Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-06-11

| acre field which measured from two feet
six inches to two feet nine inches high,
dark green and growing rapidly.
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Greenwood county has nine news
papers.
A street railway is now talked of for
Winfield.
Washburn College has an Athletic
Association.
The water works problem is being dis
cussed at Emporia.
A telephone has been established be-
tween Lyons and Sterling.
According to the assessors census the
population of Lyons, Rice county is l.
l07.
A fire in the warehouse of Muse &
Spivey at Newton caused loss of prop
erty valued at $500.
Sales of real estate are reported brisk
at Ell Dorado. One man claims to have
sold $4,000 worth of farms in the past
three months.
Lawrence Herald Tribune: The county
clerk has received in three weeks sew
enty-four wolf and four catamount scalps
at SO each, or total of 1924.
Lyons (Rice Coz Republican,: The to-
tai valuation of property in Lyons, &C
cording to the assessors report, is SIS, $50
as against $50, 4S3 in 1884.
The hod-carriers employed by the diff
ferent contractors of Leavenworth have
struck for higher wages. They desire
an increase from $3.50 to $1.75 and
$500.
Burton Monitor: Mr.. A. J. Smiths
barn was struck by lightning last Tues
day night, killing fine span of mules
belonging to him and fine brood mare.
Loss about $3.50.
A movement has been made to estab-
fish in Kansas, State Teachers Read
ing Circle. The object is to provide a
uniform course of reading for all the
teachers in the State.
The work of taking the census has
been completed in three wards of the
City of Lawrence. 1t shows a popula.
ton in the First ward of 2,345; Second
ward. 2,O52; Third ward, 1850. This is
a total of 254 increase over last year.
The citizens of Emporia held meet
ing few days ago and discussed ques.
tions of importance to the city. Meas.
ures were advanced to obtain mills, fac
tories and other institutions which
would have tendency to build up the
city.
H. A. Powers and wife, of Osborne, &C.
companied by lady friend, were swept
away by the current while attempting to
cross swollen stream in the vicinity OF
that city, and the women were drowned
The body of an unknown child, eighteen
months old, was also found in the creek
Comanche Citizen: In the past two
weeks two churches have been organized
in Aville, the Methodist Episcopal and
the Baptist; both have brilliant pros.
poets and good membership, and the
! Avilla town company have donated
good lots to both for building purposes
There is also q movement on foot to
organize Christian church at this place
Osborne Times: Government land il
becoming very scarce in Osborne county
The 40 and 60 acre tracts are no longer
despised, but are rapidly taken up, and
even land so rough that there is barely
tillable ground enough on it to enable
the settler to come within the laws, il
being homesteaded by parties contemp
lating embarkatiOn in the stock business
A Deputy United States Marshal from
Texas arrived in Topeka the other day
bringing a man named VIM. d. Stark
who is charged with forging pension pa
pe-s in Wabaunsee county about one
year ago. Stark has given the officers 9
long hunt, but he was finally nipped
when he least expected it. He was
locked up in the county Jail for safe
keeping, and will have hearing in the
United Startes court at an early day.
i A citizen of Halstead has invented and
constructed q new kind of a buggy
spring which is not only novel but does
away with that part of the buggy known
as the fifth wheel. The springs are part
of steel extending from axle to axle anG
are four in number to each wheel. He
had buggy constructed in this plan
on the streets one day this week, and 6
large number of our citizens took look
at it. For easy riding we have never
seen the equal of this vehicle. The in
ventor will apply for patent.
| Osborne Farmer: Monday night be
tween IL and l o'clock, while removing
couple of horses from the stable of hil
father-in-law, who resides several miles
north of town, J. Delbert Tunnison was
shot and killed by John r. Miller,
There was some question regarding the
ownership of the animals, but Tunnison
claimed them and had taken one out Of
the stable and tied it to post, when the
fatal shot was fired by Miller, who stood
but six or seven feet distance. Miller
gave himself up and was held for an ex.
animation.
Dodge City Times: The Eureka Canal
is making progress at the rate of about
two miles per week. The ditch is exca-
waited to point within four miles north
west of Dodge, on section 16, and will
shortly be on the line directly north of
the city. Five ditching machines were
at work when we visited the operations
the other day. The machines are moved
by twelve horses to each machine, and
the dirt is carried from the plows by
means of aprons and is conveyed to the
sides of the ditch, thus forming an en-
bankment. The ditch is two feet deep,
and the enbankments are two or three
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