Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-02-09
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$500 pounds and Morris County 6,0Oo
| pounds.
| Miscellaneous.
AT Wyandotte the other day Edith Glore,
aged three years, and her bother, aged two,
| upset q can Of kerosene oil while playing at
their home, and the girls clothing was
saturated. Shortly afterward her dress
| was ignlied from fire in the stove and she
| was burned SO shockingly that death en-
sued in three hours.
MISS LILLE d. PRICHARD, Of Millbrook,
| daughter of tho postmaster of that city,
and proprietor and editress Of the Graham
| County Democrat, recently committed sui
eide by hanging herself with rope from
an upstairs Office window. Cause is un-
| known.
TIE Secretary of the Interior has dis
missed the appeal of David W. Rignish, in
the case Of Alma Blanchard VS.. Rignish,
involving timber culture entry made at
the Garden City land-office. BY this de-
cision Miss Blanchard secures title to the
land.
The joint committee of the Kansas and
Nebraska Passenger Association was held
at Kansas City the other day for the pur.
/; pose of agreeing upon excursion rates into
Kansas AMI Nebraska. 1t was decided to
make a rate OF one fare for round trip from
Kansas City to all points in Kansas and
Nebraska exceeding forty miles west Of
that city. This rate will be made for ex-
cursions on March 81, April 4, April %,
May ., May g. June 6 and June 20.
TIE report of the superintendent of tho
| National Military Home at Leayenworth
shows that there arc 1865 inmates OF the
Home, at present, and that there are pres
emit and absent 1925. Thirty nine inmates
had been received which necessitated much
crowding up, no less than twenty-three of
the old soldiers being compelled to bunk on
the floor. New accommodations are very
much needed.
TEDDY HUM, young man Of Leaven-
worth, while recently driving:a nail struck
it obliquely and it few into his eyes, de-
stroying the sight Of both.
WHILE skating at Salina the other day,
with other boys, Oscar Ludgreen sketed
into an opening and was drowned.
On January % the State of Kansas was
twenty-seven years old, having been adj
mitted into the Union as a State January
20, 1857 The population of Kansas in
June. 1867. was 1877, 2C6. March, 1881, it was
1,514 54S. The assessed value Of property
in 1861 was $a4, 737, 459; in 1856 latest pub
lished assessment) it was $a77. So, Cos.
Mrs. IDA DENHAM, of Topeka, whose
husband recently left for parts unknown,
taking with him several hundred dollars of
the funds Of his employer, of Atchison,
was lately adjudged insane and sent to the
asylum. Grief over her husbands mis-
conduct and desertion is supposed to be the
cause Of her present sad condition.
The programme has been issued for the
annual meeting Of the Kansas State Medi-
cal Society, which will be held in Topeka,
May l, 2 and 3. All the railroads of Kansas
will give one and onc-third rates to this
meeting.
WILLIAM ROBERTSON, young farmer
living near Garden City, recently blew his
head of with a shotgun He had wife
and one child. Dependency and extreme
poverty reported to be the cause.
TWELVE cOnvicts were recently received
at the Fort Leavenworth military prison
from Texas.
THE railroads of the State have granted
the following reduction OF rates: One fare
to the G.. A. r. meeting at Winfield in
March, one fare to the /. o. 0. F. encamp-
ment at Fort Scott in March, one and one
third fare to the Kansas Medical Associa-
ton meeting at Topeka in April, and one
fare within radius Of 200 miles to Ottawa
for the Sunday school assembly next sum-
mer.
L. l.. HITCHCOCK, postmaster at VOltaire,
Sherman County, was recently arrested
upon the charge Of rifling registered let
ter.
The Pullman Palace Car Company re-
Gently applied to Judge Brewer, OF the
United States Circuit Court, for an injunc-
ton to restrain county treasurers in the
State from collecting taxes Of 1887 assessed
against that company by the various coun-
ties through which their cars pass. A
temporary Injunction was granted pending
o hearing.
LATE post-ofice changes in Kansas: Es-
tablished, bearing, Montgomery County,
jackson Andrews, postmaster; Kensing-
ton, Smith County, Lewis NJ. UhI, postmas.
ter; Nadeau, jackson County, Eli g. Ma
deau, postmaster; Shields, Lane County,
Ferdinand A. Louner, postmaster. Name
changed-Newkirk. Ford County, to Kings.
down, Clark Shelton, postmaster. Discon-
tlnuei, Cerro Gordo, Jewell County; Milo,
Lincoln County.
ATCHIsoN has developed a case Of cruelty
to child taken from Chicago convent.
The offender was q drummer. The orphan
was taken away from him add sent back to
the convent.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veter ans on
the Sd: James T. Nye, of Ell Dorado; Will
liam II. Gale, OF Kingsley; Austin Rick
nell, Of Mound Valley; John ]. Swesey, OF
Macksville; John d. Smith, Of Severance;
William Carter. Of Shockiey, and Benjamin
F. Keck, of Neodesha.
ATCHIsoN has ont undertaken.
The Governor recently received letter
from the chairman of the county commits
sioners Of Seward County stating that
there is no suffering in that county, and
the county needed no assistance from out
siders. A letter was also received from
the secretary Of the Meade Center board
Of trade asking the Governor to forward to
him any applications he had received from
Meade County for ard; that he was unable
to hear Of any distress in that county, and
il there should be any they were abundant
ly able to take care OF them.
II is said that coal oil was recently dis
covered near Emporia; also four-foot
vein of coal