turned .
yer to the County Treasurers- +.
JOHN W. SMITH and Ethan I. Thomas, Of
[arvey County, butchered hog recently
hitch weighed ~ pounds.
The Masons of Salina are talking of
uilding temple to cost $4,000. .
TIE State Grange at its late meeting do 2
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