Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-01-26

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pictures, l7O; miscellaneous contributions,
81; scrip, currency. ETC., 5. Thus it will be
seen that the library additions Of books,
pamphlets and newspaper files puring the
year numbered 3,413 volumes. OF these
B. 1sS have been procured by gift. aid 225
| by purchase. The total OF the library at
| the present time is a. follows: 9 092 bound
volumes; %, 100 unbound volumes; 6,J.3
| bound newspaper files and volumes Of pc
| riodica!s: in all, IS. S54. Hon. u. W. Wilder
sent IN his resignation as president Of the
society, and Hon. Ed. Russell, of Lawrence.
was chosen president. Hon. W. A. Phil
| lips, of Sa,ina, was elected vice-president
to succeed Major Williams, who had re-
| moved from the State.
! miscellaneous.
THE county seat fight that had been
wagvd in Sherman County for the past
| year eliminated recently in raid by fifty
| armed men from Goodland who marcIed TO
Eustis and fore. bly, carried of the county
records.
AN east-EOund passenger train on tho
Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska railroad. was
| recently thrown from the track by a
broken rail, about fifteen miles west Of
| Topeka, while running at the rate Of thirty
miles an hour. Two Pullman and the
chair car went down an cmbankment and
! fully dozen passengers were injured,
none, however, fatally. The most severely
| injured person was William Callahan, Il
con, ractor of the road, whose right arm
was SO badly crushed that amputation be-
| tween the elbow and shoulder was neces-
| sary.
| CAPTAIN CoUCH, of Oklahoma fame, re-
| Gently said that there Is no truth whatever
| in the stories that an organization is being
| formed in Southern Kansas or anywhere
else for the purpose of forcbIy entering
Oklahoma, nor is Il large quantity of arms
| being raised for resisting the army. He
| says that it is true that there is an Okla
| homa organic cation with quite large men,
bershp and that the number of persons
| who desire to secure homes in Oklahoma is
| rapidly increasing. but there has not been
| an effort made in the last two years, except
to secure legislation at the hands of Con-
| gress.
fATsNTs recently issued to Kansas in
| ventors: N. c. Barnes, Mulllnvlile, sully
attachment for plows, F. l.. Beard, Pleas
| ant Ridge, bob-sicd; j. e. Rusenbarrich
| and G. L. Mitchell, Robinson, rotary grain
| measure; j. w. Craig, COyvlile. corn
planter; o. 2. Daily, Smith Center, heating
| stove; Alfred Ho.iingsworth, Union Val
ley, corn harvester; Wesley Nave, South
Haven, at: achnent for cultivators; A. Per-
kins, Clifton, draft equalizer; Z. N. Viii
liams, Bonita check row corn planter.
In the Leavenworth district court the
| other day Hon. Lucien Baker moved TO
Quash the application made by the Assist
ant Attorney General William Dill, to re-
strain Joe Georgclta from doing business
| under the ProhiOiiOry law, setting forth
that tue application was signed by the AS
sistant and not by the principal, and the
officer acting under the title OF Assistant
A;torney-General was not a legal officer,
because the law creating this Office did not
express the fact IN the title. Judge Croz err
ruled that he could not entertain Mr..
Bakers motion, but decided that he could
not act upon the application Of Mr.. Dill
until it was verified either by the principal
or county attorney.
THE project of erecting a Grant monu-
meut at Fort Leavenworth is again being
discussed with view to success and for
which u fund of 81. 500 has already been
raised General Wesley Merritt, in COM
mand Of the department Of the Missouri
and ex-otficio president of the Grant Monu-
ment Association, has sent out circular
letter 20 the members of the association
calling a meeting at his headquarters to
take the necessary stems looking to the
erection of a statue or monument. In the
letter he states that it is important that
the money be expended for the purpose for
which it was subscribed with the least
practicable delay. 1t is understood that
members of the Loyal Legion in st. Louis
have interested themselves in the matter
and are having models prepared.
". S. IRWIN, of Emporia, formerly
railway conductor, became mentally de-
ranged the other morning and male a b'u-
tai attack on his wife, attempting TO brain
her with heavy cane, but was frustrated
bv the interference OF his son and daugh-
ter Some time ago he was badly injured
by the fail of IA bridge and has been subject
TO similar attacks
AN order has been issued substituting
an exchange of through registered pouches
between Kansas City, Mo-, and Dodge City,
Kan.
EIIJAu MOORE, who had been resident
of Emporis for over twenty-five years, AMI
who had always been cons dercd one OF the
pest citizens and in coed circumstances,
skipped out the other day leaving bankers,
merchants and neighbors generally in the
lurch. He owned much valuable property
and upon the reputation Of being wealthy
borrowed large sums Of money. Investiga
ton showed that his property was covered
with morris cages to its full value.
A MAN by the name Of Mooney was lately
discovered at Newton to be sleeping on the
bare floor of = room i'll the seconi story OF
i, building with nothing but bags ter a
covering during the coolest weather, and
without even a stove. He even attempted
to live on one scanty meal a day. There
seemed to be no doubt about his mind BE-
ing shattered He is worth from S2J.00O to
IS 100 in real estate and in money with no
living relative except u sister, and her
residence is not known.
d. B. HALL was lately arrested at Hutch
inson for forgery. He raised a check that
had been paid him from s.. S. to S92.oa
ANOTHER cold snap on the 10Th.
LATE post-office changes in Kansas: Es-
tablished, Mahaska, Washington County,
George H. Cook, postmaster. Discontinued,
Aroma. Dickinson County; Avon, Coffee
County; Dixon, Butler County; Middle
Branch, Hoigeman County; Mount Nebo,
Pratt County; Parker, MONTGOMERY
County; Sitka, Clark County; Sunset,
Sumner County.
THE sale of SIS acres of coal lands adloin-
ing the city limits of Leavcnworth on the
south was consummated the other day, the
purchasing parties being syndicate OF
Leayenyyorth men who have organized
,,orononv and will nroceed to sink shafts