Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-04-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

hANSAS SlA1G NLVOs
| AMONG the charters lately filed with tho
| Secretary of State was that of the Memphis
& Western Railroad Company, with eleven
directors as follows: George Miller, An
drew Grogan, James A. Leaveditt, Of
Wellington; Samuel Fleming, James Hen
! " and Frank Hess, Of Arkansas City; E.
P. Miller and Charles Beary. of Cherryvale;
John Montgomery, of Oswego, and Allen
c. Kirby, of st. Louis. The charter pro-
vides for a standard road from Memphis,
on the Mississippi, through Arkansas and
Missouri to the east line of the State OF
Kansas, thence through the Counties OF
Cherokee, Labette, Montgomery, Cowley,
Sumner, Kingman, Pratt, Reno, Stafford,
Edwards, Pawnee, Barton, Rush, Ness,
Hodgeman. Trego, Cove, Lane, st. John,
Wichita, Greeley and Wallace, with .
branch through Harper, Meade, Barber,
Comanche, Clark, Seward, Stevens and
Mortc. Counties The offices Of the COM
pany are to be located at Winfield. The
charter provides for capital Of SIC, OOO, 900.
The Governor recently made the follow
ing appointments: Regents of the Agri-
cultural College, John H. Fullinwider, of
Eldorado, vice c. A. Leland; John E. Hes
sin, of Manhattan, vice ]. T. Elliott Re-
gents of the State University, NJ. R. Simp-
son, of Mcpherson, and A. G. Otis, of Atch-
ison, to succeed themselves. Director of
the Penitentiary, Arch Shaw, of Olathe,
vice H. P. Lowrey. Member of the Live
stock Sanitary Commission, James W.
Hamilton, of Wellington, to succeed him
self. Members of the State Board of
HEALTH W. L. Schench, of Usage City, and
H. S. Roberts, of Manhattan, to succeed
themselves. Appraisers of Salt Spring
Lands, D. W. Finney, of Neosho Falls, A.
L. Worries, of Russell, and j. F. Billings, Of
Clay Center. Trustee of State Charitable
Institutions, A. T. Sharpe, of Ottawa, to
succeed himself.
LATE post Office changes in Kansas: Es-
tablisbed, Calhoun, Cheyenne County,
James Shawpill; Gopher, st, John County,
William H. Edmonson; Laurel, Hodgeman
County, Alfred T. Kelley. Discontinued,
Henry, Dickinson County; Tokomo, Pratt
County.
THE National Educational Association of
the United States meets in Topeka July 49,
1886, and the people of that city are max
ing lively efforts to prepare for the accom-
mediation of all who may attend.
The Fredonia Citizen declares that the
emigration from Wilson County to West
ern Kansas this spring is something unpre-
cedented. Many wellto-do farmers are in
duced to make the change in hopes of Sc
curing more land than they can now OBJ
tain i'll the eastern part of the State, and
to take advantage of the experience and
knowledge they lave acquired.
The State Superintendent of Public In
structiOn estimates the amount of school
land in Kansas remaining unsold at $50, 600
acres. The permanent school fund now on
interest amounts to So, 529,O OO
An official from Tarrytown, N. Y, re-
Gently went to Leavenworth with a reaui-
sition for one of the Tarrytown robbers,
who was SO closely pressed that he gave
himself up. The man is a deserter from
the United States army and was to be
taken back to New York. The Tarrytown
rObberies occurred over a month ago.
Nearly the whole town was burglarized,
but all the robbers but one were bagged.
The man who escaped went to Leaven-
worth.
A SMART kid, aged only eighteen, recent
ly victimized several Topeka money lend
ers, obtaining in the aggregate nearly $500
on mortgages given on team to the differ
ent parties. His name is Roach, and as
soon as he got the money he left. Shortly
after his departure it was discovered that
the team did not belong to Roach, as he had
represented, but was owned by livery
man. He was Overhauled at Atchison and
taken back.
DIR. KATE c. BUSHNELL, of Topeka, has
accepted work at Chicago among fallen
women, under direct supervision of Miss
Francis E. Willard
KANSAS farmers who raised broom-corn
received from s125 to s175 per ton, nearly
twice as much per ton as they ever be-
fore received.
In anticipation of the enactment of law
opening to homestead settlement the pub.
lie land strip lying between Texas on the
south and Kansas and Colorado on the
north, immigrants are already pouring
into that region; and it is estimated that
should it be opened as expected, there will
be 20, coo people there before the season is
over.
THE President on the 1st nominated John
L. Price to be register of the land-office at
Topeka, and William c. Baird at Wa
Keeny.
TIE Neosha Valley Presbytery, compris
ing thirteen counties in the southern pOr-
ton of the State, met in Coffeyville on the
3lst with large attendance Rev. W. B.
Chamberlain, of Humboldt, presided
Many of the churches reported large adj
ditions.
THE Rock Island railroad survey for the
new road has progressed about one hundred
miles northwest from Atchison. The peo-
pie along the route were reported very en-
thusiastic about the enterprise.
LIEUTENANT GROVE You've, who formerly
resided in Shawnee County, five miles
southwest Of Topeka, but now of the Grove
Young Mercantile Company, Higginsville,
Mo-, has given the State Historical Society
a singular relic of the war, being no less
than the skin Of his much venerated war
horse, which died at Higginsville on the
23d of March. The horse was thirty two
years old at the time of its death. Secre-
tary Adams is in quandary as to the
method Of preserving the hide.
THE vandalism at Atchison the other
night by which fifteen locomotives of the
Missouri Pacific were disabled, caused a
feeling of indignation. A meeting was
held to denounce the perpetrators of the
outrage.
The President has nominated A. W.
Trip for postmaster of Barnes, vice ODER,
removed; also G. E. Stowell, of Syracuse,
vice Barber, removed.
A LATE fire at Columbus destroyed r.