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

WILLIAM +. DREW. Of Kansas, a special
igent Of the General Land office, has been
| dismissed.
AT Bismarck Grove there will be great
S,inday School celebration in July: The
managers of the assembly have telegram
from General John A. Logan promising I'd
be present As one IL the siseskers: The Iii:
lon Pacific railroad will sell tickets from
all points at half rates. The assembly
opens June 30 and closes July 9.
The Prohibition State Convention will ta
held il Eihp5i;ia july IL ard IA, esmmens;
Ing at three o'clock p m. of the 18th, to
nominate full ticket and a member OF
Congress for the Fourth Congressional
District. Each county will be entitled to at
least one delegate, WEATHER organised OF
dnorganized. On the basis Of population
each c)unty shall be allowed one delegate
for every 5000 inhabitants and additional
fraction thereof. Ali organized prohibition
clubs shall be entitled to one delegate. W:
c. I. U. or other organizations, whether
secular, political or religious, whose mem
bers are in sympathy with the Prohibition
party in Kansas, and who endorse the plat
form of the National and State Prohibition
conventions, are invited to send one dele
gate each.
IT is expected that fully 5000 teachers
will attend the National Teachers Associa-
ton that meets in Topeka July 3D.
THE State Historical Society has been
presented with specimen OF rich iron ore
from Greeley County. Coal has also been
found in Greeley County at a depth of Tic
feet.
THE Superintendent of Insurance recent
~ admitted to do business in Kansas the
Anglo-Nevada Assurance Company of SaL
Francisco, Cal, of which the bonanza kings
Mackey and Flood are president and vice.
president respectively.
The ingalls, town company, with head
quarters at Dodge City and Larned, has
filed articles of Incorporation.
ABOUT six O'Clock the other evening
August Schnaibel committed suicide at To-
peka by shooting himself through the head.
He locked himself in an clubhouse and COM
mitted the deed. The deceased was a man
sixty-three years of age, and leaves fam
lily consisting of wife and six children, the
youngest boy of thirteen years. He was n
German by birth, but had lived in the Uni
ted States good many years. He had lived
in Topeka seven years, the greater part Of
the time having worked in the Santa Fe
shops. He had also lived quite number
of years in Leavenworth. where he owned
considerable property. He was burned out
several times, and also reduced in fortune
by having to pay large amount of money
for having gone on a friends bond. He
had had other financial troubles, which it is
thought brought on dependency and led
to final self-destruction.
LATE reports from all parts of the State
gave very satisfactory account of the
growing crops. In Northern Kansas the
corn and wheat are abundant and in splen.
did condition. The late rains in Southern
and Southwestern Kansas we're veritable
boons to that region, which bad begun to
feel a touch of drouth.
JOHN MONROE was recently fatally in
jured near Pratt Center. He was blowing,
and the horses became frightened and ran
away with the pillow, the latter hitting Mr..
Monroe on the head, infiicting fatal in
juries.
HENRY WAMPLER, who lived some twelve
miles northeast of Dighton, Lane County,
was fatally injured the other day in very
manner. He was on the roof OF
his old sod house making some repairs,
when little whirlwind, such as is com
mon, came along and took off the roof OF
the house, throwing Mr.. Wampler a dis.
lance of 100 feet or more. On examination
it was found Mr.. Wampler had leg broken
and had also received severe conclusion
of the brain, from the effects of which he
died about twenty -four hours after the &C
cident.
F. M. BCRLIsoN, the Santa Fe brakeman
who shot James Foley for attempting to
rob passenger at Topeka some time since,
is himself in the tolls. He has been AZ.
rested upon the charge of fraudulently OBJ
tanning passengers tickets for the purpose
Of checking their baggage and then selling
the tickets. Foley, the pickpocket that he
shot, is now in the penitentiary.
UNDER the late readjustment of salaries |
made by the POst-oflice Department the fol. |
lowing changes were made in Kansas: An |
thOny, raised from $1,000 to $1,000; Belle |
vile, Sl,OOOto 81 200; Cawker City, 81, 800 to |
81 400; Chanute, reduced from $500 to |
81 600; Cherryvale, raised from $1,000 to
81 700; Clay Center, $500 to $1,000; Dodge
City, s1,7OO to $1,000; Eldorado, s1,7OO to
81 800; Ellsworth, 81, 400 to $3.50; Eureka,
81 800 to S1,70O; Great Bend, $500 to ST..
100; Hays City, 81, 100 to 1900; Independ-
,nce, reduced from 81, 900 to $3.50; King
nan, raised from s1,G0O to sl,7OO; Kirwin,
81, 100 to 81, 200; La Cygne, duced from
Il 200 to 81 100; Larned, raised from $1,7OC
o 81 800; Marysville, 81 400 to 81, 800; Medi-
inc Lodge, $1,000 to Sl,5O0; Minneapolis,
Il 800 to 81 ,6G0; Newton, 2.1O0 to 50, 200;
)berlin, $1,000 to 81 400; Osborne, 81, 100 to
i 300: Ottawa, 1900 to $4,000: Oswego,
i, 900 to Sl,70O; Parsons, reduced from S..
90 to 81, 100; Peabody, raised from 81, 400 to
1,5O; Russell, $1,000 to $1,000; Sabetha,
| ,3OOto 81, 400; Salina. $1,000 to 81 100; To-
eka, s., 100 to $1,000; WaKeeny, $1,000 to
|, 200; Wamego, $l,1OO to s., 200; Wichita,
:, 800 to S2,700; Yates Center, $1,000 to
1, 100.
Two boys while recently playing about
he court house yard at Leavenworth, dis.
overed in the arch-way of the entrance to
ne basement man in sitting posture,
18th his head bent forward, and as they
opposed asleep. Examination showed the
IAN to be dead. The body proved to be
nat of Samuel Sherson, an engineer on
,e Missouri Pacific, who had been running
lie switch engine at night in the yards for
'veral months, and who bore good repu-
ltion among his fellow workmen. His
cath was supposed to have been caused
Y morphine. a bottle being found upon
IS person, but whether the result of acci-
ent or design could not be determined.
Corn is looking fine
j. H. RIDGE, a Young man living twenty