Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-06-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Pension Association of Kansas recently
met at Emporla for the purpose of advanc
ing the interests OF the association. A
| resolution was adopted admitting ali citi-
zens, male and female, to honorary mem
| bership on payment OF membership fee
The annual convention OF the State Tenn
| perauce Union, lately in session at Topeka,
adopted resolution denouncing ''the state
ment that Prohibitory law eau not be en-
forced, whether it comes from the liquor
dealers or their agents. or from the great
| metropolitan daily newspapers of the
country, as either ignorantly or maiiciou s.
ly fal-e, and if made henceforth it must be
made without justification or excuse"
After a long debate a resolution was also
adopted asking that the National Repubn-
can convention adopt an auti-saloon plank
| The following officers were elected: PresI-
dent, N. c. Mcfarland, Topeka; vice-presi-
dent, John A. hurry, Topeka: secretary,
A. H. Limerick, Winfield; treasurer. II.
W. Lewis, Wichita. Executive committee,
| w. B. Slosson, Leavenworth; Asa Thomp-
son, Howard; Rev. J. D. Hewitt, Wichita;
7. F. Tufts, Atcbison; s. B. Bradford,
Carbondale; Martin Mohler, Downs; Rev.
a. S. Embree Manhattan; s. O. Thacher,
Lawrence.
A LATE fire at Baxter Springs destroyed
| fifteen buildings, all occupied as business
houses. Mostly covered by insurance.
A POLISH tailor by the name OF John Kor-
valski, was recently drowned near Atchi-
son.
THE Attorney-General has begun man.
damus proceedings against the county
commissioners of Stevens County to COM
pei Them to canvass the vote cast at the
recent railroad tond election in that coun-
ty. CHIEF Justice Horton, of the Supreme
Court, granted an alternative writ ordering
the commissioners to meet and canvass
the vote on juno %, or show cause why
they should not do so July 5.
WHILE being lowered into a we'll at Ross:
vile he other day Grant Mccoy was over
come by foul air when ten feet below the
surface and fell from the bucket TO the
bottom distance of fifty five feet and was
killed insta ntly.
THE Methodists have in Kansas 1858
members and 10 1872 probationers. They
have Coz churches valued at s., 616 40, and
$50 parsonages valued at 1922 635, besides
e22 Sunday schools with S. 929 officers and
teachers and 65,O66 scholars. The total
amount paid out for pastors, presiding
elders and bishops the past year was $307,-
26I
JIMMIE STEVENS, the seven-year-old son
of Ira Stevens, living north of Scott City,
was bitten by rattlesnake recently while
reaching into hole for rabbit. He died
about eight hours after being bitten.
THE explosion of a keg oil powder in Meal
pines rock quarry, two miles west of Wyan-
dotte, the other morning. seriously injured
three laborers who were working there.
Their names were We'll, Schmidt and
Moore.
JOHN WELSH, farmer, living about six
miles Northwest of Lawrence, was aroused
from his sleep about IL O'Clock the other
night by his dogs barking and pistol shot
in his yard. Taking his shotgun he went
out and saw man not far from his door
with a revolver in his hand. He ordered
him to be off. The intruder made no reply,
but raising his revolver, advanced toward
the farmer. The later fired and killed the
man, who proved to be a neighbor named
Mayer. 1t is thought he wandered there in
fit of temporary insanity.
ETHEL ELLIS, the five-year-old daugh-
ter of respectable and industrious col
ored people of North Lawrence, fell into
a tn b of hot water in which considerable
I've had been placed the other day and was
so seriously scalded that she died soon
after.
WILLIAM II. HARDIN, a soldier of the
Mexican war and sol Ter of G Company
Twenty fifth Indiana Infantry in the civil
war, aged about seventy years, was i'll
stantlv killed about eight o'clock the other
morning while walking on the Santa Fe
railroad track near the Soldiers Home at
Leavenworth. Hardin was just at the end
of the trestle work near the home when he
was ny passing TRAIN bi-IO"A
headlong down the embankment.
ABOUT three thousand Kausans attended
the Republican National convention at
Chicago.
Two Indians were recently jailed at
Wichita for murder committed IN the In
dian Territory. The murdered man was
the father-in-law of one of the prisoners.
CITY CHEMIST W. D. CHURCH, after care
full investigation, has pronounced the water
supply of Topeka impure and unhealthy
for drinking purposes. Chemists employed
by the board of health, however, assert
positively to the contrary, and so doctors
disagree.
The population of Kansas City, Kan, in
creased 1881 the past year, the late census
showing population of 80 C66.
THE Democratic State convention meets
at Leavenworth July t. nominate State
ticket.
THE farmers OF the central and western
portions OF the State have harvested their
wheat and the yield will be simply enor-
nous, unequaled in the past history OF
those sections. 1t is claimed by some
localities in the wheat belt that the yield
will average from thirty-tive to forty-ive
bushels to the acre.
AN excursion train on it's return from
California and running as the second sec
ton of No. 9, was wrecked at Braddock,
west Of Emporia, the other day. A broken
rail cause ed the wreck and four cars jumped
the track. Several people were slightly
injured and the rolling stock was consider-
ably broken up.
The Republican State convention 10
nominate State officers meets at Topeka
July %.
WHILE a lot of small boys were recently
bathing in the Kaw river at North Topeka. |
Sim Diment, twelve years old, got beyond
his depth and was drowned in sight of his
companions, who were unable to assist
him.
SECRETARY MoHLER, of the State Board
of Agriculture, gives glowing account Of
the condition of crops in the Northwest and
Northern Kansas The wheat crop from
Topeka west along the Kaw valley he says
is excellent. ALI the way up the Solomon