Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
TN other morning !. carpenter named
jackson fell from the roof Of Garfield
| Unworthy at Wichita. a distance Of
ninety feet and was instantly killed.
ACCORDING to . table complied by the
| Board Of Railroad Commissioners there
are operated in Kansas by the various
railroads, 8,799.16 miles of road. The
Santa Fe leads with 2,5S6 81 miles; tho
Missouri Pacific with 2, 179; Union Pacific.
/ 1913; Chicago, Kansas & Nebraska Brock
Island), L,065 70; St Louis & San Francisco,
1874; Burlington & Missouri River, 259.15
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis, 256,-
81; Missouri, Kanses & Texas. PSI; Wyau-
dotte & Northwestern, 157; ST. Joseph &
Grand Island, 1873; Kansas City & Pacific,
1876; Wichita & Western, 124 20; Dodge
City & Trinidad, 81, and the Kansas City,
Clinton & Springfield, 1910. The total
number of miles built in 1888 was 545.16
ON the 24th the Secretary of State re-
ceived . few more returns from back coun-
ties and the appended figures are pro-
nounced final: For Presidential Electors,
Harrison. 1S2. GA; Cleveland, 102,7 3s; Har-
| rison's plurality, S0.176 For Governor,
Humphrey, 179 $50; Martin, LOG. 957; Elder,
&c. 236; Botkin. 6, 489; Humphreys plural
| fty, 130l2. The proposition to amend Sec
ton 1, article 8 OF the Constitution by
| striking out the word ''white" was carried
by 20O,941 majority. The proposition to
amend section II of the bill Of rights of
| the Constitution was carried by a majority
of 203,518
Hon. JOHN j. INGALLS, was q visitor at
the post at Fort Leavenworth on the oath.
and received with all the honors due his
station as President of the Senate, q salute
OF nineteen gums being fred. All the
troops OF the garrison were paraded for
review by the Senator, who was accom-
panied by Senator Sewell, of New Jersey,
General Martin McMahan, of New York,
and Colonel Mitchell, these gentlemen hav-
ing just completed an inspection of the
Soldiers Home.
THERE was q recent rumor that Presi-
dent Strong, Of the Santa Fe, had rendered
his resignation, but officials of the road at
Topeka discredited 1t.
JAKE and Joe Tobler, colored, were
hanged at Wichita on the 21st for the
murder of John Cass and Robert Goody
kuntz cattlemen, in the Indian Territory
in August, 1885. They were tried in the
Federal court last September.
j. II. SOLFREE, of Kansas City, Kan,
has fled suit against the Kansas City, St.
Joseph & Council Bluff road for SIC, 900
damages for injuries sustained while
attempting to cross the track OF the road
near Armourdale in May last
THE State Historical Society has in thir-
teen years collected over forty EIGHT
thousand volumes of books, pamphlets
and newspaper files and manuscripts,
pictures and relics of history without
number. It gathers up every thing print
ed in Kansas, and vast amount of histor-
ical and scientific matter besides. It has
3, IT'S volumes of Kansas newspaper flies,
in including those first issued in Kansas Ter
ritory, and published through all the earli-
est years of the Territory and State.
JOHN CONNoRs, q Wyandotte county
farmer reputed to be worth $4,000, some
weeks ago made his will, leaving his prop
erty to his children. Some time after he
disappeared from home. A few days later
a letter was received from him stating
that he was in st. Louis and that his chill
dren would never see him again. He is
sixty -eight years old and his family feared
that he had become deranged in mind.
PATENTS lately issued to Kansas in.
ventors: Dry separator and amalgamator,
Martin L. Allstot, Lawrence; cultivator,
Engelhard Dimity, Clay Center; heating
stove, Lyman G.. Martin and J. w. Hart,
lola; corn harvester, Daton Mexican, j. D.
Kaufman and c. Marks, Window; time
switch for secondary batteries, William
F. Stocker, Burton; electric meter, same;
baling press, Otis j. Trusedell, darlington I;
buckle, William w. Youmans. Caldwell.
Two days before Thanksgiving Governor
Martin granted pardons to F. j. Powell,
Richard Townsend, Frank Mayer, James
Woo1ver and Milton Lyons, convicts in
the State penitentiary. Powell was SEN
fenced in February, 1887, to two years for
forgery, committed in order to provide for
his family; Townsend was sentenced from
Nemaha County, in 1885, for burglary and
robbery for ten years; Mayer for ten years
| from Montgomery County in 1887 for man
slaughter; Milton Lyons was sentenced
| for twenty-one years from E k County in
| 1881 for manslaughter, and Woolver was
| given five years in Leavenworth in 1886
| for forgery. The Board of Pardons had
passed upon and recommended pardon
| In each case.
MISS CLARA CANNON, a young lady who
| had been prominent in social circles in
| San Francisco and who arrived at Topeka
| recently on a visit to relatives, was de-
clared insane by the probate Judge of
Shawnee County a few days later and
| sent to a private insane asylum. She is
| twenty years of age and a very prepos-
| sessing young lady. While en- route from
| California she spent one night at small
town in Colorado. During the night the
hotel at which she was staying was burned
| to the ground. Miss Cannon was so
frightened by the disaster that she lost
her reason and she is now pronounced
hopelessly insane.
| A SUIT similar to the celebrated Hillman
| insurance case has been commenced in the
| United Circuit Court for Kansas Mrs.
! Caroline E. Staiger and her children, all
! of whom reside in Leavenworth, have
| commenced an action against the Con-
| necticut Mutual Life Insurance Company,
| of Hartford, for $4,000 on the life of
David Staiger, the plaintiffs husband.