Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-05-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

TIFF otf1er night dispatch was received
at the general Offices Of the Santa Fe rail-
road at Topeka saying that . mob Of men
had taken possession of the regular passen-
ger train ct Hutchinson, and that they
we're running things 70 suit themselves.
They had refused to pay their fare, and had
put the trsinmen at defiance. The mob
was composed Of . crowd Of eighty men
who had gone West to work on the exten-
sion of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad from Hutchinson to Kinsley. A
large force was called out and when the
train reached Topeka q stratsgicai move
ment resulted in the capture Of the men,
who showed no disposition to be ugly.
They had been engaged by Kansas City
employment agency to go to that point TO
work on the road. When arriving there
the men found they had been deceived by
the agency, and having no money they
boarded the train to return. Nothing
moro. This being the case the Santa Fe
furnished the men transportation from To
peka.
Dr. DExrsox writes an explanation OF
DR.. Krohn's withdrawal from the Methodist
Church, denying that there was any delay
in ordering the investigation. The delay
arose. says Dr. Denison, from the compli-
cations of the case. DR.. Krohn's civil and
political homo the past year has been in
Phillips County, and his ecclesiastical
home at Atchison. When he was made a
supernumerary by the Kansas conference,
lately in session at Holtou, his home was
where he resided, which at that time was
Abilene. DR.. Denison thereupCn thought
the case should have been attended to at
Abilene, or near there. DR.. Krohn desired
to have the investigation made at Atchi-
son. The point was referred to1the bishop,
who decided that DR.. Denison had jur,s-
diction. This decision of the bishop was
received about the time DR.. Krohn wrote
his letter of withdrawal and the matter is
now out of the hands of the committee and
will rest until the meeting of the confer
ence next spring.
Four prisoners sentenced in the United
States Court at Topeka, were recently
taken to the Chester Qll.) penitentiary.
They were: John Morrison, for imperson-
ating post-office inspector in Texas, by
which he obtained $3.50, three years;
Charles Bruner, for attempting to fraudu-
lently obtain pension, three years;
Beecher, for counterfeiting, three years.
and one Lee for stealing an overcoaf and
pair of pants from the Soldiers Home at
LeavenwOrth, one year.
YANCY GAINES, colored desperate, was
captured in Topeka the other day. He at
tempted to kill his employer in Missouri,
and when arrested for the offense, he
stabbed the: officer and fed. He was to be
taken to Missouri for trial.
PATENTS lately granted Kansas invent
ore: Walter j. Cox, Wichita, window
shade; Aired Lake, Leavenworth, file for
bills, music sheets, etc.. William =. Mcln-
tyre, lakewood, hay or grain-shed cover;
John NJ. Spencer, Lawrence, apparatus Tor
watering stock.
THE Secretary of the State Board of Ag-
riculture furnishes tho following synopsis
of the Kansas crop bulletin for the month
ended April 80: Winter wheat-Winter
killed, 45 per cent. Condition of area from
which a harvest may be expected, 50 per
cent. Probable product, IL, 000, 600 bushels,
about AZ per cent. of the average annual
product for the last FIVE years. Spring
wheat area sown, about the same as last
J
and condition about tho same as for 1885.
Oats-Area sown at least 10 per cent. in ex-
cess of any former season; condition good.
Corn-Planting about completed in the
southern part of the State and progressing
finely in the central and northern. Ground
in good condition. Estimated area 10 per
cent. in excess of last year. Tame grasses
in good condition generally; orchard grass.
winter killed, where pastured short last
fall. Live stock in fair condition. Gland
ers among horses reported from five coun-
ties. Hog cholera abatiDg, but reports
show it to exist in forty counties. Fruit
buds-Peaches killed; all others in fair con
dition.
The Senate Committee on Military At
fairs has favorably reported Senator
Plumb's bill to authorize the Secretary of
War to credit the State of Kansas with
certain sums of money on its ordnance ac-
count with the General Government.
On the 9th a waterspout passed down
Jacobs creek, fourteen miles southwest of
Emporia. B. B. Jacobs saw the storm
coming and gathered his children and
brother Charles In q wagon and started to
flee but they were 0vertaken by the tor
rent which swept away the vehicle and its
occupants. Mrs. Jacobs and the younger |
child were drowned, while Mr.. Jacobs per- !
ished in endeavoring to save them. His
brother saved himself and the other chill |
dren.
COLONEL Goss says that now is the time
to destroy the maple worms that defoliage |
these beautiful trees almost every summer. |
The male moth is now flying about, to be
followed in about ten days by the female
moth, when the egg will be deposited in
the tree. Colonel Goss recommends the
burning of torches under the trees, which
will attract and destroy the male worm
before the appearance Of the female. While
the destruction may not be total the evil
will be so greatly reduced as to save these
rees
AT meeting of the executive committee
Of the Kansas Association of Trotting
Horse Breeders, lately held at Topeka, ap-
plications for membership were received
from fourteen breeders to join the associa-
ton and they were admitted to member
ship. 1t was voted to hold an annual trot-
ting meeting for 1886 at Bismarck Grove,
August 81, September 1 and 2, the week
previous 10 the western NaIFOndA All.
BERNARD KELLEY, of Emporia, has been
appointed M ember of the State Board of
Charitable Institutions, to fill the vacancy
caused by the expiration of the term of
Phillip Krohn.
P. KENNEDY, Santa Fe switchman, was
killed the other night at Topeka by
freight engine.
The corn planting boom is here.
JENNIE BEELER, eighteen years old, was
recently inticed into house at Topeka by
x,nma n that cha had Sovaral times met in