Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-07-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


seat Of Hamilton County.
FIFTY members OF the Topeka bar re-
Gently met and nominated z. T. Hazen for
judge of the district court to succeed Judge
Guthrie, and sixty lawyers have signed
request for Judge Guthrie to stand for q
reelection.
KANSAS had her share of Opponents the
past week.
MOORE, the clipping ST. Louis editor who
was overhauled in Topeka, was taken be-
fore Judge Guthrie and released upon q
writ of habeas corpus, but Immediately re-
arrested upon the Governors warrant and
taken to jail. Mrs. Norton, the woman in
the case, was also arrested for violation
of the marriage laws of Kansas and re-
leased on bail. The two seemed determined
to make a desperate fight for liberty. The
property Mrs. Norton took away with her
aggregated nearly $4,000
HOMER JoBES, q sixteen year-old boy of
Graham County, who suffered from heart
trouble, was carrying water on horseback
for his employer the other day, when the
horse returned riderless to the stable and
the boy was found soon after lying dead
on the prairie.
During his two terms Governor Martin
has organized twenty three counties.
THE board of Railroad Commissioners
recently received inquiry from F. Ire
Kansas Central & Southwestern railroad,
which he says is supposed to be line in
Clark County, Kan. He says he holds
bond of 81 900, being one of the issues of
July, 1881, first mortgage on road bed,
rolling stock, equipments and franchises;
to which Secretary Rizer responded, that
''no such railroad exists in this State.
There may be a charter for such a road, as
great many charters are issued by the
Sacr6t0rV Os fan
sum of one dollar for enterprises that never
materialize. 1t is very apparent that some
fraud has been practiced by some one in
this paper institution. The bond for 81 600
any other sum issued by the road in
question is not worth dollar, SO far as
any material structure is concerned in this
State"
been in the Rice County Jail since April,
charged with murder committed over ten
years ago, were recently admitted to bail
by the Supreme Court. The accused have
become quite wealthy since the murder
that they are alleged to have committed,
one residing in Colorado and the other in
Illinois.
PATENTS lately granted Kansas invent
ors: Folding shipping crate, Samuel g.
Travis, Leavenworth; Car coupling, eyre
nus w. Deboard, Holton; harness buckle,
John A. Hollenberger, Wichita; steam
cooker, James w. Davis, Ell Dorado; draw
ing on marble, Reuben Durrin, Clay Cen
ter; corn planter, John II. Johnson, New
Albany; threshold or door sill, Pratt g.
Walker, Belleville; car coupling, John G.
Hornbarger, Emporia.
PENSIONS were granted the following
Kansas veterans on the 10th: Daniel S.
Whitterhall, of the National Military
Home; George II. Plank, of Wilcox;
Of ~
wards, of the National Military Home;
Frederick L. H. Pattison, of Olathe; John
w. Scheer, of Chetopa; William Bland, of
Beloit; William Christolear, of Cherokee;
Byron Holmes, of Riverside; Washington
Filey, of Arlington; John Renner, of Will
mington; Robert Wright, of Greensburg;
Francis NJ. Choate, of Orworth; John w.
B. Smith, of Garden City Joseph N. Hetz-'
Ter, of Harper, and LeOna A. ROOD, of Usage
Mission.
JOHN w. MOORE, the ST. Louis eloper,
was released the second time upon a writ
of habeas corpus before Judge Guthrie, at
Topeka, the papers being decided to be
defective. He was Immediately rearrested
upon the charge of adultery and held to
answer in $500 bail. Soon after being re-
leased both Moore and Mrs. Norton were
missed from their hotel and could not be
found.
c. N. COLE, of Phillips County, nomi-
mated by the recent Democratic State con-
vention for Superintendent of Public In
structions, writes that owing to the posi-
ton he now holds-probate judge-and to
circumstances over which he has no con-
troll, he will have to decline to accept the
nomination.
s. P. KING, student in the University
of Kansas, has been awarded the second
prize ($100) by the American Protective
Tariff League of New York for an essay
on "Home Protection" offered by the
league to seniors of American colleges. |
There were nineteen essays submitted.
LATE post-office canges in Kansas: Es- |
tablished, Conquest, Wichita County, |
Charles NJ. Bohn; Mount Pleasant, Atchi- |
son County, Rebecca A. Reisinger. Dis
continued, Eustis, Sherman County; Ly- |
ona, Dickinson County; Wagnerville, Phil |
fps County.
THE other day W. K. Baxter and Charley !
Stephens had a dispute over a claim in |
Meads County, and in the melee which fol- |
lowed Stephens was struck across the head /
with pitchfork, which brought about con- |
cussion of the brain.
Mrs. HANNAH Fl. HOWE, who lived with |
her son, eight miles northwest of Emporia, |
met with fatal accident the other day by |
her clothes catching fire from pipe that |
she smoking, which burned her so |
badly before relief could be afforded that
it resulted in her death shortly afterwards.
She was eighty-fve years of age last |
March, and was alone in her room when
the accident occurred.
AT the recent meeting in Topeka the |
Knights of Tabor and the Daughters of
the Tabernacle elected the following grand |
officers for the ensuing year: Chief grand
scribe, John Jenkins, st. Joseph, Mo-:
chief grand treasurer, Henry Parker, In
Mo-; assistant chief grand
treasurer, B. F. Adams, Springfield, Mo-;
chief grand preceptress, Mrs. L. A. De-
laney, st. Louis, Mo-; chief vice-gran
Mrs. Brand, Kansas City, Mo-;
chief grand mentor, Rev. Brent Ousley,
Mo-; chief vice-grand mentor,
]. G. Hayes, Louisiana, Mo. The order