Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-06-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS,


lied at Topeka recently from the effects ii
1 wound received at a festival few flights
previous At the festival quarrel arose
| between young Wallace, who was half
witted, and q notorious rough named
| Phely Crump The latter picked up a stone
| and thrsw il i. watlrce, ihfictinc 4 vsry
| Ugly wound in the head, fr6Ei which he
| died as stated. As soon as Crump heard
| Of thedeath Of his victim he skipped.
TGkshansas Fdfmer recently presented
Eep6rt Of the condition Of cftps, Stock and
/ the &ea Their in Kansas on tho Gath day Of
May. The report was made UP Of brief let
tiers from nearly hundred correspondents,
| farmers in different counties of the state,
all practical men, writing what they knew.
From the it appears that wheat is iii about
I the same condition reported a month ago
only further along in growth. Harvest
will commence in some Of the southern
counties abotit the 10Th iiist., and the ag-
| sregate crop will amount to about twenty
| Ave per cent Of that harvested in 1854. Fly
al d chinth bugs are doing damage in few
fatalities TIE spring was two months
earlier than usual. Corn is in first-class
condition. the ground clean snd the stand
generally good. The height ia reported six
to fifteen inches and much of It is already
worked twice Oats is not good and in
! SOME places it il an entire failure on nc
count of the dry weather 1t is doubtful
II more than fifty per cent. OF the acreage
sowh will be harvested, and that will not
equal fifty per cent. OF a good yield. Grasses
arc in good condition, red clover, orchard
! lesyr 80. 1,Snl fvr,sta
are generally abundant and of extra quail.
fity. Stock is doing well, no disease except
some lingering evidences of cholera among
hogs and little black leg in one county.
Excepting wheat and oats the outlook is
good. Late rains have done much good to
the growing crops.
THE President has vetoed the bill grant
! ing a pension to John s. Williams, OF
| Lathe. and has approved special bills grant
| ing pensions to William Belhurven, of EN-
poria: Henry Shirley, of Rantoul; j. H.
Thornberry, of Omio, and John l.. Bruce,
of Lawrence.
| A pOsT-oFFICE has been established at
Taloga, Norton County, with Franklin
Beam as postmaster
TIE Prohibition State Convention has
| been called to meet at Emporia on July l3
and IA, for the purpose of nominating full
| State ticket.
| TIE Republican county convention OF
Tawnee County elected Henry Booth and
| Hon. W. c. Edwards as delegates, and
Judge J. C. Strang and Hon. j. w. Rush IS
alternates. to the State Convention at
Topeka, July :, 1856, and adopted resolu-
ton instructing delegates to use all honor
! able means to secure the nomination of I.
II. Mccarthy to the position OF State
Auditor.
A KANSAS State Sportsman Association
was formed recently at Leavenworth, and
committees rere appointed to report con-
stitution and bylaws at the next tourna-
ment, which will take glace in Atchison in
October.
YOUNG man named Walker walked out
of the window of his bedroom in Leaven-
worth the other night while asleep, falling
from the second story to the ground, where
he was picked up in an insensible condition.
having sustained serious injuries.
A ROW took place at the Seventh street
bridge in Leavcnworth the other evening,
in which three policemen and two negroes
were badly hurt. Three negroes were en-
gagged in fight, and Officers Patterson,
MOrrillon and Martin were detailed to ar
rest them. On reaching the scene the ne
groes attacked the officers with clubs and
stones, iniiictng severe wounds on the
arm Of Officer Patterson. Officer Martin
got terrible blow on the head and Officer
MorrillOn was frightfully beaten over the
head and face, and was in a'precariOus con-
dition. The officers succeeded in knocking
one of the negroes down and badly wound
ing another. Aid was secured and two of
the negroes arrested. The third made his
escape.
TIE newly-appointed officers of Lane
County are: County clerk, J. T.. Smith;
county commissioners, Joshua Wheatcroft,
J. j. Shealer, George II. Steeley. The pop
ulation as determined by the census taken
is 3, 726 and the total property valuation is
S73S, S43. Dighton was designated as tho
temporary county seat.
THE base ball contest betw cen the Fats
and Leans, of Topeka, Melted $Sl.4O for
charity. g
A Topeka man by the name of Travis
Wilson is likely to get into trouble by mar
ryirg in that city while he had another liv-
Jag wife in Kentucky; that is if the Ken
lucky woman's story is trne. 49,
A MAN named Robinson was recently
killed by lightning in the southern part OF
Finney County.
MISS JESSIE, daughter ct ]. H. Lyon,
Western passenger agent of the Missouri
Pacific railway, died suddenly at her
fathers residence in Leayenworth the
other morning. She was in her twentieth
year. and graduated with honors from the
high school last June.
A KANSAS man, who has tried it, gives
the following as cure for a rattlesnake
bite: As soon as possible after being BIT
ten get a number of the leaves of the ordi.
nary fat cactus, or prickly pear. split the
leaf and apply the raw side to the wound,
substitute new leaf for the old one every
fifteen minutes, and in the course of from
three to six hours you will be entirely re-
lieved of all effects Of the bite.
BURGLARS recently entered Staiger's
butcher shop at Leavenworth, worked a
long time at the safe. which they finally
blew open, but found only thirty dollars,
which they carried off.
South TOPEKA recently petitioned to be
declared a city of the second class. The Pc
ClCIOn UeCIaIcu CHdt Il. ID. A/uA Idu occu dp'
pointed census taker and that he had found
the city had a population of 2, 1913. AS this
was 1913 over the requisite number the Gov.
eanor Immediately issued his proclamation
declaring South Topeka city of the second
class
LANE County has been organized.
SOME time ago William Bryson in the
vicinity of Dexter, stole horse from man
by the name of Constable, in the same COM
munity. Bryson went to the Territory as
soon as he committed the theft and traded