Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-07-22
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miscellaneous.
LATE fire 1t Fredonia consumed all the
buildings on the forth side ef the sduare;
except the Commercial Hotel. The build
iiigs buried wore three livery stables, DR..
C6fmscIs fesidsHte and Stfiee. Dfs. Wiley
& Willet's office, Judge Stiver's ofiice and
building, ". r. Duhn's building, two story
stBne and Occupied by W: l. Pierce & Bro
drug store, t. J. Mackey's skatins rink,
occupied as laundry. The Are was sup
posed to be the work of incendiary. The
iHsuraHts amohntea I'd about sy;eod:
IN an opinion recently rendered to the
Governor as to the eligibility of women to
the office Of justice Of the peace, Attorney
GENERAL bradford hollis tbat finder the
constitution of the United States, which
declares that ''all persons born or natural
lied in the United States and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the
uhlted States and Ut the States wherein
they reside, !" women are citizens and that
the State constitution does not by express
terms confine eligibility to office to male
citizens. It does so restrict the right of
sufffage. Iii otie case ~ords importing q
sexual qualification are inserted in the
constitution; in the others they are omit
ted. Frem the expression in the one and
the silence in the other case there arises d
very strong implication that the trainers
Of the constitution placed eligibility to Of
flee oh broader basis than suffrage, else
they would have expressly restricted with.
In the same limits, when their attention
was called to that subject. lie is therefore
OF the opinion that there being no other
objections a woman is eligible to be ap.
pointed to the office of justice of the
peace under our constitution and laws
and the decision of our Supreme Court
The Chicago Kansas Il Western Rail-
way Company recently held special cleo
tion of directors at Topeka, placing seven
of the Santa Fe people on the list in place
Of local names. Tho following now COM
prise the board: E. W. Kinsley, II. 8. Bur-
dett, G. A. Burdett, E. j. Thomas, J. F.
McKim. A. F. Luke D. l.. Gallup, Boston;
Joel Mulvane, J. S. Gr;swOld, T. /. Bone
brake, j. r. Mulvane, G. F. Parmlee, To-
peka; D. N. Finney, Neosho Falls. Tie
chief engineer reports the following mile.
age on extensions now built and in opera
ton: Hutchinson extension, to station
5000, 62.6 miles; Chanute extension, to sta
ton 500, 95 miles; Mulvane extension. to
station 792, Is miles; Usage City extension,
to station, 1000 being to point of connec-
tion with the Southern Kansas at Quenemo.
Before sixty days there will be another and
important extension to note.
THE meeting of the National Teachers
Association closed at Topeka on the night
of the 10th. There were over 6, 900 teachers
enrolled as in attendance, and the teachers
made excursions to various points, some
going to the Rocky mountains and others
to points west and north.
ALL transcontinental railroad lines have
established uniform rates to persons wish
ing to attend the great soldiers reunion at
San Francisco. In order that Kansas may
appear to advantage as the home of the
soldier, as the several delegations from
other States pass through Kansas on their
way to the encampment, Department Com
mander McD;vitt calls upon ''every post
commander of all posts on the line of any
Of the roads over which any of these dele
cations may travel to see that proper dis
play is made of flags and bunting and BAN
ners and music as such trains go through,
and every citizen on any of these lines,
whether he lives in palace or a dugout,
is requested to display the national colors
or bunting or something to indicate that it
is the home of a patriot and lover of the
old flag, SO that tie delegations will never
be out of sight of the national colors from
the time they enter our State on the east
until they pass out of it on the west.''
The Governor has proclaimed Wichita a
city of the first class, it having over $1,000
inhabitants. There are now five cities in
Kansas possessed of that honor, as follows:
Topeka, Leavenworth, Atchison, Kansas
City and Wichita.
THE voter next fall can ''pay his money
and take his choice"
One of the murderers of Davis, the man
found floating in the Arkansas river with q
bullet hole in the top of his head, was rid
died with bullets by a pursuing party at
Frisco, about sixty miles southwest of Gar
den City, the other morning. The man had
concealed himself in livery stable in that
town and was armed with q gun. The dep
uty sheriff of Finney County, with posse
of six men, surrounded the stable and COM
manded the murderer to surrender. The
man commenced firing and was instantly
killed by a volley of bullets. He died game.
No FLOOD yet in sight
ATorEKA girl recently had her worthless
father arrested for larceny. The man had
been upon a protracted drunk and takeB
some silverware from the family cupboard
and sold it for money with which to pur
chase liquor. As there is no law punish
ing q man for stealing from himself the
vagabond was discharged.
TOPEKA was crowded the past week with
school teachers and educators from all parts
of the Union, it being the occasion of the
meeting of the National Teachers Associa-
ton. Hon. W. H. Rossington delivered the
address of welcome. Fully 5000 educators
were present.
IT is stated that another raid on Okla
homa is threatened.
Tue boiler Of the National mills, at Par
sons, burst the other day, and Dave Rum
rine, a white man, and Anderson Story,
colored, were killed. The engine room
was blown to atoms, and the entire mill
came near being burned. There were only
sixty pounds OF steam on ct the time The
explosionoccurred.
WII4IAN NULvEY, . lad about fifteen
years Of age, was drowned the other night
while bathing in the Missouri river at
Leavcnvorth. He was an orphan and the
only known relative living is a brother in
Chicago.
THK Democrats of the Seventh Distric:
nave nominated Thomas George tcT Cor
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