Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1890-08-29
KANSAS NEWS.

Fe road, died at his home in this city.
age So.
From Norton: Jacob Nichols, a
farmer about fifty years of age, was
killed by lightning here this evening,
while standing near q telegraph pole.
Mrs. Fanny Rastall, president OF the
w. @. T. o., has issued a call for the
annual meeting of the W. C. T. o., to
convene in Sabetha, Kan, at 9 O'Clock
q. m. Of September "a.
Lecomptom item: There is a fine
prospect for an increase of students at
Lane university during the coming
year. A number of new students
have already engaged rooms in the
town.
Cedar Vale Commercial: There is a
school district in the Flint Hills in
Cowley county that has but one tax
payer and three miles Of railroad; but
that one voted twenty mills of school
tax this year.
Garden City Sentinel: Sweet pota-
toes are on the market In couple
of weeks Finney county sweet potatoes
will flood the western market, and as a
consequence some Of our dealers will
lose money.
A Holton special: Ira I. Taber,
president of the Holton City bank. and
one Of Holton's Oldest and most re-
spected citizens, was found dead in his
bed. Heart failure is assigned as the
cause of his death. The community is
in mourning.
Dighton Herald: Mrs. A. G. Hughes,
Of this city, has received pension GER
tifcate for $1,000, to be divided up
hmong the heirs of her first husband,
of which she will receive about $500. 1t
has taken sixteen years to adjudicate
this claim.
Garden City Sentinel: GeoiW Pot
ter, county clerk of Ford county, and
civil engineer, was in the city
figuring with Col. B. F. Babcock on the
probable cost of tapping the underflow
Tor irrigation purposes at the heads of
the bitches which COL Babcook has
lately purchased.
Ness City News: At the sugar mill
experiments are being made almost
daily. and some very fine samples of
syrup have already been made from
this years growth Of cane. Several
improvements have been male by our
local chemists in the treatment OF the
FORMULATION than has rewarded other
processes.
A Pittsburg special: Spelter output
for week ending August IL, 1890: Il.
Lanyon & Co., $4,000 pounds; S. II.
Lanyon & Bro, $4,000 pounds; CRANKY
Mining and Smelling Co., $4,000
pounds; w. & J. Lanyon, 81, 900 pounds.
Total, 476,000 rounds. Coal output
for week ending August 16. 1890, $50
cars, aggregating 1920 tors.
Concordia correspondence: The
board Of county commissioners of
Washington county have notified the
officers of the alliance in that county
that the court house will not be opened
to any more secret meetings OF that
organization, giving as their reason
that the house is public property and
must be opened to the public
D. w. Wilder, the Kansas superin-
tendent of insurance, says: 1.-The Eagle
Insurance society, of San Francisco,
Cal, 10 flooding Kanscs with circulars,
promising life insurance ut the lowest
rates ever given. The Eagle is not au-
thorized to do business in Kansas, and
is an utterly worthless concern. 1t
pays no losses, and the insurance de-
partment of California is now closing it
up"
Arkansas City Traveller: The grain
bought in this city is not shipped to
the eastern markets and from there to
the mills, but is manufactured right
here at home and shipped from here in
all directions as the manufactured arti-
Gle. The grain is worth as much to the
miller here as it is in Minneapolis, and
for this reason the farmer gets the ben
gift of the exhorbitant freight rate that
Is saved.
Holton Tribune: The $1,000 bonds
issued for aid to the Campbell univer-
eity, were sold to Kansas City parties
BIT premium of $3.50, and at the prop
psltion of the purchaser the city council
passed a resolution to refund them. !
THE bonds were sold with the under !
standing that they were to be refund
ed, thus avoiding lega! question that
was raised as to the validity of the first |
bonds. Work will now be COM
henced to complete the university |
building.
Fort Scott Monitor: All the railroads
converging upon Fort Scott are teem-
ing with men seeking employment. OF
course the local demand is not sulfi- |
Gent to furnish all with work, and there !
are q great many idle men in and about
town; hence Fort Scott unj ustly sus- !
tains the reputation of being an an o
usually dull place. This is not true. /
There is large amount of work doing
here now, but the supply Of labor is far /
greater than the dsmand-greater than |
the demand would be if the city were !
Eve times as large as it is, with pro- (
portionate increase in the demand for !
artisans and laborers. This is the /
logical explanation Of the alleged dull
hess.
Hutchinson News: A few days ago
q handsome little dog was lost in this !
city by his master, who was passen-
ger on one of the west-bound Santa Fe |
trains. When the little fellow realized |,
that he was lost he barked pitifully and
is on the platform every day since to
meet the incoming trains, in hopes of
finding his master. when the train
stops, he runs along it from one end to
the other. always keeping his eye on
the windows, and when it pulls out his
manifestations Of sorrow are really pitt
full. Depot Master Odell, who is taking
care of him, says the little fellow is
surely gifted with reason. He spends
the time between trains in the depot,
and the boys around there say that he
has the time card down as fine as any
Al L.