Dodge City times., 1885-09-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

EAhS. LOVELAND, QlvOrceO "io VI L.
,Loveland, who married frankie Morris af'
| ter her conviction, has published card, IN
| which she states that she has no apology
to offer for her former husbands Mistakes
but in justice to him she does want to say
that he was kind husband, son and BROTH
| er, and loving, indulgent father, and has
never failed to provide for their boy, who
is taught to love and respect him.
CHAsTINE HUGHES, the bigamist, and an
other prisoner had fight in the jail at To-
peka recently, which but for the timely
| appearance of the jailOr might have
| proved very serious affair.
DURING the year 1884 the prison farm at
! Fort Leavenworth produced the following:
Corn, 1900 bushels; potatoee, 4.Sls bushels;
broom corn, 5000 lbs. tomatoes, $40 BUSH
els; $4,000 heads of cabbage, and enough
turnips, carrots, parsnips and variety OF
other vegetables for immediate consump-
tion. This year there are planted: Corn,
about 1S0 acres; potatoes, 80 acres; toma-
toes, 2H acres; broom corn, 20 acres; about
$4,000 cabbage plants and about five acres
with different vegetables.
ARTICLES of Incorporation of the Ladies
Benevolent Home of Wichita were filed
with the Secretary of State recently. This
society is organized to do benevolent work
in the city of Wichita and in the county of
Sedgwick.
| In reply to the request of the Governor
that an officer of the United States army
be detailed as inspector and instructor at
the encampment of the Kansas State
troops near Topeka from September %
| q ton
| to Governor Martin that it will give him
| pleasure to cause an officer of his COM
mand to be present as requested.
| G. A. HURON, President, has issued a
call for all members of the Seventh Regi-
ment Indiana Veterans to meet at head
| quarters, Camp Grant, Topeka, on Wednes-
day, September 30, 1885,; at ten O'Clock a.
M, to renew friendships and to preserve
the memories of the tolls and duties, the
privations and hardships, and the grand
triumphs of their soldier life.
IT is thought that the fourth annual re-
union of soldiers and sailors of Kansas, to
be held in Topeka September 29th and
30th, and October 1st, will be a magnificent
affair, and it is said that preparations to
attend are being made by all The old soldier
organizations throughout the State, and
more interest is being manifested in this
than in any previous reunion in Kansas.
Besides prominent speakers of the State
who will be present, invitations have been
sent to General j. S. Black. Commissioner
of Pensions; Senator Charles F. Mander-
son, of Nebraska; Hon. r. G. Ingersoll,
and they have signified their intention OF
being present.
COLONEL BAssETT and other officers Of
the Kansas Second have issued call for
reunion of the members of the cold Sec
ond" at Topeka on the 30th. The PROPOSE
tion will be submitted at this meeting to
effect an organization of the veterans OF
the Second Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, the
objects and purposes of which will then be
made known. The Quartermaster's De-
partment has made provisions for good
quarters and the Commissary Department
will furnish wholesome rations at fair
price to all who may wish such accommo.
dations. Regimental headquarters will be
established upon the grounds where the
reunion is to be held, and those who are in
attendance will be allotted quarters con-
tiguous to the Regimental Headquarters.
FRED P. Brown, of Auburn, the son OF
one of the largest and best known stock
dealers of Shawnee County, the other day
went to Topeka and drew draft on Rog-
ers' & Rogers, cattlemen of Kansas City,
for s., 500, which the First National Bank
cashed, and has disappeared. His father
stated that the young man also had about
$1,000 of his (the father's) money, making
the whole amount about $l3,OOO he had on
his person. His disappearance is a great
mystery and rumor gave various theories.
One was that he had been foully dealt
with, another that he had been drinking
(something Unusually and lost the money
gambling, and still another that he had
skipped with the funds. Altogether it is a
strange case.
LAWRENCE has Board of Pension Ex.
aminers, recently appointed by Commits
sioner Black. They are: DR.. A. G. Abb
delal, DR.. Alonzo Fuller and DR.. V. w.
May.
In accordance with the recommendation
of the Live Stock Sanitary Commission
Governor Martin has issued a proclama-
ton declaring that the quarantine estab-
lished against the introduction of cattle
from the State of Missouri by the executive
proclamation of April IS, 1885. is raised,
except as to the counties of Galloway,
Boone, Audraiu and Montgomery, in said
State of Missouri.
The finding of bloody hat at Topeka
has set the authorities to work ferreting
out another mystery.
ALL surviving members of the Eighty.
fourth Illinois, whether living in or out OF
Kansas, are cordially invited to meet al
the grand reunion, to be held at Topeka
commencing September 90.
A KANSAS CITY physician who repre-
sented that he had treated Walkup, OF
| Emporia, whose young wife is held upon
the charge of poisoning him, makes the
statement that Walkup was in the habit of
taking arsenic for disease with which he
was affected, and that in his opinion the ar
senic found in Walkup's stomach was the
result of such doseing, and which would
be sufficient to produce fatal results
MowREY, who recently murdered j. P.
Smith at Winfield while atteming to es
cape, has been fully committed for trial,
without bail.
THE father of Brown, the young cat.
tleman who disappeared from Topeka
with large sum of money, has offered
| $500 reward for his discovery. The satchel
| in which Brown carried the money was
found in the weeds near the Valley House
in Topeka, but no money was in it.
NEWTON is to have gas works.
| PATENTS lately issued to Kansas in
ventors: Alonzo Collins, Chetopa, trace
| holder for back bands; Clement Smith,
Topeka, aligner for type-writing machine;
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