Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-10-11
kANoAs STATE NEWS.

ARTICLES of incorporation Of the Colo
RADIO, Caldwell & Arkansas Railway Com-
pany were recently filed in the Office OF the
Secretary of State. The route to be ira
versed by the proposed road begins at q
point at or near the town of Bucklin, In
Ford County, running thence in south
easterly direction through the counties or
Ford, Kiowa, Comanche, Barber and Har-
per, to q point near the city of Anthony,
and thence through the counties OF Har-
per and Sumner to q point near the city OF
Caldwell; thence through the counties OF
Sumner and Cowley to a point near Arkan--
sas City. The estimated length of the line
is 200 miles; the capital stock, g, 100000.
AT q meeting of the board of directors of
the National Soldiers Home recently held
u New York Major T. J.. Anderson. OF
Topeka, was unanimously chosen Commits.
sary Of Subsistence of the Western branch.
located at Leavenworth.
THE State Treasurer has prepared the
following statement of the bonded indebt-
edness Of Kansas for the forthcoming an
nual report: The permanent school fund
has invested in State, county, municipal
| and school bonds the sum OF ~, ISo, $500;
the State Agricultural College has $415,-
223.O8 invested Ia bonds Of the same kind;
the sinking fund So 600; State University
| fund $11S, 4l5.8s; State Normal School fund
| $97,304. The State Agricultural College
also holds as assets $23, 1850 in notes and
accounts. The total State debt Is SS15 900
| and Of this amount all but $256,OO0 or
$3.50, 900 Is held as an investment by these
various funds, the permanent school fund
holding the greater part of 1t.
| MANY g. A. r. posts declined TO visit the
reunion at Topeka in q body because the
railroads refused to give a rate OF one
cent per mile.
| MICHAEL. BRAssEL, brother of James
Brassel, farmer living about eight miles
J south Of Eudora, was recently kicked by
! hourse and died next day in great agony.
IT is stated that the agitation of the
question of what has become of the sur
plus Kansas wheat has resulted in the dis
covery that it is in the ground throughout
| the State. Fully one-half of the wheat
| grown this year has been turned over to
the production of wheat, and an immense
increase in acreage will be sown.
! WILL WILLIAMS, colored, nineteen years
| of age, was beheaded at Armour's packing,
| house Kansas City, Kan, at seven o'clock
the other night. Williams was engaged in
oiling the shaftings in the fertilizing de-
partment when his clothes caught in the
betting and he was carried around the
| shafting. His head struck beam and
was completely severed from the body,
| while the latter was horribly bruised and
mangled.
| A RATE conference between the millers
| of Topeka and the Santa Fee and Union
Pacific railroads was held in that city re-
Gently, the object being to agree upon a
mutually satisfactory freight tariff on
| wheat and flour in carload lots both East
and West, but especially upon flour ship
| ments to the seaboard and Eastern mar
| kets. All of the millers were represented
ABOUT six O'Clock the other evening the
amphitheater ofthe State fair grounds at
Topeka took fire and were totally de-
stroyed. The building was an immense
structure, with seating capacity Of 1000
| 1t cost S. 600, and was insured for s.. 9OOs
| ALLAN WHITEACRE, assistant bOOkkeep-
er in the Hutchinson National Bank, has
been held for trial on the charge of embez-
cling 5000.
AT Topeka the other day John Roth, a
| German, employed as a bricklayer, fell
from the top story of the State house to the
floor of the basement, a distance of eighty
feet. He was taken to the hospital in a
| dying condition. A few weeks previous .
colored man fell the same distance, struck
on his head and was only slightly injured.
WHILE w. D. Williamson, a jeweler at
| Liberal, and his wife were gone to the
country the other day, their children, a
girl of ten and a boy Of eight. whom they
had left at home. found some giantpowder
with which they commenced playing.
They ignited it, and the result was the
and limbs.
JAMES MCHENRY, a coiored man, went
to his home in Kansas City, Kan, the other
night intoxicated, locked the door and
commenced beating his wife with chair.
He fled after inflicting injuries that were
thought to be fatal.
JOHN N. REYNOLDS, the Atchison editor
now serving term in the penitentiary.
has petitioned Judge Foster, of the United
States District Court, to transfer him to
the Atchison jail, where he can serve the
remaining four months OF his sentence near
his six motherless children.
| COLONEL JOHNSON, a well known char
acter, was shot in Kansas City, Kan,
early the other evening and will probably
die from the wound. He was shooting
craps with two strangers in yard in the
rear of a residence just west of the State
line. johnson lost steadily and grew in
censed over it. The stakes were very large
and johnson, fearing that he would lose,
grabbed the pile and started TO run away,
when the strangers fired at him, one ball
striking him in the abdomen<
FRED HULL was recently arrested at
Topeka for robbing his room mate of a
gold watch and chain and $3.50 in money.
THE board of trade of Leavenworth has
filed q complaint with the Railroad Com
missioners against the Union Depot Com
pany, of Leavenworth. 1t claims that the
new union depot has been completed sew
eral months and should have been opened
long ago, but though the railroad COM
} panies have been repeatedly asked to open
the new depot, they continue to run their
trains into the old dilapidated concern on
the levee and do not give . satisfactory
explanation of the matter.
THE Senate has confirmed Charles K.
Holiday, of Topeka, as Secretary of
Legation to Venezuela.
HON. J. 81. BENNETT, of Holton, has given
the State Historical Society map 2x2 feet,
} published by Robert j. Lawrence in 1857,
showing the Shawnee and Wyandotte
lands with q plan OF the city of Quindaro,
and the locations of Parkville, Wyandotte,