Dodge City times., 1888-05-03


convention be held at an early date after
Senators elect to the Legislature in sym
place of meeting to b. named by an execu-
tive committee appointed.
Miscellaneous.
HENRY HENAN, farmer living near Six
Mile, Wyandotte County, drowned himself
the other day in a pond while temporarily
insane. Mr.. Henan was suffering from a
severe attack Of pneumonia. He became
delirlous and walked out of the house.
Three hours later his body was found in a
pond short distance away. Henan was
sixty-three years old and one of the NEST
prominent farmers in the county.
THE son Of a Shawnee County farmer
was recently fined one dollar and costs,
S17.95 in all, for cruelty beating a young
calf
WALTER TREADwELL, the Southern Kan
sas cattle king, was recently tried at An
thony for the killing Of George Clarke, his
former partner, and ACQUITTED. Treadwell
proved to the satisfaction of the jury that
Clarke had led Mrs. Treadwell astray and
that the shooting was committed in the
heat of passion caused by his wrongs.
A FIRE in the paint shop of the Santa
Fe shops at Topeka recently destroyed q
lot Of second hand material and seriously
jeopardized the main buildings.
The soldiers'home at Leavenworth is to
have a new library building, 4Sx94 feet,
at q cost of $4,000. The money to carry
out this project is part of bequest left
by Mr.. Ward, OF England, who died re-
Gently and left sum of money to be- de-
voted to such purposes in America.
In the claim of Joseph Richard, of Kan
sas, amounting to s., $50, for depredations
committed in 1860 by Kiowa Indians, the
Secretary Of the Interior finds the loss
sustained to be 81, $50, and has authorized
that amount to be allowed in full satisfac-
tion Of the claim.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BRADFORD has re-
ceived tho following list OF Leavenworth
social clubs which have taken out Govern
ment permits to sell Intoxicating liquors:
Merchants, Bucktails, League, Massasoit,
North Leavenwortb, National, South End,
Leavenworth Amusement, Commercial,
Fellow Workmen Union and U. Know. The
Attorney General said that it was his in.
tention to at once institute legal proceed
ings against these organizations for the
violation of the Prohibitory law.
ENOCH CHASE, one Of the founders Of
Topeka, died in that city the other day ut
the age of sixty-three years.
THE Ellsworth Mining Company recently
struck salt in o second well.
A LATE storm at Pratt demolished a
number of houses. William Fishers resi-
dence was destroyed and his wife fatally
injured.
EMIL LINHAs, q Leavenworth coachman,
recently suicided by shooting himself. No
cause known.
SECRETARY Villas Is reported as saying
that ne knows from the President himself
that the Garden City and Larned land
Offices will not be consolidated.
THE Republican convention of the First
District recently met at Leavenworth and
unanimously renominated Hon. E. N.
Morrill, for Congress. Cy. l. land, OF
Doniphan and James NJ. Gray bill, Of
Leavenworth, were chosen delegates to the
Chicago convention, and Lon w. Robinson
district Presidential Elector.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has issued proclama-
tion raising the quarantine against Cook
County Ill) cattle.
ODD FELLOWS of the State generally cele-
brated the sixty-ninth anniversary Of the
Order on the 18th.
The residence Of James Mclaughlin, at
Topeka, was burned the other day and his
daughter Mary, aged six years, and Annie
Evans, domestic, nineteen years old,
were burned to death in the building, and
Mrs. Mclaughlin was also seriously
burned. The fire was caused by the ex-
plosion of gasoline while lighting vapor
stove.
A HUMAN skull has been excavated near
Garden City, at depth Of 135 feet. 1t was
in q good state Of preservation.
KINsLEY has discovered new source of
wealth in its water power, which is said to
possess force equivalent to that of 500
horses.
WESTERN Kansas booms.
JOHN MANNAx, twenty years old, a brake
man on the Missouri Pacific road, was
killed at the foot Of Armstrong street in
Kansas City, Kan, at nine o'clock the
other night by north bound freight train.
Mannax was riding ON the train and in
some manner was thrown upon the tracks
and killed instantly. The train proceeded
north and when about two miles out Of the
city the brakeman was missed.
JUDGE g. d. LECOMPTE, one Of the prom
inent figures in Kansas during the exciting
times Immediately preceding the rebellion,
died at the residence of his son in Kansas
City, Mo-, on the 24tn, at the age Of seven
ty-four years.
TIE post-offices at George, Pawnee Coun-
ty, and Newbury, .Wabaunsee County, have
been discontinued
PATENTS issued to Kansas inventors for
the week ended April %: Metallic shingle,
Edpar f. Barker. junction City; saw
iointer, Charles r. Black, Topeka; mill
feed, Gottlieb Heller, Dillon; vapor burner,
Edward g. Martin, Coucordia; rotary
engine, James E. Snevely, Chetopa; line
protector, Frank C. York, Salina
FRED CAxx and Lon Case, were recently
fined and given thirty days in Jail at
Wellington for violating the Prohibitory
law. Their stock Of liquors, making full
dray load, was publicly destroyed on q
prominent street by toe sheriff in front Of
An admir1ng and enthusiastic crowd Of
citizens.
Two miners by the name Of Cook were
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