Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-11-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ana secretary Pr1tcn3rQ, OF the U n1teo
States Detective and Information
Bureau. of Kansas City, Kan, were ar
rested by deputy United States mar
shall on the charge of using the United
| States mails for fraudulent purposes
They were taken to Topeka and gave
bonds for their appearance fo1 trial
THE other morning James r. Varnard,
foreman of the carpenters crew for the
| Missouri Pacific, was found unconscious
| at the edge of the water under the
bridge across the Kaw at Kansas City,
| Kan. Varnard was taken out of the
| water by the railroad men and sent to the
hospital, where he regained conscious
ness and stated that he had fallen from
| the bridge. His injuries were quite
| serious.
IN the district court of Shawnee
County the other day decision was
| rendered by Judge Guthrie on the valid
| ity of an ordinance of the city of Topc-
| ka, requiring all animals designed for
human food, before being killed. to be
| inspected on foot and branded and all
meat to be also inspected and branded
| before being offered for sale. The party
charged with violating the ordinance
| claimed that he had purchased his meat
| in Kansas City, Mo-, and therefore was
| not obliged to hav" the meat inspected,
| but the court held that the ordinance
was valid and that no Federal question
was involved in the case.
| MRS. w. KEAcn, w fe of the clerk OF
the district court a Hayes City. had a
very narrow escape the other morning.
| Her dress caught fire and in few
| mon; ents she was aim ,st envelOped in a
bla- G. She ran to neighbor's for as
sista nee and the fla mes were soon ex-
ting, ished, but not until Mrs. Reach
had been badly burned.
| DANIEL EVANS was stabbed to death
| by William McGray Bala, the other
| afternoon. Evans rem wed an old quar-
rel with McGray and tackled him with
| a sone. McGray DIR w a knife and
| stabb d Evans twice, causing death in
| two hours. Evans was twenty-five years
old and unmarried.
w. A. HYMEs was recently arrested at
Lawrence upon requisition from the
Governor of Minnesota. He was some
months ago in the employ of an in
| surance company at ST. Paul and is
charged with swindling and forgery.
THE Attorney-General has appointed
E. w. Soper to be Assistant United
States Attorney for the district of Kan
sas.
w. d. FARMER, a Topeka lumber
| dealer, recently made an assignment for
the benefit of creditors. His liabilities
were $1O,553.93.
SUIT has been brought at Leaven-
worth by Pottawatomie chief, repre-
senting his tribe. for recovery of large
tracts of land out of which the Indians
claim to have been swindled. AS soon
as it was learned that the Indians were
to have lands in severalty, number of
men, working on the ignorance of the
Pottawatomics, induced them to sell for
$40 an acre land worth $500, the Indians
signing the papers under the impression
that they had something to do with the
severalty matter.
THOMAS RYAN, a track walker on the
Missouri Pacific railroad, was run over
late the other hight by construction
train at Leavenworth and instantly
killed.
Mrs. CATHARINE Swayne recently
commenced proceedings in the United
States Circuit Court, at Topeka, against
the Consolidated Tank Line Company
for damages to the amount of 500, 900.
She claims that her husband was en-
ployed by the company at Sterling and
that shortage was charged against him
to cover up the company's own crooked
rules. The result was that he and his
family were driven from the town in
disgrace, that they were run about
''from post to pillar and that one of
their children died owing to the perse-
cution.
A. INGRAM, a we'll known citizen of
Topeka, who left that city six months
ago to explore. the wilds of Alaska,
while recentlyearrying out his purpose
got lost and starved to death. He was
sixty-three years old.
v. P. CAFFREY, the defau1ting loan
agent who disappeared some time ago
from Hutchinson, has written letter
from Texas to his creditors in which he
acknowledges that he is about $500
short, but such condition of affairs is
not due to dishonest intentions but to a
ombination of circumstances beyond
his control. He says he could easily
have taken S25. 200 to SsE, 900 had he been
SO disposed, and as he did not he thinks
the fact ought to reflect to his credit.
He offers, if given immunity from ar
rest and prosecution, to turn over all
his property in trust to his creditors and
go to work again and pay any deficiency
as he may be able to earn the money.
LARRY P. BYRNE. teller in the First
National Bank of Larned, was arrested
the other night on the charge of embez-
element. About five months ago pack
age containing $1,000 was missed from
the bank, and since that time the man
agement has held the employees under
surveillance and had detectives working
on the case Byrne was living quite
high and was suspected, but the matter
was kept quiet until $40 was missed.
Byrne resigned, and had taken the train
for Tacoma, Wash, when he was arrest
ed. He confessed his guilt. He is only
nineteen years old.
THE late Bishop Vail had his life in
sured for $2O,O 900.
LAWRENCE has a new military COM
pany known as the Robinson Rifles, in
honor of Ex-Governor Robinson.
T. b. DAVIS, an Atchison carpenter,
was badly injured the other day by fall
ing from a scaffold.
EDWARD GILLESPIE. transfer man for
the Santa Fe and Frisco roads at Burr