Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-02-28
8 hszs 9A4k NEWS



Gently arrested. charged with being
boodler while mayor of Coolidge. Sheriff
Huffman, Of Hamilton County, made thA-
arrest. While Covey was mayor OF Cool
idge the people voted bonds to pay OF GERS
tain city indebtedness, the amount Of
bonds to be issued not being fixed, and -it
is charged that thu may for and Council is
sued some 900 more bonds than neces-
sary and pocketed the proceeds. Covey is
the first to be arrested, but warrants are
out for the members of the Council who
haveaall gone to parts unknown. Ge.ifi
A MESSAGE from Governor Humphrey
was read in the Legislature the other
morning announcing that he had been adj
vised by the Governors Of Nebraska,
Texas, Colorado. Missouri, Iowa, and Illi-
nois that the Legislatures of those States
would cooperate with Kansas and ap-.
point delegates to the proposed Interstate
convention to investigate the alleged beef
and pork combine. .f. +,..,...,
AT the recent meeting of the Kansas
Dairy Association. held at Topeka, a res-
olution was adopted that Sin order to bet
ter disseminate dairy knowledge, and adj
vance it's int rests in this, the coming dairy
State of the Union we would respectfully
ask that the Legislature make an appro-
priation of So. 600 per year, to be disbursed
under the direction OF the executive COM
mittee of this association, and the printing
ings Of the meetings of this association for
distribution annually" The committee
on membership reported large increase
in attendance and a decided gain in men,
bers, fifty three names having been added
at this session.
A LATE fire at Fredonia destroyed three
of the best brick buildings in the city.
Cliff King, nine year. cid boy was burned
to death.
w. G. CAvANAUGH, ex-Assistant Secre-
| tary of State has been held IN 81. 600 bond
to appear at the April term of the Shaw
nee County district court for the alleged
attempt to blackmail State Printer Baker.
:. PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
venIors: Grain weighing and registering
| machine, William III. 81. Brunton, Elk
City; cultivator and harrow, Thomas E.
Carter, Augusta; shears, Frank J. Cooper,
Emporia; recording speech, George II.
Harrington, Wichita; air-ship, John p.
Holmes, Oak Valley; street car motor,
,Burchell r. Moore and C. D. Montague.
Kansas City, harrow, Hugh A. Murphy,
| Elk City; elevated railway. Robert F.
Robinson, Kansas City; hat mark. Henry
| N Wright, Paola.
| WILLIAM SLYTER. a disciple of the faith.
| cure doctrine, died at Wichita the other
| morning. Early in January, after being
ander the care of a Christian science
] healer, Slyter was taken to a hospital and
| q malignant tumor removed from the
| abdominal cavity. He was improving
| when the Christian scientists again ap-
! peared and persuaded him to get up and
| walk about as he would be healed by,
| faith. The second time he made the at
| tempt it killed him. =: as
BAD blood having existed for some time
| between Robert Jobe and J.. T. Brown,
! employees of the S ,nta Fee road at Argen-
| tine, on account of Jobe while intoxicated
h,x ,, in
| suited his wife, the two met on the
streets of that town the other day when
Jobe said: "I,ve got you now, and Pm
gong to do you up" at the same time at
tempting to draw his pistol. Brown drew
first, however. and shot Jobe dead. Brown
| surrendered, and the verdict Of the
coroner's jury was that he acted in self
| defense. 2" ti..' y
| THE report of the Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture for the biennial
| period ended December 81, 1883, showed
! the total combined value of all farm prod
, ucts for the period covered by the report
| to be $215, 56l, lao. while the total combined
value for 1885 and 1885 was 1924. 045, 1874 a
gain in two years of $11 SIG 0O6, or 4. %
/ per cent. In population the State has
| grown from !, 436, 7SS in 1856 to 1.51S. 522 in
1883, an increase in two years of Ill, :.34. or
/ nearly eight per cent. The sorghum prod
| uct, not including that manufactured into
| sugar, amounts in value to s., 800, I43 For
| the biennial period Of 1885 and 1855 it
amounted to So GAG. 0sS a gain in two years
of 81. 654 655, or nearly so per cent.
II. l. GORTON. whose father is farmer
| residing near Lenexa, Kan, was recently
arrested on the train going into Kansas
:! City, Upon suspicion of being "Black
| Bart" the notorious California lone high
| wayman. His father went on his bond for
his appearance.
| u THE Governor recently received a letter
from the Comptroller of the Treasury dated
| at Washington, February IL, as follows:
| "An account has cen adjusted between
the United States and the State of Kansas,
| under the third section OF the act of JAM
uary %, 1861, for the five per cent accru-
ing to the State ION the net proceeds of
the sales of public lands within the limits
of the State from July l. 1886, to June 80,
| 1887, inclusive, and there has been found
due to the State the sum of sos, $50 SO. OF
the foregoing anon Mt SIC. 900 has been re-
tanned and will be covered into the treas.
| ury as reimbursement by said State Of
the amount expended under the direction
of the Secretary: of War for replacement
of a bridge across the Republican river
near Fort Riley, Kan. A draft Tor the
sum of $93 653 SO will be forwarded to your
+ OF der in due course Of business. The sum
of $93, 395.O4 found due the State for the
fiscal year 1885, having lapse1 into the
treasury. has been estimated for apprO-
pration." ; SesasH 4, - So a. So
| AT the recent meeting of the Grand
Lodge A. F. and A. NJ. at Wichita the fol.
lowing officers were chosen: d. D. Hoag,
II. L. G. NJ, Minneapolis; Theodore z.
Rogers, I. D. G. NJ, Topeka; j. 81. Mccall.
/. G. C.. p. of W., Wichita; Christian Beck,
l. q. treasurer, Leavenworth; ]. III. Brown,
G. recorder, Kansas City; John Fl. Spen-
Ger, L G. C. g., Independence; B. f.
| Evans, L 6. G. c., Newton; John L. Jones.
| 1. G.. Std, Neosbo Falls; Fritz Mayors, L
G. Sentinel, Leavenworth. ya
| Burr CARVER. the eichteen-yeaT.o old