Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-10-24
CAPITAL NOTES.

CAPITAL NOTES.
At the state reunion at Ellsworth
Captain T. W. Durham, of Topeka, wa
elected president Of the Indiana Vetera
ASSOCIATION, and A. W. Lee, of Alder
Rice county, was elected secretary.
It required fifty-nine passenge
coaches to handle the harvest excursion
lists that went over the Santa Fe rout
in one day recently, the greater numbe
OF whom were bound for western Kan
sas and Colorado.
Captain F. X. Wagner, a veteran G
Company d, ninth Illinois infantry, no,
located at Cimarron, has presented th
State Historical society with a siz
FOUNDER cannon sight which he pickle
up on the battle field at Lexington, Nj
The school fund commissioners me
one day last week and purchased schoo
bonds to tie amount of S93.7OS: @
this amount. $4,000 was issued by tn
beard of education Of the city Of WITCH
ita, and $4,000 by the board of educa
ton of Lawrence.
At the fair ground, Mr. Hughs report
that most of the horses that have beel
in training there during the summe
have been taken to their winter quar-
tiers. The grounds have been cleane,
up by the fair association and turnet
over to the county.
In reply to questions submitted t.
him by the governor, Attorney Gener
al Kellogg has given it as his opinion
that: first, the governor has no powe
to revoke the commission of a notar,
pubic under any circumstances; ant
seco1d, that the governor has no au
thority to relieve the bondsmen of ,
notary public.
The state convention OF the Y. NJ. G.
A. has been in session in Topeka thi
week. At its organization, about SO(
delegates were present, with more com
ing later. Hon. John V. Farwell, O.
Chicago, Mr.. Moody, the lay preacher
and many other able speakers, hav,
contributed to the great success which
those participating feel has been en-
joyed.
The young lady students of Bethany
college, instead of buying flowers te
place on the grave Of the late Bishop
Vail, the father of that institution, have
decided to use their money in the pur.
chase of memorial communion service
for Christ's hospital, another institution
built through the efforts of that good
man. The set will cost about $50, the
young ladies purchasing it out of theil
pocket money.
The Trades Assembly, representing
nearly two thousand laboring men oil
has appointed a committee to
investigate the possibility of a grand
mid-winter industrial exposition and
trades display in Topeka. in 1889-90
Samuel Gompers, president of the Am
erican Federation of Labor, will be So
licited to interest himself in the move
ment and if the exposition becomes a re-
ali'y it will be the grandest thing of the
kind ever attempted in the west.
The will of the late Lydia Nichols, OF
provides that should her son
from whom she has not heard
since 1884, beyond doubt be learned
to be dead, then the $4,000 bequeathed
to him is to go to fund for the use OF
the destitute and poor members of the
Methodist Episcopal churches of shaw
nee county, and that to the same fund
shall be added all monies not otherwise
bequeathed, after all obligations are
Capital: T. G. Shillinglaw, who has
been soliciting in this city for the desti-
tute of Morton county, has succeeded
in filling one car with provisions, and
started it for Liberal, over the Rock
Island, which has kindly granted free
for supplies. Mr.. Shil-
linglaw returns thanks to the citizens
FOR the liberal manner in which thew
have contributed. The car was assigned
to the county clerk, and the supplies
will e distributed by the county COM
and township trustees.
Attorney General Kellogg has gone
TO Washington to argue a motion in
The supreme court for the advancement
Of the Pullman Palace Car company
cases. This company refuses to pay
taxes on the cars which it operates in
claiming that under the law
The state has no right to collect tax
IS on property used in interstate COM
nerce. The treasurers of the various
through which the company
operates have been enjoined by Judge
Brewer from collecting these taxes un-
Ill the matter is settled by the supreme
court.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows at
Topeka elected these officers: Grand
Master, A. L. Vorhis, of Russell; depu-
y grand master. William Mathewson,
Of Wichita; grand warden, DR.. NJ. B.
Ward, of Topeka; grand secretary, S.
/. Burdette, of Leavenworth; grand
L. G. Slime, of Ottawa; rep
'ese tative to sovereign grand lodge,
W. A. Germany, Of Fort Scott, who
was instructed to vote for change in
he constitution, making men eligible
20 Odd Fellowship at 10 instead of p
Years.
The Rock Island Responds to . Request
From the Governor.
A few days ago, Governor Humphrey
addressed communication to the gen.
raj manager Of the Rock Island rail-
way, asking what might be expected Of
lis road in the matter of reduction Of
'ates for supplies voluntarily contrib
tied for the relief Of the small territory
n southwest Kansas where crops have
allied. The governor in this letter adj
rises voluntary contributions to be con-
ined strictly within the state. Mr..
Lows reply is as follows:
Gov. L. Q. Humphrey,
DEAR SIR: Replying to yours Of
he It'll inst. Within reasonable lin