Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-07-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ALBERT TAPr shot and killed Wiley
Woodruff in Stanton County the other
day. The victim Was a hrothar-in- la " to
the murderer. Relatives did not think
that Weodruff's wife was properly cared
for and protested against her living with
her husband A quarrel Was picked with
him which resulted in his being shot The
j shooting was done in the presence of his
wife. Tapp fed. This was The first killing
in the county.
E w. WEST. travelling man for Kan
! sas City cigar house. disappeared very
mysteriously at Wichita the other day
and no trace of him could be found. He
had sold his residence in Kansas City and
was removing his family to Arkansas
City. He had 81. 600 on his person when
he left his wife at the hotel, saying he
would be back soon. He was seen drink.
ing in the afternoon and that was the last
trace of him.
JAMES PIERCE. Wichita negro, recent
ly asked John Mullen, also colored. to pay
him thirty cents he owed him Mullen
| without uttering a word in reply drew
razor from his pocket and killed Pierce.
The debt had been incurred in crap game.
The Goodlander Mill Company, of Fort
Scott, recently commenced suit in the
circuit court at Chicago against tn Stand
ard Oh Company in plea of trespass for
5000 600 In November. 1857, the Standard
Oil Company shipped a tank car contain
ing 6. 600 gallons of kerosene to Fort Scott
where it was placed upon a sidetrack be-
hind the extensive mills and elevators OF
the Goodiander Company. Workmen in
empty ing the tank unscrewed the cap of
the outlet pipe. which was out of order,
and when the cap was removed the 00)
gallons of oil burst out, flooding the first
story of the mill When the stream of oil
reached the furnaces in the boiler room
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valued at 500, 600 were totally destroyed.
PAUL PERRY, a Frenchman who had lost
both legs below the knee in a mine explo-
sion at Burlngame, and had since
been begging on the streets of Leaven-
| worth, in company with his thirteen-year
old daughter, was arrested the other day
| on the girls complaint charging him with
incest. He stoutly denied the girls
charge but was placed under 81 Oo0 bonds
in default of which he was sent to Jail.
The girl was sent to her brother in Kansas
City and when the case was called could
not appear and Perry went free
The Grant Monument Committee met
at Fort Leavenworth the other day, ex-
amined the statue of the late General
Grant and accepted it from the contract.
ors, Hodge & Mccarthy. The pr esident
| was directed TO pay the amount due the
contractors. No special day for the I'M
v
probably take place September IL. Com
mittees on Invitation with General Nc
Cook as chaiI man and on railroad trans
portation with s. F. Nelly as chairman.
were appointed. The grounds about the
statue are being put in proper condition.
A CHARTER has been filed with the
Secretary of State for the Nebraska, Kan
sas & Southwestern road. The company
has a capital stock Of s., 225, 600. and pro-
pose to build $50 miles of road in Kans as
within the next year. The headquarters
of the company are at Hutchinson.
w. II. ANDERSON, one of he most prom
inent real estate dealers in Lyon County
and q partner in the firm of Anderson &
Butler, Americas, was recently arrested
on the charge of forgery. He is accused
of making out false abstracts and getting
loans upon them
THE following delegates to the Nrtional
Editorial Association at Detroit have been
appointed by President Dunn. of the
Northwestern Kansas Editorial Associa-
ton: W. N. Caldwell, Beioit; A. p. Rid
die. Minneapolis; A. l. Alrich, Cawker
City; S. H. Dodge, Belot; D. a. Valen-
tine, Clay Center; G. I. Davis, Republic
City.
The troops at Fort Leavenworth pa
raded on the 17th in honor of General w.
T. Sherman, who was on a visit to the
Fort
THE charter of the South Dodge Canal
Company, of Dodge City. was recently
fled with the Secretary of State. Its pur-
pose is to build and maintain an irrigating
ditch between the Arkansas river and
Ford City. The river is to be tapped on
the south side at a point within mile
of section 81, township &C. south of range
| Is west in Ford County. The capital stock
| is $25O, 900
| PROF Snow, of the State Univ ersity, re-
Gently shipped forty five consignments of
| diseased chinch bugs to farmers in eight
| different States as an experiment to de-
| termine the practical utility of the dis
| ease for the determination of the bugs.
| Prof Snow feels confident that this dis
| ease, known as white fungus" will be
| the means of Kidding the country of the
| chinch bug.
The UMPIRE cedented sale of self binders
| throughout Northern Kansas this season
| speaks volumes for the enormous crops of
small grain reised.
| JOHN NJ. PRICE, of Atchison. has fled a
! petition in the district court of Cherokee
| County asking for a receiver for the South
| Side Mining and Manufacturing Com
/ pany, a lead and zinc mining enterprise
| of Galena- The property involved in the
suit is variously estimated at being worth
from 500 600 to $500 600.
| IT is stated that Willie Baldwin, who is
serving life term in the Kansas peniten-
| tiary for the murder of his sister at Atch-
| ison. is sick and likely to die
FRED YANKE, who had charge of the
| Archer electric works at Wichita, is said
| to have disappeared. and the company
| and other creditors wish to see him. A
young lady to whom he had been paying
| marked attention caused a warrant to be
issued for him. charging that he ran away
with her gold watch
IT is asserted that q Douglas County
| man threshed $50 bushels of wheat from
| five-acre field.
In December of last year the Depart
ment of Agriculture received from the
| Chief Secretary's Office at Queensland
| Australia, a communication requesting
the department to nominate to that Gov
eminent a suitable person to be appointed
AZ instructor in agriculture, and Secretary
Rusk the other day appointed Prof. Ed.
ward IL Shelton, of Manhattan, to the
position. Prof. Shelton has fer many
years been professor of practical agri-
culture in the Kansas State Agricultural
College.
JUDGE GUTHRIE has decided that the
| young men of Topeka can not ride theil
bicycles across the bridge, the city ordi
nances forbiding it being held to be legal