Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-03-14

myers, w lcniCa, ana d i. Patrick, ottawa.
Quartermaster-H.F F. Best
Paymaster-GeneraEF III. Bonebrake.
.Colonels and Aides de- Camp
/ q. c. Loghlin, n. e. Callahan, 81. w.
Avery:
Miscellaneous.
THE other evening Herman Roadiger OF
Manhattan, who had been helping parties
haul wood, went to a brush pile where he
had left his shotgun and pulled it out with
the muzz'e pointing toward him. The
trigger caught in twig and discharged
the gun, the entire load entering his heart
He did not utter q word after being shot
but dropped instantly. He had lived in
Manhattan only two months. He was
twenty-six years old and hts father re-.
sides in Germany.
The bill to prohibit trusts, pools and
combinations has become a law. It pro-
vides that all arrangements, agreements.
trusts or combinations between persons or
corporations made with q view or which
tend to prevent full and free competition
in the importa. ion or transportation of
articles imported into the State, or in the
product, manufacture and sale OF domestic
raw materials, or for the use Of money, or
to fix attorney fees, and all arrangements,
SITS or combinations between persons or
combinations designed or which tend to
advance the cost to the consumer Of any
such articles, or which tend to advance or
control the rate of interest for the loan or
use OF money to the borrower, are against
public policy, unlawful and void. The
bill provides a penalty of imprisonment
and fine not to exceed 81, 900 for viola
ton. ~
ON the 2Sth Mr.. Legate introduced in
the House a resolution which passed
unanimously that tive send greeting to
Charles Stewart Parnell at his complete
vindication and the consequent downfall
of the aristocracy of England and the ap-
proach Of home rule for Ireland"
BURGLARS blew open the safe Of the
Riverside Coal Company at Leavenworth
the other night but only secured SIG for
their trouble.
THE Cyclones, Of Lawrence, won the first
prize at the inaugural in Washington in
the exhibition contest between fambeau
clubs. ~ 500 ~
A SPECIMEN of marble recently found
about three quarters of a mile south of
Sun City. is about two feet long by one
foot in thickness. It was taken from the
quarry and sawed into shape. but no at
tempt was made to polish otherwise than
to smooth it's surface, which shows that
the marble is capable of a high polish. a..
Cole McDoUGAL, who had charge of II.
M. Holden's ranch in Shawnee County,
was recently drowned in Soldier creek. >
PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
ventors: Carpet fastener, Joseph E. Cald-
well, Goodiand; bier, John w. Finch and
j. B. Park, Clay Center; self-heating sad
iron, William II. Null, Lawrence; door
check, Frank Parsons, Russell Springs;
feed regulator, Carlisle d. Patterson, Gil
rard. a.
awest- bound passenger train on the Santa
Fe road at a point some fifteen miles east
OF Lawrence. near Cedar Junction, and
might have been successful but for the
timely tagging of the train by q farmer
who lived near by. An Investigation
showed that all the spikes had been drawn
for two rail lengths. Track repairers'
tools were lying about and the work had
evidently been hastily abandoned The
train left Kansas City at nine p. m. heav-
lily loaded and carrying valuable express
age Tor the Wells-Fargo Company. The
point where the track was tempered
with Is a secluded and dangerous
one where the roadbed runs between the
foot Of a cliff and the river bank. only a
few feet from each. The farmer said he
discovered the evidences of the attempt to
wreck the train only few minutes before
it was due.
CORPORAL Rock. Of the Ninth Cavalry.
at Fort Leavenworth, was recently ordered
to confine Private Tyler. of the same
troop. In the guard house. The latter.
when ordered to 60, rushed to the carbine
rack. loaded a piece in an instant and
fred, the ball entering the corporal's loft
arm and SCATTERING it badly. Both men
are old soldiers, Tyler having served
fifteen years and Rock twenty five. 81
Two notorious Kansas desperadoes, C.
T. Garfield, alias s.The Kid" and A.
Burnett were arrested the other day by
the sheriff of Grant County. 'sThe KIDD
T. T.. 81
der and stage robbery. They were sur
rounded by the sheriff's posse on the plains
and were taken only after their ammu-
milton was exhausted and both men
wounded. r .ssa,s.s- .sesft.t
The Governor has appointed Emile
Firmin AZ commissioner from Kansas to
the Paris Exposition, to act In con junction
with the United States Commissioners Gen.
eral. The Legislature made an appropria-
tion Of S. coo for Kansas exhibition ut
the Exposition. ~
On tho 9th tho Senate confirmed the
nomination of George b. Case rs warden
Of the penitentiary and Hon. T. II. Car.
roll to be Major General. 80
THE Senate has passed the bill and it Il
now law, giving insurance companies
the right to appeal to the courts from the
rulings OF the Insurance. Department.
JOHN NILSSON who il said to have de.
AEeuOoA AA10A sSAAento "a AoPoAa, AeWIeucoS
Atchison and other places with bogus
ecks, was recently captured at Oinaha,
Neb, and when closely pressed broke
down and confessed.
KID SATFoRD. q tough who recently e.
capped from the jail 1t Hutchipson, was
later arrested at tho home OF his mistress
where he was concealed in her trunk.
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