Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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June showed an improved condition ia
wheat. The quantity exceeds the est.
mate month Previous, and the quality is
very good. The berry is plump aid
healthy. A large part of the crop is now
saved without loss Oats was somewhat
linpfoEed b. ieeeht rains, 50 that il. gnaii-
tity and quality the crop exceeds what
was expected. As to corn, there never was
as large an acreage planted in Kansas, and
Tho condition at this time il tie season
was never better. At no time in the his
tory OF the State was the prospect for q
large crop of good corn better. Hay is re-
ported good and plentiful 4 great deal
OF tame grass is made into hay this year.
The yield is fair and the quality good
Apples are dropping some. still fair crop
may be expected. Chinch bugs have done
great deal of injury in some places,
though the aggregate loss from that source
IS not great.
IN reply to request from the Secretary
| or the Interioi far fecc,ismsndat.cii III
the matter of the application of the State
OF Kansas for a reconsideration of preyi.
Gus decision of the Interior Department
nptr the claim Of the State to select add.
tional lands under the Agricultural Col
lege act of 1862, Commissioner Sparks has
recommended that the application be
granted. Under This act the State claims
the right to select 1852 acres IN addition I'd
that selected in 1864, alleging that the
lands were not legally increased to the
double ininiii1iiiii ptice as held in the previ-
Gus decision:
CHARTER was recently filed with the
Secretary of State for the chicago & Ems
poria Railroad Company. The charter pro-
vides for the building and maintaining of
hrstclass railroad with telegraph lines
front Eniporia to point on the Missouri
river at or near ST. Joseph, with branch
ffoiii Eidpofia to the eastern line Of the
State iii the direction of Butler, Mo-; also
with branch to the south line of the
State to peint near Ceffeyville, and d
branch from Emporia to the western line
of the State in the direction of Colorado
Springs. Capital; s9,0OOOOO.
WhitE Mrs. T. t. King and Mrs Thu.,,p-
son were out driving at Topeka the other
evening their horse got frightened at
flock of goats, became interchangeable,
plunged and kicked and overturned the
carriage, which fell upon the occupants
and seriously injured Mrs. Thompson.
THE Railway Commissioners recently
rendered q decision iii the complaint of
Caywood Il Co., of Vining, against the
Union Pacific railroad wherein the latter is
charged with discriminating against the
cOmplainan!s in favor Uf other shippers
upon shipments of wheat and corn. The
board after visiting various points and ex-
aiming the books of the company,
decided against complainants. After d
lengthy review of the case the board
adds! "Uniust discrimination among
shippers by railroads is gross and wicked
perversion of the privileges conferred upon
them by the State 1t robs the cit zen of
that protection which it is the prifiie duty
of the State to extend to every man. Its
conseqhences are most mischievOus Even
well grounded suspicion that it exists
should provoke an Investigation, and no
punishment can he too severe when it is
found to exist. In this case there were some
facts which, unexplained, tended to create
such suspicion and it was highly proper
that an investigation should have been
that such facts as aroused suspicion are
e1plainable and consistent with different
hypothesis. and SO the board finds.''
AS THE west bound cannon ball on the
Santa Fe was approaching Newton at a
forty five mile rate of speed the other
evening a man was seen to roll along the
ground beside the train. The conductor
brought the train to stand
still ard thea ran back to where the man
lay. The man proved to be one of the |
passengers who had either fallen or
jumped off the train. He was picked up |
and taken to Newton on the train where he |
was identified as Mr. Moore. from Penn
sylvania. He did not regain conscious
ness and only lived few hours.
AT Topeka several days since George |
Maddox was unexpectedly assaulted and
severely stabbed by his brother-in-law,
Clate Blanton, while sitting on his porch.
Blanton was out of employment and stop
ping with Maddox. He came home and
without giving any reason made the as
sauit The youths mother believed him
insane, but others thought it
was liquor
TOPEKA voted the Rock Island bonds by
large majority.
The Eastern Kansas District Medical So.
ciets will hold its next meeting ut Leaven-
worth Tuesday evening, July ID.
P. j. MARTIN, of Larned, was run over by
a passenger train at Burton the other morn
ing and instantly killed.
Ed. SroCKERY recently arrived at Fort
how chm. |
when he was arrested for the killing of
Fred Coleman at Hunnewell five years ago.
3e did not deny the charge, but says he
killed Coleman, who was a dance house
Keeper, in self defense. He has never
ried to avoid arrest and has never con.
.ealed his identity He was resident of
he Indian Territory at the time the killing
occurred and was at Hunnewell with cat.
lie. Since then he has been in Texas and
he Indian Territory and has made trips to
Wyoming with cattle.
ABOUT half past eight O'Clock the other
morning two boys, aged about sixteen
years, entered house at Silver Lake. oc-
upied by teacher named Earhart, and
tole $3.50. The money was not missed i'm
nediately, but its loss became known few
n various directions. About three o'clock
n the afternoon the marshal rec eived q
elegram from LinwOod, station on the
Kansas Pacific road between Lawrence
nd Kansas City, announcing the capture
f the boys. The young thieves claimed to
ave just arrived from California and said
hey were going to Georgia.
MAD dogs occasionally report for duty.
A FINE young mare and a mule belong
ng to DIR. Hogeboom, of the Santa Fe
DAD, were killed by lightning at the doc
or's farm, near Topeka, recently. The