Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-08-22
STATE NEWS.

county s53.930.50. making it Sc, $780,
772-37 for etate purposes.
Leavenworth Times: A very large
] quantity OF apples have been brought
into the city during the week, and the
shippers are being kept busy sending
| them to other states.
A Pomona special: During heavy
electrical storm, one OF our prominent
citizens, w. W. Reach, and his little
ten-year.old daughter, Claudia, were
struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
From Washington, D. c.: The pop
ulation Of Kansas City. Kansas, as an
nounced by the census bureau, is 49,.
ITO. The same place in 1880 contained
population of 9,34s. This is there
fore an increase in ten years OF 2S,822,
or 3Oa.37 per cent.
Independence Reporter: The state
convention Of the antl-horse-thiet asso-
citation OF Kansas will be held in this
city on the fourth Wednesday of Octo-
Der. 1t IS expected that three hundred
delegates will be in attendance, and In
dependence should prepare to give
them hospitable reception.
From Hiawatha: The First Tent of
Daughters Of Veterans has been organ
lied here. to be known as Mrs. John A.
Logan Tent No. l, Daughters of veter-
ans. The president, Miss Gladys Eos
ter. Officers regularly mustered in by
Past Post Commander John Fraser, of
Hiswatha Post No. 100, G. A. r., as
mastering officer, Captain Jeffries, of
Sons of Veterans camp, assisting. They
start.with twenty-five charter members.
Parsons Journal: The country has
not been so full Of active grain buyers
for years, and spectators are taking
all the grain they can purchase at
forty three and forty-five cents, to hold
for rise. Wheat and oats are also
advancing, and the demand was never
more active. We talked with an intel
ligent buyer, and he gave 1t as his
opinion that corn would reach seventy
five cents before the first of next Janu-
airy.
Scandal Journal: It is now safe to
place the crop in Scandal township at
twenty bushels per acre, and with fav-
orable weather hereafter it may exceed
that amount Add to this the old corn
cribbsd on farms throughout the town
ship, and it is safe to say that Sean
dia can sell more dollars worth of corn
this fall than it did two years ago, and
may exceed the sales of last season.
Scandal is the banner township again
this year.
OF the party of young missionaries
who went to Africa sometime ago, three
have died from fever; Frank NJ. Gates,
late Secretary of the Y. NJ. G. A. of
Topeka; Mre. Kingman, who organized
the Y. W. c. A. of Topeka, and lived
here for some time, and Warren S.
Harris of st. Paul. This still leaves /!
two Kansans alive at Sierre Leone; Miss
Jenny Dick, of Topeka and Charles
B. Helmick. Letters from Miss Dick to
relatives here exhibit rare traits of
character and wonderful trust in God
Winfield Courier: Willis Read,
young man who resides somewhere in
the neighborhood Of Augusta, came
down to visit Henry johnson, north Of
Udall. a few days ago, and he, with
party of friends, got into discussion |
relative to whether a revolver would go |
of at half-cock. Read contended that |
it would not, and to illustrate his argu. |
ment, placed the hammer at half-cock. |
placed it at his stomach and pulled the
trigger. The ball passed into his body |
and the last account stated that he cam !
not live.
Capital: Secretary Troutman, of
the board of trade, said to reporter: !
81 have just received from one of the
largest manufacturers of silver-plated |
tableware in Connecticut letter, in |
which he states that he wants to move |
his entire establishment to Topeka, and
he will want power. There are in the
east large number of factories which /
want to come west. The moment we
get our water power We will get our
factories, and factories will build a city,.
It looks to me as though We would
have first.class water power here in
less than year, and when that comes
I look for boom in Topeka"
From Kansas City: Thirty promi-
nent colored Odd Fellows and Masons
of this city have organized an associa-
ton, with capital stock of $4,000, for
purposes of mutual benefit. This asso-
citation is at present erecting an addi-
ton and charging its hall at the corner
of Eighth street and Washington ave-
nue.. The new building will cost, when
completed, about $1,000, and will be
we'll modelled for the use to which it
will be put. The lower floor will be
turned into large hall that will be
rented out for parties and balls, while
the upper floor will be cut into lodge
rooms.
By wire from Anthony: Lewis 81.
Mock, son of w. II. Mock, of this
place, has been accidentally shot and
killed. He, with his little sister and
two lady friends were on few days
outing in the territory. About thirty
four miles south Of here, while stopping
for dinner, he was taking his gun from
the wagon, when the same was dis
charged. The shot entered the right
breast, resulting in instant death. The
ladies' placed the body in wagon and
found their way to q ranch four miles
at which place they received
assistance and conveyed the body home.
Hie father is now in Boston as q repre-
scr tative Of tho G. A R post Of An
II my.
STOCK AND FARE
Atchison Champion: W. W. Guth-
rie says corn on his farm in Missouri
will DO a big crop, in Doniphan county
will yield forty bushels per acre at
lanai and on his ranch in Chase county