Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-06-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

secure the land-ofice Of . new district
soon tn be established to be comp lsei OF
Meade, Seward. Stevens and Morton Coun-
ties and the Neutral Strip. 1t is also
rumored taat railroad Is being projected
to Morton
BosTON CoRBETT, the slayer of John
Wilkes Booth, recently escaped from the
insane asylum at Topeka, while out with
other patien taking exercise. A horse
which belonged 10 visitor stood near the
building saddied and bridled, and catching
sight Of 1t Corbett jumped from the ranks,
unloosed the animal, sprang into the sad
die and was away before the guards could
realize what had happened. Coree:t had
been more or less violent for some time and
often declared that he would escape ana
be revenged upon persons whom he mag
tned were prosecuting him.
JAMES MCINTYRE attempted to jump on q
| crowded rapid transit car at Leaveu worth
the other day, when he missed his footin g,
fell under the wheels and was killed. He
was tw enty-eight years Of age and an iron
molder BY occupation.
A CORRESPONDENT, from Myra, asserts
that John Bealer. residing in Woodson Coun-
ty, was at the battle Of Bunker Hill, June
II, 1775 and was then seventeen years oil.
He was drummer boy. He is now abou,
l30 years old, aud is enjoying good health.
He has cut or got a second Set OF teeth.
His eyesight is so good that he does not
need spectacles.
HENRY MILLER, one OF an organized gang
OF horse thieves, was recently convicted at
Larned and given free transportation &c
Leavenworth.
| NJ. s. KErCH, chairman Of the Democratic
| - Rod
Of pneumonia contracted at the Wichita
convention.
PATENTS recently granted Kansas in.
ventors: Jesse Chandler, Redstone, gate:
Adolph Geenen, Beloit, attachment for
neapolis. oven attachment; Thomas II.
Millsap, Harper, bench plane; Jacob Shor
| Concordia, instrument for measuring YER
tical and horizontal distances; Lew B.
Snow and j. Howard, WITCH Ia, composition
for tanning hides
GOVERNOR MARTIN has rardoned Wilson
Campbell who was convicted Of incest in
| Cowley County in 1884 and sentenced &c
| ten years in the pcnitentiary. The Board
| of Pardons recommended the action as the
! prosecuting witness was known to be with
| out character and had made affidavit that
| conspired with the daughter to have the
husband and father sent to the penitlntiary
to get him out OF the way in order that they
| might lead disrepu,ible lives.
THE Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Crock
1sland) announces that it will sell tickets
| to both the Democratic and Republican
National convent ous at one cent per mile
| each way from all points in Kansas west
nj no ccic cir pi.,
Louis and Chicago to parties who wish to
| attend the conventions, or to those wishing
to take advantage OF the low rate to 90
Eat and visit their friends.
NELLIE and May Mozely, sisters, aged
respectively twenty-five and nineteen
years, and two young men, Sam Kinney
and Willis Nichols, went boating On the
Ksw river at Wyandotte the other even.
| ing. The boat was permitted to drift into
the Missouri river and down to the Hanni
bal railroad bridge, where it was caught
in whirlpool at one of the piers and cap.
sized. Both young ladies were drowned
and the young men were, only saved by
being thrown upon a drift.
BEFORE Judge d. J. Brewer, Of the
United States Circuit Court, oral argument
was had at Leavenworth the other day on
q temporary injunction against Prof. Sven.
son to prevent him from having the exclu-
sive use OF his patent process of making
sugar from sorghum cane. The injunction
is prayed by the United States which was
represented by United States attorney W.
c. Perry.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on
May 81: John w. Crosley, Of Thompson
vile; Francis M. Trueblood, OF Stuart;
Thomas WEIGH, of Olathe; Henry Walton,
of Hallowell; Ephraim Owings, of Leroy
William Hoover, of Salina; Thomas ].
Perry, Of Winfield; Henry L. Mccain, OF
Ieona; John Lemon, OF Arkansas City;
David Walback, of Celar Bluff; John W.
Crewdson, of Kiowa; Lewis N. Kentner,
OF Lyons; Charles N. Duncan, Of Topeka;
Jumes K. P. Wright, Of Elk City; Allen A.
Schooler, of Logan; Edward d. Stillson,
of Hooker; William H. Green, of Meade
Center; Henry H. Underwood, of Alton;
Henry E. BowIey, Of Coldwater; Stlllman
Chamberlain, Of Annelly; Archibald Pat.
terson, Of Morrow; John F. Morris, of
Leavenworth; Valentine Roof, of Atlanta;
John w. Heath, of Wichita; Joseph Dea-
gan, Of Alton; Corwin B. Keith, of Fort
Scott and John Fuller, Of Mcpherson.
A YOUTHFUL North Topeka drug clerk
recently became suddenly enamored OF q
young married woman who arrived on an
eastern train and sent her o note which
the indignant lady handed over to her hus-
band. An ugly looking revolver caused the
bearer of the note and the writer to 90
into temporary seclusion.
The official call has been issued for the
Democratic State convention to be held at
Leavenworth, July 4, to nominate State
officers. The basis of representation
IN the convention Is one delegate and one
alternate for every 2O0 votes or fraction
thereof over 100 votes cast for Hon. s. L.
Isett, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant.
Governor in 1885; also every county in the
State that has been organized since the
election and each unorganized county shall
be entitled to one delegate and one alternate
to said convention.
A CHARTER was recently fled with the
Secretary of State Of the Emporia & Coun-
Gil Grove Railway Company. Object, to
construct railroad from Madison, Green
wood County, through said county to the
city Of Emporia, thence to Council Grove,
and thence through Morris, Davis, Riley,
Pottowstomie, Clay, Washington and Mar
shall Counties to the north line Of the
State Estimated length 9 ,OOO miles. Capt.
tai. $4,000. 700.
TIE oiher morning George McNally,
aged thirty-four years, prisoner IN the
county Jail At Leavenworth, attempted
suicide by cutting his throat with
razor, ani succeeded in making frightful
cash.
KANSAS for young men of true grit.
The list of Kansas memb ers to Congress
to date is as follows: Martin F. Conway,
died IN 1881; Carter Wilder, died in 1865;