Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-05
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ACALI4 mas OeSn issued at tue suggestion
of w Walter N Allen, president OF the
Merden Farmers Club, to the farmers and
STOCK growers of the Northwestern States
and Territories of the Mississippi valley TO
attend delegate convention TO be held IN
Topeka, Tuesday. May L for the purpose OF
forming a Farmers Trust" TO include
stock raises and feeders OF the Northwest
ern States and Territories The Cover
nors of each State and Territory included
in t1e call is requested to appoint eight
delegates to such convention.
! CONVENTION OF the dairymen OF the
Stbte was recently held at Topeka and was
LARGELY attended. Officers for the ensuing
were elected. as follows: j. G. Otis, presI-
dent; j. &. Wright, first vice-president; A.
T. Morrow, second vice-president; T. 1.
Stokes, secretary; Horace j. Newberry, as
sistant secretary; William Sims, treas
urer. The committee on resolutions. In it's
report. denounced the frauds perpetrated
upon Kansas by the professional creamery
sharks, declaring that plant with ca
pacity Of from fifty to 100 pounds of butter
per day could be built at a cost OF $1,000,
and urging Congress and the State Legs
lature to pass laws protecting the legit1-
mate dairy interest. and Furnishing all
fraudulent or spurious articles sold as
dairy products.
THE celebrated Hillman case that has
past eight or nine years was recently
again tried in the United States Circuit
Court at Topeka, before Judge Shiras. of
Iowa, and the jury brought in verdict in
favor of the widow of Hlllman against the
three defendant Insurance companies OF
S37, $50. Hillman, whose widow resides at
Lawrence, had life policies amounting 10
S25 600, and was accidentally killed in
Southern Kansas in 1879. His body was
mi m T.aEy cd nv
Hillman as that Of her hus band, but one
John II. Brown, who was with Hillman,
made statement that the body was that
of another man that Hillman had murdered
for the purpose of defrauding the insurance
companies, and then secretsd himself.
Brown subsequently testified that Hillman
was accidentally killed and that his pre-
vious statement was false.
A COLLISION took place at three O'Clock
the other morning between two freight
trains on the Missouri Pacific between
Leavenworth and Kansas City, in which
bralzemon was badly Injured and number
of cars destroyed.
THE new salt works at Hutchinson were
opened on the 23d and ran out 600 barrels
of very superior quality of salt. The an
alysis showed 49, IS pure salt. The first car
was sold to the soap works at Wichita and
the rest to Kansas City dealers.
Wait committed suicide in a bedroom in
the laundry department Of the Arcade
Hotel, at Newton, the other day. She was
about twenty years old and had gone there
two weeks previous from Kansas City
common laundry girl At the coroners
examination letters, papers and pictures
were found in her trunk which showed
that the woman's proper name was Maud
Saylor and that she was the wife of Charles
Gu farf of II lr-Nveax
County, to whom she was married about a
year ago. but separated soon after.
THE other morning Mrs. Rosenthall, of
Lawrence, was engaged in washing a tub
of clothing that had been saturated with
gasoline for the purpose Of cleaning. With
out flame of any kind being applied to the
water or clothing an explosion occurred
with sufficient force to wreck the III b, aud
the woman was thrown a distance OF
twelve or fifteen feet and enveloped in
flames. Her clothing caught fire and she
was badly burned.
CAPTAIN GEORGE n. FAULKNER, probably
the oldest man in Atchison County, who
lived with his son near the Leavenworth
County line, died recently, aged ninety
two. He was born in Culpeper County,
Va. March Il, 1896. moved with his parents
to Kentucky in 1903, where he married in
1924 In 1851 he moved to Missouri and in
mad ten children, four only surviving him.
AN official dispatch from the General
Land office at w Washington was received
by Receiver Bickel at Larned the other
day, ordering the removal of Register
Brownlee and the closing OF the United
States Land office until the confirmation of
the newly-appointed register 1t was stated
that Brownlee refused to surrender the Of
fee keys to Mr.. Bickel and seemed deter.
Presidents executive order summary de-
posing him to the contrary notwithstand-
ing.
PATENTS issued to Kansas inventors for
the week ended March %: Animal releas-
ing device, Bake Borton, of Clyde; auto
matte oiler, Alanson B. Griswold and J
NJ Brad bury, of Bunker Hill; listing
plow or cultivator, Joseph s. Crum, of
Stockdale; thil coupling, Thomas II.
b. Millsap, of Harper; combined feed
box and end gate, Howard Gamble, of Lam
sing; flexible pipe coupling, Patten NJ.
Askren, of Circleville; automatic regulat-
ing device for wind mills, Charles F.
Batham, of New Chillicothe; nut-lock,
John B. Crosslcy, of Clay Center;
pillow, John Macarthur, of Wallace.
A RECENT wreck on the Missouri Pacific
at Leavenworth caused considerable dam
age TO cars and freight, but no injury to
persons. a freight was DacAlnS DOWN
through the Union depot to gain Roadway
for the grade when a switch engine came
up on the main track from the south and
before the engineer had a chance to OBJ
serve the caboose they crashed into each
other at the bridge over Three Nile creek.
All hands jumped to save themselves, the
engineer and fireman into the water twelve
feet below.
THE Kansas Commandery of the Loyal
Legion is reported to be in prosperous
condition. 1t has total membership of
$50 General c. w. Blair is commander
and Lleutenant-Colonel j. P. Martin, United
States army, is recorder.
B. F. SCOTT has brought suit against the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad in
the district court at Topeka, for damages
estimated at so, liz. His complaint is that
he bought a ticket from Wichita to Empo-
ria; that he boarded train and gave up
his ticket to the conductor, receiving the