Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-01-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

s. HERNoN was recently convicted at
Wichita on 2OS counts in an Indictment for
selling liquor and fined so, $40 aud SEN
fenced to seventeen years and four months
in Jail.
SMALLPOX in violent form has broken
out at Wichita.
The handsome residence of Senator
ingalls, at Atchison was destroyed by fire
On the morning of the 18th. It was be-
lieved to have been robbed aud set on fire.
No one was IN the house at the time, the
family being in Washington. The loss is
S25, COO; insured for $500. The Senator's
library, containing ESQ volumes, and many
valuable papers. was burned. All that
was saved was the piano and few chairs
and pictures.
PENSIONS granted Kansans on the 18th:
Susan L., widow Of Charles Haupt, Pea
body. Mexican war, Thomas j. WilbersOn,
Holton; Benjamin F. Morelv, National Nil
itary Home; James Duty. Tonganoxie;
Austin Handy. Chase. Original, John
Hirth, Stirling; Benjamin F. Corbi.l, Hunt
ingdon; William Chambers, Fawn Greek;
William w. Everett, Cool; Ransom d. Kel-
sey, Sterling; Elnar Quisley, Leroy.
". E. TREADwELL, the cattle king of
Southwestern Kansas, recently shot and
killed his former partner, Charles c. Clark,
in the latter's room at Anthony. Treadwell
was reported to be in a very critical condi-
ton, his reason being entirely dethroned.
The cause Of the difficulty was Jealousy On
the part Of TreadwelL who fancied that
Clark was too familiar with his dread
wclFs) divorced wife.
W. S. CLARK and j. W. Fox were scufil-
ing in Topeka billiard room the other
night when Clark was borne backward
and his foot became entangled in the
rounds Of chair. While in this position,
he fell and Fox came down across him with
such force that Clark's leg was broken just
above the ankle.
The Board of Railroad Commissioners
has received from the Missouri Pacific rail-
road the new tariff, just issued applying
on ali lines on that system in Kansas, in
GLIDING the Fort Scott, Wichita Il Western
excepting the central branch Of the
Union Paclfic-making sweeping reductions
in freight rates. In nearly every instance
the rates are lower than the schedule
agreed upon by the Board of Railroad Com
mssiOners. For Il distance OF 100 miles the
rate on frst-class merchandise is now made
so cents instead of IS cents. The fourth
class rate IS reduced from 35 cents to 90
cents per 100; the rate on lumber ia re-
duced from 16 cents to Is cents; soft coal,
from eight cents TO "a cents; cement and
plaster, from Is cents to So cents; wheat,
from II cents to Isl cents; the rate on cat
tie in carloads is reduced from three dol
lars to one dollar per car for the first five
days. The Santa Fe's new tariff rate will
make the same reductions as the Missouri
Pacific.
A COMMITTEE composed of Judge John
Guthrie, OF Topeka; j. B. ClOgston, OF
Eureka; 7. A. Hurd, Of Leavenworth, and
J. ID. Mcfarland, Of Topeka, has prepared a
report for submission to the State Bar AS
ISOLATION concerning the imperfections OF
the present judicial system in Kansas and
recommending a revision and remode!ing
of the organic law. The report shows that
the present constitution was entirely ade-
quate at the time OF its adoption, when the
population was limited, but the State has
since increased beyond the expectation Of
the trainers Of the constitution, and the or
ganic law fails utterly to meet the require
mcnts of the Kansas of to-day. The JUS
tees Of the Supreme Court have more cases
brought to them than they can possibly dis
pose of properly in the interest Of public
policy. As Il remedy for all these defects
either constitutional convention Or All
amendment of the entire judiciary articles.
In boring for gas at Winfield the other
day a thirty-inch vein of coal was passed
through at a depth Of 1,03) feet. At 1,l3G
feet strong vein of salt was struck.
JOSEPH SPLITLOG, son of Matthias Split
log, the millionaire Wyandotte Indian, died
suddenly the other day while returning to
4 h.. uo haI ,,t Fo,,,
days previous been in Wyandottc, attend
ing to his fathers business. He was
twenty-siX years OLD.
TIE city marshal of Leavenworth and
William DILL acting for Attorney General
Bradford, have been put under arrest for
trespass in the seizure and carrying away
OF the stock of ]. Gcorgetta, an alleged sa-
loon keeper, before trial or action was had
under the statutes provided by the State
law for such cases.
THERE are in Kansas over 800 National
banks with capital of over s50,O0O,OOO.
THERE were in Washington one day re-
Gently five exGovcrnors Of Kansas, viz:
Robinson, Carney, Crawford, Harvey and |
Osborne ]
INFORMATION was recently filed with the |
grand jury at Wichita charging G. NJ. Rice, |
one of the most prominent farmers Of the |
with forgeries amounting to al |
most $4,000 1t is alleged that he forged |
the names of several of his neighbors, not |
only as makers. but as indorsers OF prom
ssory notes. Rice can not be found, and
is said TO have left tho county.
TIE soldiers home at Leavenworth con-
tains 1,5S7 veterans.
J. A. LISvILLE, who was for some !
months prominent attorney at Garden
City, was recently taken there under ar
rest from Denver and placed in Jail on a
charge Of forging deed TO real estate and
raising $500 on it some three months ago.
He had quietly left Garden City before the
rhine was discovered, leaving numerous
unpaid bills.
THE Superintendent Of Insurance says
hat the Provident Fund Society OF New
York, which is trying to do business in
Kansas, is wildcat concern and has 10
authority to do business in the State.
MITCHELL Roach, a well-to-do farmer,
living five miles west of Horton, while
Irving across the Chicago. Kansas 4 Ne
,raska railway track the other afternoon,
vas struck by the engine OF the east-bound
train and Instantly killed.
REPRESENTATIVE PERKINS. from the Com
nittee on Indian Affairs, has reported fa-
'orably to the House his bill providing for
he sale of New York Indian lands in Kan
as This bill provides thai ''hcads of fam
lies or single persons over twenty-onc
ears of age, who have made settlement
nd improvement upon and are bona fide
occupants of said lands, shall be permitted
t any time within one year from the pas
age Of the act to purchase them at $3.50
YER acre"
LUDELL wants good brick yard.
THE State Board Of Pharmacy has sub
nitted its first annual report to the Gov ,
rnor. Tho board believes that the law (
reating it and requiring examinations be- !