Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Importaut Bond Decision.

Cdtc WuO uOiUS Tue JULIUS SuCu VI. tuO
amount of which reaches the sum OF S72,-
600, and which were given 10 raise money
to build a court house, construct bridges
and meet the current expenses OF the
county. The bonds were issued in March,
1874, since which time no part OF the prin-
cipal or interest has been pal :. This action
is to recover only the interest remaining
unpaid, which is in excess of the principal.
being 1885, it having run for fourteen
years at the rate OF ten per centum per al
mum. The defense was that the county
was organized by fraud and perjury, the
Governor having been imposed on at the
time, and that the alleged officers fraudu-
lently issued and disposed OF them. The
judgment Of the court was in favor OF the
b0udholders. The case will be appealed.
Miscellaneous.
A PRINTER known AS Majors, formerly OF
Kansas City, Mo-, recently attempted sui
eide in the CammOnm~atth Office az Topeka,
by stabbing himself. He had been on q
protracted spree.
LATE reports to the Ednsa> Farmer from
eighty-tive counties OF the State showed
that on June l wheat was in good condi-
ton, never better. probably, at this stage
OF its growth. II the acreage was as large
as it WAS four years ago, the yield wou d
be fully as large. Oats are doing well,
heading short in some localities and in a
few places hurt by chinch bugs, but
there is very little complaint on that
account. The season is backward and
May was unusually cold, hence corn
is not as far along rs usual at this time
of the year. Still it has received
the last working in many parts Of the
southern counties. The stand is good, and
a greatly increased acreage is reported i'll
the western counties. A great deal of
rice corn, sorgum and alfalfa is being
grown. Millions of trees have been set out
and they are growing we'll Apples are
fuvOrably reported in most counties and so
are small fruits. Grasses are doing well
in most places. In the eastern counties
there is some complaints of dry weather
and bugs, but taking the State as whole,
the crops were never in better condition on
June l..
GOVERNOR MARTIN recently pardoned
John w. Reed, who was sentenced in April
last to serve one year in the Shawnee
County Jail for killing Rev. Mcintyre, OF
Clay Center last September. Judge Guth-
RE, before whom he was tried, and County
Attorney Curtis certified that the evidence
on the trial showed that the ia al blow was
struck by the son Of the prisoner and that
there was no malice on the part Of the con-
victed man. The son is fugitive from
justice.
ABOUT noon the other day fire broke
out in the Kansas City (Kan.) Ice Com
pany's houses at Lawrence, and the build
ings were soon in ruins. The loss was
81, OOO, on which the insurance was s., 00O
The body Of May Motley, one of the
sisters drowned near Wyantotte while
boating, was found about q week after the
accident just below Kansas City.
TIE Union Labor party Of the Third Con-
gressionai district recently rcnominated
Rev. w. H. Utley, of l.aberte County, for
Congress.
A CHARTER was recently filed with the
Secretary Of State of the Kansas River I'M
provement Company. of Quivera. the object
being Ito make the Kansas river navigable
for boats for the carriage of freight and
passengers from point on the Kansas
river near Quivera to Lawrence, ana for
the maintenance Of facilities for skating
rowing, yachting and other innocent sport"
The report of the railroad assessors show
an increase Of over $4,000, OOO in railway
valuations since last year, and 1000 miles
additional road. In 1857 the report showed
6,2l1.7O miles OF main track. This year the
amount of mileage foo:s up S, lS4 Gu miles Of
main track, with 964 miles of side track.
Such a record has never Teen made by any
State in the Union.
j. RAILsBACK, a prominent attorney of
Columbus, was placed under arrest the
other day charged with the ENLIGHTENMENT
Of about $4,000 from Jefferson Rainey, of
Be,leville, ILL.,. for whom he had been agent
and attorney for the past five or six years
for the purpose Of loaning money.
The State Sunday School Association
convention opened ut Abilene on the 9th
with about two hundred delegates and
many visitors in attendance. A children's
mass meeting was held in the afternoon.
In the evening the convention listened to
an able address Of welcome by Rev. w. A.
Welshe, D. D., Of the Baptist Church. Hon.
A. B. Jetmore, Of Topeka, delivered an elo-
Guent address, the title of which was
''Christianity More than Education the
Sure Foundation of Repu bic"
THE Russell Il Southeastern Railway
Company, capital stock $500, Co., recently
filed its charter with the Secretary of State.
The proposed line is from Russell to Hutch.
inson through Russell, Barton, Ellsworth,
Rice and Reno Counties, distance of
cightv-one miles.
ABOUT four o'clock the other afternoon
three armed men entered the town of Hugo
ton and a,temted to murder County Commits
sioner ]. B. Chamberlain, the city marshal
and Deputy United States Marshal Samuel
Robinson. Some thirty shots were fired,
but fortunately no one was wounded. The
Hugoton people Immediately turned cut
and were in hot pursuit when the would
be assassius left their buggies, mounted
their horses and made good their escape
A YEAR ago the county attorney o: Ste
vens County began proceedings against
Governor Martin to enjoin him from organ
iziug Grant County, which had been at
tached to Stevens County for judicial pur-
poses. The case was brought in the Shaw
nee dis riot court and Judge Guthrie rem.
dcred q judgment making the Injunction
perpetual. From this an appeal was taken
to the Supreme Court, which tribunal
recently dissolved the injunction, holding
that y county attorney had no authority to
sue in the district court beyond the limits
Of his own county in any matter in which
his own county was not especially inter-
ested.
kANRAs continues to boom.
JOHN STCDEBAKER, farmer hvinR near
Jetmore recently went from his field to
the home of Thomas Andrews anc shot him
dead in hrs own house. Studebaker was
arrested and there was strong talk Of
lynching, although he had for some time
been regarded as crazy. An old time feud
caused the crime.
The ten-yesr-old son Of c. W. Knapp re-
Gently attempted TO jump on q moving
~ hnF ~ll a. h. ,.hn
and was killed.
SENATOR PLUME has secured favorable
actin on the applications for pension Of
Ioeanh AMsfroxn Of Clar CnnAar and