Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-08-27


WILLIAM WILLIS, young man, was re.
Gently found dead at Leavenworth.
The deeds for the six hundred and forty
acres of land for the State Reformatory
have been placed on record at Hutchinson
and everything is ready for the commence
ing of the work. The land cost $25, 900,
and was paid for by subscriptions from
the people of Hutchinson.
The number of children in the State of
school age-between five and twenty lone
years of age-is Ali 200, and the apportion-
ment of the State School fund per capita 10
fifty-ive cents. ~>---
PosT-oFFICE changes in Kansas for the
week ended August Is: Established
Green Ridge, Stafford County, William H.
Beardsly, Postmaster; Happy, Graham
County, Mrs. Mary J. Van Dyke, Postmis-
tress; Paxson, Pratt County, George H.
Hoffman, Postmaster. DETERMINATIONS
gon, Jefferson County. Names changed
Baltimore, Cowley County, to Atlanta ;
HOLLYWOOD, Jewell County, to Gregory ;
Olivet, Usage County, to Penfield; Zamora,
Hamilton County, to Kendall.
The following County Institutes recent
ly reported their attendance to the State
Superintendent of Public instruction: :
Washington County, lib; Cloud County,
95; Osborn County, 80; Ellsworth County,
20; Wyandotte County, 1856; Sedgwick
County, 10; Elk County, 107; Kingman
County, So; Hodgeman County, 50; Barton
County, IS; Doniphan County, 104; Wood
son County, 100.
al
while examining a target rife at Atchison
few days since was shot and killed
qy the accidental discharge of the weapon.
BAXTER SPRINGS is jubilant because Ly-
on Township, in that county, voted 5000
in bonds to the Denver, Memphis & At
lantic Railroad. The proposition carried
by only eleven majority.
A MAN registered at the Windsor Hotel
in Atchison the other night and when
called to breakfast the next morning
promptly answered. Soon after he had
been called, the guests seated at breakfast
heard the report of pistol from his room,
and, on looking over the transom, the clerk
saw him lying on the floor apparently
dead. An investigation showed that he
stood in front of the mirror by the side of
the bed and shot himself in the right tenn
pie. He had no money and was out of
work, and it is supposed that sickness and
dependency led to the suicide.
ARTICLES of incorporation Of the Nicker.
son & Panhandle Railroad Company were
fled with the Secretary of State recently.
The purpose for which this corporation is
formed is to construct railroad commence
ing at Nickerson and running Southwestern
~ through the Counties Of Reno, Stafford,
Pratt Comanche, Clark and Meade. Es-
timated length of the road go miles; cap
ital stock, $1,000, 900. The Kansas, Ne
braska & Dakota Railroad Company also
fled its charter. The charter gives the
length of the road at 1000 miles, and start
ing near the line of the Indian Territory
its course is north through Kansas, thence
through Nebraska and terminates at Bis
marck, Dakota. Capital stock, $5,OOO,OO0.
MAJOR w. C.. RANSOM, formerly Treas
urer of tho L. L. & G. Road, is at present
one of the Railroad Commissioners of
Michigan.
WESTERN Kansas is improving rapidly.
II. T. BEANAN, prominent citizen who
has resided in Kansas since 1880, and held
a number Of prominent positions, died in
Topeka the other day,
A DISPATCH from Hutchinson stated that
the cattle shipped from that point to
Bloomington, H., by Mikel Bros, claimed
to be dying from Texas fever, are all
native stock raised in Reno County, and
never in any way exposed to such fever.
They left Hutchinson perfectly healthy
and in good shape, and must have been
exposed at the stock yards or IN the car.
There never was q case of Texas or Span
ish fever in the county.
ToPEKA's lean and fat men recently
played match game Of baseball.
MRS. SMITH, widow of 1. II. Smith, the
murdered Kansas City banker, recently
visited the Topeka Jail and identified
Chastine Hughes, the bigamist, a the man
who visited her house at the tiDe Of the
murder and asked to be employed - de-
tective to ferret out the guilty parties.
In order to avoid conflict with the meet
ing Of the Supreme Legion Select Knights
of the A. O. q. w., the annual meeting of
the State Temperance Union at Topeka
has been changed to Tuesday and Wednes-
day, October q and q, the first meeting
being ON Tuesday evening.
THERE were e15 teachers and prospective
teachers in attendance at the rsctntT EACH
~ Institute In Wichita.