Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

RECENTLY Mrs. G. ]. Bliss, of Grant
County, was using carbolic acid about her
house as disinfectant when her three
| year old son by some means obtained pos.
| session of the bottle and drank q quantity
| of the liquid. Medical aid proved un-
availing and the child died 1t was
| feared the mother would lose her reason.
FoURrH-CLAss postmasters recently ap-
| pointed in Kansas: j. B. Welpton at
Almena, Morton County; j. T. Morrison,
| Cedarville. Smith County; NJ. E Hutchin-
son, Dorrance, Russell County; A. E
| Strauss, Fowler, Meade County; j. L.
! Trowbridge, Hawkeye, Decatur County;
| A. F. Aderhald, Mcfarland, Wabaunsee
County; 6. F. Gill, Raymond, Rice Coun-
| ty; Minnie L. Dustin, Summunduwot,
| Wyandotte County; E. w. Mckay, Por-
| Ii, Ellsworth County; z. s. Wasson,
| Huntsville. Ellis County; Royal Eastman,
Woodston, Rocks County.
| PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
| ventors: A. j. Adamson, Sabetha, rolling
harrow and cuitivator; Quincy Baldwin,
| Tonganoxie, sash balance; j. III. Cassidy,
Leavenworth, cover fastener for vessels;
| G. w. Day, Lansing, fountain attachment
! for wash boilers; Alma Emmons, Galena,
ore separator; Enos Landes, Reserve, cul-
| tivator; w. D. Makemson, Prescott, churn;
| 81. c. Perry, Coffeyville, ironing board;
J. D. Pritchard, Topeka, hammock suspen-
sion device; F. w. Richey, Armourdale.
| stop throttle valve; R. F. Robinson,
Kansas City, brick machine; s. c. Tucker,
Garnett, buckle; j. NJ. Wishart, Marion,
| sad iron heating apparatus.
THE other evening Charles Gordon, q
Leavenworth grocer twenty -four years
| old, met two negro men in front of his
store and q scuff1e ensued, when he was
| stabbed to the heart and died instantly.
Parties some distance away identified the
murderers as Monroe Campbell and Rich
| Lemons. When Gordon fell they es-
| capped in the direction of the river. The
| murdered man bore an excellent reputa-
| tion, and was never known to have a
quarrel. He leaves a widowed mother and
| a wife and one child.
THE Governor has issued his proclama-
! tion designating Thursday, April IL as
Arbor Day.
A VEIN of the best kind of bitumin Gus
coal was recently discovered in the shaft
of the New Home mine at Leavenworth.
1t is free from sulphur and other impuri-
ties and when tested proved to be suited
to blacksmithing and cooking purposes.
1t is said to be the most valuable coal field
| in that part of the country and of great
| Importance to the city.
| THE house of j. w. Baldwin, of Quenemo,
took fire the other evening from defective
| fue and babe which was asleep in the
| room when the fire originated was fatally
| burned.
THE Governor has appointed James II.
c. Brewer. of Peabody, member of the
Board of Silk Commissioners for the term
of two years, ending March 10, 1891.
On the Goth the President nominated
| George Chandler, of Independence, Kan,
| to be First Assistant Secretary of the In
terror, and Jacob v. Admire to be receiver of
l.,
KANSAS postmasters appointed on the
! 9th: Belpre, Edwards County, James NJ.
| Norvell, vice John Kennedy, resigned; ;
| Pomona, Franklin County, B. G. Glenn,
| vice Josiah D. Flora, removed; Prescott,
! Linn County, William I. Fisher, vice John
| L. Brown, removed; Central City, Ander-
son County, Everett Marsh, vice John w.
| Farrris, resigned; Glenloch, Anderson
| County, Adam r. Foster, vice G. F. Watt,
resigned; Luden, Rawlins County, R. II.
| Chase, vice John II. Constable, removed /;
| Muscotah, Atchison County, George Pea
body, vice Henry H. Moore, removed; !;
Selma, Anderson County, Francis NJ Ir.
win. vice William w. Sharples, resigned.
HON. THOMAS RYAN, Congressman from
the Fourth district has been appointed
| Minister to Mexico.
OFFICIALS of the Rock Island railroad
and a corps of engineers started from To-
PcAd Ou CAc %Otu W ndk6 tA10 Auesi Cy
| for the extension of the road through the
Indian Territory. The road is built as far
| south as Pond creek in the Cherokee strip.
| at which point construction will begin.
| F. 81. ANTHONY, an ex-police officer, re-
| Gently complained at police headquarters
| in Leavenworth that he had been waylaid
| the previous night by fifteen men and
| boys, while going home from the temper
| ance meetings in Stiiling's addition, and
| haA1v hoo ton ct0 and III ah0nk
the legs. He said he had done nothing to
| excite their wrath and didn't know what
| made them do it. He had severe cut in
the left thigh, reaching to the bone, and
the flesh below the knee was badly lacer-
ated. He received several bruises about
the head and chest
o. K. SKRv1ss, chief of police of Kansas
| City, Kan, has been appointed postmaster
| of that city to succeed v. j. Lane, editor
| of the Herald, whose commission had ex-
| pired.
THE little daughter of Lewis Aldridge
| was rode down. trampled upon and prob
| ably fatally injured by the horses OF sew
eral young hoodlums who attended a
meeting in Lyon County the other day
and rode furiously along the road regard
| less of the many people that were return-
ing from the services.
| PROMINENT Santa Fe officials recently
expressed the opinion that this will be the
! most prosperous season Kansas has ex-
perienced in years, and that both the
railroad company and the people will
make money.
The State Board of Railroad Commits
sioners, on the application of the Union
| Pacific, has ordered a rehearing in the
Abilene case, which involves the right OF
s,ne road to require another road,
at a common point to accept its cars and
place them at the mills and elevators to
| be loaded and transported on competing
| line.
THE census of 1885 gave Kansas popu-
| lation of ], ,26S, so. This consisted of 679, =
500 males and 5S9, ,23o females. The mar
ried were 460,5o1 and the single I'll ,569,
while there were %, 214 widows and IA, 24o
widowers, the widows being in the major
ity of widowers by 1865
An Eastern capitalist, who has been in
| vestigating Kansas salt, gives as his opin-
ion that Kansas is certainly destined at
an early date to become the principal cen-
ter for the supply of salt in the United
| States.
ED CARSON recently fatally stabbed Jim
| HAYDEN at Lawrence. Both are negroes
! and the quarrel was over a woman.
CHARLES SLIPS, only seventeen years