Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-08-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
FRANK MARTIN, aged thirty-fve em-
ployed at the dessicatiug and refining
works at Armourdale, while wa king on q
plank in the upper part OF the building
the other evening missed his footing and
fell distance Of ton feet into vat Of
boiling grease. Before any assistance
reach him his flesh from his waist down
was almost thoroughly cooked. He could
not recover.
CoNsIDERABLE fax has been grown In
Douglas County this year.
THE fourth annual State Assembly.
knights OF Labor, commenced in Leaven-
worth on the 5th. Mayor Hacker deliv-
cred an address of welcome which was
responded to by the master workman OF
the State.
PosTMAsTERs recently appointed in
Kansas: Squire Lane. Burlington, vice
E. NJ. Lockwood, removed; William E.
Hogueland, Yates Center, vice E. v. War
ton. removed; John s. Eastwood. Eureka,
vice w. w. McGrew, removed; Frank w.
Allen. Oswego, vice John NJ. lands. re-
moved; Russell T. Stokes, Garnett. vice
j. S. Mccartney, resigned; w. G. Whit
ney, Cawker City, vice j. w. Hughes, re-
moved.
j. w. BEACH was recently sentenced at
Topeka to one year in the penitentiary for
the killing of A. Stewart. The two men
were prominent farmers in the north part
of Shawnee County, and became engaged
in a quarrel regarding their children.
Beach is eighty years of age and in very
feeble health, because of which the judge
gave him light sentence.
The Topeka sugar works. located four
miles west of that city. were almost en-
tirely destroyed by fire the other morn
ing. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $40. 600.
The entire plant year ago. cost STA. 000
Hundreds of acres of sorghum cane in the
vicinity had been planted for this seasons
supply and is almost ready for the mill.
The fire is supposed to have been incen.
diary.
THE total taxable value of property in
Kansas. as shown by the compilations of
the State Board of Equalization. is as
follows: Total value of taxable land,
$173. 801, 010; total value of taxable town
lots. SIC, $40 67l; total value of taxable
personal property, $53 49,, 81; total value
OF taxable railroad property, $57, 494, 749;
grand total $3.50, S13, 901. Shawnee County
leads with total valuation of SIG, 4O5 :
500 %. Sedgwick County is second, with
a total of $16 100. 942 O6.
ROBERT BUCKLEY. eighteen years old,
was recently terribly torn by a vicious
dog at Leavenworth. the brute tearing a
large piece of flesh from the boys leg and
eating it.
w. A. CHURCH, a stranger, was killed
by the west bound Santa Fe passenger
train in the Atchison yards the other
night. He was walking on the track. and
in trying to get out of the way of
the train stumbled and before he
could get up was crushed by the wheels.
He only lived long enough to tell his
name and that he had wife and family.
Papers on his person indicated that he
was a man of some prominence of Ozark,
Mo.
COMMANDER BOOTH, of the department
of Kansas, G. A. R., has issued a circular
advising members of the State to attend
the Milwaukee reunion.
ONE day recently the smelter company
at Argentine shipped bullion amounting
to $73 1873.
A LATE Topeka special stated that an
organized effort is being made to reduce
the colored population Of Kansas by coll
onizing negroes in Oklahoma Within
the past few months many thousands
have been induced to locate there. An
agent in Topeka has located over 900
colored men on Government land in the
Territory, each taking $50 acres making
145. 600 acres through a single agency.
ton was recently horribly mangled by
street car at Wichita There was a sus-
picion that foureeen-y ear-o boy, who
had been in the habit of abusing the child,
had thrown it under the car, and the mat
ter was being Investigated.
LEWIS c. MCMILLAN died at his hotel in
Topeka the other day from an overdose of
morphine. He had been suffering from
an abscess of the liver and took the drug
to alleviate his pain, but got an overdose.
1T was recently reported that Charles
Francis Meserve. of Spring field, Mass.
had been appointed superintendent of
Haskell Institute (the Indian schoo) at
Lawrence.
The Eighth street school house at Tope-
ka was struck by lightning during a late
storm and damaged to the extent of $500.
AT th' recent meeting of the State as
sembly Of the Knights of Labor held at
Leavenworth, the following officers were
elected: State master workman. r. ]. St
Clair. of Atchison; worthy foreman, T.
A. Grange, of Topeka; recording secre-
tary, w. S. Anderson, of Atchison; treas
urer. w. E. Henderson, of Topeka; sta.
tistician. A. j. Callahan, of Junction City;
auditor, Charles Meeker, of Atchison; ex-
ecutive board. w. II. Shouse. of Leaven.
worth, w. E. Henderson, of Topeka, p O.
Farrell, of Jun City, and w. A. Snow,
Kinsley.
The body of John A. Idep, a wealthy
Missouri farmer, was recently found in
Sugar Lake, near Atchison. As he had
quite sum of money with him when he
left home the supposition was that he had
been murdered and robbed and the BODY
thrown in the lake.
The report of the AID jutant- General of
the Kansas department. of the Grand
Army of the Republic for the second
quarter of 1889 shows a net increase of
667 members during the quarter. The re-
port gives the following figures: In good
standing last quarter 423 posts, II, $50
members; mustered in during second
quarter, IA posts. 773 members; gained by
transfers, 14S; gained by reinstatement,
243; reinstatement of delinquents, II
posts. 500 members; total department. en-
rollment. 454 posts, IS GLIB members
The committee appointed by the Grant
Monument Association of Leavenworth TO
make the necessary arrangements for the
unwilling of the statue September IA is
making elaborate preparations for the oc-
casion. Senator ingalls,, Major William
Warner, George r. Peck and General c.
W. Blair have agreed to bs present and
speak upon the life of the great soldier
Efforts are to be made to secure special
rates on all roads and a large attendance
= expected.