Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

mill at Medicine Lodge recently struck
for higher wages. causing q shut ont Of six
hours. The company was paying the men
12K cents per hour and notified them that
. reduction OF 2x cents would be made.
The men asked that their wages be in
creased to so per day and they got it.
In the district court of Wyadotte County
Judge Miller recently granted at injunc-
ton restraining the county commissioners
from levying q special tax to pay for
grading and paving the Quiudaro boule-
ward. The decision is regarded as the
most important that has been handed
down for years in Wyandotte County and
it is thought that the same conclusions at
law upon which the injunctions were
granted, will apply to other county road
improvements, thus invalidating the bonds
sold by the county authorities in payment
for improvements. It is also held by
prominent attorneys that, although the
decision was based on the fact that the
proceeding of the county board were ir-
regular, the decision touches very strongly
upon the unconstitutionality of the Buchan
Road law under which the board has made
$3.50. 600 worth of improvements since the
law became operative in 1887.
THE State fair opened at Topeka on the
18th with dattering promises of success.
The show of cattle and horses was the
largest and finest ever made in Kansas.
Many of the finest herds of Missouri, Ne
braska, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and
Kansas were on exhibition. Twenty
counties were represented with magnifi-
cent displays of agricultural and horti-
cultural products. President Sims said
that as far as agricultural displays were
concerned the exhibits would eclipse any
thing that has ever been attempted in the
West
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entered suit against the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe road for Sc 200 damages
for the death of his young son, Oden
Toyne. who was killed August by a
Santa Fe passenger train, about five miles
east OF Lawrence.
THE town site of Franklin, four miles
southeast of Lawrence, was sold the other
day to satisfy a mortgage held by the
Connecticut Life Insurance Company.
There were 200 acres Of improved land and
it brought So, 800. The town of Franklin
was founded in 1854 by parties who un-
dertook the task of building up a pro-
slavery rival to the neighboring town of
Lawrence 1t was the scene of many an
exciting incident. but it will in future be
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THE new Union Pacific depot at Law
renee is rapidly nearing completion.
THE disbursements to the various chari-
table institutions of.the State for the month
of August amounted to 500. 1853 SO, as fol-
lows: Dess mute. $3.50 %; Industrial
school for girls, 65.07; idiotic and imbe-
cile asylum. 81, 24729; soldiers orphans
home. $,72z72; Topeka insane asylum.
So. 154 45; Ossawatomie, ISOLATE; reform
school, 81, 1887; erecting and furnishing
hospital at reform school, s., 024. 80; blind
asylum, $97S. So.
Hon. j. NJ. RUSH, Secretary of Agri-
A1lture, attended the recent State fair at
Topeka.
The law department of the State Uni
vsrsity at Lawrence opened on the 18th
with fifty two members the largest en-
rollment ever reached'in the departm
THE immense plant OF the Kansas City
Desiccating and Refining Company, To-
Gated on the west bank of the Kaw river
in Armourdale, was completely wiped out
by fire the other night. The works were
the most extensive in the West, and the
entire loss on buildings. machinery, oils
and materials is placed at $75 0OO while
the insurance. aggregatlng $4,000. is dis
t:ibuted among twenty. four different
companies. There were a number of ac-
cidents during the fire, the most serious
bling that to Joe Etsenberger, a German
in the employ of the company, who
jumped from q window with q large knife
in his hand. The knife penetrated the
muscle of his right arm, cutting it in q
terrible manner. Another employee had
an arm broken by jumping from win
dow.
By a recent wreck on ths Frisco road
near Leon, Butler County, three passen-
ger coaches went over a fifteen-foot en-
bankment. R NJ. Beemis. was thrown
from the top of a car and killed, and Isaac
Dean and Mrs. Matseka, of Wichita, were
fatally injured. Several other passengers
were severely hurt, the most seriously in
iured being Mrs. R A Hodges, of Arkan.
sas City.
DAVID LEMONS, the murderer of Sergeant
Webster, U. s. A, at Fort Reno, I. T., on
June. 1888. was recently sentenced by the
United States Court at Wichita to be
hanged on November 6.
The city of Newton has fled complaints
with the Board of Railroad Commissioners
against the Santa Fe and the Missouri
Pacific roads, alleging unjust discrimina-
ton.
THE post office and the general store in
which it was located, at Seabrook, about
four miles southwest of Topeka, burned
the other night. About $40 worth of
stamps and small amount of mail matter
were destroyed.
The State Board Of Railroad Commits
sioners met at Atchison recently to hear
against the Missouri Pacific and Santa Fe
roads. The complaints were duly stated
by several of the leading business men
and the matter taken under advisement
by the board.
THE store Of R Kelson at Reno, a small
station on the Union Pacific road between
Lawrence and Leavenworth, was robbed
the other night by burglars who blew
open the safe and took about 5000 in
money, together with $40 in stamps $500
worth of notes and a pension check of $50,
payable at the Chicago agency. The pro-
prietor Of the store is express agent, post
master and railroad agent
HENRY LATHAM. a prosperous young
farmer living ten miles south Of Newton,
recently sold 500 worth of hogs in Sedg-
wick and left for home about eight O'Clock
in the evening. He did not reach home
and diligent search by neighbors and au-
thorities failed to find any trace Of him
1t Is feared he has been murdered.
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