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

d. B. HALL was lately arrested at Hutch
inson for forgery. He raised a check that
had been paid him from 81 SIS to $92.S5.
LATE post-office charges 10 Kansas: Es-
tablished, Mahaska, Washington County,
George II. Cook, postmaster Discontinued.
Aroma, Dickinson County; Avon. Coffee
County; Dixon, Butler County; Middle
Branch, Hodgeman County; Mount Nebo,
Pratt County; Parker, Montgomery
County; Sitka, Clark County; Sunset,
Sumner County.
THE sale of Sl3 acres of coal lands adjoin-
ing the city limits of Leavenworth on the
south was consummated the other day, the
purchasing parties being a syndicate OF
Leavenworth men who have organized
company, and will proceed to sink shafts
and develop the coat fields.
SENATOR PLUMB has introduced bill
granting pension to Robert Bride OF Law.
A PASSENGER train on the 0. & r. " Rail
road was recently wrecked near Oketo and
a number of passeng4r s injured. Mrs.
Lykens, of Junction City, had both arms
broken.
AS the nine O'Clock express train was
pulling into the station at Hutchinson the
other evening Mrs. Alexander Crisp at
tempted to cross the track in front OF the
engine and was struck by the pilot, knocked
down and received fatal injuries, her left
arm being completely amputated and her
head and face terribly mutilated. She had
gone to the depot to meet her hus band
who was expected to arrive on that train.
A BILL. has been introduced into Congress
by Representative Turner, of he Sixth d s.
trict, to amend the Homestead law so as 10
require but three years res 'dence instead
of five, for proof and patent. Mr.. Turner
has also introduced bill to provide for
legal six months absence from the claim
on the issuance OF a permit by the register
and receiver of the proper land-ofice.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on
the sd: Lily b. Simpson, Of Peru; John e.
Smith, of Homestead; John p Sullivan, of
Logan; John Wells, of Perth; Simon P.
Bishop, of Emporia; Edwin Hart, Of Gar
field; Abner E. ingalls,, of Centralia;
George Defner, of Marysville; John w.
Bell, of W chita; Smith Gooch. of Leaven
worth; Charles Bachman, OF Haddam;
Samuel Cassat, of Abilene; James Moles-
worth, of Shaw; Henry D. Smith, OF Spear
vile; John Dixon. of Clay Center, and Har-
Vey Smith. of Winfield.
Mr.. PERKINS has introduced a resolution
In the House at Washington for the lnves-
tigation of irregularities IN the mail service
of Kansas.
SEVERAL weeks ago a seventeen-year-old
girl of Topeka took the romantic notion
Of being married to man then in Jail IN
that city. The other day she appeared be-
fore the district court with a long bill of
grievances and asked for q divorce.
IN the district court at Wichita the other
day S. T. Jones, man sixty-seven years
of age, was found guilty OF forgery and
sentenced to the penitentiary for one year.
The CRIME of which he was convicted con-
sisted in signing, as maker or indorser,
pronIssory notes aggregating in value sew
eral Thousand dollars. He had before mis-
arrest borne an excellent reputation and
was an active mem Der OF the Pres byterian
Church. HIS attorneys set up as "A defense
insanity. The jury was all night in arriv-
ing at verdict
The Bank of Mound Ridge and II. C.
Arnolds drug store at Mound Ridge,
were destroyed by fire about two o'clock
the other morning. The loss on the build
ings was &, 800 partially covered by insur-
aace. Arnold's loss on drug stock was
81, 500, with 81 900 insurance. A $50 stock
Of pumps belonging to c. Hiseer, stored
in Arno.d's building also burned.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has recently been re-
ceiving a number of petitions, some of them
quite numerously signed, from citizens of
counties in the extreme southwestern por-
Jion of Kansas, asking aid to procure seed
corn. wheat and other cereals for planting
in the spring of the present year. Investi-
cations show that there Is a strip of coun-
tiy bordering on the Indian Territory
where the drouth of last summer
pecially severe. The people OF that region
are nearly all new settlers who came with
limited means, and the failure to raise
crops has left them in very destitute cir
cumStances.
HENRY ELLIOTT. a brakeman, fell between
two cars of Il moving train at Wichita the
other dayShnd was killed.
THE nine-year-old son of W. e. Greevcr,
of Richfeld, was accidentally killed the
other night by the discharge Of an old gun
in u neigh boris hands
IT IS stated thas the Santa Fe Company
had decided to buy 1O0.O 00 bushels of wheat
and ship it to the western counties OF the
State for spring seed, charging nothing
for transportation and selling it at cost,
taking notes from the farmers due in one
year at three per cent It is also thought
that the Missouri Pacific will do the same
ANOTHER cold snap on the 18th.
A MAN by the name OF Mooney was lately
discovered at Newton to be sleeping on the
bare floor of = room IN the second story OF
a building with nothing but bags for a
covering during the coolest weather, and
without even a stove. He even attempted
to live on one scanty meal a day. There
seemed to be no doubt about his mind be-
ing shattered. He Is worth from $4,000 to
$50, 600 in real estate and in money with no
living relative except a sister, and her
residence is not known
An order has been issued substituting
an exchange OF through registered pouches
between Kansas City, Mo-, and Dodge City,
Kan.
The other day twenty-four inch vein Of
coal was struck at Newton at depth Of
l75 feet.