Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-11-22
STATE NEWS

compl- ted and in operation.
The new railroad hotel at Smith Cen
ire has been opened to the public.
The Northern Kansas Teachers' Rsso
cistion will meet st Beloit, Noyembs
20.
The snow storm revealed the existenc
OF much poverty and suffering at Wich
tia.
The Kansas newspapers are begin
ming to stir mp the Oklahoma question
again.
Lee West, Of Hutchinson, was givel
svsrdict Of not gu lty after long delib
Grafton.
The Union Pacific run an excursion
train from Kansas City to Colby on No
vembsr II.
The Westola Wave says: Bear il
mind the Wave will take country pro
Mce on subscription.
Il. T. Showers, one of the prominent
citizens Of Winfield, died Of Bright
disease q few days ago.
The -iufeld Courier is having
good d. u fun talking about micsader
cd nuic iocs, etc, etc.
The Atchison Champion refers to thu
paving brick manufactured near tbs
place as the '5est brick in the world"
For several years Kansas has bought
apples Of Missouri This year she i:
selling thousands Of bushels to Ne
oraska.
Greenleef Herald: Judge A. 8. Viii.
SCH, who was appointed receiver OF ihe
First National Bank of this city, has
taken possession.
The snow storm Of Thursday night
and Friday was the heaviest known in
Northeastern Kansas 1t any season of the
year since 1878.
Hon. James G. Smith, a graduate o;
the Un versity OF Kansas, was elected
from one of the Kansas City districts to
he Missouri legislature.
Osborne Farmer: A good joke is to d
on citizen OF Covert township, who de-
posted SO receipt in the ballot box
n place OF democratic ticket.
st recent meeting Of the Colorado
railway association all lines party to it
adopted the collector system, in eject on
lie Santa Fe for some time Fast.
Ed Des Jardign, an inmate of the re-
form school, WAS accideatlv kicked in the
stomach few days since W lie playing
foot ball and died from the effects.
Hutchinson claims to lead every other
city in Kansas il the amount OF its
tonnage. 1t claims to ship out snd ship
in more freight than any otper Kansas
city.
Nsw Lebanon Criterion: The Odessa
?ostofice, in Jefferson county, has been
discontinued, and the supplies and sta
.sonsry turned over to Postmaster Sill
Pen of this city.
Bob Sharp and "Doc" Riggs OF cold
gall qusrreled over the ownership of %
cents for which tley had been playin g
cards, ending in Riggs SO stabbing
Sharp that he died.
William Jay, OF Emporia, won several
aaDdred dollars ON the election. He
donated the money to different charat-
ea!e and benevolent associations in the
cssy and to poor families.
Hslstead Independent: A little rs
Of Ike Davis died with 1ipthessaa and
another child is now very sick. Inomas
Mansfield. who lives adjoining him, also
lost child with the Same disease.
Smith Centre Bulletin: The bsauti-
full opera house bloas 60 this city. which
is so nearly conar3esed, has suffered the
great misfortusa Of the giving away of
the brick pisrs under the massive front
Graham county, Kansas, elected two
bright and we'll educated colored men
to the positions of district clerk and
county commissioner. Chautauqua
county also elected a colored member Of
the Legislature.
Usage Oity People: Thomas Kim
ball, had two large fat hogs struck By
during the last thunderstorm.
They were lying by a wire fence and the
bones in the hind legs of both hogs
we're completely shatte; ed, but the hogs
we're not killed,
Pence Phonogrsph: Fred Campbell,
q lad about Is years of age,
while feeding Breedloye's cane
mill caught three fingers in the crueh-
er, msebing them fiat. His cries
stopp d the horses, else his whole hsnd
end probably his arm would have been
irswn in.
Afchison Champion: Before their
Justice Talbot agreed to give
bis wife all the fees received for marriage
and che consented that he
might kiss sll the brides. BE attempted
20 violste the contract the other day but
was detected in the act and forced to
yield Up the ducats.
An Augusta doctor named Hill is very
candid. In an advertisement he says:
n have closed my drug store, because
there was no money in it. I gave
George Brown q mortgage on my home
stead and cannot afford to have nv
,redis ruined, 20 come in Immediately
Ind settle your account"
When Senator Ingalls, was asked at
A.chison on election day to forecast The
days result in the country, he turned
ths question off with the remark that he
would tell the questioner privately the
morning. Political prophssy
mas become such venerable chestnut
hat Mr.. Ingai:s does not indulge in it.
The Rock Island company is row en-
gagged in constructing hotel building
1t NJ Fsrland, station about twenty
,ight miles west of Topeke, which will
'oon be used as the main eating station
N the Ksnsss division of the road. Dinner
Bros. will conduct the pl &c, and after
he 18th inst. the eating holse at Tope-
\ will be abandoned.