The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-11-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS,


Railroad Assessment.
The total assessment of the various
railroads in Kansas, as finally an
nounced by the state board of assessors,
is as follows: Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe. $50. 1911 1885,: st. Louis &
San Francisco, So Ola, 19S 46; Manhat-
tan, Alma & Burlingame, 1922, 7s2. SO;
Union Pacific, IS, 500, 597. 16; it. Joseph
& Grand Island, 81. O61, 1879. 90; Missouri
Pacific. SIC. $50, SILL; Kansas City,
Wyandotte & Northwestern, ss2S, 9S2 so;
Chicago Rock Island & Pacific, $685.
1.9S: Kansas City. Fort Scott & Mem
phis. a,753. 79s. 80: Kansas City, Clinton
& Springfield, s162, $780, 6s: Burlington
& Missouri River, 81, 467, Sill; Hutch
inson & Southern, $40, 500. SO: Missouri,
Kansas & Texas, 2,S9s, 7SA Sc; Monte
yuma & Trinidad, s72. 1919; Brighton
& Lansing, S.. 762. so; Chicago, St Paul
& Kansas City. s1O3 391.97; Atchison
Union Depot sa9, 90; Fort Leaven-
worth railroad, s14. 5l5.OO: total, s61,-
73i OBS. 81. The total Valuation for 1892
was s51, 4O4, 543. ~, an increase for the
present year of SO, 326. 49l.47. The as
sessment of the Santa Fe last year was
SIG, 462, 800. %, an increase of s4,265,-
40S. o. for the year 1893.
Tax Exemptions.
1t has been customary throughout
the state to assess property at one
third of its value, and the assessor at
Wichita finds that hundreds of men in
the county possessed of property of
about the real value of $500, but which
under this custom is assessed at little
under 5000, escape taxation altogether
under the exemption law. which allows
the head of family 5000 worth of prop.
erty free from taxation. He submitted
the matter to Attorney-General Little,
who decides that if this custom is to con-
tinue, property must be entered at it's
full value as the law provides, the
amount of exemption deducted from
this total and then the balance to be
assessed on the one-third plan.
Kansas Banks.
The bank commissioner has received
statements from 49, state and private
banks of Kansas and from nearly
all of the national banks. He be-
lieves from the figures examined that
the banks lost fully so per cent. of
their deposits between April and Octo-
Der. The fact that the banks stood
this powerful drain, the commissioner
says is remarkable. and shows that
they have all along been in excellent
condition
Fast Young Man.
J. r. Stanley is in Jail in Topeka
awaiting a hearing on the charge of
forgery. Stanley was formerly a stu
dent OF the state university at Law
renee. He was married last spring to
the daughter of one OF the most prom
inent citizens of Douglas county.
Stanley was too fast for his business
and soon became involved in crooked
transactions, which resulted in his ar
rest
Not Jusfifiable.
The other night a man by the naI1e
of Bedford Smith. who resided at Ga.
lena, while stealing chickens at Belle
vile, an adjoining mining camp. had
his head blown off with a shotgun
He was a married man and leaves a
wife and small family. The coroner's
jury found that the killing was done
by J. ". Sigler. and was not justif-
able. Sigler was jailed
Killed by Tough.
Capt ii. II. Sivard. an old citi-
zen and an officer. was shot and
killed by Morgan Wright at Winfield
the other afternoon. Sivard had a
warrant for the arrest of Wright and
Kid Norton. He arrested Norton, after
desperate resistance, who called to
Wright to shoot Sivard. which Wright
Immediately did The murderer was
jailed.
Mysterious shooting.
II. B. Noll. merchant of Joplin,
Mo, was shot and fatally wounded by
highwaymen at Wichita, the other
night He had been out to Goddard
collecting, and was attacked while re-
turning to town. There was an unex-