Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-03-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| hANOAS NlAlE NEVOs
THE g. A. R. encampment closed at WITCH
ita with the installation Of officers OF tn
three branches of the order. Additions
j.. resolutions were adopted favoring the az
1 pointment of one person to take charge G
the different commands at State reunions
indorsing the action of the Legislature i
making an appropriation to secure the Ma
| tional Encampment in Kansas in 1887; az
! pointing committee of arrangements 70
! the encampment at San Francisco; thank
| ing the people of Wichita for their hospital
ity; favoring the pensioning of all soldier
fifty years old who are disabled from an
/ cause, and that those who have reached ID
! age of sixty-ive years and are poor be al
! lowed pension Of eight dollars per month
! regardless of disabilities favoring the hold
, ing OF the encamplcent of 1857 in Kansas
| recognizing Sedan camp Daughters of Vet
! Grams; regarding the death of Grant, Nc
| Clellan, Hunter, Hancock and others, an,
that the Council of Administration shoul,
provide some methods for the permanen
, preservation of the records of the order.
THE other day detachment of 112 ole
veterans arrived at the Leavenworth Sol
diers' Home, in charge of Colonel j. D
Thomas, treasurer of the Central Brancl
National Soldiers Home, Of Dayton, O
This arrival fills the home to its fullest ca
pacity until more room can be completed
The new arrivals are said to be fine look
! ing body of men. The reason of the trans
fer was the overcrowded state of the hom,
at Dayton.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has appointed Hon
r. {. Bassett judge of the Twenty-secone
judicial district
FIVE prisoners escaped from the county
Jail at Topeka the other day. Among
them was the murderer Kellum, who
while attempting to rob a Santa FL
train at Coolidge, in 1883, shot and killed
Engineer Hilton and wounded the fireman
The escape was made during the absence
of the jailor at dinner. A large posse OF
men went in pursuit and three were cap
tured, among them the murderer Kellum
who was captured nine miles north of the
city by colored man named Davis
REV. De MATTos, rector of st. Paul's
Church. Leavenworth, whose requiem mass
for the late Jardine caused so much com
ment, and who was censured by Bishop
Vail for so doing, has resigned. claiming
he could not remain in a diocese where the
views of the Bishop and his own were so
widely different,
THE Grand Lodge of the A o. u W. as
sembled at Topeka 'on the 23d in annual
session and gave a reception at Crawford S
Opera House to Father Upchurch, the
founder of the order. The opera house was
crowded to its utmost capacity and every
thing passed off pleasantly. Grand Maste =
George W. Reed, of Topeka, introduced
Father Upchurch and that gentleman re-
piled, delivering a history of the order
from the time of its inception to the pres
ent day, enumerating its benefits and adj
vantages. Several visiting members of the
order responded.
HON. W. P. HACKNEY, of Winfield, is Wis
iting Washington, it is said, to secure such
al amendment to the bill granting right of
way through the Indian Territory to the
Kansas & Arkansas Valley railway as
will compel that company to build through
Winfield
AT late meeting of the Fort Scott board
the st. Louis, Kansas City & Colorado
Railroad Company, looking to the building
Of that line into Fort Scott, which were ac-
cepted. The work of securing the right of
way. which was guaranteed by the board,
was placed in the hands of committee of
twelve, and work was to commence inn
mediately.
KANSAS postmasterS recently confirmed
by the Senate: J. s. Mccartney, Garnett;
John Wright Sedgwick: W. b. Meade,
Oberlin; G. B. Falconer, Minneapolis.
THE Grand Lodge. A. o. U. W., recently
met at Topeka and elected the following
officers: ". D. Gilbert, NJ w. j. Nc
Fecley. G. F.; w. II. Greenwood. G. o.: H.
L. Taylor. G.. R.: c. Steel, G.. G.: J. W.
Stuttard, W. DR.. Humphreyville was
chosen medical director and George W.
Reed representative to the Supreme Lodge.
THE expenses of the recent special ses-
sion of the Legislature, per diem and mile
age of the members, together with pay Of
the employees, amounted to about $4,000.
In reply to letter of inquiry from l.. a.
Emerson. general freight manager of the
Missouri Pacific road at st. Louis, the
Board Of Railroad Commissioners an
nounce that yellow pine lumber should
be classified in the schedules of freight in
the same grade as white pine or soft lunl-
Der, and not as hard wood The effect of
this declaration, it is said, will be to
cheaper the cost of this lumber, which is
being extensively used by the people Of
OFFICERS from the penitentiary were re-
Gently in Leavenworth looking for one
Floyd, an ex-convict from Cherokee Coun-
ty, who was released from that institution
about two months age, having served a
term of six years for manslaughter. Floyd
claims to be commissioned by Christ to kill
a number of the citizens of Leavenworth
and several officers and guards al the peni
.entisry. He is about six feet high. black
eyes, sandy complexion, full beard, Roman
nose. sharp features dressed in gray, and
weighs $50 or lG0 pounds. Floyd is consid-
cred an unsafe man to be at large and the
officials were making efforts to capture him.
In the case of Means, charged with as
'ault upon Mrs. Simpson, the preliminary |
hearing of which was lately held at Atchi |
ION, the justice bound Means over in 81, 900 to |,
answer in the district court. The justice said !
n rendering his decision that if he were the !
ury in the case he would not consider the |
violence sufficient to warrant conviction, |
,ut as the evidence was SO cor fiicting, |
md the parties so well known both to him
elf and to others in the county, a vindica- |
ion in the district court would be more |
to Mr.. Means than in his court,
renee he bound him over.
JOE WHITE. a veteran hOrse-thief, of |
has been reticed-sent to the
for twenty-one years.
SEVERAL Kansans have passed the Senate.
A CHARTER was recently granted to the
Kansas & Memphis railway. The pro-
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