Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-08-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


PENSIONS have lately been seciired for tho
following Kansans: James II. Howard, of
Cherryvale; Mrs. Susanna Storker, of MuI-
berry Grove, end Charles J. Brown, of Cot
| feyville.
THE following KANSAS p0stmasters Wefa
commissioned on the 23d: Samuel Clark,
at Baxter Springs; Francis a. Mcpherson,
at Herrenbnrg: David SibBea, at Bar:
court, and Nathaniel B. Dilhorn, at Boii-
ner Springs.
Captain A. r. BANKs, formerly of Law
s,enae, Int how employed ~ the Pension
Bureau, has been assigned to duty at ST.
Louis until November /, when his resgna-
tiou will be accepted.
A CIRCULAR has been issued BY Frank
Herald. Secretary" and dated Topeka,
which states that nit has teen decided to
call confeiehce meeting Of Independent
Republicans to be held in the city of Atchi-
son August 81 The circular invites ''all
Republicans who are dissatisfied With th9
policy adopted by the party as to prohi-
bition, and who are in favor of a constitu.
tional convention, to attend this confer
ence:" 1t further tleclares 'Ths bbjecs
ST the conference is to arrive at some con-
clusion and adopt some method in regard
to organizing the true and independent
Republicans of Kansas. and to consider
the Most eifectual way to remove the bars
riers which now stand in the way of any
practical temperance legislation."
Tin ehgine Of steam tbfasbing machine
blew up about three o'clock the other day
about Ave miles south Of Fredonia, killing
". N. Chapiit and A. +. Page, and serious
ly wounding Maggie Marshall, thirteen
yeai'-Old girl. The engine was blown sew
entv feet and the wheat stacks caught fire
but were extinguished. Tie ehgine was
not in charge of the regular engineer when
the explosion occurred.
Tue Kansas City g. Pacific railroad COM
pahy filed its charter recently with tho
Secretary Of State This road will run
from Kansas City, Mo, to a connection
with the Atlantic Il Pacific railroad at Al
buquerque, N. NJ, running through the fol-
lowing counties in Kansas: Wyandotte,
Johnson, Miami, Franklin, Linn, Ander-
son, Bourbon, Allen, Neosho Labette and
Montgomery. The Missouri, Kansas &
Colorado Railway company also filed it's
charter. This road will run from Rich
land. Mo-. south and west to Bourbon
County, Kansas, and continuing iii the
same general direction through the Indian
Territory; and into the State of Texas, and
terminating at Seymour, Texas
LATE post-oifice changes i'll Kansasi
Names changed, Barnard, Linn County, to
Bo Court; Howe, Rush County, to Lip.
pard: Tiblow, Wyandotte County, to Bon-
ner Springs. Postmasters appointed, Bar
leyville, Nemaha County. c. W. Anderson;
Buda, Ness County, Clifton r. Garnett;
Cleveland, Kingman County, Thomas E.
Morris; Doster, Sumner County, William
B. Hodges: Ford, Ford County, William
FL. H. RAIDER; Harmony, Pawnee County,
Louis Kline; Hickman, Greenwood Coun-
~, Thomas E. Wash; Lippard, Rush Coun-
ty, Abraham Teoman; Marena, Hodge
man County, August Himer; Martin, Ellis
County, Elias F. Young; Neal, Greenwood
worth County, w. r. Kaffer; Mitchell,
Rice County. L. d. Cassler; Oronoque,
Norton County, Isaac Keener
PENSIONS were recently secured for tho
following Kansans: Louis A. Boone, of
Lynden; Jacob Canady, of Peterson: S. C.
Roach, Milan, and William Hobaugh, of
Girard.
TIE body of well-dressed man was re-
Gently found floating in the river at Leav.
enworth. Letters and papers found on his
person indicated that his name was Peter
Poulson, tailor who lately disappeared
from ST. Joseph, no.
THE Governor has issued proclamation
offering a reward of $3.50 for the arrest and
of the unknown person or per.
sons who. on the night of May 12, last, on
Sappa creek in Rawlins County, murdered
James Cozard and Jerry Plumber
e. F. KELLER, manager of the Farmers
Shipping Association at Gaylord, has writ
ten the Board of Railway Commissioners
sas, along the line of the Missouri Pacific,
have formed a combination to induce re-
duction in the tariff rate, to the detriment
of the Farmers Society. He says that
should the Missouri Pacific company accede
to the demands of the grain dealers it will |
enable them to pay better price for grain |
than his association, and as consequence |
will do away with the Farmers Society. |
He requests the board to look after the in.
terest of all classes, and if a reduction is |
by the grain dealers, to see that !
the same privileges are given the Farmers
AN attache of the Labor Commissioners |
office who went on trip of inspection
through the different coal fields of Kansas,
for the purpose Of ascertaining the exact |
of those employed in the mines,
and whether or not their condition could |
&c bettered, reports that at some of the coal +
mines the past month the earnings of the |
miners have not exceeded S. to $50, or an
average of about Sl1 per month each, while
heir expenses cverrun their wages from
g. IS to Sl3.
AT an election held in Sheridan County
;he other day for relocating the county
eat from Kenneth to Hoxie, the PROPOSE
ion was carried by almost an unanimous
7ote. Hoxie, the1new metropolis of the
is just ninety days old and con-
aims over 400 people. 1t was organized as
city of the third class, and held its first
.ity election on July %.
CopIoUs rains have visited Northwest
Kansas during the past ten days.
VANDEvERE, the murderer of W. r. Da-
yis, was seen the other day in the south
vest part of Finney County. He said he
vas going to Lakin to get his wife if he
vaded through blood. It is said that Van.
levere answers almost exactly the descrip-
ion of the murderer of the victims in the
Coolidge train robbery, and it is thought
le is the man.
TOPEKA, it is said, is to have a cable rail-
yay.
Corn crop in Sheridan County good.
WHILE the st. Joseph and Topeka ball
lubs were playing at the latter city the