Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-03-13

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Kansas Sugar.
According to the report of George F.
Kellogg, state sugar inspector, the
amount of the different grades of sugar
manufactured in Kansas the past year
was, sorghum, 81, 40 pounds; beet,
As, 260 pounds, or total of Geo, 900
pounds. Deducting from this 2O,lO7
pounds, not inspected, leaves 500, 1913
pounds for which bounty is payable.
Fire at Wichita.
Fire at Wichita the other morning
destroyed two business buildings be-
longing to w. Il. Smith and all their
contents. John Twiney's grocery oc-
cupied one store and the Fulton meat
market the other. The loss was about
81, 200, with s.. 900 insurance. The cXplo-
sion Of gasoline stove started the fire.
The Large Counties.
The counties in Kansas that have over
$4,000 population are: Wyandotte, 81
407; Shawnee, 49,1 Sedgwick, 43, 626;
Leavenwoxth, 80, is5; Cowley, 81, as;
Crawford, 30.2s6; Sumner, 30,21T Wy
andotte county, although containing
the smallest territory of any county in
the state, has the largest population.
Seed Grain.
The house reconsidercd its action re.
| jecting the report of the conference
committee upon the seed grain appro-
priatiOn bill and passed the bill as
amended by the senate. 1t appropriates
500, 900 to be loaned to counties contain
ing needy settlers to be used in purchas-
ing seed grain.
Children Burned.
Robert and Lena Going, children OF
Henry Going, were burned to death the
other day in a fire which destroyed the
family residence at Silver Lake. The
| mother had gone to a neighbours, and
while absent the house caught fire.
The children were aged one and three
years
Soldiers Home.
There are at present 9, 633 members on
the role of the soldiers home at Leav-
enworth. This is the highest number
ever reached. There are at present
ALA members; absent with leave, $50,
and absent without leave; 347 men are
employed on extra duty and 1872 are on
the sick list
Found Dead.
THE other morning the body of a
sheep herdcr named Clenmire was
found on the prairie west of Ellis.
Coyotes had attacked the body and
nearly devoured it. Clenmire had |
probably been lost in one of the recent |
billiards and frozen to death.
Fire at Leavenworth.
There were five fires at Leavenworth |
the other evening, the most destructive |
being the brewery of Brandon & Krie-
meyer and the stables of the Leaven-
worth Coal Co. The brewery was to-
tally destroyed, together with a num-
Der of connecting sheds.
Fire at Garnett.
A recent fire at Garnet destroyed the
Watson stables, including twenty-five
horses and ten buggies and carriages.
The loss was estimated at $4,000, with
but little insurance.
Minor State Notes.
The house board of managers ap-
pointed to prosecute Judge TheOdOsius
Bothin on the I'd presented articles Of
impeachment, found by the house,
to the senate. The senate by reso-
luton set Monday, March Q, as a
day for trial, when it will organ
ize as high court of impeachment. II
will meet April 90 and the trial will be-
gin and continue until a decision Is
reached.
The basement of the ST. Joseph
Catholic church at Leavenworth was
entered by thieves the other night and
gold chalice and other altar orna-
ments stolen.
NJ. T. Frame, a prominent attorney,
was seriously injured in a runaway &C
cident at Atchison the other day
The governor has approved the reso-
luton submitting to the people the
proposition to call constitutional con-
vention.
The bill appropriating s., 500 to enable
Prof. Snow to continue his chinch bug
was signed by the governor
on the 5th.
The social science club of Kansas and
western Missouri will hold its semi
annual convention in Kansas City about
the first week in May.
The woman suffragists of Fort Scott
have nominated full ticket for city
officers The nominees for the school
board are all women.
The house, on the I'd, passed the bill
the state board of pardons.
The contract has at last been closed
for $4,000 pontoon bridge at Atchi-
son.
Susan Gibson, Of Arkansas City, has
a patent for a dumping
steamer.
The governor has signed the stock
yards bill, which provides for state In
spectors at Kansas City and Wichita
The residence Of Mrs. Faris, four
miles west of Ottawa, was destroyed by
ire the other day. Mrs Faris' daugh-
ter, IN invalid, was barely rescued and
carried from the burning building.
The Second national bank of McPher.
son has suspended and the president,
Augustus Hegglund. ID at his home
suffering from a pistol shot wound.
which was mysteriously inflicted, but
imposed to have been the result of an
lttempt at suicide.
Isaac Dowen and James Wharton.
dosIis county farmers, quarreled 70
,ently over renting farm when Dowell
hot and killed Wharton. Wharton
caves wife and large family Of chill
lren.
The smallpox Is reported to be pre-
railing 10 IN alarming extent in Chaur