Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-01-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS Representatives in Congress
have places on the following important
committees: Ryan, on Appropriations;
Anderson, on Pub licLands; Funston, on
Agriculture and also on Education; Per-
kins, on Indian Affairs; Peters, on Post
Offices; Morrill,, on Invalid Pensions and
also OH Levees and Improvements of the
| Mississippi River; Hanback,, on the Ex-
penditures of the Department OF Justice
and also on Pacific Railroads.
| THE other night a fire was discovered in
the rear Of the large four story building oc-
cupied by John Sorenton at Leavenworth,
as furniture manufacturer, and which
was filed with stock throughout The
building and stock were entirely consumed,
but said to be well insured. The origin of
the fire could not be ascertained, but the
estimated loss will reach between SAC, 900
and $4,000 The heavy wind that was
| blowing rendered the work of saving the
adjoining building occupied by George
Eddy, wholesale druggist, very difficult.
A VERY sudden death from heart disease
occurred at the railroad depot at Hutchin-
son the other morning. A man residing
near Burton, who attended as a witness in
case pending in the District Court, having
given mis- testimony, was at the depot wait
| ing for a train, and while in the waiting
room he suddenly fell to the floor and died
before physician could be summoned.
PATENTS lately granted Kansas inventors:
William f. Boswell, Atchison, upright steam
heater; William Erin, Argentine, gage and
clamp for weather boarding, etc. David NJ.
Harris, Douglass, car coupling; Ephraim
c. Keyser, Abilene, roller mill Alvin c.
Mason, Hyde Park, stove and range door.
YoUNG BALDWIN, recently convicted Of
the murder of his sister at Atchison, was
taken to the Penitentiary the other day,
where ne has good chance for spending
the remainder of his life Up to that time
it is said he exhibited much bravado, but
when the final test came he broke COM
pletely down, refused food and the night
before being taken away he walked the
floor of his cell, and his voice could be
heard below as he moaned: ''This is too
bard-I am an innocent man."
THE State Agricultural Society recently
held its annual meeting at Topeka and re-
elected the old officers as follows: Presi-
dsnt, Joshua Wheeler; Vice-President j.
W. johnson; Secretary, William Sims;
Treasurer, John Francis. The vacancies
in the Board were filled as follows: James
Culbertson, Dickinson County; F. NJ. Pot
ter, Marion County; F. j. Martin, Cowley
County; LIN Pickering, Cherokee County |;
s. j. Carter, Coffey County. DR.. Holcombe,
State Veterinarian, made an interesting
address on hog cholera and the members
generally discussed the subject in all its
bearings. A resolution was adopted that
our Senators and Representatives. in Con-
gress be requested to take the steps neces-
sary to place the agriculturalist on an
equal footing with other classes by the ere.
alton of the Department of Agriculture as a
Government department, and that the pc.
sition of Secretary thereof be filled by a
practical agricuiturist.
AT the late meeting of the State Bar AS.
socaton at Topeka the following officers
were chosen: President, A. II. Horton,
Atchison; Second President, E. s. Tor
renee, Winfield; Secretary, John W. Day,
Topeka; Treasurer, ID. NJ. Valentine, TO.
peka; Executive Council, W. A. Johnston,
Minneapolis; John Guthrie, Topeka: A. w
Benson, Ottawa; NJ. b. Nicholson, Council
Grove. Delegates to attend the American
Bar Association at Saratoga, d. j. Brewer,
Leavenworth; W. H. Rossington, Topeka
: 4. d. Miles, Atchison.
TIE other night a woman was found
destitute and suffering at the Union Pacific
depot, North Topeka. She had one child
with her scarcely three weeks old, and said
!, she was from near Rossville, where she had
another child only eighteen months of age
| cbo l,,l obap hxy taI. h1IS
! band at that place while in bed n few day:
before, and everything belonging to hel
had been taken by him. Under these cir
] cumstances she stated she had left her old
est child with Il Eindhearted family in that
, place and started out to seek employment
{ but the recent illness through which she
lad passed had been of too severe nature
for her constitution, and on reaching To
peka she had broken down entirely. Silt
was sent back for her other child and ait
, and protection promised.
4 A NUMBER of Kansas appointment
landed on the safe side of the Senate thu
. past week.
Ir is stated that Attorney General Brad
ford has prepared papers in quo warrant'
proceeding to remove from Office Mayo
Nicely. of Leavsnworth, and County Attor
ney Clough, of Leavcnworth County. Thu
charges preferred includes failure to per
form their duties respecting the enforce
ment of the Prohibitory law.
LATEST reports place the number of per
sons frozen to death in the western part o
, the State during the cold weather a
, twenty four.
IT is reported that mysterious and fata
disease has broken out among the horses il
Atchison County. Henry Kumpf lost 81,
valuable horses within few days all 0
which died suddenly, and others seemed al
fected by the malady.
THE Board of Trade of Fort Scott re
Gently closed Il contract with w. L. Pai'kin
son, of Ottawa who is acting in behalf o
, syndicate of capitalists, who in consid
Grafton of two hundred acres of land ad
Z joining the city donated by the Board o
Trade, has agreed to erect in time for oper
: alton during the coming springs sorghum
, sugar mandatory, with a capacit t.
, handle one hundred tons of cane per day.
THE Southern Kansas Railroad has beel
completed to Medicine Lodge, 1856 mile
southwest from Kansas City, and is nov
, open for passenger traffic. Trains now rul
! through from Kansas City without change
A NOVEL inventory of an estate was re
, Gently filed in the Probate Court at Ieav
enworth. The document contained the az
praisement of the personal effects of the dc
ceased, and among the items retained b
, the widow and mentioned in the docu
. ment was six children, who were appraise
, at S6S.
, No more billiards wanted.
ABOUT forty tramps attempted to cell
brate New Year's day in drunken carou: