The Globe-republican., 1889-10-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

son arrested at Topeka upon the charge OF
assault with intent to kill Young Burn.
side, who is an ex-convict having served
term in the penitentiary for burglary,
confessed to having killed his father, be-
ing melted by the woman. He said that
during his absence in prison his father
had married a young colored woman and
when he returned he became infatuated
with his step. mother and the two entered
into plot to get rid of the elder Burnside
which was done by means Of poison. The
woman was arrested and held to await
invec.igation.
The grand jury In the district court at
Topeka recently returned an ind ctment
against Moses E. Matthews. prominent
young lawyer. for forgery. The charge
is that one Of his clients entrusted a piece
of real estatate to him to SELL and that
Matthews forged q deed conveying the
property to himself and then borrowed
money upon it
IT ID said that the feasibility Of estab.
fishing reservoirs for irrigating purposes
in the West will be tested soon by the
State Agricultural Bureau. Apparatus
designed to show how much of the water
held in reservoirs will evaporate in q
reau. 1t comprises three large square
galvanized iron pans, which are to be
filed with water and floated by means of
pontoons. These three pans will be placed
n;three different sections of the State
one out on tho high plain traversed by
the Union Pacific another in the South
west and q third in the Eastern part of
the State. They will be placed in large
rocorvoiyo nd no n ion hor oh %
tested. The result will be made known to
the officials at Washington as most inter-
ested in the question.
GENERAL c. w. BABcoCK, formerly OF
Lawrence and prominently known in
Kansas, died at St Louis on the 22d from
the effect Of a surgical operation, in the
sixtieth year of his age.
j. B. HOPE, city marshal Of Lecompton.
aged seventy years. was recently killed
by Santa Fe train in the outskirts OF
that town.
THE Governor has pardoned John Sat.
terwhite, of D ouglas County, who was on
February %. 1896 convicted of robbery in
the first degree and sentenced to ten
years imprisonment
NINETY SEVEN men and seven women
under " emit civil-service examination at
topeka III, other day. They were from
al parts OF the West
PATRICK BRoDERIcK, twenty five years
of age. met with a horrible death at Kin.
gan's packing house in ArmouId dale the
other afternoon. While leaning over an
elevator shaft the elevator descended,
catching his head and MASKING it into q
shapeless mass, killing him instantly.
j. w. ADY, Of Newton, has been ap.
pointed United States Attorney for the
District of Kansas, in place of W. c. Per.
~, resigned
The Governor has appointed J. S West,
of Fort Scott judge of the Sixth Judicial
district to succeed Judge French, re-
signed Judge West is about thirty years
OF age.
A COLLISION recently occurred on the
crossing of the Santa Fe and electric
street railway at Wichita, seriously cut
ting and bruising the Misses Ollie and
Lode Mum and internally injuring Nellie
Henderson, of Oswego, the latter probably
fatally.
The Board of Railway Commissioners
met in conference at Topeka the other day
with the representatives of the various
railroads operated in the Stale, il the
matter of livestock rates. Recently the
Interstate Commerce Commission ruled
that the proper way to regulate the tariff
on livestock shipments was to bise the
rate upon the weight instead of upon the
car load. For several months past the
railroads in the State have been working
upon the car load plan. The decision Of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
meets with the hearty approval of the
railroads, and they desire to adopt, with
the consent of the Board of Railroad Com
missioners, the weight system.
THE following is the present enrolment
Of the students in the University of Kan
sas: Post graduates, IL; academic de-
partment. S43; pharmacy. 80; law, SO;
music and art, Al; total, All
A BRAKEMAN by the name o! Higgins
was recently killed on the Missouri Pacific
re a near Leavenworth.
A MOVEMENT is on foot to form q central
organization of the Prohibition States for
a united crusade against the liquor traffic.
James A. Troutman, president of the Kan.
sas State Temperance Union, has submit.
ted plan to the president of the temper.
ance associations Of Iowa, Nebraska and
the two Dakotas, and it has been Endorsed
by the heads Of the Nebraska and South
Dakota associations. The plan favors the
holding OF a convention about January /
at Omaha for the purT o,e of forming an
organization of the Prohibition forces of
the five States.
A PETITION was recently filed With the
clerk OF the United S ates Circuit Court at
Topeka by the receivers of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas IA lway to restrain tho
Missouri Pacific Railway Company, tho
Fort Scott Wichita g. Western Railway
Company, the Fort Scott Belt Terminal
Railway Company and the city of Fort
Scott from interference with the railway,
right of way and depot facilities at Fort
Scott A restraining order was issued by
Judge Brewer and placed in the hands Of
the marshal. whose deputy suddenly APP
peared at Fort Scott. during a very en-
thusiastic Iairoai meeting, and served
the papers.
JOSEPH s BoNNEY, aged sixty.two, for
thirty years q resident of Lawrence and
a we'll known inventor, shot himself
through the heart the other morning.
He took pistol astensib.y to clean it. but
the wound was such as to preclude the
theory of accident. He was q prominent
Mason and Odd Fellow.
TIE various farmers alliances of Har.
vey County had q grand demonstration at
Newton on the oath. Twelve divisions
xxera renresented and in the STRAIT m rada