Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-03-08

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Miscellaneous.
PATENTS lately granted to Kansas In
ventore: Cultivator and scraper combined,
James A. Scroggs, Rando.ph railway
switch, Burton J. Downing, Seely; reach-
side for wagons, Frederick G. Winnek,
Leavenworth (O; weather-strip. Louis NJ.
Pratt, Belleville; tonic-compound. Charles
w. Stowe, Salina; carpct-strctcher, John
Carter, Emporia; combined lock and latch,
John Adams. Clay Centre, draft equalizer,
Alason II. Bales, Washington; claw-bar,
William S. Pates, Kin 5man; wrench,
Hazelton & Leach, Norton.
A RECENT decision of the Supreme Court
of the S. ate is to the effect that the law
gives a person the right only to examine
the records Of the reg ster OF deeds, but
not to copy them without the consent Of the
register.
THE Republican State Central Committee
has been notified to meet at tho Copeland
Hotel, in the city Of Topeka, on Wednesday,
March H. at four O'clock p. m. for the pur.
pose of fixing a TINA for holding State
convention for the election OF four dele
gates and four alternates at large to the
National Republican convention to be held
in Chicago, June ~, 1888. Also for the
election of two Presidential Electors.
In accordance with the recommendation
of the Board of Pardons the Governor has
issued full pardon to Jacob Cumberland
who was sentenced to death in Neosho
County in 1888, for the murder Of his son,
convicted upon the false and malicious tes-
timony OF his wife.
EDWARD TRAILS barn, four horses and
SOM, farm implements near Hamilton were
mysterious way.
AT the request Of Mrs. Senator ingalls,
that Kansas should be represented by some
article at the Grand Army fair now being
held at Washington, the State officers re-
Gently purchased q costly doll and shipped
to Washington, after having it arrayed in
handsome attire by Topeka dress-maker.
w. NJ. RICE, president of the regents of
the State Normal School, states that the
addition to the normal school at Emporia
has been completed; that 1t is a first-class
job, has been accepted, and has been fin
ished within the amount, $4,000, appropri-
ated by the Legislature.
A YOUNG man by the name of M. I. Mil
Ter, who invaded Atchison last fall a. So
cie;y star, recently got check cashed and
left for the mysterious parts unknown.
The check proved to be a forgery.
DIR. V. J. NJ. WHITE was recently arrest
ed at Logan by an officer from Pennsylva-
mia and taken to that State to answer to the
charge of crime committed there years
ago.
AT large meeting of the Topeka Board
OF Trade recently held resolutions were
adopted favoring the opening OF the In
dian Territory to settlement, and request
ing the Senate and Representatives from
Kansas to support the Sprln ger bill.
THE body Of an unknown man was found
in the Smoky Hill river, near junction City,
the othhr day. His throat had been cut
from ear to ear, and there were several
scalp wounds. There was nothing on his
person by which he could be identified. He
had probably been in the water for three
weeks HIS clothing consisted of leather
coat with red lining, q striped cotton over
shirt and red flannel undershirt and gray
jeans pants.
LATE post-of1ce changes in Kansas: Es-
tablished, Crandall, Coffey County, Harri-
son w. Briles, postmaster; Dana, Phillips
County, Sidney s. Howard, postmaster;
Sydia Wichita County, Flora B. Stanton,
postmaster; South Park, johnson County,
Charles R. HOllenback, postmaster. Name
Rex, Summer County, to B ack-
stone, Jeremiah Emmons, postmaster. Dis
Bayne, Russell County; Knight,
Russell County; Schoharie. Ness County.
The sixteen-year-old daughter of pro-
minent Topeka physician recently eloped
with a quack doctor.
TIE clothing OF the nlne-year-o old daughter
of William Vorhbinder. Douglas County
farmer, recently caught fire from the
flames in the stove and before assistance
could be rendered the body was burned so
badly that death resulted few hour later.
SENATOR PLAT, from the Committee on
has reported favorably bill to
extend the southern and western bound
aries of Kansas so as to include what is
known as the public land strip within the
limits of the State.
GIRARD will have canning factory.
DIR. w. d. SIMPSON, specialist, OF Leav-
recently took fifty grains OF
morphine and died soon after. He was
sixty-six years old, and had separated
from his family.
EDITH, the seven.year-old daughter OF
Prof. ID. o. Jones, was instantly killed at
Emporia the other evening by the acci-
dental discharge of a shotgun in the hands
Of Alfred Hughes, aged fifteen.
JOHN BOURN recently went to his home |
in Wvandotte in an intoxicated condition, |
and drawing revolver shot his daughter,
aged twenty, in the leg and then threat |
sned to shoot his son. He was then fired
into Jail.
The Republican Congressional conven |
lion for the Seventh District has been
called to meet at Garden City May !.
The other morning about three O'Clock |
at Peru, Chautauqua County, two boys |
Chessie lngletield and William Crawford. |
we're returning from q dance when they
saw light IN the store OF Fred Keefer, ane |
approached close enough TO perceive that
burglars were ransacking the store They
went to the hardware store Of
he father Of one of the boys, and procur-
ng two revolvers each, went back and UNI
lertook to capture the robbers Ingleheld
vent to the back door, presented his revot
FER and captured one, when the other fired
It and wounded the boy, who shot and In
Dtantly killed one Of The robbers. The other
escaped.
THERE are sO7. 940a cres Of artificial forest
q Kansas.