Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

f!!lr h othc: i: v Grant Mccoy was over
coEc ~ foul ar when ten feet below tn
surface ana lei! from the bucket to tn
bottom distance Of Ef,y-nvc ieet, and wa
IiIled instantly.
The MethGdists have in Kansas 81, %
members aud - lJ2 probatiorers. The,
aave Goa churches valued at Sl,676 40, an
go rarsonaCes valued al $322. 635 beside
-! Sunday schools with 93y officers an,
eachers and G5,0C6 scholars. The tCta
amount paid out for pastors, presiding
ELDERS and bishops the past year was 1907,
81.
JIMMIE STEVENS. the seven-year-old sol
d Ira Stevens, living north OF Scott City
vas bitten by rattiesn AXE recently Will
reaching INTO a Eole for rabbit. He die
about eight hours after being bitten.
The explosion Of a keg OF powder in Meal
pines rock quarry, two miles west OF Wyan
1oue, the other morning. seriously injured
three Iaborers who were working there
Their names were Well, Schmidt ant
Moore.
ETHEL ELLIS. the fve-year-old daugh
ter OF respectable and Industrious col
bred people Of North Lawrence, fell into
atub OF hot water in which considerable
lye had been piac ID the other day and was
so seriously scalded that she died soor
after.
WILLIAM 81. HARDIN, soldier OF the
Mexican war and sol her of T. Company,
lwcnty-fifth Indiana Infantry in the civil
war. aged about seventy years, was in
ttantly killed about eight o'clock the other
nornipg while walking on the Santa Fe
railroad track near the Soldiers Home al
Leavenworth. Hardin was just at the end
hf the trestlc work near the home when he
was struck by passing train and thrown
hcadlopg down the euIbankment.
CITY CHEMIST w. ID. CHURCH, after care
ful investigation, has pronounced the water
supply Of Topeka impure and unhealthy
Tor drinking purposes. Chemists smployed
by the board OF health. however, assert
positively 10 the contrary, and 50 doctors
disagree.
TnE population Of Kansas City, Kan, in
creased 1881 The past year, the late census
showing a population of ;i:5 O6.
The farmers OF the central and western
PORTIONS of the State have harvested their
wheat and the yield will be ply enor-
Eous, unequaeu IN the past history Of
those sections. 1t is claimed by some
localities in the wheat belt that The WELD
will average from thirty-iive TO forty five
bushels to the acre.
An excursion train on its return from
california and running as the second sec
ton Of No. q, was wrecked at Braddock,
west OF Ernporia, the other day. A broken
rall caused the wreck and four cars jumped
the track. Several people were slightly
injured and the rolling stock was consider
ably broken up.
THE Republican State convention to
nominate State officer, meets at Topeka
July %
The Union Labor party OF the Second
district IN convention recently held At
q athe, nominated Delos Walker, CT An
derson County, for Congress.
II. {. EAGER, a prominent Qoeensware
merchant Of Wichita, was awakened the
other night by noise in the kitchen and
sprinclng out OF bed, revolver in hand,
rushed TO the door and fired at a human
form Which unfortunately proved to be
that OF his wife, who hal gone into the
kitchen Tor drink OF water. The ball
struck her on the right shoulder, causing
painful though not serious wound.
PENSION AGENT CLICK has received no
ticc from the Pension Bureau OF the pas
sage OF the Pension Appropriation bill
The bill nppropriates $SD, 0OO,0J0 for this
purpose, s., 0OO,OO0 Of which will be dis
trlbuted during the coming fiscal year at
the Topeka agency.
Two railroad employees at Horton, by the
name OF Alfred Pete and Eugene Malone,
recently had quarrel, when Malone
struck Pete over the head with a club In
fiictin2 fatal injuries.
THE other day a Missouri Pacific passen-
ger train was wrecked sew nteen miles
west Of Atchison while running thirty
miles an hour. The wreck was caused by
the spreading OF the rails. Several per-
sons were injured, the most serious OF
which was George Kruckemeyer, of St. |
Louis a butcher by trade.
AT convention Of the Union Labor par !
~ Of the First district, recently held at |
Atchson, A. }. Graves was nominated for |
Cong ess.
PENSIONS lately granted to Kansaus:
Original invalid. John f. Modes 1T, Mel. |
rose; Simon Y. +. Dixon, Gatesville: Thad-
deus PlXiey, Ionia; AbIn Bradley, Cotton.
wood Falls; Iighman Dale, Joash; VIII
liam Julian, Emporia. Increase, Philip
Hauk, Mankato; Peter A. Pfeger. Wyan-
dotte; Charles A. Cooley, Glasco; Daniel
Toibert, CarbOudale; Henry T. Dimmitt,
Candy; Harvey 7. Donnell. Waverly:
George p A kInson, Concord.a; BENJAMIN
L. dTs |
ia; Almeron w. Stiilwell. Fcrt Scott;
Henry &. Go per, Belleville; James Gan
non. National Military Home; William W.
White, Burlngame. Survivor OF 1872.
special act. Anurew Franklin. alias Mckee,
Eui lincton. Reissue, William A. Robinson,
Absalom Schall. Lawrence:
Preston Robins IN, Alnena Original wild
ows etc. Alice NJ. widow OF Thomas M.
hustod Topeka; Naomi, widow of David
Branson. Oswego; Fannie T., widow Of
Reuben Frey, Great Il mi: Armina, widow
Fielding II. Pope. Shockey.
THE Comptroller Of the Currency has
au hurZed The Finnev County National
Bank Of Garden City to begin business with
a capital stock OF Se5,O00.
A CHARTER was recently fled OF the
Farmers Irrigating Canal Company Cap
tal stock, SS,CC0, the purpose being to irri
gate farm lands 10 kearney and Finney
Countess, the water II be obtained by dam
ming the Arkansas RIVER.
SETTLERS Of Cheyenne Countv, suspect.
ng Patrick McLauyh lin OF being jmpi
.:'ted in extensive horse ,hefls, recently I
organized glance committee, strung {
aim up one night, and extorted a confession {
which L was thoug 1t would lead to the ar
est of The Whose gang of thieves Nc
-*ughiin was badly injured q
WILLIAM DCCAT was recently arrested !
It Topeka, charged with forgery. hrving.
was claimed, signed the name OF W. B. q
turphy to hot for thirty dollars, or b
h ch he ob,aiuei the money at a LOAF g
flee. =
sPLENDID rains lately.
SECRETARY MoHL-R, OF the State Board
I Agriculture. gives glowing account of b
he condition OF crops in the Northwest and ..
''rthern Kansas. The wheat crop from
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