Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

A NAN supposed to be Edward Bowers.
of Wano. Kan, was recently found by a
farmer buried to the armpits in quick
sand in the Republican river near BeEkel.
man. Neb. He was rescued with difficulty.
There was on his person 3, 900 in currency,
but his mind was entirely gone as result
Of his terrible experience.
JOSEPH BECKMAN, tailor forty. years
old, suicided at Horton recently by hang
ing himself He had been on spree and
left letter stating that he loved a widow
and wanted 10 die.
The Kansas City, Wyandotte & North
western road gave the delegates to the
International Typographical Union an ex-
cursion to Leavenworlh and the Soldiers
Home during the recent annual session at
Kansas City.
The body of a woman named Stewart
was recently found in the river at l. aGeu-
worth. She hal been missing about a
week. She was not a resident Of that city,
but was said to have been looking for her
husband who is or was a soldier.
AT the recent meeting of the State Sun
day School Association at Abilene tue fol-
lowing officers were elected for the ensu-
ing year: President, j. W. Love, Wichita;
treasurer, c. H. Lebold, Alb lene: record
ing secretary. Prof. Frank Kiezer. Downs ::
executive committee, j. w. Redden, j. q.
Haskell, T. E. Dewey, II. C. Rash, E. W.
Cunningham. J. W. Campbell, L. B.
Sweet, W. Rymer, B. F. Watson. A petit
tion wus adopted to be sent to Congress to
enact law prohibiting Sunday work in the
mail service and other departments OF the
Gnvornnout aud alSo nnfifiCn IN thu Rp-
publican National convention to insert in
their platform plank against Sunday
work for workingmen and u clear indose
meut Of prohibition. McPher-on was de-
cided upon as the place for the next con-
vention.
The Supreme Court has confirmed the
sentence in the case Of j. II. Marlborough.
who was convicted Of the murder Of l. d.
Collier, son OF DR.. Robert Laird Collier,
formerly OF Kansas City. at Emporia on
November %, 1876.
PATENTS lately issued to Kansas in
veniOrs: Thill coupling, +. w. Allen,
Chanate; machine for excavating, Charles
s. Jones, Yates Center: Combined wire
tightener and staple driver and extractor,
Fiangus G. McHenry and II. Martin.
BlOomington: folding step. Alexander Il.
Nichols, Bronson; harness rack Emory
Phillips and A. N. Edwards, Wichita;
hame attachment, Robert +. Russell. abb
lene; hamestring, Robert F. Russell. Abb
lene; srapple, William H. Wiley, Stock
ton; clawbar, Archibald r. Wyg!e, King
man.
SCOTT CITY has been selected as the place
In which TO build the female college Of the
Episcopal Church for Western Kansas, and
building will be erected this summer and
arrangements made for opening the school
in the fall.
The AttorneyGeneral has begun man
damus proceedings against the county
commissioners Of Stevens County to COM
pei them to canvass the vote cast ut the
recent railroad bond election III that coun-
ty. Chief Justice Horton, Of the Supreme
Court, granted an alternative writ ordering
the commissioners to meet and canvass
the vote on June q, or show cause why
they should not do so July 5.
THE second trial of E. E. Weldon for
killing Harrison Tut, al old colored man,
in WyandOtte, November !, 1887, wa. con-
c!uded in the Wyandotte district court re.
Gently, the jury finding a verdict Of MUIR
der in the second degree. The lowest
penalty for the crime IS ten years in the
penitentiary.
SHELBY's circus and menagerie was re-
Gently wrecked by wind storm at Odell
during the performance. The tent was
blown down and fifteen persons injured,
the most serious being Arthur Devo, skull
fractured, and a girl named Hokc, hip
broken.
Z THE Governor has issued proclamation
organizing Grant County, with Ulysses us
the county seat.
On the l4th Marsh Durbin. employed by
the Missouri Pacific road as wiper was
killed at Wyandotte by being thrown from
train, which rau over him. On the same
day Austin Mobiles, a colored boy, was
killed on the Wyandotte & Northwestern
road by jumping from high trestIe to es-
cape an approaching train.
AT Argentine the other night an I'M
known man fell from Santa Fe train and
both his legs were cut OF below the knees
He was carried to a house, where he died
next day.
THE executive com mittee Of the Service
Pension Association of Kansas recently
met at Emporla for the purpose of advanc-
ing the interests of the association. A
resolution was adopted admitting all citi-
Gems, male and female. to honorary mem
bership on payment OF membership fee.
The annual convention OF the State Tenn
rerance Union, lately in session at Topeka,
adopted resolution denouncing 1.-The state.
ment that Prohibitory law can not be en-
forced, whether it comes from the liquor
dealers or their agents. or from the great
metropolitan daily newspapers of the
county, as either ignorantly or maliciou g.
ly fal,e, and il made henceforth it must be
made Without justification or excuse"
After long debate . resolution was also
adopted asking that the National Repu bill
can convention adopt an anti-saloou plank
The following officers were elected: Pres,.
dent, n. e. Mcfarland, Topeka; vice-presi.
dent, John A. hurry, Topeka: secretary,
A. H. Limerick, Winfield; treasurer, H.
w. Lewis, Wichita. Executive committee,
w. B. Slosson, Leavenworth; A ga Thomp-
son, Howard; Rev. ]. D. Hewitt, Wichita;
7. F. Tufts, Aichison; s. B. Bradford,
Carbondale; Martin Mohler, Downs; Rev.
\. s. Embree, Manhattan; s. O. Thachcr
Lawrence.
A LATE fire at Baxter Springs destroyed
fifteen buildings, all occupied a. business
houses. Mostly covered by insurance.
A CHARTER was recently fled with the
Secretary Of State for the Pratt, Salt Plains
& Rio Grande Railroad Company. Route,
from Pratt to FL Paso. Tex, through Pratt,
Barber, Comanche, Clark, Meade and
Seward Counties; estimated length. 6OO
miles; capital, &6000.O00.
THR other morning Frank IIoveland,
eighteen years OF age, was found dead in
his bed at Granville. He worked hard all
day on tho day before and complained Of
pain in his heart before going to bed.
MARVIN Is to have bank.
EDWARD Doorz recently attempted TO
board q freight train at Rosedxle for the
purpose Of stealing q ride when he fell
under the wheels and had both his legs