Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-12-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


HUGH TIFFANEY, young man OF Atchi-
Don, was recently arrested for forgery.
SECRETARY MOHLER, OF the State Board
Of Agriculture, who has been in Hutchir-
son to secure statistics relating to the salt
Industry, reports q wonderful degree OF
activity and prosperity in the new salt
field. Twelve plants have already been
established, most Of which are now in
operation and many more are contem-
plated. The Hutchinson salt deposit is
from 200 to $40 feet below the surface, Is
800 feet in thickness, and is almost per.
fectly pure. The process employed in
bringing the salt to the surface is very
simple. Between thirty-Ave and fifty
carloads Of salt are being shipped daily.
A NAN with a spade has recently been
terrorizing the people Of Fort Scott.
WHILE the Tariff bill was under con-
sideration in the United States Senate on
the 9th Senator Plumb called attention to
the paragraph as to silvered glass, and
said that such glass was largely used by
furniture manufacturers and was almost
entirely Of foreign make because the
silvering Of such glass in the United States
was not durable. The duty, he said, added
two or three dollars to the cost Of a bureau.
and il the article was not made here no
did not see why the duty should not be
reduced.
The sheriff and his deputies made raid
upon whisky joint in North Topeka the
other morning and arrested the propri-
and locked them up In the upper story Of the
building. While the officials were search
ing the cellar for liquors the two men un-
der arrest jumped from the second story
window, q distance Of eighteen feet, and
made their escape.
SECRETARY ADAMS, OF the State Histor-
zeal Society. has just completed a COM
pilation Of the Kansas publications re-
ceived by the society. There are 721 week
lies. nine semi-weeklies, ~ dailies, IS
monthlies, one bi-monthly, four quarter
lies and three occasional prints. There are
in the State 10 other periodicals which do
not furnish copies to the society. making q
grand total of $40 publications in Kansas.
A PETITION was recently circulated at
Lawrence asking for the liberation of G. I.
McClintock from the State penitentiary.
In July, 1885, McClintock killed his wife
at Wichita, after which he attempted to
take his own life. McClintock was for
merly a student at Lawrence and it is
stated that he is insane and his friends de-
sire his release for the purpose of placing
him in an asy lum.
THE Farmers Conference of Kansas met
at Wichita on the 11th with over five hun
dred delegates present, mostly from the
Southern part of the State. A committee
was appointed to secure Northern seed
of quick growth to supply all the farmers.
it being the opinion that such corn would
rpen before the time of the hot winds.
Resolutions were adopted recommending
that the farmers of Southern Kansas form
farmers Institutes with annual meetings
in the interest of farmers; favoring pro-
vision by the Legislature for furnishing
seed corn to any Western Kansas farmer
who failed to raise q crop the past year;
favoring the passage Of an Equity Re-
demption law of two years after judgment
for farmers attempting to make a home,
and a resolution making the present cons
vention permanent organization.
THE State Board of Agriculture has sent
its report to the printer, and it will be
presented to the Governor some time next
month. 1t shows that the State has
grown in population from 1, 400, 1873 in 1885
to ,518, 752 in 18S8-an increase of nearly
eight per cent The gross value OF farm
products was $275, "a, 24-an increa Sc since
the last biennial report of $11 ,196, 140, or
~ per cent.
FIRE in Wichita the other morning de-
stroyed the house and library of Mrs.
Lease, the lecturer, and another fire at
night burned the Gandoifo stables and two
other buildings, causing Sc, 900 loss.
SECRETARY ADAMS. of the State His
torical Society, has prepared blank books
for the registering of the names, places of
settlement ETC., of persons attending the
various old settlers meetings, which are
being held from time to time in different
localities in Kansas, the object being to
preserve in permanent form some of the
facts pertaining to pioneer history. These
blank books will be sent to the officers of
the local organizations for use at the time
meetings are held. Such officers should
make application for them to F. G. Adams,
secretary of the State Historical Society.
at Topeka.
STEWART, the drug clerk, who some
months ago was convicted at Wichita and
sent to the county Jail for over seventeen
years and fined $2O. 800 for selling liquort
has had his case revived by his rear
rest on the demand of Assistant At
torney- General Hallowel. Stewart was
released after serving six months of his
sentence by the Governor. AMI the Attor-
ney-General attempted to collect the fine
and his costs, about s., 600, by selling the
building in which the liquor was sold, and
failing in this he had Stewart re-arrested
and thrown into Jail on the old complaint
LATE post-office changes in Kansas:
Established. Kismet, Seward County,
Willie S. jackson, postmaster; LovewelI
Station, Jewell County. Nelson Scheib,
post master. Names changed, Hamburg,
Reno County, to Buhler. Discontinued,
Heivetia, Meade County; New Elgin,
ChautauQua County.
THIRTY women are engaged in newspa.
per work in Kansas.
WHITAKER & Sons, the st. Louis pack
ers. have broken ground at Wichita for
large pork packing, beef canning and lard
refining establishment
GooDIN, the defaulting treasurer of Raw
Tins County, has at last been .ptured. lie
was found in Washin gton Territory, where
it is reported he was leading a very dissi-
pated life.
IT is reported that Colonel O. E. Learnard
has been appointed superintendent of the
Indian school at Lawrence to succeed
Governor Robinson, resigned.
COLONEL n. S. GoSs, the State Ornitho-
iopist whose collection of birds is the pride