Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-01-24
STATE NEWS.

!, STATE NEWS.
McPhsrson Republican: The county
commissioners of Mcpherson, Dickinson
and Saline counties examined . new
patent wire bridge yesterday that had
Just been placed acrcss a stream in
Saline county. They eeem to think il
Just TIE thing.
McI,outh Times: Brandon 4 Kir-
meyer, Of Leavenworth, have contracted
for the erection of an immense ice house
at Osawkie, and will store large guam
titles Of ice therein. This step is rem
dered necessary on account of the failure
OF the Missouri river to freeze over.
Waterville Telegraph: H.J. Adarr,
son Of Judge F. G. Adams, of the State
Historical Society. is visiting Mrs. Mary
Adams and family. The old settlers
will remember him as Harry Adams. He
comes to his old home full tledged
attorney -at-Iaw, after an absence Of
twelve years.
Garden City Democrat: An ole
friend, George Grimes, Of Seward
county, YVES in the city Wednesday ar
reported the majority of the farmers il
that county were well prepared for tbs
winter, having raised sufficient feed and
roughness to carry them through the
winter, and that every one Of them would
increase their number Of acreage to b.
cultivated the coming season.
Lawrence Tribune: Cora Lee, tbs
adopted daughter of Emma Malloy, and
whose trial for the murder of the wife O.
George Graham will be remembered
committed suIcide at Norfolk, O., re.
Gently in a fit of dependency. Hel
hu: band died at the hsrds Of mob, his
paramour dead BY her own hanJ, poor
Mre. Graham is surely sufficiently
avenged.
Hiswstbs World: The best thing oul
merchants ever did was to shut up shop
at O'Clock. This is one way-and a
good oDe-to get rid OF the loafers. Men
who haven't spent the evening at home
for years are compelled to do SO now
because the grocery stove and the smutty
story are out Of reach. Aside from other
reasons this alone is a good move which
all good citizens will endorse.
Horton Commercial: The scholars in
the first ward school were startled by the
falling Of the 200 pound bell that adorn-
ed the tower Of the building. The teacher
had commenced ringing the bell, when
there IVES crash and the next instant
it was lying in the hall on the second
floor. 1t SO happened that there was no
one directly under it, or, had it fallen to
the ground floor several children would
certainly have been killed, ss the hail
was crowded Its displacement shows
gross csreleesness on the part Of the
persons who put the bell up.
Louisburg Herald: At thestore room
vf the Louieburg Mercantile & Manu-
featuring Co., an explosion OF gun pow,
der occurred. J. d. Randolph, Grant
Culvert and Charles Jenkins were res
cued from the ruins but Mr.. Randolph
Is seriously iniued; the others bad
but not to the extent that Mr.
R is. Mr.. Randolph says that Culver
came in to get rife to kill q hog.
was trying to force % long
in the rifle is all he remembers.
They had been weighing out powder,
but none was loose, The supposi ion is
that the ball entered one of the three |
Sans Of powder and caused the explosion.
None of three cans can be found.
Lawrence Journal: We have msds |
inquiries of several parties en-.
gagged in placing loans and with one
-ccord they say there are fewer borrow
BIS in Kansas than ever before, and that |
rery many loans are being paid of
sither in whole or in part. The farmers
If Kansas are quite as honest and truth
'ul as the men who are "shearing the
ambs in Wall street, and where one
1ollsr has been lost in farm lands 500
II railroad have been annibilated by the
: devious ways" of Wall street msnipu-
stors. Millions of dollars of values of
'ailroad stocks have vanished forever
rom the sight Of their helpless holders
n the last few months. No such
has or can happen to the
FOLDERS OF Kansas farm securities. There
8 not one loen out of 500 that has not
It least its par value back Of it. in fertile
.cres that can neither fly away in
panic nor suffer in it's intrinsic valuf
rom the raids OF "bulls and bears"