Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-08-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Quarter Centennial Celebration, held at
Topeka, January %, 1885, The historical
matter includes tie earliest official doeu.
/ mehtary records of Kansas Territory, odfl.
sistihg Of the minutes kept in the Office of
the Territorial Governors during the ad.
ministrations of Governors Reeder and
Shannon, covering the period from October
2, 1851, to September Z, 1885, The portion
of the volume embracing the biennial re,
port of the Society makes a parliament
record of the Society's work during pc
ricd Of four years, showing the growth Of
its library, and the character of its access
sions of every kind. These reports contain
the essential facts of the newspaper history
OF the State during that period. The vol
ume has been compiled with great care and
accuracy, and is valuable to every one in
| terested in Kansas history.
The twenty fifth anniversary Of the bat.
| tie of Wilson's Greek was celebrated by the
survivors of the First Kansas regiment at
Leavenworth on the 10th. The Kansas
First was commanded by Colonel Deitzler,
and went into that memorable fight with
GA men, of which II were killed and 333
| wounded.
for the year just past show an increase in
the valuation of personal property and real
estate of an amount five times greater than
for the previous year.
A NUMBER of prominent citizens of Tope-
ka whose reputation for truth and veracity
(as the lawyers say) in the community is
we'll known, recently filed the charter of
the 'St. Auanias Club" Tie charter states
that the purpose of the organization is
social enjoyment and intellectual improve.
ment, and to promote and disseminate the
virtues of honesty, sobriety, chastity and
veracity among the members.
POsTMAsTERs lately commissioned in
Kansas: Charles E. Mcneil, at Kirwin,
and John A. Werner, at Eustis.
LATE post-office changes in Kansas:
Name changed-Grand View, Morris Coun-
ty, to Delavin; Henry Kingman, postmas-
ter. iscontinued-Bluffton, Ottawa Coun-
ty; Dean, Reno County. Postmasters APP
pointed-Amboy, Rocks County, William
Mead; Ewell Sumner County, Lemuel T.
Williams; Hanback,, Norton County, j. N.
Anderson; Heber, Cloud County, &. B.
Messer; Olesbough, Pottawatomie County,
J. S. Spangler; Orie, Sumner County,
Mrs. J. Mendenhall; Plevna, Reno County,
John w. Campbell.
The body of an unknown man was
found at Blue Jacket tank, near Parsons,
the other day, literally cut to pieces. No
clew whatever could be obtained as to his
identity.
SOME of the State papers are claiming
that fifteen hundred miles of new railroad
will be built in Kansas during 1856.
PERRY and Richmond, sons of Thomas
Love, who lives near Spencer station, nine
miles east of Topeka, on the Santa Fe
road, were drowned in the Kansas river
the other day while fishing.
The Northwestern Literary and Histori-
cal Society of Iowa recently elected ex-
Governor Click an honorary member.
THE Denver, Memphis & Atlantic rail-
road recently filed with the register of
deeds in Larned a mortgage not to exceed
SIG, 600, on each mile of track built in Paw
nee County. The bonds expire on the 18th
of December, and the company thinks no
extension of time will be asked for. 1t 10
thought by some that Gould is backing the
enterprise, and the arrival of trains at
Larned will be hailed with delight.
TIE semi-annual convention of the Kan
sas Real Estate Association was held re-
Gently at Junction City.
Rev. j. H. LUCAS, of Dickinson County,
nas been nominated for Congress by the
Prohibitionists of the Fifth district.
The President has appointed Smith M.
Palmer register of the Land Office at Sail
ma, vice John NJ Hodge, suspended, and O.
F. Searle receiver of public moneys at the
same place, vice Harper s. Cunningham,
suspended.
The Dighton & Walton Street Railway
Company, of Lane County, has been
granted charter, capital, $4,000.
The secret hiding place for stolen plumber
was recently discovered in the bed Of
Shunganunga creek. near Topeka.
THE other evening a wild steer confined
in the packing house yards at Topeka sue
ceeded in making his escape and started
out to take in the town. It attacked one
man, who grabbed the Infatuated beast by
the horns, and after hard tussel for SUI
premacy finally succeeded in escaping with
out injury. An employee of the packing
company took up the pursuit. and after
chasing the animal for a long time cornered
it and in endeavoring to lassso the animal,
the man was assaulted and severely in
jured, the horns of the steer doing terrible
execution. The victim was picked up in an
unconscious condition and medical aid
summoned.
JOHN G. NORRIS. a prominent farmer
living near Andover, Butler County, re-
Gently met with a strange but fatal acct.
dent. He came near the place where la
borers on his farm were digging well,
when broken tug caused . lever to fly
back and strike him in the stomach. Ned
ical aid was summoned, but nothing could
be done for him, and after suffering in.
tensely he died. He leaves a wife and fam
lily in good circumstances.
A COMPLAINT has been filed with the
Board of Railroad Commissioners asking
that they use their influence to cause the
Missouri Pacific to build a new depot at
Wetmore. The complainants state that
Wetmore is town of 700 inhabitants and a
station on the central branch of the Mis-
souri, Pacific. Last winter the depot was
destroyed by fire, depriving the public of
depot facilities, and since the 9th of March,
1885, the railroad company has wholly neg
lected or refused to rebuild the depot.
THE war spirit is high.
RECENTLY the charter Of the Kansas, Col. |
orado & Pacific Railway was filed. The
purpose of this corporation is the construc. |
ton, maintenance aud operation of a stand |
ard gauge railroad from tho east line of |
Kansas, beginning in Crawford County and |
extending through Kansas and Colorado to |
some point on the Pacific coast in Califor. |
MIA. Capital, $1,000. 900.
BERT, the fifteen-year-old son of Robert |
Pugh, who resides about three miles east |
of Topeka, while working harpoon hay |
fork the other day had the first and second