Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-04-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| DIR. HoLCoMDE, State Veterinarian, re-
gently said that CHAMBERS is becoming very
! prevalent, and that he is receiving calls
! from almost every section of the State
| from parties who have horses that have
! been attacked with the disease. About all
| that can be done is to have the horses
killed, so that the disease will not spread
, it is almost useless to try to cure it. 1t is
! thought that there ere more cases in the
! southern part of the State than any other
! section.
The colored people of Leavenworth have
/ had a very exciting revival in the African
Methodist Church. Among the attendants
was fifteen year-old girl, who although a
member took but little interest in religion.
Recently, it is stated, she went into a sue
cession of frances, and predicted all man
ner of evil to the people. After arousing
from one of her recent sleeps she exclaimed /:
Il have been called away to receive a sol
emn warning and bring it back to Leaven-
worth. The city is doomed unless its dan
ger can be averted by prayer. There will
be great destruction by cyclones and flood.
The walls of a great wrath are to be poured
upon the city and few will escape" The
attendance at the revival has increased I'M
til the church is not large enough to hold
the people, and the warning that Leaven-
worth will follow in the footsteps of Sodom
of old is firmly believed by large numbers.
THE charter of the Chicago, Kansas G.
Nebraska railway, the Rock Island extern
sion in Kansas, was fled with the Secre-
tary of State the other day. The main road
will commence at point on the west bank
of the Missouri river, opposite the city of
st. Joseph, and will run thence in a south
westerly direction to a point on the south
line of the State of Kansas crossed by the
first meridian. There are to be several
branches. The general offices of the COM
Pany are to be at Atchison. The directors
are F. NJ. DaIrat, C. W. Jones and E. S.
Comvell, of Atchison; s. s. Brown and G.
W. Samuel, of st. Joseph; H. A. Parker, Of
Chicago, and NJ. A. Low, of Trenton, Mo.
The capital stock is placed at Sl5,OOC,O0O.
QUITE sensation was recently created
at Topeka by the arrest of S. W. Pearse on
the charge of embezzling $500 He had
for year or more been in the employ of
the National Loan and Investment Com
pany, acting as book-keeper. He had more
or less charge of the money of the concern
and was in the habit of transacting the
banking business. He wOnld secure checks
after they had been returned from the bank
and, by means of chemical process, would
efface the bank stamp and present the
check second time prepayment, indorsing
it as c. A. Wilson. He had been in the en-
ploy of the company since October /, and
his populations commenced from the day
following. He had formerly been in the
employ of the Santa Fee railroad, but was
discharged for dishonesty.
A BOARD of officers has been detailed to
convene at Fort Leavenworth for the ex-
animation of nOn-cOmmissiOned officers
recommended for promotion.
THE dead body of Olif John Obom, q
Swede, was recently found near his resi-
dence in Labette County. Obom was nearly
seventy years old and among the very first
settlers in the western part of the county.
He was bachelor and always lived alone.
He owned farm of 100 acres, and was al
ways supposed to be wealthy. He kept
considerable money at his place, and to
avoid suspicion placed a small mortgage
on his farm, upon which he has paid inter-
est for ten years. Quite sum of money
was found, and the Swedish Minister at
Washington was communicated with, as he
had no known relatives in this country.
ACCORDING to the law of Kansas now in
force all tax deeds hereafter issued shall be
recorded by the person or persons to whom
issued in the office of the register of deeds
OF the proper county within six months
from the date of the issue thereof.
WHILE recently fighting prairie fire near
Morehead the clothes of Mrs. Bowker, wife
of Rev. Bowker, caught fire, and she was so
badly burned that her life was despaired of.
The slaughter-houses, pens and bone-dust
factory owned by NJ. E. Humphrey, at
Parsons, was totally destroyed the other
night by fire. Loss, $4,000. He could not
place insurance on it, consequently it was
total loss.
On account of the great railroad strike
many towns in Northwestern Kansas were
short of provisions.
The City Council of Emporia recently in
creased the wages of the men working on
the streets from one dollar to Sl.5Oper day,
and resolved to employ none but married
men or those supporting families.
WHILE the sheriff was lately attending
funeral two prisoners escaped from Jail at
Ellsworth. They were captured.
JOHN SMITH, colored, was recently tried
at Topeka and convicted of breaking into
freight car on the Union Pacific railroad
and stealing s25 worth of hides belonging
to a Kansas City firm, and sentenced by
Judge Guthrie to seven years in the peni
Tertiary.
THE new board of State House Commits
sioners met at Topeka the other day and
appointed c. II. Parsons as temporary
architect.
THE Attorney General has been called
upon to give an opinion with regard to the
law passed at the last session appropriate
ing S45 900 to complete the work of remodel
ing the Senate Chamber. Originally $751;
600 was appropriated for this work, but up
to January the old Board of State House
Commissioners had expended S104.00 and
contracted for $4,000 more work The
last appropriation reads "S45 600 to pay
outstanding liabilities and complete the
work" The question occurs as to whether
the S2S, 600 already expended and vouchers
cancelled is included in the outstanding
liabilities for which the $4,000 appropria-
ton was made. Bradford has decided to
test the matter in the courts.
WARDEN SMITH reports that matters are
at standstill at the penitentiary. There
being no demand for coal the men form
erly employed in the mine are now kept
busy constructing stone wall, for which
an appropriation was made at the last ses-
sion of the Legislature.
Topeka plasterers have organized.
THE other night a crazy man named
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