Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-12-09
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in the State, and show that nearly nine
tenths of the counties have voted bond.
during the year, and some of them have
bonded themselves to the amount of $780,.
GOO. According to the replies received
from about seventy-ive counties. the total
amount of county bonds voted to railroads
during the year is s5,253 600; township
bonds, So, 1853 900, and city bonds, $6l6, 500;
the total amount issued and delivered dur.
ing the year 10 the same counties was
County bonds, $3.50, 900; township bonds,
800, 6O6; city bonds, $122, 600
WILLIAM Holmes one of the leading la.
Dor agitators OF Chicago, was recently in
Topeka in the interest of the condemned
| Anarchists.
AT the late State election the following
graduates of the Normal School were
elected to the Office Of county superinten-
dent: F. Robertson, class of rs, Kingman
County; Miss A. E. Dixon, class of S1.
Lyon County; Eli Payne, class of 80, Reno
County; Miss Ella Celly, class of 'S5, Cow
ley County; A. H. Bushy, class of 'S6,
Morris County; Miss Sue D. Hoglin, class
of $50, Jackson County, and Mrs. Ella
Brown, one of tho original eighteen.
BISHOP FINK, of Leavenworth, recently
received notice of an invoice of church
goods shipped to him from Hamburg, Ger
many. They were in the custom house in
New York and will he admitted free Of
duty.
| THERE were two additional attempts at
suicide in Leavenworth the other day. Mrs.
William Black took poison, but the timely
arrival of physician saved her. The
other case was that Of Miss Brown, de-
scribed as ''arosy checked lady of eighteen,
the daughter of widow" who took
| poison. Her life was saved although her
| condition was critical.
THE other day two toughs went into q
Topeka restaurant to get dinner. An inof-
| fensive-l0Oking farmer was also eating
| dinnec. When the toughs finished their
| meal they refused to pay for it, and were
| arguing the point with the proprietor
when the farmer started to 60 out and one
| OF the toughs struck at him. This aroused
him and he literally mopped the floor with
the youngsters. When he let 20 of them
they made for the door and ran down the
street covered with blood and dust
The twenty-seventh annual convention
ofthe diocese of Kansas episcopal Church)
met in Topeka on November 30. Bishop
Vail presided, and Rev. Berry was made
secretary. Bishop Vail stated that the
work of the bishop had grown so rapidly
that he would not be able to give the work
that attention it deserved, and said it
would be necessary to have an assistant.
He said that he was willing that the salary
now received by him should be divided
with an assistant All the delegates were
of the opinion that an assistant bishop
should be elected and unanimously voted
to pay the assistant not less than $1,000 a
year. After a thorough discussion of the
question the convention went into an cleo
ton and chose Rev. Alexander Mackay
Smith, Of New York, assistant bishop.
The residence of W. A. Yount, in Shaw
nee County, was burned the other morn.
ing But little furniture was saved.
Neighbors volunteered to haul the lumber
for new house, which will be put up i'm
mediately.
AN old resident of Leavenworth, An.
tome Haas, dropped dead at his residence
in that city the other evening. He had re.
turned from his place of business in appa.
rentiy good health. He sat down to the
supper table and while drinking a cup of
coffee strangled and, getting up, soon fell
dead. He was seventy-six years Of age, q
native of Germany, and had been a resi-
dent of Leavenworth about thirty years.
AT late meeting of the Live. Stock San.
itary Commission at Topeka, it was de-
cided to release all southern cattle now
held in quarant ne, providing the owners
paid the quarantine fees. The rules issued
October l3 were also amended so as to read
that all cattle coming to Kansas from that
portion of New York lying south of the
north line Of the State of Connecticut, all
OF pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware,
Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia,
West Virginia, Illinois and the Dominion |
of Canada, will be required to enter the |
State at Kansas City, where they will be |
held in quarantine, at the risk and expense |
of the owner. for period of ninety days,
and until they shall receive a bill of health |
signed by the State Veterinarian of Kan |
sas. Cattle from other districts may enter |
the State, provided the shipper satisfies |
the State inspector at Kansas CITY that |
they are healthy and have not been ex.
posed to any contagious or infectious dis
ease.
GIVE the stock warm sheds.
TAYLOR CALDWELL, living about nine
miles northwest of Topeka, met with a
serious accident tho other day. He was
hauling load of household goods, and
steep hill in the road the
load fell off. he falling under it His spine
was injured and he received an ugly cash
in his scalp.
A TELEoRAN was recentlv received at
Emporia from Congressman W. r Cox, Of
Raleigh, N. C., inquiring about Yarho-
rough, the assassin of L. d. Collier. Tho
message stated that Marlborough was a
young man Of high social standing in tho
where he was raised.
HoN. FRANK BACON has been appointed
Receiver Of the land Office at Oberlin.
JOHN HALLoY, section foreman Of The
Missouri Pacific railroad, was killed Ut
Kickapoo the other night by falling from
rain. He had been to Kansas City ard
vas returning homo, and when within .
'hort distance Of Kickapoo, his home, the
rain stopped on . trestle and he, thinking
{ was the depot platform, stepped or and
ell through tho trestle. striking his head
lgainse large timber, crushing his skull.
A IoUNe man by tho name Of Black was
eriously wounded near Tecumseh tho
'ther day BY tho accidental discharge Of
Ii gun
FoUR leaders Of ths Salvation Army
vers recently arrested st TOPEKA for dis
urbinG tho peacs.