Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

AANOAO STATE NEWS
The Kansas State Musical Society will
bold its next annual meeting ut Topeka on
May l, 2 and 3.
PATENTS granted Kansas inventors for
the week ended February Il; Plumb-level
Edwin A. Wentworth, sAtchison; clamp,
William c. Stickler, Belle Plain; corn har-
vester and husker, Charles F. Smith,
Hutchinson; spark arrester, William Giles,
Parsons; end-gate, James NJ. King, Bene-
dict; windmill, Leonard A. Cooper, Atchi-
son; electric bell, William F. Stocker, Eu-
reka (2).
The Laveuer livery barn at Girard
burned at three o'clock tho other morning,
together with ten head of horses, two
mules. all the bugg es and other property.
The horses We're insured for 81, 800 but
there was no insurance on the building.
THE bill to quiet the title to . quarter
section OF land in Usage County has passed
both houses Of Congress. 1t renders per-
feet the title to the land upon which Is
located the homes Of nearly 1000 resi-
dents Of Lyndon.
K w. Brown, colored, was recently ar.
rested at Wyandotte, for fraudulently rep
resenting himself to be pension agent and
swlndllng colored people. His scheme was
to obtain fee from his victims and give
them bogus order for back pensi ons.
The recent appearance of CHAMBERS at
several stables in Leavenworlh created
much uneasiness among owners of horses
at that place.
AMOS HosTETTER, a section hand on the
Rock Island, was struck by train recent
~ near Partridge and instantly killed. He
leaves six children.
For some time past affldavits have been
accommodating rejecting upon the profess
sional integrity of some of the attorneys
praclicing before the United States land
Office at Larned, in consequence of which
some Of them have had their permits to
practice suspended. One Of the at; orneys
suspended has made complaint against Re-
ceiver Bickel and Special Agent Rowe for
conspiring to injure him, and another has
brought suit against Agent Rowe for SlO,-
100 damages.
JUNCTION CITY proposes to bore for coal
in the spring.
The Governor recently pardoned Tim
Highiman, who was convicted Of murder
in Labetle County in 1878 and sentenced to
hang. This action was recommended by
the Board of Pardons from the fact that
Highlman killed his friend while crazed
with liquor and not from premeditated
malice. He has been in the penitentiary
nearly ten years.
PRoCEEDiNGs wore recently begun in the
Supreme Court by the At orney General
against I. A. Scates and w. w. Klmball,
county commissioner; Oliver Leisure,
county clerk, and a. d. Morrill,, county at
torney, charging them with having de-
frauded Seward County out CT nearly ST.
QUO by the allowances of fraudulent claims
against the county. 1t is also charged
against the county attorney that he de-
manded and received money from persons
charged with violating the Prohibition law,
promising aud giving them immunity from
prosecution. The Attorney General pre-
santed affidavits substantiating all the
charges OF fraud and pcculation.
THE remains of newy-born babe were
recently found under sidewalk at Topeka
The miners in the different coal mines at
Leavenworth have struck because of a re-
duction OF one cent FER bushei paid for
mining. About 400 men went out.
AT the late meeting Of the Grand Lodge
A. F. and A. NJ. ut Junction City the
charter OF Delta lodge No. n, of
Medicine Lodge, was revoked on &C
count Of immortality and intemperance
new lodges were organized in
Kansas during the past year, making q
total of 2SS.
Mrs. MCLAIN, OF Kansas City (Kan.) re-
Gently sent her seven-year old son, Willie,
to store near by on an errand since which
he had not been heard OF. Mrs. McLain is
q cousin of Mrs. Weber, of the same
locality, whose eight year-Old daughter dis
appeared in an exactly similar manner two
years ago and has never been heard Of
The Masonic Grand Lodge at its late ses-
sion elected the following officers: w. NJ
Lamb. Sterling, G. M. !; George C. Kenyon,
D. G. MI. c. Poselwaite, Jewell
City, S. G. W.; J. H. Brown, Wyandotte,
G. s.. Christian Beck, Leavenworth, G. T.
The lodge will meet at Wichita next year.
THE Board OF Purdons recently recon-
mended the pardon Of Jacob Cumberland
who is now in the penitentiary under SEN
terce of death, but who is thought to be
ndoubtedly innocent of the crime of which
be was convicted. He was convicted in
Neosho County. in 1888 upon the oath of
his wife who charged him with the murder
Of their ffteen-year-old son. Investigation
by the board led to the belief that the boy
killed himself while shooting at
q mark and tho woman, who had the re-
putation of being vixen, had deliberately
swore his life away out Of revenge.
LATE post-ofice changes in Kansas:
Berdena, Doniphan County,
Victor E. Ludwig postmaster; Elmont,
Shawnee County, Edward N. Ackley, post
master; Lone Walnut Lincoln County,
Israel NJ. Lyme, postmaster; Menager,
"a
master; Piper, Wyandotte County, Robert
E. Brown postmaster. Discontinued, Belle
Meade, Meade County Fox, Harper County;
New Tabor, Republic County; VicksburC,
Neosho County: Vinton Riley County.
Name Changed, Prospect, Repub bile County,
o CORTLAND, John A. johnson postmaster.
A FELLOW BY the name Of Fred Williams
Who some time ago abused and deserted his
Invalid wife, at Topeka, and who took
'efuge in Canada, recently wrote to the
woman that he is now volunteer
n the Salvation Army and wishes her to
DIN it also.
A BOY named Ashburn, who was at
empting to steal ride, recently fell un-
Ter the cars at Garrett and had both legs
,ut of.
PENSIONS were granted the following
Kansas veterans on the 18th: Original,
Invalid, Joshua s. Green, Cairo; Solomon
,. Brown, Topeka; Leonard G. WILDER,
Baxter Springs; Charles May, Independ-
nee; Samuel A. Seachrist Custer. In
rease, Nathan W. Allen, Scottsville;
George W. Candy, Topeka; John Everett,
treat Bend; Conrad Jones, Burden; Ed
yard L. Carter, Oskaloosa; James Smith,
Hen Elder; James Slauen, Glen Elder;
William F. Wetherholt, North Topeka. |
original, widow of George W. Benjamin,
'homas. Mexican war, Benjamin w. March,
'oronto.
HIGHLAND lately had e, 600 fire.
The hardware establishment of II. L. |