Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-04-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Patents issued to Kansas inventors
for the week ended April Is: Corn-shel-
Ter, Samuel G. Plllsbury, Long Island;
shutter, John T. Miller. Thayer; snap
hook, John L. Martin. Canton; hay-press,
Thomas s. Gorrell, Pittsburg; calf-weaner,
Henry W. Fuller. Seneca; railway-switch,
William s. Arnold, Clyde.
THOMAS FITZGERALD, a workman il
kingan q Co.'s packing house, was shot
dead, and Joseph Sinnott, boss of the fierce
gang for the same firm, was shot twice and
dangerously wounded in a desperate ARRAY
in Armourdale about elevea O'Clock the
other night. John Redmond and Edward
kirwin, both OF whom worked at Kingan's
packing house. were arrested charged with
being accessories to the murder. The
shooting was supposed 10 have been done
by! young man named Herman, an ap-
prentice of Joseph Beackiey, the black
smith in Armourdale. Herman was also
arrested.
OTrA ACsTENAT. late cashier OF the pas
senger and frei ght department Of the Atch
ison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway at Nick
erson, has been arrested at Bremen. Ill.
He embezzled some of the company's funds
and fed March 3.
been employed to fill the chair OF physiolo-
gy and veterinary science recently created
at the Agricultural College.
AT Spencer, ten miles east Of Topeka,
1.-THE other morning. William Richardson, "a
Santa Fee section hand, playfully threw a
pillow at his room Innate, Larkin Cameron,
striking him in the face. This so incenscd
the latter that he picked up heavy poker
and struck Richardson across the side Of
his head, fracturing his skull and causing
death the same day. Cameron was ar
| rested.
| MRS. DIR. COULTER, female physician
Of Atchison, was recently arrested for
malpractice resulting 10 the death OF W.
NJ. Vernon.
SENATOR PLUME has introduced bills to
pension John r. Ross, of Baldwin; Carl NJ.
Schuvantier, of Burlington, and John 4.
Evans, OF Marion.
The President has approved Congress
man Morrilrs bill granting pensions to
Mrs. Capitola V. Harsh, of Holton, and
John A. Buck, OF Robinson.
PENSIONS were granted the following
kansans on the 18th: Jacob F. Shots, Of
Lacrosse; George L. Manroe, (deceased)
Of Arkansas City; Thomas b. Tush, O..
Garnet: Frederick Bauer, OF Wichita;
John Shoemaker. of Altamont; Joseph
Ferguson, Of Hartford: Thomas Wood, of
| Little River; James NJ. Asher, of Law
renee; Della P. KIRKLAND, of Odessa;
Henry Heer, of Concordia; Angelenc
| Cantley, of Parsons, and Elgie Walker, of
| Sandago.
THE Governor has appointed the follow
ing delegates to the conventioA Of the
Farmers Cooperative Trust Association,
10 be held at Topeka, May l: William
! Sims, of Topeka; Thomas j. Potter, of
Peabody; T. ]. Elliott, of Morrill,: 3. F.
Wallace, Of Jewell City; Robert Atkinson,
Of Ottawa; Frank E. Cloyes, OF Atchison;
D. L. Fouts, Of Wichita, and Thomas An
derson, Of Salina-
THE State G.. A. r. Encampment commit
mittee Of seven met in conference with the
local committee Of thirty-eight at Topeka
the other night and fixed the time of hold
ing the annual State reunion during the
first week in October in Topeka.
THE fiftieth anniversary Of the marriage
of Colonel John B. Anderson and wife, of
Manhattan, occurred on the 25th of April,
and their friends resolved to comment
crate the event by founding an Anderson
memorial library at the Emporia College.
On March l, Otto Ansternot, cashier Of
the Santa Fee road at Nickerson, disap-
pesred with 900 Of the company's funds.
On April 18th he was arrested in q small!
town in Illinois, and was taken to Hutchin.
son on the 10th. On the 18th he was tried
and sentenced to eighteen months in the
penitentiary.
Hon. c. H. ]. TAYLOR, ex-United States
Minister 10 Liberia, arrived at his old home
in Wyaudotte the other day, it being bis
first visit since his return to this country,
about three months ago. Mr.. Taylor is not
particularly in love with Liberia. and when
questioned as to his reasons for resigning
he told Of a very deplorable state of affairs
in that region Of Africa.
JUICE GUTHRIE, Of the Shawnee County
district court, recently imposed q fine of
$50 for contempt OF court upon Judge J. p.
Greer, the oldest member Of the Topeka
bar. Judge Greer subsequently apologized
and the fine was RENTED.
The Kansas Pharmaceutical Association
will hold its annual meeting at Abilene on
May l6 and II. The address of welcome
will be delivered by Hon w. 8. Stambaugh,
OF Abilene, and the response will be made
by r. E, Holiday, Of Topeka.
ANOTHER salt mining company (the
ffth) has been organized at Hutchinson
composed Of New York, Cincinnati and
Syracuse capitalists.
A DELEGATION Of the Topeka Women's |
Christian Temperance Union was recently |
before the State Board Of Pardons and |
presented a numerously signed petition for |
the pardon OF the notorious procuress, |
Hattie Burner, who was recently convicted |
in the Shawnee County district court and |
sentenced to two years in the pcnitentiary. |
The theory of the delegation is that Mrs. |
Burner was the victim OF conspiracy |
concocted by her paramour, Frank Smith.
IT was upon the motion of Congressman
Peters that the amendment to the Pension |
Appropriation bill placing widows on the
roll from the date OF the husbands death
instead Of date OF application was adopted.
THE Governor has offered reward OF
500 for the arrest and conviction of Rich
ard S. Ormerod, who stands charged by in
dictment in the district court OF Ellis
County with the crime Of assault with in.
tent to kill James Middleton; also reward
of 1880 for the arrest and conviction of the
party or each of the parties guilty of the
crime OF burning property in Cherokee on
April G.
THE Senate on the 18th passed bills
granting pensions to the following Kan.
sans: Cyrus futile. Of Fontana: William
Kelsey, Of Easton. and Joseph Verbisky
and Colonel William Irving, Of Topeka.
The Senate Committee has reported favor
ably Senator Piumb's bills granting pen.
sions to Oliver II. Judd, of Junction City;
h H. RUSSELL Of Fairport, and Miss Mag
g'e A. Weed. of Russell
RUSSELL is to have electric lights.
AT the second annual meeting Of the
Kansas State Musical Association Ut EN-