Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-01-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

/ ture so amend the present railroad law as
! to give the board power to compel switch
| connections at railroad crossings wherever,
! in their Judgment, it is deemed advisable
/ for the transfer of freight from one line to
! another. There are many important COM
! mon points in the State where there are no
means of transferring cars from one line to
! another. If only one line desires switch
OF Y, it can not go on the right Of way of
! the otner line to make snch connection.
! The board desires the power to order this
/ done, where deemed advisable, at the ex
pense of both lines.
! THE teach er in one of the Shawnee Coun-
| ty public schools has a refractory set of
J boys to deal with, who strew anything but
roses in his pathway to fame. Recently
| two of the boys quarreled and the teacher
/ led them out-presumabiy by the ear. Upon
attempting to re-enter the school he found
! that some of the scholars inside had locked
/ him out. and despite his demands, would
not open the door. His only way to gain
( admission was to break in the door, and
| this he did, with the assistance of a colored
recruit Then the fathers of some of
| the boys brought suit against him for
! breaking into the house, and the teacher re-
! turned the fire by having some of his I'M
ruly scholars arrested.
| THE Kansas Trust and Banking Com
pany filed its charter recently. The object
Of the company is to negotiate loans on
real estate and other securities; to deal in
commercial paper, stocks, bonds and other
property on commission or otherwise. The
office of the company is to be in Atchison,
and the directors are John j. Ingalls,, r. N.
Manley, E. G. Armsby, Charles Marley,
A. W. Simpson. The capital stock of the
company is 100000, divided into shares of
! 800 each
1T is stated that the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railroad has submitted a town.
ship and city bond proposition in Cowley
| County to aid in the building of twenty-five
miles of road between Douglass and Win
field, and when completed they will have a
continuous line from Florence, vie. Eldor-
ado, to Arkansas City. Under authority
granted the above company to build from
Arkansas City into the Indian Territory,
they are required to construct one hundred
miles the coming year. The surveyors are
in the field and work on this Indian Terri
tory line viii begin in the early spring.
|
! the week ended December &c, 1855: Estab-
lished, Bays, Russell County, George s.
| Peck, postmaster; Hartland, Hamilton
County, Henry II. Cochran, postmaster;
Woodruff, Phillips County, James H. Hill,
! postmaster. Discontinued, Wilsonville,
Cherokee County. Postmasters appointed,
Air, Lyon County. John Wilbur; Canton
Mcpherson County, George E. Johnson
Gilfillan, Bourbon County, John Wagner;
Haddam, Washington County, Francis N.
Vedder; Hamilton, Greenwood County, G.
H. Voris; Ottumwa, Coffey County, Daniel
| D. Sturges; Sexton, Barber County, Aaron
Hagaman; Welda, Anderson County, Jo-
seph NJ Kauble; Westphalia, Anderson
! County, Jere Orion; Zenith, Reno County,
| Thomas J. Talbot.
THE Chicago, Kansas G. Nebraska Rail-
road recently filed its charter with the Sec
rotary of State. The railroad is to COM
mence at the town of Larkin, in Atchison
County, and run in a southwesterly direc-
ton through Atchison, Jackson, Shawnee,
Wabaunsee, Davis, Morris, Harvey, Butler
and Sedgwick Counties, to the city of
Wichita. Six branch lines are to leave the
road at various places along the line. The
estimated length is 700 miles. The general
offices are to be located at Atchison. 1t is
understood that this is the contemplated
Kansas extension of the Rock Island Road,
| several of the incorporators being officers
in that company.
! THE report of Insurance Commissioner
Morris shows that his department is not
only self-sustaining, but source of profit
to the State. During 1854 the business of
this Office amounted to $40, 402.27, while the
total expenses were trife less than $500.
| The year 1855 shows total receipts of S45,-
367 IA, while the expenses were the same as
| in 1884. Unlike the Office of the Secretary
of State, all fees go into the State Treasury,
while in the office of Secretary of State all
charter, notary and other fees go to the
Secretary.
THE Commissioner of Labor Statistics has
completed his report and it is about ready
for delivery by the State Printer. The
book has been prepared especially with
view of giving information to the various
labor organizations within the State.
Rev. CHARLES REYNOLDS, DID,, died
suddenly at Junction City on Decem-
Der %, of paralysis, having just en-
tered his sixty-ninth year. DR.. Reynolds
was well known to the earlier settlers of
Kansas. He located in Lawrence in 1858
as Rector of Trinity Church (EpiscopaD il
that city. When the war broke out he en-
tered the service as Chaplain of the Second
Kansas Volunteers and served with his
regiment in the field He was subsequently,
appointed Post Chaplain in the army and
stationed at Fort Riley. He was placed on
the retired list about fouryears ago. Dur
ing Territorial times, DR.. Reynolds was
twice made Chaplain of the Upper House,
and since his residence at Fort Riley has
served the State as Regent of the Agricul-
tural College during several terms. He
also served his church in various capaci-
ties, besides officiating at her affairs. For
many years he had been the chairman of
the Standing Committee of the diocese and
several times has represented the diocese
of Kansas in the General Convention of
the church. DR.. Reynolds was writer of
more than ordinary ability, and frequently
contributed to the literature of his day. In
1860 he sounded the alarm of approaching
famine months before the people at large
realized what was coming, and as Vice
President of the Aid Society did much by
his pen and voice to interest several States
in behalf of the Kansas sufferers.
COLONEL PRoUTY, one of the old Kansas
veterans, has had two printing Offices
burned within few months, and a move
ment is on foot among the newspaper men
to buy an outfit worth 81 900 and present it
to him.
IT was green Christmas.
Mrs. l.. c. BURNETT, who was some months
since tried at Topeka and acquitted of shop