Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-06-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

6ECRErARY SINS, of the State Board Of AZ
riculture, has furnished the following SYN
cpsis of the rendition, OF crops in the State :
Bit little if any in excess of 80 per cent. Of
the area Of winter wheat sown last fall will
be harvested, The rordisi6h II thEs Pot.
ton from which product may be expected,
as compared with q five years average, is
20 per cent, Tie Rrebatis prsduct is H.
nT, cGJ bushels, about 40 per cent of the Az:
erage annual product for'five years. The
acreage Of spring wheat is about the same
rs last year: The condition Is IS per cent,
as compared with a five years average
The area of rye is large and the condition
good: The Srea sn.ah to sats Is largs, BITE
| taking the State as a whole the crop 10
not good. The condition is found to be 20.
A falling off Of 80 per cent. since the last
feperti caused by jry weather; tbs GREATEST
loss being in the central and south-central
| counties. The outlook for a full crop Of
corn was never better at this time iii the
season, The area planted will exceed the
acreage for last year II per cent, with a
condition Of lOo as compared with five
years average Very few correspondents
complain of unfavorabie weather fer the
crop, or report condition at less than 100.
The area planted to potatoes is larger than
| last year, with condition of 100.
| TIKI State Convention of the Ancient
| Order of Hibertliais was held At t,esven-
worth on the 9th. After transacting
large amount of business connected with
the order, the following officers were
elected; State Delegate, Michael Heery,
IF 10 10 ;ol
| ford, of Atchison; State Treasurer NJ. j.
| Faherty, of Kansas City, Kan. J. McDer-
mott, of Kansas City, Kan, and N. Heery,
! of Topeka, were appointed organizers.
The meeting was very enthusiastic. About
| fifty delegates were present, representing
every division of the order In the State
| The next annual meeting will tie held in
Atchison.
FtRE the other night DESTROYED the barn
and contents belonging to Theodore Cur
ran, wealthy farmer residing four miles
from Topeka. Seven horses, including .
valuable stallion, all the implements, tools,
harness, two vehicles and hay were de
strOyed. The loss was 1880; Insurance.
$500. 1t was supposed to be the work Of
tramps.
LIVE "uiucH VI VIC peulIcHCIdIy III lis To-
port for May gives the receipts Of the prison
at SO, 10l.42. Expenses, sl2,759.45. The ex.
cess in expenditures is accounted for by
the fact that during the month supplies for
the year were purchased and paid for.
The number of convicts was $50. During
the month AZ prisoners were admitted and
81 discharged.
THE Council Grove, Smoky Valley &
Western railway company has been char.
tered, to ruin through the counties Of Nor.
ris, Dickinson, Salina, Mcpherson, Ellis.
worth, Rice, Barton, Rush, Ness, Lane,
Scott, Wichita and Greeley, distance in
Kansas of 300 miles. Capital stock, 81, 00O,-
GOO.
THE Civil Rights bill is to be tested in
Judge Plowman's court at Leavenworth.
The plaintiff is Captain ". u. Mathews,
colored, and the defendant is James Myers,
of the firm of Myers & Co., who keep res
taurant. Mathews alleges in his complaint
that he was refused food at Myers res
taurant.
IT is stated that the south side of the east
wing of the capitol building at Topeka is
assuming the appearance of crumbling
down. A large section in one of the pillars
has already fallen to the ground, and it is
believed the whole side of that portion of
the building will have to be reconstructed.
ROBERT HEALE was recently severely in
jured by the falling of scaffold at Topeka,
and few morning after the accident his
residence, in the suburbs of that city, was
entirely consumed by fire. His loss from
fire was $500; insurance, $1,000.
A FLoATER was recently found in the
river at LeavenwOrth.
PosT-oFFICE changes in Kansas during
the week ended July 5, 1886: Established,
Ulysses, Hamilton County, Rankin J. Hill,
postmaster. Discontinued, Golden Belt,
Lincoln County. Name changed. Reno
Center, Reno County, to Partridge, Nor
gan L. Jordan, postmaster.
THE Smith pork packing house at Atchi-
son, after lying idle for over a year, has
been purchased and refittad. and the other
morning was reopened by Kingan & Co.,
of Indianapolis, Ind, and Belfast, Ireland.
The house has number capacity of 700
hogs a day, and will be operated to its
fullest extent. The firm is said to have I'M
limited capital at it's command, and will
buy all the hogs offered, paying the highest
market price. The same firm has also
bought the Fowler house adjacent which
will be fitted up in time for winter killing.
The two houses have q combined winter
capacity of 5000 hogs day. Hog produc-
ers throughout Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri
and Iowa have been advised of the new
market thus opened to them.
Two young men named Grub and Mont
gomery, fell down well on a farm, near
Emporia the other day, and were severely
injured, Grub probably fatally, his skull
being broken. The young men were in a
bucket going down to clean the well, when
the rope broke, letting them fall some
thirty feet.
AFTER a two months search John Al
fred was recently arrested at Topeka for
forgery. He received letter by mistake
through the post-ofiice which contained a
draft for s25, forged the name of the payee
on the endorsement and got the money.
He then left town, but upon returning was
arrested
THE Topeka league team of base-ballists
have recently had such bad luck that it
was decided the club should be reorgan-
lied. The manager and several players
were given the privilege of resigning.
IT is stated that those two well-known
former Kansans, 1. S. Kallock and e. G.
Hutchinson, have secured control of o
large body of land for colonization in Cali,
fornia. They have laid out a town called
Muscatel, on the Southern Pacific railroad,
in the center of Fresno County, 1856 miles
south of San Francisco.
PRETTY warm.
A MAN by the name of Ulrich, in moving
out of house in Leavenworth the other
day, threw q mattress out of a window in
stead of carrying it out. The mattress
fell on a little hou and fatally in iurad him