Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-04-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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western county Of the State. The people
Of that county believed they had coal and
determined TO 60 after it. They put In
three-inch drill. and at q depth Cf 235 feet
struck coal. Continuing the work they
vent into and passed through . vein si1
| feet thick. The coal was brought out In
Jumps and tested It is nearly as hard as
the Erie coal of Pennsylvania, the hardest
tituminous coal known, and burns freely.
In consequence of this discovery the Bur
| lington &. Missouri railway will Immediate
/ " build branch from Benkleman station,
on the main line in Nebraska, to Wano, In
Cheyenne County, where the coal has been
found
| CAPTAIN KINNEY, recently tried ut To
peka for defrauding the United States by
uhlawfully drawing pension, was acqult-
ted by the jury. Captain Kinney met the
demand for blaekmail by administering
sound thrashing to the man who made up
the af1idavits, and the jury evidently be-
lieved he did right. The complaining
| witness and the man who made the false
affidavit, it is stated, will be turned over
to the tender mercies of the grand jury.
Mr.. ALBERT GRIFFIN writes from New
York that lit having been found impossible
to perfect the necessary preliminary ar
rangements for the Anti-Saloon Republi'
| can National Convention in time for May
10, notice is given that the dates fixed in
the call have been postponed for few
weeks; the exact time to be announced
hereafter. The place of meeting has also
been changed from Toledo, O., to Chicago,
ILL.,"
The Republican convention to nominate
| candidate for Congress for the Fourth
Congressional district has been called to
meet at Emporia July II.
In reply to a letter of inquiry Senator
ingalls, recently wrote: 81 shall very cor
! daily support the Mexican Pension bill as
it passed the House, unless it appears upon
examination that have been misinformed
as to its provisions. My impression is that
favorable action by the Senate may be rea.
sonably expected at an early day"
THE land sales for the Santa Fe for the
year 1885 were s., O4S, 532, and the cash re-
ceipts were s1,s13665. All the Santa Fe
lands have been sold.
MORTON County has petitioned to be or
ganized.
PATENTS lately issued to Kansas invent
ors: Thurman D. Cook, Topeka, boring
and routing bit; jeremiah Courseon, Prai-
review, attachment for grain drills; Sam
uel Skipworth, Blue Mound, combined
chimney and ventilator.
BISHOP VAIL. of the diocese Of Kansas, is
not to retire, as stated by some Of the pa
pers, but is to have an assistant next De-
cember. So long as he lives he will be in
charge of the diocese, but as the bishop is
far advanced in years the active work will
devolve largely upon his assistant.
IT has been officially announced that the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad has
purchased the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe
line running from Galveston to Fort
Worth, Tex. It Is tho intention of the
Santa Fe to at once commence the con-
struction of a line from Arkansas City
south, through the Indian Territory to
Fort Worth, where connection will be
made.
SENATOR PLUMB has introduced bill in
the Senate which aims to secure the recog-
milton of the service and payment therefor
of the members of the Frontier Guard,
composed chiefly Of Kansas men, who
guarded Mr.. Lincoln at Washington about
two weeks in the early days of the rebel
lion. Senator Lane was Captain of this
company.
Mr.. PLUMB's bill has passed the Senate
granting pensions to the following Kan
sans John 8. Williams, of Lane; Jephtha
Kornbeck, of Lolita; Mrs. B. Alters, OF
Severance; Captain J. Hopper, of Leaven-
worth John W. Thornton, of Lawrence;
DR.. j. V. Drummer, of Netewaka; August
SCHNEIDER, of Emerald; Reuben Farnham,
Of Eldorado; John Pruitt, of Humboldt;
James A. Underwood, of Allegan; James
c. Ledbette, OF Eldorado; John L. Bruce,
Falls; William Dobbs, of Wellington;
Stephen R. Smith, of Augusta; William
H. Moore, of Medicine Lodge; George W.
Demorte, of Emporia; Mrs. Morgan Smith,
of Leavenworth; William Bethuren, of
Emporia; Henry Shirly, of Rantoul; Rob
ert Halsey, of Topeka; William Reynolds,
of Emporia; Thomas j. Owens of Blue
Mound; John T. Kirkpatrick, of Clay Gen.
ter; William M. Clark, of Princeton;
George Ham, of Severy: j. Fl. Thornbury,
of Omio; William G. schovozer, Of Fort
Scott, and John Ross, of Tahlequah.
The President has appointed John H.
Dayton, of Kansas, to be cadet at large at
the Naval Academy, vice John W. Worden,
nephew of Rear Admiral Worden, who de-
clined the appointment
The meeting of the Grand Lodge Broth
erhood Of Locomotive Firemen, held at Par
sons recently, was satisfactory and pleas
ant in every respect. A committee was
appointed to invest;gate the cause of the
discharge of a number of the brotherhood
and after investigation the restoration OF
all found to have been discharged without
sufficient cause will be asked.
LEE CURTIS and John Lawler, two nero
boys, were recently arrested in Iowa and
taken back to Topeka for trial upon the
charge of robbing jewelry store In that
city one night lately. George LAMB was
also taken in custody for the same Ofense.
LATE post-office changes in Kansas: Es-
tablished, Eugene, Ford County, Lewis c.
Wright, postmaster; Hughes Thomas Coun-
ty, John D. Hughes, postmaster; Quinter,
Cove County, John H. Baker, postmaster;
Saunders, Rush County, John g. Saunders,
Jr., postmaster; Tribune, Greeley County,
Mary L. Campbell, postmaster; Violenta,
Sheridan County, William W. Warner,
postmaster. Discontinued, Burgh, Graham
County.
IT is stated that W. N. Carlisle, son Of
the Speaker, has been appointed a member
OF the Democratic Congressional Commit
tee for Kansas.
BURGLARS still infest Topeaka.
IT is said that movement is on foot to