Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1886-12-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The other night when the midnight OF
press train arrived at Topeka from KAN
Gas City a man giving his name as Perry
Adams was arrested on the charge OF
playing the confidence racket. Adams was
in the smoking car. and about a half hour
after they left Kansas City he engaged in
a game of cards with the Kansas City
man. When the train reached Topeka the
latter claimed that be had been robbed OF
$50. Adams was arrested and the money
found upon his person. He was locked up.
THE Leavenworth Savings Bank recently
opened business with a capital stock OF
100000.
ELEVATOR "a" owned by j. p. Weeks,
at Kinsley burned to the ground the other
evening at six o'clock. Loss, $1,000; in.
sured for 5000. The cause Of the fire 10
unknown.
TnE State Superintendent of Public In
struction announces that tho twenty.
seventh annual session of the State Teach
ers' Association of Kansas, will be held in
Topepa, December % to 30, aud reduced
rates to Topeka and return have been Sc
cured over the Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe, Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Bur-
lington & Missouri River, Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Gulf, st. Louis, Fort Scott u
Wichita, Southern Kansas, and St Joseph
& Grand Is land railroads. Hotels will &C.
commodate visitors at prices ranging from
one to two dollars per day, and private
families entertain teachers at from $1.25
to $3.50 per day. Parties wishing to secure
boarding places or hotel accommodations
in advance, will write to H. c.
Larimer, chairman Of committee. Fully
one thousand teachers are expected to be
present
The twentieth annual meeting CT the
Kansas State Horticultural Society COM
menced its sessi on at Emporia on the 9TH
and continued three days. 1t was largely
attended and the discussions were of more
than ordinary interest to the fruit grow
ers of the State. A large number of
papers were read covering the entire field
of horticulture.
PATENTS lately granted Kansas invent
ors: Amos B. Clippengar, Centralia, har-
row; Elmer E. Conwell, Pittsburg. folding
table; William Hill, Aliceville, harrow;
George N. Lake, North Lawrence, COM
bined clod clusher and land roller.
THE bill that recently passed the House
will extend the free delivery system to
Emporia, Fort Scott, Ottawa, Wellington,
Winfield and Kansas City.
LATE post Office changes in Kansas: Es-
tablished, Admire, Lyon County, Isaac
French, postmaster: Oanica, Finney
County, James s. Chandler; Portland
Sumner County, Samuel F. Davis; st.
Theresa, Wichita Counry, Clemens H.
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qua Caunty.
COLONEL MOONLIGHT, late Democratic
candidate for Governor of Kansas, has
been appointed by the President Governor
of Wyoming Territory.
The tickets stolen from the depot at
Paramount last September were found a
day or two ago in a deserted building near,
Lansing, Leavenworth County.
THE mayor and other prominent citizens
Of Leavenworth recently sent on an appli-
cation to Commissioner Atkins urging the
claims of that city as a suitable location
for the Indian warehouse in case it is de.
cided to remove it West. The proposition
forwarded presents the advantages of
Leavenworth as proper location. The
fact that the principal military post of the
protection to the large amount of supplies
usually kept in these warehouses from in
cendiaries, mobs ETC., such as constantly
menace large cities, is a special feature of
the claims presented. The city further pro.
poses to furnish building for the Govern.
ment to use as a warehouse free of cost.
The Supreme Court recently handed
down the decision in the Baldwin murder
case from Atchison, affirming the convic-
tion of the prisoner. The decision con-
cluded as follows: 1.-THE gravity of the Of
tense of which the prisoner has been con-
victed, the peculiar circumstances sur.
rounding the case and ths great earnest
ness and ability with which counsel for the
prison er have pressed their points for SER
vice upon this court have led us to examine
the record with great care. The testimony
given, as well as every point made and au.
thority cited, have been considered with
that anxious attention which the conse.
,Quences of O conviction demand, but we
are forced to the conclusion that the case
has been we'll and fairly tried; that the er
rors committed are technical and unim
portant, and not such as would justify a
reversal of the conviction. We must there.
fore affirm the judgment rendered" Bald
win is the young man sentenced to he
hanged for the murder of his sister at Atch-
ison year or more ago.
A WIDOW named Pemberton, residing
near RUSSELL was accidently shot AMI
killed the other day by her son, aged
sixteen years.
Coal was furnished the following State
fho Of
Der from the penitentiary: Insane Asylum,
Topeka, 6,OO2 bushels; Deaf and Dumb
Asylum. ZOE bushels; Reform School, l, 5N
bushels Idiotic Asylum, $50 bushels; State
University, 1900 bushels; State House,
2,lG5 bushels; State Penitentary, 36, 927
bushels; total, 5O,617 bushels. Cash sales
and royalty, 127, 93S. Up to November 20,
1886, 5,O63,26 bushels of coal have been
mined at the prison.
CAPTAIN A. r. Banks writes that the
statement that he intended to return to
Kansas and be a candidate for chief clerk
of the House is errone0 Us.
The standing committee of the Episco
pal Church, diocese of Kansas, has directed
Dr. A. Beatty, its president, to prepare the
testimonials regarding the assistant bish-
op-elect Rev. Mackey Smith, Of New
York, and to send them to the standing
committees of the various dioceses. 1t is
necessary for a majority of the standing
committees to ratify the selection Of Rev.
Mackey- Smith in order to complete his
election and permit of his being conse.
Grated.
LEAvENwoRrH wants the warehouse.
IT lis stated upon what is regarded as re-
liable authority tn at an arrangement has
been made by VIII ich the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railroad Company and the Ro OK