Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-16
Miscellaneous.

WILLIAM MURRAY, convicted at Atchison
in 1875 of assault upon an eight ycar-od
girl and sentenced to the penl!entiary for
fifteen years, was recently discharged
having served out his time.
AT an assemblage Of $50 of the Benedic-
tine order Of monks at Pittsburgh, Pa, re-
Gently Right Rev. Innocent Wolf of A,chi-
son, was elected as successor of the late
Arch Abbot Wilmer. The election will
have 10 lie ratified at Rome.
The sheriff OF Harvey County recently
levied upon and cha ned to the track
Pullman coach on the Santa road at Hal
stead for the taxes due the county from
the Pullman Company foc the year 1885,
A FEARFUL and singular fatality recently
befell the family Of john Clark a farmer
residing near Leavenworth. Within four
days seven Of the family died, the father,
mother and five children, and three OF her
children were not expected to 1--we. In
vestlgation led 10 the disclosure of the
fact that some time last summer sixty head
of hogs had died Of cholera but short
distance from the we'll from which tie
family obtained water, the water icing con-
taminated and literally p ,'soning the whole
family.
JonN BENNETT, Of Elk Falls, has been
arrested and Leld for trial at Topeka for
sending obscene literature through the
mails.
A CONVENTION was he'd in Topeka on the
9th for the purpose of organizing the Henry
George United Labor party in Kansas.
Delegates were present from all parts Of
the State. The pla, form adopted at the
Syracuse convention was adopted entire,
and it was decided to put a full ticket in
the field this year. The Legislature was
memorialized to pass an act that all claims
for labor take precedence of all other
claims. A State Central Committee was
appointed, with Rev. w. r. GOOdnOW, of
Larned, chairman.
A RECENT dispatch from Minneapolis,
Mimi, says that two car loads of potatoes,
corn and food have been sent to the Kansas
sufferers from Pierre, Oak.
THREE accredited representatives from
Haskell County visited the Governor the
other day to get relief for the destitute peo-
pie in that county. They represented many
people as being very destitute, suffering
for food and clothing and without means to
supply themselves with seed for spring
planting.
MIKE COLLINS while on protractcd
spree, recently attempted suicide at Wy
andotte by cutting mis- throat. He only
succeeded in SOLDERING up.
ARTICLES Of consolidation were recently
filed with the Secretary OF State for the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Gulf railroad,
the Rich Hill railroad. the Short Creek &
Joplin railroad. the Kansas & Missouri
railroad, the Fort Scott, Southeastern &
Memphis railroad and the Memphis Color
ado & Kansas road. These roads as con-
soldated are to be known as the Kansas
City, Fort Scott & Springfield railroad. The
capital stock is 81, 600.
IT is stated that vein Of coal Of excel
lent quality was recently found in Salt
Creek canyon Scott County. just north Of
Scott City. The find outcrops in the can
yon at depth of thirty feet below the sur
face
SARATOGA is 10 have new bank.
MARION CUNNINGHAM, ranchman living
in Scott City. attempted suicide the other
night by taking strychnine. As soon as he
took the poison he mounted his pony with
out saddle or bride and started toward his
ranch nine miles distant. A party Of men
started in search of him but owing to the
pouring rain and the darkness were unable
to follow him far. He was found next
morning at ranch eight miles north in a
found lying dead on the prairie about two
months ago his horse having thrown him
and fallen on him VIII le herdlng cattle.
kansas has 8, 1913 miles of railroad in OPP
GRAFTON within her borders.
W. P. BRowNLEE, Register Of the land
ofice at Larned. has had his resignation
called for by Secretary Villas.
TIE total earnings Of the penitentiary
for January were SIS s5z 19, and the total
expenditures were $1ASSl Two Thousand
dollars Of the expenditures were for royal
ties paid to owners Of land on which coal
was mined. On January l the prison
population was 9i4. Twenty-seven con-
victs were received during the month,
twelve were released, Que pardoned, twen-
ty-three sentences expired, six died and
one convict was returned By 0rLer Of the
Supreme Court, leaving 92S convicts in the
penitentiary on February l, decrease Of
seventeen during the month. There has
been q decrease Of sixty conyicts in the
penltentiary since May, 1857.
THREE persons were recently hurt near
Hillsdale hy being struck BY train.