Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

arm Oelng completely amputated ana ner
head and face terribly mutilated. She had
gone to the depot to meet her husband
| who was expected to arrive on that train.
A BILL has been introduced into Congress
by Representative Turner, of the Sixth dis
trict, to amend the Homestead law so as to
require but three years. residence instead
Of five, for proof and patent Mr.. Turner
has also introduced bill to provide for
leg Il six months absence from the claim
on the issuance Of permit by the register
and receiver Of the proper land-office.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on
the 23d: Lily B. Simpson, Of Peru; John G.
Smith, Of Homestead; John p. Sullivan, OF
Logan; John Wells, of Perth; Simon P.
Bishop, OF Emporia; Edwin Hart, of Gar
field; Abner E. ingalls,, of Centralia;
George Defner, Of Marysviile; John W.
Bell. of Wichita; Smith Gooch, Of Leaven-
worth; Charles Bachman, OF Haddam;
Samuel Cassat, of Abilene; James Moles-
worth, Of Shaw; Henry D. Smith, OF Spear
vile; John Dixon, of Clay Center, and Har-
vey Smith. of Winfield.
MIR. PERKINS has introduced a resolution
in the House at Washington for the inves-
tigation of irregularities in the mail service
| of Kansas.
SEVERAL weeks ago seventeen-year-old
girl Of Topeka took the romantic" notion
Of being married to man then in Jail in
that city. The other day she appeared be-
fore the district court with u long bill of
grievances and asked for divorce.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has recently been re-
ceiving a number of petitions, some of them
quite Dumerously signed, from citizens of
counties in the extreme southwestern por-
ton of Kansas, asking aid to procure seed
corn. wheat aud other cereals for planting
in the spring of the present year. Invcsti-
| cations show that there is a strip of coun-
| try bordering on the Indian Territory
where the drouth OF last summer was es-
| pccially severe. The people of that region
| are nearly all new settlers who came with
| limited means, and the failure to raise
crops has left them in very destitute cir
| cumstances.
TIE nine-year-old son of W. q. Greever,
OF Richfieli, was accidentally killed the
other night by the discharge of an old gun
in a neigh boris hands.
IT is stated that the Santa Fe Company
had decided to buy 100000 bushels of wheat
| and ship it to the western counties of the
| State for spring seed, charging nothing
| for transportation and selling it at cost,
taking notes from the farmers due in one
| year at three per cent. 1t is also thought
| that the Missouri Pacific will do the same.
ATCHIsoN's bridge is reported to be IN
| such condition as to be in great danger of
destruction from high water in the spring.
Measures are being taken to insure its
safety
THE Governor has directed General Adam
Dixon, commanding the Third brigade OF
the Kansas National Guard, to go to Sher-
man County and investigate the county seat
difficulty.
Rev. Abel LEONARD, of Atchison, who
had been elected Bishop of Nevada and
Utah, was recently consecrated in Christ
Church, st. Louis, Bishop Vail officiating.
Twelve bishops took part in the cere-
| monies
THE following new post offices have been
established in Kansas: Kensington, Smith
County, Lewis NJ. UhL postmaster;
Shields, Lane County, Ferdinand L. Lon
ner, postmaster. The post-of1ics at Cerro
Gordo, Jewett County, has been discontin-
ued
INVITATIONS have been sent out for con-
ference convention to be held in Kansas
City, Mo-, February 8, to consider the prac
ticabillty Of opening Oklahoma to settle.
ment.
KANSAS postmasters confirmed by the
Senate on the 26lh: l.. E. Humrichouse,
Dighton; w. w. Threlkelt, Scott; j. W.
Brown, Ness City; A. G. Buchanan, abb
lene; C. F. Bushalter, Armourdale; j. e.
Chapman. LaCygne; &. w. Farrelly, Cha
mute; j. N. Fike, Colby; D. s. Gardiner,
Downs; !. E. johnson, Syracuse; J. B.
Kessler. Ottawa; c. S. Mace, st. John; A.
M. Pherson, Galena; j. L. Mattlngly Sc
dan; J. Meehan, St. Mary's; p. ]. Morgan,
Solomon City; Anne Radcliffe, Cimarron;
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Meade Center; s. P. Sproule, Greensburg;
Ellsworth; F. 8. Beades, Sterling; j. NJ.
Lands, Oswego.
SINCE Kansas City, Mo-, has made it so
warm for highwaymen, the "hold -you-ups"
have been trying their hands in Wyan-
dotte.
The charter of the South and Central
American Emigration Association and
Equal Rights League Of the United States
of America was recently filed with the
Secretary of State at Topeka. The OBJ
ject is to induce colored people in the South
to emigrate to South and Central Amer
lea.
WHILE party of sixteen young people
were coasting on bob-sled at Leaven-
worth the other evening the sled was up
set. while going furiously down hill, and
only one Of the number escaped unhurt.
The injured included: Mr.. Medley, Miss
Florence Farrell, Miss Myra Atwood and
James Bell, dangerously.
IRA PETERSON, of Ne wton, has a ratterrier
that killed thirty-seveu rats one night re-
Gently in an hour and half.
You've McCLINTOCK, who lately carried
of first honors in Oratory at the State Nor
NAL won first Prize for an essay two years
ago.
THE directors of the Grant monument
fund held meeting on the 26th at Fort
Leavenworth. A resolution was adopted
to ask Congress to appropriate s., COO in aid
of the project. The money an hand, private
contributions, amounts to about 81 600.
WILLIAM MYERS, aged sixty, while re-
Gently walking on the track Of the Fort |
Scott road near the State line was run over
and killed.
SENATOR PLUMB has introduced bill in |
which he proposes to dispose Of the mo |
Mans Land" problem by attaching that |
much disputed territory to the State Of
Kansas.
SALlNA has colony of fifty Italians.
In the district court at Wichita the other |
day s. T. Jones, a man sixty-seven years |
of age, was found guilty Of forgery and
sentenced to the penitentiary for one year.
The crime Of which he was convicted con-
sisted in signing, as maker or indorser,
promlssory notes aggregating in value sew
oral thousand dollars. He had before his
arrest borne an excellent reputation and
was an active member Of the Presbyterian
Church. His attorneys set mp as defense
insanity. The jury was all night in arriv-
ing at verdict.
GEORGE BowERs, railroad agent at Pratt,
recently suicided by shooting himself at