Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-05-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

sims, OF Topeka; Thomas j. Potter, OF
Peabody; Z. j. Elliott, OF Morrill,; B. F.
Wallace, of Jewell City; Robert Atkinson,
of Ottawa; Frank E. Cloyes, of Atchison;
D. L. FCuts, OF Wichita, and Thomas An
derson, of Salina-
THE State G.. A. R. Encampment commit
mittee Of seven met IN conference with the
local committee of thlrty-eight at Topeka
the other night and fixed the time OF hold
ing the annual State reunion during the
FIRST week in October in Topeka
The Kansas Pharmaceutical Association
will hold its annual meeting at Abilene on
May Is and IL The address OF welcome
will be delivered by Hon. w. S. Stambaugh,
of Abilene, and the response Will be made
by +. E, Holiday, of Topeka
ANOTHER salt mining company (the
ifth) has been organized at Hutchinson
composed of New York, Cincinnati and
Syracuse capitalists
A DELEGATION of the Topeka Women's
Christian Temperance Union was recently
before the State Board of Pardons and
presented a numerously-signed petition for
the pardon of the notorious procuress,
Hattie Burner, who was recently convicted
in the Shawnee County district court and
sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.
The theory of the delegation is that Mrs.
Burner was the victim Of conspiracy
concocted by her paramount, Frank Smith.
The Governor has offered a reward of
600 for the arrest and conviction of Rich
ard s. Ormerod, who stands charged by in
dictment in the district court OF Ellis
County with the crime of assault with in
tent to kill James Middleton; also reward
of 1900 for the arrest and conviction of the
party or each OF the parties guilty OF the
crime OF burning property in Cherokee on
April 6.
w. 81. HATToN, a Kansas City (Kan.)
gambler, committed suicide the other day
by swallowing ten grains of morphine.
Infatuaton for a waman was supposed to
be the cause.
NIKE HUGGaRD, sixteen years old, was
recently arrested at Lawrence for forging
the Endorsement of Father Ennis, of the
Catholic Church, to a draft for S166, and
having it cashed.
PATENTS issued to Kansas inventors for
the week ended April 20: Metallic shingie,
Edgar E. Barker, junction City; saw
jointcr Charles X. Black, Topeka; mill
feed, Gottlieb Heller, Dillon; vapor burner,
engine, James E. Snevely, Chetopa; line
protector, Frank c. York, Salina.
HENRY HENAN, farmer living near Six
Mile, Wyandotte County, drowned himself
the other day in a pond while temporarily
insane. Mr.. Henan was suffering from Il
severe attack of pneumonia. He became
delirIous and walked out of the house.
L
pond a short distance away. Henan was
sixty-three years old and one of the most
prominent farmers i'll the county.
JOHN MANNAx twenty years old, brake
man on the Missouri Pacific road, was
killed at the foot of Armstrong street in
Kansas City, Kan, at nine o'clock the
other night by north bound freight train
Mannax was riding on the train and i'll
some manner was thrown upon the tracks
49,
north and when about two miles out OF the
city the brakeman was missed.
The son of a Shawnee County farmer
was recently fined one dollar and costs,
S17.95 IN all, for cruelty beating a young
calf.
WALTER TREADwELL. the Southern Kan
sas cattle king, was recently tried at An
thony for the killing Of George Clarke, his
former partner, and acquitted. Treadwen
proved to the satisfaction of the jury that
Clarke had led Mrs. Treadwell astray and
that the shooting was committed in the
heat of passion caused by his wrongs.
A FIRE in the paint shop of the Santa
Fee shops at Topeka recently destroyed a
lot OF secondhand material and seriously
jeopardized the main buildings.
THE soldiers'home at Leavenworth is to
have a new library building, 4Sx94 feet,
at cost of So, eco. The money to carry
by Mr.. Ward, of England, who died re-
Gently and left sum of money to be de-
voted to such purposes in America
JUDGE S. u. LECOMPTE, one OF the prom
inent figures in Kansas during the exciting
times Immediately preceding the rebellion,
died at the residence of his son in Kansas
City, Mo-, on the 24tn, at the age of seven
ty-four years.
In the claim of Joseph Richard, of Kan
sas, amounting to s., $50, for depredations
committed in 1860 by Kowa Indians, the
Secretary of the Interior finds the loss
sustained to be 81, 75J, and has authorized
that amount to be allowed in full satisfac-
tion of the claim.
ATTORNEY GENERAL BRADFORD has re-
ceived the following list OF Leavenworth
social clubs which have taken out Govern
ment permits to sell intoxicating liquors:
Merchants, Bucktails, League, Massasoit,
North Leavenwortb, National South Eud,
Leavenworth Amusement, Commercial,
Fellow Workmen Union and U. Know. The
Attorney General said that it was his in
tention 10 at once institute legal proceed
ings against these organizations for the
violation of the Prohibitory law.
ENoCH CHASE, one of the founders of
Topeka, died in that city the other day at
the age of sixty-three years.
On the oath the President sent 10 the
Senate nominations of the following Kan
sas postmasters: Matthew Bronson, Alma;
Charles j. Arndt, Bird City; Charles F.
Howe. Greenleaf, aud Taylor w. Scott,
Stafford.
THE post-ofices at George, Pawnee Coun-
ty, and Newbury, Wabaunsee County, have
been discontinued.
NANCY ESTES, alias White, OF Lawrence,
was recently arrested and taken to Topeka,
having been indicted for perjury in a pen
sion case. She made oath that she had not
married since the death of her husband,
White. 1t is alleged against her that she
did re-marry and that her name is now
Estes.
FRED CAM and Lon Case, were recently
fued and given thirty days IN Jail at
Wellington for violating the Prohibitory
law. Their stock of liquors, making full
dray load, was publicly destroyed on a
prominent street by the sheriff in front of