Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-05-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
THE State Historical Society has received
as gift from Francis J. Garrison twenty
eight volumes OF tbe Boston Lberator, or
which paper his father, William Lloyd
Garrison, was for thirty five years the edi-
tor. These volumes are for the years 1888,
1893, and from 1910 70 1860 The publica-
tion of the Liderator was begun in 1881, and
CONTINUED till the close Of the war of the re-
belliOn.
The annual report of the directors Of the
Atchison, Topeka 4 Santa Fe railroad for
1sSS. just issued, gives the following infor-
nation: Gross earnings OF the road, ST.
363, OS9: total interest, dividends and other
fixed charges, including $9O,525 for sink
ing funds, !6,S5S, 9O5. The surplus which
has been added to the income account it
s4O4,ls4.
A KANSAS man named Hollingsworth, was
robbed Of 81, 400 the other day as he with
bis daughter was about to board an Atch
ison, Topeka g. Santa Fe train at Kansas
City.
AFTER a searching examination lasting
two days, at Oswego, Jacob Mclaughlin,
proprietor of the Grand Central Hotel at
Parsons, and Wash Bercaw. his night clerk,
were bound over to the district court,
charged with having taken from the jail in
Oswego on August ., 1888, one Frank
Myers. numbering him and throwing his
body into the Neosho river.
A RECENT miniature cyclone struck
A1iceville and destroyed the depot, barn
and a residence and damaged a number OF
other houses 1t then left without doing
any other damage.
THERE have been 24 quarters Of Govern
ment land and So quarters Of school land,
making a total of $50, $50 acres, added to
the tax roll of Decatur County within the
last year.
TnE Republican State Central Committee
met at Topeka and decided by a vote of nine
for Topeka to eight for LeavenwOrtb, to
hold the convention for the nomination of
State officers in the hall Of the House Of
Representatives at Topeka on Wednesday,
July T. The basis Of representation for
cotitties in said convention shall be one
delegate and one alternate for each 4OO
votes cast, and one delegate and one alter
nate for each fraction of 200 and over, for
the Republican candidate for Secretary OF
State at the election held in November,
1884, and one delegate and one alternate
for each unorganized county, OF county or
ganzed since said election of 1884. Tho
convention will consist of 400 delegates.
The time and place of holding primaries
and county conventions to choose delegates
to the State convention is left to the dis
cretioh Of county central committees,
though it Is advised that no convention DO
held later than June so.
PATENTS lately granted Kah=as invent
ors: Hugh F. Eaton, Parsons, hustle;
George O. Ross, Ottawa, car coupling.
ThE story recently telegraphed from
Topeka of d horrible outrage, murder, sui
eide and lynching In Seward County was
canard manufactured for the purpose OF
selling Newspaper correspondent
DIR. KRonN, State temperance lecturer,
who was recently the subject Of much talk
in connection with hotel scandal at
Junction City, has written a letter with
drawing from the ministry and the Metho-
dist Church, In his letter OF resignation to
the presiding elder of the Atchison district
DR.. Krohn says that some weeks ago he re-
quested the ''presiding elder Of the Nam
haitian district, Kansas Conference, to
make an immediate and thorough investi-
CATION of certain accusations rejecting up
on my moral and ministerial character. l
waited patiently for this action on the
part of Brother Mitchell and then appealed
to you to institute similar investigation,
and after waiting for what seemed to me
an Unreasonable length of time for your
action in the premises, and seeing no fur
Their signs of progress in the matter, and
being convinced that other delays are
likely to follow, and not wishing to be
kept in constant suspense, and thoroughly
satisfied of the wisdom and propriety of
the step AM about to take, l hereby pre-
sent to you my formal withdrawal from
the ministry and membership of the NJ. E.
Church, After referring to rumors that
had reached him of unkindly feelings to-
ward him by members Of the Conference,
DIR. Krphu adds Il know that am inno-
cent of the examinations brought against
me, and which am conscious could sub
stantiate if had free and fair opportu-
nifty to do So"
man. station OH the Union Pacific road
few miles east Of Topeka, the other day.
A farther by the name of Chris Himme
sent his ten. year old son Fred to the field
To cut corn stalks. The team the lad was
driving became frightened and ran away,
throwing the 1ittls fellow in front OF the
cutter. Before he could escape the knives
caught him and almost decapitated his
head from his body, causing instant death.
REV. w. C. H1BBARD, recently arrested at
Topeka for tiameless crime, pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to imprisonment for
three months and fine OF 500.
TIE Missouri Pacific switchmen at Leav-
eh~orth have been notified that they will
get the same wages paid the Chicago
Switchmen. Their former wages were 81
per day for switchmen and 1926 per day
fnt foremen The pay hereafter will be
s65 per Month for the working day and ex-
ira for Sunday for the day switchmen.
For day foreman so per month and extra
for Sunday work The night switchmen
get so per month for working days and
the night foreman s75 per month, and each
get extra pay for Sunday. The change
went into effect May l.
THE United Sxates Treasury Department.
sometime since brought suit against Il. Z.
Linn, formerly Indian agent, to recover
$1,000, alleged to be due on settlement The
case was tried the other day at Topeka and
the jury brought in verdict in favor OF
DR.. Linn without leaving their seats.
THE story that party OF strikers had
taken forcible possession of the railroad
yards at Atchison to prevent men from re-
turning to work, is pronounced untrue.
KANAPoLIs is a new post-office.