Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-01-26
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


IngalIs at Atchison was destroyed by FIRE
on the morning Of the 18th. II was be-
lieyed TO have bcen robbed and set on hre
No one was IN the house at the time, the
family being in Washington The loss IS
S25 600; insured for $500. The Senator's
library, containing 1850 volumes, and many
valuable papers. was burned. All that
was saved was the piano and few chairs
and pictures.
THE city marshal of Leavenworth and
William Dill, acting for Attorney-General
Bradford, have been put under arrest Tor
trespass in the seizure and carrying away
of the stock OF J. Georgetta, an alleged sa-
loon keeper, before trial or action was had
under the statutes provided by the State
law for such cases
THERE are in Kansas over 800 National
banks with q capital of over S50,O00,eOo.
THERE were in Washington one day re-
Gently five ex-Governors Of Kansas, viz:
Robinson, Carney, Crawford, Harvey and
Osborne
INFORMATION was recently filed with the
grand jury at Wichita charging @. NJ Rice,
one of the most prominent farmers OF Inc
county, with forgeries amounting TO al
most $4,000. 1t is alleged that he forged
the names of several of his neighbors, not
only as makers, but as indorsers OF prom
issory notes. Rice can not be found, and
is said TO have left the county.
J. a. LINvILLE, who was for some
months 4 prominent attorney at Garden
City, was recently taken there under ar
rest from Denver and placed in jail a
charge of forging deed to real estate and
raising $500 on it some three months ago.
He had quietly left Garden City before the
crime was discovered, leaving numerous
unpaid bills.
The Superintendent of Insurance says
that the Provident Fund Society OF New
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Kansas, is a wildcat concern and has no
authority to do business in the State
MITCHELL ROACH, a well-to-do farmer,
living five miles west of Horton, while
driving across the Chicago. Kansas & Ne
braska railway track the other afternoon,
was struck by the engine of the east-bound
passenger train and instantly killed.
THE real estate dealers in the towns along
the Rock Island from Manhattan to Phil
lipsburg, have organized an association to
push things in the spring.
THE county seat fight that had been
waged in Sherman County for the past
year eliminated recently in a raid by fifty
armed men from Goodland who marcel ed To
Eustis and forclbly carried on the county
records.
AN east-bound passenger train on ths
Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska railroad, was
recently thrown from the track by
broken rail, about fifteen miles west OF
Topeka, while running at the rate OF thirty
miles an hour. Two Pullman and the
chair car went down an embankment and
fully 4 dozen passengers were injured,
none, however, fatally. The most severely
injured person was William Callahan. y
contractor of the roaS, whose right arm
was so badly crushed that amputation be-
tween the elbow and shoulder was neces-
sary.
A LATE fire at Topeka damaged Hayden's
iewelry store and Conwell q Peaslee's con-
fectIonery store TO the extent Of $3.50.
CAPTAIN Couch, of Oklahoma fame, re-
Gently said that there Is no truth whatever
in the stories that organization is being
formed in Southern Kansas or anywhere
else for the purpose of forclbiy entering
Oklahoma nor Is large quantity OF arms
being raised for resisting the army. Ho
saws that it is true that there is an Okla
homa organization with quite large mem
bership and that the number of persons
who desire to secure homes in Oklahoma ia
rapidly increasing, but there has not been
an effort made in the last two years, except
to secure legislation ut the hands of Con-
gress.
OK the night of the 18th the mercury
registered % degrees below zero at Atchi-
son.
PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
ventors n. c. Barnes, Mulllnvule, sulky
ant Ridge, bob-sled; j. E. Rusenbarrick
and G. F. Mitchell, Robinson, rotary grain
measure; J. w. Craig, Coyvllle. corn
planter; o. P. Daily, Smith Center, heating
stove; Alfred Hollingsworth, Union Val
ley, corn harvester; Wesley Nave, South
Haven, at achment for cultivators; A. Per
kins, Clifton, draft equalizer; E. n. Will
! liams, Bonita, check row corn planter.
| IN the Leavenworth district court the
| other day Hon. Lucien Baker moved to
| ouash the application made by the Assist
| ant At. orney- General, William Dill, to re-
| strain Joe Georgetta from doing business
under the Prohibitory law, setting forth
| that tue app ication was signed by the AS
sistant aud not by the principal, and tho
| officer acting under the title OF Assistant
Attorney-General was not legal officer,
| because the law creating this office did not
| express the fact in the title. Judge CroZier
ruled that he could not entertain Mr..
| Bakers motion, but decided that he could
| not act upon the application OF Mr.. Dill
until it was verified either by the principal
| or county attorney.
THE project of erecting Grant monu-
| ment at Fort Leavenworth is again being
| discussed with view TO success and for
| which a fund of 81. 500 has already been
| raised. General Wesley Merritt, in COM
| mand of the department of the Missouri
! and ex-officio president of the Grant Monu-
ment Association, has sent out circular
| letter 20 the members OF the association
calling a meeting at his headquarters to
take The necessary steps looking to the
| erection of statue or monument. In the
letter he states that 1t Is important That
| the money be expended for the purpose for
which it was subscribed with the least
practicable delay. 1t is understood that
! members of the Loyal Legion in st. Louis
have interested themselves in the matter
and are having models prepared.
THE nine-year-old son OF Lyman Pratt,
| living north Of Attica, was sent on this
! night of the 18th about half mile an
GRAND and did not return. The next day
he was found dead 800 yards from the