Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-12-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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THE que~tion of issuing bonds for the
purpose of building a court house at Klns-
ley, Edwards County, which was SUBJ
mitted to vote of the people, resulted IN
favor of the bonds.
The charter of the Chicago, Kansas q
Western Railway Company was filed re.
Gently with the Secretary of State. The
proposed line is to begin at Leavenworth
and run in a westerly direction through
the counties of Leavenworth, Jefferson,
Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Morris, Dickinson,
Marion, Mcpherson, Ellsworth, Rice, Bar.
J ton, Rush, Ness, Lane, Scott, Wichita and
Greeley to the west line of the State. 1t is
to have eighteen branch lines, which will
take in most of the remaining counties not
touched by the main line. The total length
of all these lines is about 2,4OO miles, and
the amount of the capital stock is placed
at $iS, 100000.
D. c. MCKINNoN, of Topeka, is the pos.
SCISSOR of an almost complete volume of tie
Grand Magazine, published in London,
Eng, one hundred and twenty years
ago.
In late divorce suit appeal the Supreme
Court thus defined an habitual drunkard:
! First, man who drinks to excess may be
an habitual drunkard within the meaning
of the divorce law, although there are in
| tervals when he refrainS entirely from the
use OF Intoxicating liquors. But before he
can be regarded as an habitual drunkard,
it must be proven that the practice of
drinking is INDUCED in so frequently as to
become fixed habit with him. Second,
person who frequently drinks to excess,
! and who becomes intoxicated whenever
the temptation is presented, and the oppor-
tunity is afforded him, is an habitual
! drunBard in tho sense in which the ex-
preston is USED in the statute relating to
/ divorce.
IT is stated that Eugene Hagan, of To.
peka, has received notification from Attor.
ney General Garland of his appointment as
! United States Attorney for the District of
| Kansas.
AN organization known as the "Band of
Mercy" has been effected by the children
of Russell. The object of the society is for
the prevention OF cruelty to animals.
SOME boys went hunting near Fredonia
the other day and accidentally set the
prairie on fire. The fire destroyed fences,
! hay and corn to the amount of nearly 5000.
/ The parents of the boys mad~the amount
! good to the losers.
IF every railroad chartered is built there
will be many roads in Kansas.
| THE other evening Charles and William
| Van Horn, who had been employed as
brakemen by the Union Pacific Railroad,
were arrested by the Deputy Sheriff of
Ellis County on suspicion of having stolen
some $500 from the safe in the drng
store of firm at Wilson. A vigilance
committee of some twenty-five citizens
was organized, who took the prisoners
from the hands of the county officers to a
bridge, where rope was placed around
| their necks. They confessed and agreed
to show where the money was, conditioned
that their lives be spared, which was
agreed to. Most of the money was re-
covered. Each was then given five dollars
and five minutes to leave town.
MANY of the boys of Topeka have en-
tered into permanent organization for
the purpose of improving the condition,
morally and socially, of the boys of the
city. A very worthy object, which the
boys of other places might well emulate.
w. G. BEARD, of Hutchinson, recently
brought from Kentucky his "grandfather's
clock" 1t is one hundred and sixty
years old, eight feet high, and all the
movements are Of hard wood.
A LATE fire at Wichita destroyed Exton's
lunch stand, William Heller's meat shop,
Camren's tailor shop, William Huett's
restaurant, Hcffman's tailor shop, a shoot
ing gallery and John Hodson's barber
shop.
MAD dogs were lately reported numerous
in and about Emporia, and had caused
much damage by biting stock.
A BOLD highway robbery occurred at
Leavenworth the other night. A lady was
stopped on crowded street by two men,
one of whom stihed her cries while the
other succeeded in taking her gold watch,
ring and neck chain.
AT recent dance ten miles southwest of
Parsons three young men engaged in
quarrel which ended in one of them being
hit over the head with club and fatally
injured.
NELLIE BAILEY, who year or two ago
was tried for the murder of an Englishman
by the name of Boihamly, with whom she
was travelling to the Indian Territory, and
was acquitted, recently brought suit at
Newton against the administrator of the
Bothamly estate, and was awarded judg-
ment for ST., 1925, the full amount asked
for.
The different townships in Wilson Coun-
ty recently voted the bonds asked for by
the Kansas Railway Company from
Thayer to Fredonia, distance of twenty
four miles. The total amount voted was
$50, 900, and it is said that the line is al
ready located and the right of way OBJ
tanned upon the line of the old grade
which was built in 1878, and that work
will be commenced soon.
LATE Kansas postmasters appointed:
West Creek, Robert H. Hall; Tecumseh,
John M. Reed: Stella, John P. Vincent;
Rancho, Mrs. Ella Harrison; Blanchard,
Mrs. Sarah j. Dart; Parnell, D. w. Wertz.
A COUNTY line delegate convention of the
unorganized counties in Western Kansas
will meet in Lakin on December %. The
object Of the meeting is to devise the best
way for the people of said counties to work
in unison. and manifest their wishes for
the establishment of all the old unor-
ganiZed counties.
PosT-oFFICEs established in Kansas for
the week ended November 81: Bradley,
Seward County, Frank F. Stevens, post.
master; Mule Greek, Ellsworth County,
Mrs. Mary A. Trulinger, postmaster; Mas
by. Saline County, Martin E. Quincy, post
fmaster.
Now for Christmas.
AT a meeting of the survivors of the
Wvandotte Constitutional Convention,