Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-02-16
miscellaneous.


THE Secretary of the Interior has dis
missed the appeal of David w. Rignish, in
the case of Alma Blanchard VS.. Rignish,
involving a timber culture er try made at
the Garden City land-office. By this de-
cision Miss Blanchard secures title to the
land.
THE joint committee of the Kansas and
Nebraska Passenger Association was held
at Kansas City the other day for the pur-
pose of agreeing upon excursion rates into
Kansas and Nebraska. 1t was decided 10
make rate of one fare for round trip from
Kansas City TO all points in Kansas and
Nebraska exceeding forty miles west of
that city. This rate will be made for ex-
cursions on March 81, April 4, April %,
May 9, May 3d. June and June 20.
The report of the superintendent Of the
National Military Home at Leavenworth
shows that there are 1,6G5 inmates OF the
Home, at present, and that there are pres
ent and absent l. 926. Thirty-nine inmates
had been received which necessitated much
crowding up, no less than twenty-three of
the old soldiers being compelled to bunk on
the floor New accommodations are very
much needed.
On January 30 the State of Kansas was
twenty-seven years old, having been ad-
mitted into the Union as State January
20, 1861. The population of Kansas in
June. 1869, was 1O7, 2C6. March, 1857, 1T was
1,514 54S. The assessed value of property
in 1861 was SPA, 737, 459; in 1856 --latest pub
lished assessmentl it was S217.570,065.
L. L. HITCHCOCK, postmaster at Voltaire.
Sherman County, was recently arrested
upon the charge of rifing registered let
ter.
The Pullman Palace Car Company re-
Gently applied to Judge Brewer, OF the
United States Circuit Court, for an injunc-
ton to restrain county treasurers in the
State from collecting taxes of 1887 assessed
against that company by the various coun-
ties through which their cars pass. A
temporary injunction was granted pending
hearing
THE total earnings OF the penitentiary
for January were SlS,357.19, and the total
expenditures were $14, 3S1. Two thousand
dollars of the expenditures were for royal
ties paid to owners of land on which coal
was mined. On January 1 the prison
population was GA. TWentysevcn con-
victs were received during the month,
twelve were released, one pardoned, TWEEN
ty-three sentences expired, six died and
one convict was returned by orCer OF the
Supreme Court, leaving 927 convicts in the
peuitentiary on February 1, decrease OF
seventeen during the month. There has
been a decrease of sixty convictS in the
penitentiary since May, 1887.
MARION CUNNINGHAM, a ranchman living
night by taking strychnine As soon as he
took the poison he mounted his pony with
out saddle or bride and started toward his
ranch nine miles distant. A party Of men
started in search of him but owing to the
pouring rain and the darkness were unable
to follow him far. He was found next
morning at q ranch eight miles north in a
critical condition. One of his sons was
found lying dead on the prairie about two
months ago his horse having thrown him
and fallen on him while herdlng cattle.
PATENTS issued to Kansas inventors for
the week ended February 4: Corn shock
tyer, Uriah b. b. Watkins, Of Barclay;
fender Henry Howe, of Moss Springs; steam
trap, Frank ]. Hadky, of Topeka; device
for watering hogs and other animals, Dan
F. and J. A. Colling wood, of Pretty Prairie.
WILLIAM MURRAY, convicted at Atchison
in 1915 of assault upon an eight-year-old
girl and sentenced to the penitentiary for
fifteen years, was recently discharged,
aying served out his time
IT H. Seward, commander of the depart
ment of Kansas, G. A. R, has issued a gen.
eral order announcing to all Grand Army
men that the citizens of Winfield hays
made every arrangement necessary TO en-
terrain all who may attend the encampment,
opening in that city February 81. The en-
campment will determine the location OF
permanent State reunion grounds for which
there are several bids Railroads have
agreed to make rates at one fare for round
trip tickets, good for all trains arriving in
Winfield February % and q, instead OF the
2lst as heretofore agreed
ATcHIsON has one undertaken.
LATE post-ofice changes in Kansas: Es-
tablished, bearing, Montgomery County,
jackson Andrews, postmaster; Kensing-
ton, Smith County, Lewis n. Uhl, postmas-
ter; Nadeau, jackson County, Eli g. Ma
deau. postmaster; Shields, Lane County,
Ferdinand A Louner, postmaster. Name
changed-Newkirk. Ford County, to Kings
down, Clark Shelton, postmaster Discon-
tinued, Cerro Gordo, Jewell County; Milo,
Lincoln County.
ATCHIsox has developed caseof cruelty
to a child taken from Chicago convent.
The offender was a drummer. The orphan
was taken away from him and sent back to
the convent
TWELVE convicts were recently received
at the Fort Leavenworth military prison
from Texas.