Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-12-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

fnE bill introduced BY Congressrnau
Ryan has passed the House TO extend the
laws Of the Unit ed States over the unorgan
lied territory lying south Of Kansas and
Colorado, known as 1.-The Public Land
Strip" or "No. Mau's Land" Tn. bill an
nexes this strip to the State Of Kansas fol
jid oial purposes, and to the southwestern
land district Of Kansas for land entry.
ToPEKA's street commissioner, armed
with the decision of the Supreme Court
notifies delinquent poll-tax payers that he
will stand no more foolishnessL They must
either pay up Or take ,h4 Consequences
A SERIOUS accident occurred on the San.
ia Fe railroad about two miles east of En-.
poria the other day. An extra freight train
carrying coal coIlidcd with the rear end oil
freight train No. II, seriously injuring the
engineer, fireman aud head brakeman OF
tie extra. The engine Of No. II broke down
at the foot OF a heavy grad, aad the COL
lision occurred before tn, extra could b,
signaled to STOP
A FORCE OF workmen from Kansas CT. :
have commenced work on the Soldiers
Home grounds at Leavenworth for the
Kansas. Northern & Southern railroad
The road will pass through the reservation
On the vest side and in front of the main
buildings. The station house will be 10.
Gated within 800 yards of the site of the
headquarters building, affording a conven.
fence to the residents of the home and to
visitors.
THE st. Louis Globe Democrat of a lats
date contained the following: "Thomas
freeman, typical Hibernian, passed
through the Union Depot last evening on
bis way home from Washington. D. c.. to
Davis County, Kan, where he owns 60
acres OF land and has wife and thirteen
children. The old gentleman is seventy
six years OF age, and his iron constitution
is stall unimpaired. His journey to Wash.
ington was for the purpose of seeing Pen.
sion Commissioner Black and President
Cleveland, in order that his pension might
be increased. He returned elated and
proudly exhibited the papers which en-
titled him to draw 500 per quarter from
the 4th inst. He has heretofore been re-
ceiving $50 per quarter" Mr.. Freeman
also fought in the Mexican war.
RECENTLY Willie Boyd, thu fifteen year.
old son of James Boyd, of Topeka wa,
accidentally shot by one of his compan.
Ions. The boys were playing with target
rifles, striking the butts OF the guns to.
gether, when one of them went of, and the
bullet entered young Boyd's abdomen,
near the navel The wound was consid cred
quite dangerous.
THE Topeka Salina 6, Western and Kan.
sas q Colorado railroads have been con-
solidated, and will hereafter be known un.
der the name of the Missouri Pacific rail.
way.
AMONG the charters recently filed with
the Secretary of State were the following:
The !unct;on City & Fort Riley Street
Railway Company; the Electric Light and
Power Company of Lyons; the Great Bend
Steam Bakery and Cooperative Associa-
ton; the Abilene Cooperative Mercantile
Association; the First Building and Loan
Association of Stockton; the Williams &
White Land and Loan Company of New.
ton; the Fowler Town Company OF Russell
County; tho Walnut Valley Building aud
Loan Association of Winfield.
On the 18th patents were granted the
following Kansas inventors: Joseph D.
Galloway, Belmont, combination tool:
Charles +. Hubbard, Topeka, calf weaver;
William Il. Hunt, Emporia, railway signal
lamp; Daniel E. and H. D. Pratt, Gaylord,
automatic grain scale; William R. Pattin,
Elmdale, sliding gate: William Reeves,
Nationwide, combined subsoiler and plant.
ing attachment.
The President recently appointed the
following Kansas pestmasters: j. N.
Lands, at Oswego: j. Q. A. Sheldon, at
Manhattan; j. R, Hall, at Howard; J F.
Walker, at Ellsworth; w. P. Eddy, at Co.
lumbus; j. E. Ireland, at lola, aid E. A.
Lyon, at Cherryvale.
ADoLPH Koch, young man about
twenty years of age, who was employed
for while as travelling salesman for Or.
penheimer & Co., of Kansas City, was ar.
rested at Leavenworth the other night |
charged with collecting and embezxlins
funds belonging to the house. He had been |
arrested once before for similar offense,
but the firm withdrew the charge out of |
consideration for his family.
THE State of Kansas cares for 96S insane
persons, 300 deaf and dumb, IS blind, a5
feeble-minded children and 1O4 tough bows
in the reform school.
TIE Mexican who stabbed P. McGraw
at Leavenworth has been arrested and
lodged in Jail.
THE wife of Judge F. G. Adams secretary
of the State Historical Society, died the
other morning at Topeka. Mr. and Mrs.
Adams located in Kansas in 1856, the year
after their marriage, and have resided in
the State ever since.
PosT oFFICE changes in Kansas during
the week ended December IL: Established,
Bethel, Republic County, Adrien M. Can
field. postmaster; Laport Hamilton Coun-
ty, Jonathan G. Bennett, postmaster;
Northfield, Sherman County, Henry Ber-
line, postmaster; Southwell, Ness County,
Samuel F. Hiatt, postmaster. Discon-
tinued, Monroe, Lincoln County.
Hon. E. s. SLOWER, once Lieutenant Gov.
ernor of Kansas was recently out cunning
IN Arizona and while returning home his
gun was accidentally discharged, shatter-
ng his hand in such a frightful manner
hat amputation was necessary.
The shor thorn cattle breeders, lately in
conference at Topeka, passed resolutions
ndorsing the Oleomargarine law; favor.
ng the passage by Congress of an efficient
aw for the suppression of cattle disease,
With sufficient appropriation to enforce
The same; favoring the Interstate Com
nerce bill; favoring the continuance of
he Live Stock Commission, and fav oring
IN appropriation by the Legislature of at
east $780, as contingent fund for
out pleuro-pneumonia in case of
IN outbreak.
HUTCHINSON is to have barb wire factory.
The other evening Or Mandet, q Mexican
'ook in the employ of Patrick McGraw, an
I'D resident and keeper of a restaurant in
went out to milk the cow,
md because the animal did not stand