Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-09-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The laborers employed on the Roei
Island bridge at Topeka recently struck
for an advance of fifteen cents day.
THE Democrats of the First Congressional
district met Mt I,eavenwetth and noriii
dated Colonel Everhard Bferef, OF Browf
County. for Congress. a.
By q runaway near Larned recsntly two
estimable young ladies we're Seriously id.
jnfed. Miss Clara Sunderland, daugbtei
of Colonel NJ. s. Sunderland, and Lille,
granddaughter, were ont riding. While
driving down the hill on the west side Of
town the buggy FAN on the horse, friehtett'
| Ing him SO that he became unmanageab1e,
ran away ana threw them out with such
force upon the ground that the first named
| lady was terribly mangled about the face
and it was supposed received internal in.
juries, and the other young lady was badly
hurt. Both ladies we're conveyed home id
an unconscious condition.
THE Grand Opera House at Topekais be-
ing refitted at an expense Of over $1,000,
| new boxes and new furnishings throughout
being provided.
The Republican Congressional committee
| Seventh District met recently and arranged
| their campaign programme, setting the
| first grand rally at Hutchinson on Septem-
Der "A.
PENSIONS were allowed on the 9th to
David Timenous, of Mound Valley. Archer
Hamon, of Sedan, and Fall Prince, Of
Wyandotte.
W. ot,o o. ~ kv,n s1,p1
| tural Department at Washington, has gone
to Ottawa to superintend experiments in
the manufacture OF sugar from sorghum.
WARDEN SMITH, of the penitentiary, has
made his report for August, from which ID
appears that during the month two con-
victs died. 1s were discharged, one
was transferred to the insane asylum and
Is were admitted. Total number in con-
finement at end of month SIG. The total
earnings Of the prison during August
amounted to s12, 0Sl.0S, and the total eH'
penditures were S9,SO29 81.
THE report of the Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture for August showed
no material change in the area of crops
from that shown by the July report. Dry
and hot weather has been the rule in the
eastern half Of the State, resulting In short
crops. West more rain has fallen during
the month and crops promise fair yield.
The wheat crop winter and spring. is esti-
mated at 13,5OO,0O0 bushels.
A CHARTER was recently filed fof the To-.
peka, Council Grove g. Southwestern rail.
road. The object of the company is to
build and operate a road from Topeka
through the counties of Shawnee Wa.
baunsee aud Morris to Council Grove and
thence southwest through the counties Of
Marion, Chase, Mcpherson, Butler, Har'
vey, Sedgwick, Sumner, Reno, Kingman,
Pratt, Harper, Barber, Comanche, Clark
and Meade. Estimated length, 300 miles.
Capital stock, $5,0O0,COO.
A BOX of antiquities from the Ameri
can Antiquity Society, Worcester, Mass,
was recently received by the Kansas
Historical Society.
KANSAS has taken out seventeen national
bank charters during the year ended June
The total capital stock of the new banks
is 1865, COO, with a circulation of $4,000.
TIE case Of John w. Weaver against the
st. Louis & San Francisco railroad was up
in the Supreme Court the other day.
Weaver claims that on May 10, 1888. while
in the employ of the above-named rail.
road, in the discharge of his duties as 10
connective engineer running freight train
near Fayetteville, Ark, without fault or
negligence on his part, the locomotive was
thrown from the track down an embank-
ment into stream, whereby his arm was
broken and torn, and he claimed damages
in the sum of S25, 000 At the trial of the
case in Harvey County the plaintiff got
verdict for $4,000. The judgment of the
lower court was confirmed and the com.
pany appealed to the United States SUI
preme Court.
FRANK K. BYRON, who is charged with
having embezzled funds of the firm of Taft
& Curdy, of Topeka, by whom he was
employed as cashier, and who it is also
said has more than one wife, arrived in
that city the other evening from Boston
in the company of bis brother-in law,
Richard Wilson, who brought Byron on a
requisition issued by the Governor. He
was committed to Jail. His wife came
from Boston on the same train, but trav-
eled in another car and had not seen him
for nearly week. For nearly two months
the parents had not heard from her, and
they became much alarmed. 1t is charged
that while in Boston he destroyed the let
ters which the young wife had written to
her parents and given to. him to be mailed;
it is also charged that he stole his wife's
wedding clothes and pawned them.
COLONEL s. N. WooD has commenced suit
in the district court Of the Seventeenth
judicial district against twenty-six men,
whom, he alleges, kidnapped him. He asks
SEQ, 900 damages.
The grading of the Rock Island Railroad
is completed to within twelve miles of To.
peka.
THE Board Of Regents of the State Normal
School report the sale of all tho salt spring
lands, consisting of twelve sections, except
200 acres, for the sum of s7S;SS2, or an av-
erage of $l0.50 per acre. The appraised
value of the lands sold was $75, $40, the sale
being an increase of 1892 over these fig
ures Six hundred and forty acres were
appraised at 50 cents per acre, being almost
wholly worthless which fact makes the |
average good figure. The 200 acres which |
remain unsold are in Saline and Republic |
and will have to be reappraised |
under the law. This is said to be the best
sale Of public lands ever made in the State. |
CHARLES NELSON, ten-year-old lad, was
killed the other day near Fredonia, Wilson
County. He was riding on a wagon and,
falling off, the wheels passed over him and
crushed him to death.
THE second annual encampment of the |
Kansas National Guards will be held on
the Fort Riley military reservation, COM
Monday, September 20. and con-
tinue until September 25.
PoLITIcs begin to warm up.
ATLeavenworth the other evening Teresa
Maher, a young lady about eighteen