Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-15
Miscellaneous.

TIE Governor has issued proclamation
organizing Scott County, and appointing
Charles s. Reed county clerk; Eugene Nc
Daniels, Marion Cunningham, A. H. Kill
patrick, commissioners. Scott City was
designated as the temporary county seat
The county has. according to the census re-
turns, 2,675 inhabitants, 7O1 householders
and $364, O63 is the amount of taxable prop.
erty enrolled, while the taxable real estate
In itself amounts to slO9,O3O in value
JAMES SHARKS, an emp1oye in Cramer's
brick yard at Neodsha, recently imbibed
too freely and laid down on the Frisco
track to take a snooze. He was rather
rudely awakened by passing train, which
laid his skull bare, took off an ear and am.
putated a hand.
MAX ScHMELzfR, junior member of the
firm of Schneider & Son, of Leavenworth,
shot and killed himself at his residence in
that city on the night of July 6. The de
ceased was the son-in-law of NJ. Hoffman,
wholesale liquor dealer of Kansas City.
His wife had just returned from a visit to
her parents, and young Schneider appeared
to be in the best of spirits. Soon after re.
firing he got up and went to the bureau.
Soon the report of a pistol was heard and
he fell dead by the side of his wife. The
affair was a mystery, and his wife believes
the tragedy the result of accident.
The Santa Fe depot at Topeka was re-
Gently damaged by fire to the amount OF
about $1,000. The greater damage was
done by the water. The dining room and
kitchen up stairs and the ladies' waiting
room were thoroughly drenched with wa.
ter.
MISS MOLLIE MOORE, a sixteen-year-old
daughter of James T. Moore, of Pratt
County, died very suddenly recently. The
first symptom of disease was a small erup-
ton upon the face, which rapidly devel.
oped into something like erysipelas, result.
ing in death in few days.
PENSIONS were recently secured for the
following Kansans: By Senator Plumb,
for John A. Fullerton, of Greeley; by Con-
gresham Perkins, for Mrs. susanna Starker,
of Mulberry Grove, and by Congressman
Funston, for John j. Fullerton, of Greeley,
Samuel Dragoo, of Wise, and Hepen A.
Herman, of Garnett.
THE name of the post-office at Bangor,
Coffey County, has been changed to Grid
ley, and NJ. A. Fessinger appointed post
master.
THERE was recently a temporary suspen-
sion in the payment of pensions at tho To-
peka agency, on account of the non-arrival
of the funds appropriated for the fiscal
year beginning July l. The appropriation
for the agency for the year ended June 80
exceeded the demands, and there was 1885,
600 on hand at the close of the year, but the
law requires that the amount be returned
to the United States Treasury.
ACCORDING to the statistics furnished by
the secretary of the State Board of Agri-
culture for the year 1885, there was raised
in that year in Kansas loo 500 tons of
tame grasses, consisting of timothy,
clover, orchard grass, blue grass and other
varieties. The value of this hay was So
III, 3S9.
Topeka has botany club.
FOURTEEN car loads of colored people
from Nashville and Memphis, Tenn, ar
rived in Topeka on the 9Th to attend the
conclave of the Independent Order of Inn
maculates. The order was founded at
Nashville, Tenn, in 1879, since which date
5000 The purpose of the order is to relieve
ito members in case of sickness, disability
or death.
The total assessed valuation of taxable
property IN Shawnee County is s12.c43,-
1V275, IN increase in ten years Of $685.
S72O4. OF this Topeka shows an increase
Of s. 1850, 5000.
Topeka is agitating the question Of cable
ATTORNEY GENERAL BRADFORD recently
received letters from Doniphan County
wherein complaint was made that a num-
Der of the officials of that county neglect or
refuse to do their duty when directed by
the proper authorities.
IT is stated that the efficacy Of the cac-
fus plant as q cure for rattlesnake bite has
been proven by son Of Mr.. Woods, OF
Grant County. His dog was bitten and
the boy applied the plant to the wound &C
cording to directions, and in few hours
the dog was entirely relieved from all Of
fects of the bit.
GARDEN CTrY opened its new bridge to
the public with grand celebration and
barbecue.