Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-09-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

pointed by the Governor to the Deep
Water convention to be held at Topeka
October 1, all agricultural organizations
and organizations OF the Farmers, ALI
ance are authorised to send delegates, and
1T Is guaranteed that they will be recog-
nized. No provision was made in the
original apportionment for such delegate
through an oversight
JUDGE BRKwER. of the United States
Circuit Court fled his order in the clerks
Office at Topeka the other day extending
the Jurisdiction of h C. Cross and George
A. Eddy, receivers Of the Missouri, Kan.
sas & Texas railway. to and over all the
railways and property OF the system in
the State of Texas The receivers are now
vested with all powers and authority in
respect to tn Q Texas line with which they
are vested in respect TO the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas.
TIE parents of William Ray, a VIM
chester boy, recently went to a neighbor-
ing village to church and left their house
in charge OF the boy. During the night a
party of boys undertook to brighten him
by visiting the house and playing some of
their mischevious pranks. when young
Ray fred into the crowd with a shot gun
fatally wounding Tom Graham, aged
eighteen, and Daniel Lowe. aged fifteen,
aud slightly wounding Ed. Lucas. Lowe
died next day.
Dr.. C. M. KIMBALI. a Coolidge physi-
clan, aged thirty years, recently took a
large dose of morphine by mistake and
died the next day, after three ply sicians
had worked twenty hours in the vain at
tempt to save his life. He was not feeling
well and thought he would take dose Of
quinine and bromidia, but by mistake took
morphine and bromidia and on an empty
stomach. He saw his fatal mistake in
about ten minutes and told his friends who
Immediately commenced working on him.
AT Cedarvale, the other night about
eleven O'Clock, George Schatz shot and
killed Marion Ross, a hardware merchant
of that place. Schatz had just returned
unexpectedly from his ranch in the Indian
Territory and discovered Ross with Mrs.
Schatz in her bed room. Ross was a mar
ried man and leaves q large family, who
are highly respected. There were threats
of lynching.
E. C. WOLFE, young grocery dealer OF
Atchison, was arrested the other morning
charged with arson. His store was set on
fire the night before, about midnight, and
the stock destroyed. The stock was in
sured for 5000, and the arrest was made
upon complaint of the local agent of the
company carrying the risk.
The wife OF q Leavenworth hack driver
caused stir the other evening by horse
whipping her husband in the streets.
IT is reported from Topeka that Super
House, which has been regarded as a
model of architectural strength, is inse.
| cure. owing to the defects in the plans of
the former architect Kenneth Mcdonald,
and that the dome. which is rapidly ap-
preaching completion is liable to collapse
| at any moment The north wall, at the
main entrance, is cracking in several
places and the arch is considered highly
| dangerous. It is also stated that large
| portion of the work done during the pres-
emit year will be torn down.
| THE Agricultural College at Manhattan
| opened on the 18th with more new students
| than ever before.
| ABOUT three O'Clock the other morning
| A. B. Van Voorhis, a guest, while demented
dashed into the Office of the New Bruns-
| wick Hotel at Hutchison, with a revolver
! in his hand and stark naked, and ordered
| the night clerk to open the door and let
| him out When the clerk attempted to
demonstrate with him Van Voorhis leveled
his revolver on him and repeated his de-
mand The clerk obeyed with alacrity
| and the crazy man dashed out into the
darkness. He was captured the following
night few miles east of town and lodged
in Jail He was from Hilsborough, Ill
| THE State University opened at Law.
| renee on the 18th with an attendance of
| 407 students, 100 Of whom are new pupils.
This is the largest number of new students
|
! Of them are from other colleges in the
| State.
The other day Rev. William Smothers,
| pastor of the colored Baptist Church at
| Atchison, was arrested upon a warrant
charging him with obtaining over g. 600
under false pretenses from the church de
rectors. He gave bond for his appear
| ance for trial October 1.
| ABOUT noon the other day William Ora.
ham and Barney Webster, colored porters
of the Huntington House at Fort Scott
! got into quarrel, when Webster stabbed
/ Graham. death resulting in about two
! hours. Webster fed.
| BERT TRACY, colored boy seventeen
! years old, died at Lawrence the other day
from an overdose of watermelon. Tracy
was a bootblack. well known on the streets
| and a great lover of the melon. He made
| a wager with a citizen that he could eat as
| many waterm.lons as the citizen could
| produce. The melons were promptly
| forthcoming and Tracy slowed them away
| one by one until nine had disappeared,
| then he weakened and the next day he
died.
TIE United States Senate special COM
| mittee on irrigation held a session at
Garden City on the 18th and took the
| testimony of a number of witnesses as to
| the necessity of irrigation in Southwest
Kansas and the best methods of accom-.
| plishing the desired ends. Much interest
| was shown in the project and the commit
| tee was convinced that the Southwest
| wanted irrigation by the quickest possible
means and wanted it more than any thing
| else. There was large attendance CT in
terested listeners.
The secretary Of the Deep Water con-
vention has issued q circular stating that
| the call for representation in the October
convention in Topeka has been extended
30 that the mayor of every city west of
the Mississippi river is designated as a
| delee ate. and empowered to appoint an
additional dele gate for every IL, 900 of pop
| ulation or frac tion the reof in his city.
J. SANDERS and William Butler became
| engaged in a quarrel at Topeka the other
night which resulted in a cutting affray
| in which Butler was severely injured and
| a girl more or less cut. Sanders is an exc
convict and had threatened the life of