Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-12-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

EOy WILLARD DAVIS. formerly Attorney
| General of Kansas, died Mt his residence in
Topeka on Monday the eth. aged forty-nine
vears. He had been in ill health for some
time. and several weeks previous to his
death his family took him to the Pacific
Coast, but getting worse he was brought
back to Topeka, and in two hours after be-
| ING taken home he died. The immediate
cause of his death was congestion of the
| brain.
Hox. II. c. SLUss, Judge Of the Eight
eenth Judicial District, recently rendered
bis resignation, which was accepted, and
| Governor Martin has appointed 7. B. Wall,
of Wichita, to fill the vacancy.
| THE Protestant Episcopal Diocesan Con-
vention was held in Grace Cathedral, To-
peka, recently, and was presided over by
Bishop Thomas H. Vail The following
were elected as deputies to the General
! Convention to be held in Chicago in May,
1886: Clergy-Rev. DR.. Charles Reynolds,
Ee~. DR.. A. Beatty, Rev. DR.. A. Leonard,
| Rev Dr. r. Ellcrby. Laymen-Hon. A. G.
| Otis. and u. P. Blish, of Atchison, Hon. J.
jaw Buck aud W. B. Clarke, of Esnporia.
The following were elected members of the
standing committee: Clergy-Rev. DR..
| Charles Reynolds, Rev. DR.. A. Beatty, Rev.
| r. Eilerby, and Rev. DR.. A. Leonard. Lay
men-Mr. w. B. Clarke, Mr.. D. P. Blish,
Mr.. F. E. Stimson and Mr.. J. W. Farms
worth. The Bishop was authorized to con-
| vepe a special convention May 4, 1856, to
| elect an Assistant Bishop.
IT is stated that Labor Commissioner
Betton is very busy in preparing his first
annual report. lie has visited all the in
dustrial concerns in the State of any con-
sequence and from every mandatory he
has received reliable statistics as to the
condition of labor The report will bc fur
| nished some time in January and it will
contain many practical suggestion in re-
gard to the workingmen, their employ ers
and employment.
some time since farmer in Cheyenne
County lost horse which he hauled out on
the prairie, opened and filled with poison.
The next day he found twenty-five coyotes
dead that had partaken of the flesh. How
many more met with the same fate he
could not tell.
THE whisky injunction cases commenced
by Attorney General Bradford against five
prominent saloons of AtchisOn October 9
were taken up by Judge David Martin the
other day. Attorney General Bradford
represented the State and the defendants
appeared by three leading attorneys of the
Atchison bar. The five cases occupied the
entire day, but at the close Judge Martin
promptly granted the restraining orders
asked for Other suits will be commenced
forthwith unless the saloon men agree to
close up.
In the District Court at Atchison Judge
Martin refused the application for new
trial in the case Of Baldwin, convicted of
the murder of his sister. The prisoner, I'M
der the sentence of death, goes to the PEN
itentiary, where, under the laws Of the
State, he will stay one year, after which
the Governor may sign his death warrant.
The case will be taken to the Supreme
Court for a new trial.
CHARTERS lately filed with the Secretary
of State: The Lakin, Syracuse & Frisco
Stage Company, of Lalin and Syracuse,
Finney County; the Topeka & Denver Air
Line Railroad Company. Place of bust
ness, Topeka. Route, from Topeka in
northwesterly direction through the coun-
ties of Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Davis, Jack
son, Pottawatomie, Riley, Dickinson, Clay,
Ottawa, Lincoln, Mitchell, Thomas and
Sherman to point on the west boundary
of the State. The Colony, Neosho Falls Il
Western Railroad Company. Place of BUSH
ness, Colony, Woodson County. Route,
from Colony through Anderson, Allen,
Wilson, Woodson, Greenwood, Elk and
Chautauqua Counties to the south line of
the State.
SECRETARY ADAMS, OF the Committee on
Arrangements for the Quarter Centennial
Celebration of Kansas, to be held in Topeka
January Goth, reports gratifying success in
the preparations for that occasion. Gov
ernor Robinson, in his address, will deal
with the Territorial history of Kansas;
Governor Martin will give glimpse of the
material growth and development of the
State, and General Blair will briefly re-
view the war period. Other speakers will
also be present and entertain the assembly.
TIE shorthorn breeders recently held an
interesting meeting at Topeka. A resolu-
ton was passed as the sense of the associa-
tion that the law providing for State
Live Stock Sanitary Commission and Vet
erinarian should be continued in force and
receive generous support from the Legisla-
ture. The following officers were chosen:
President w. A. Harris, of Linwood; Vice
President. J. B. McAffee, of Topeka; Secre-
tary and Treasurer, f. W. Shelton, of
Manhattan. Executive Committee: George
W Click, Of Atchison; {. L. Burnham, Of
Manhattan; and S. L. Bennett, Of Stafford.
Topeka WAS selected as the place Of the
next meeting, which will be held on the
second Tuesday in December, 1856.
THE State Grange Patrons of Husbandry
recently met ut Topeka. From reports on
the growth of the order the past year it ap-
pears that the order is in a good condition
in the State. The cooperative enterprises
that have been undertaken have been en-
tirely successful, and a growing interest is
reported as being manifested among the
farmers for a more extended trial of CO.
operative plans and measures. Mutual
protection, life insurance and other coop
cratiye schemes were thoroughly discussed.
A resolution was adopted recting that
much of what is now attempted to be taught
in our common schools should be omitted
from the course of study, and that in place
of the same, there should be employed kim
dergarten methods, object lessons and in
struction in those subjects on natural and
domestic science which have relation to
agriculture, horticulture, household econ
omy and the various industries which en-
ploy the people, and the Normal School
should have for its special object the quail
flying of teachers to make the needed re-
form, and that the Agricultural College
and University should have attached nor
NAL departments for q like object.
NUMEROUS prairie fires lately.
KANSAS postmasters lately appointed: At
Haysville, l.. N. Dodsman; at Crestline,
William L. Hamlet; at Alameda, William
NJ. Patterson; at Rice, Hugh Russell; at