Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-12-05

| value of telegram franchise $45. 900.
| The gross income for the year of these
papers was s2s2, SOL. The expenses for
the year were as follows: Stock, s72,-
O67: labor, S2ss, 179; postage, Sc. 342;
| power, S7,5S7.
An Insolvent Insurance Company.
d. w. Wilder, Superintendent of In
surance, has closed up the Topeka In
! surance Company which has been in
business for the past three years. He
finds that it has violated laws in many
ways. The two annual statements made
to the Insurance Department, although
sworn tC by the officers, are found to be
false in several particulars. This is a
penltentiaI. offense. The company has
| over $40, ZOO of unpaid losses and is un-
able to pay them.
The Kansas City Union Depot.
Articles of Incorporation were filed
| with the Secretary of State recently by
the Union Depot Bridge Railway &
| Railway Terminal Company of Kansas
City, Mo-, and Kansas City, Kas.; CAPT
| tai stock, S12, 900, 900. The object is to
| provide depot and bridge facilities for
| the railroads centering at Kansas City.
The directors are Henry McGraw, Will
| lam p. Vanaken, Nicholas McAlpine,
Kansas City, Kas.; William II. Reed,
Robert NJ. Ray, Kansas City, Mo.
Buried In q Cellar.
P. S. COUNT and julius Garry, while
digging a cellar at Paola, few days
ago, were buried by one of the sides OF
the excavation falling in. When dis
covered both were dead. Each leaves q
family.
The First Train to Cofeyvllle.
The first train arrived in Coffeyville,
a few days ago, over the Kansas & Ar
kansas Valley railroad, thus formally
opening direct connection over the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern por-
ton of the Missouri Pacific system be-
tween the South and Eastern and West
ern points, Kansas City via Coffeyville
to the South. The new road forms tn g
connecting link between valua BILE fields
never before accessible to the East,
West and North.
Granted q Pardon.
On recommendation of the State
Board of Pardons, Governor Humphrey
granted a pardon to William Hopper, OF
Wabaunsee County, sentenced June Is,
1888, to three years imprisonment for
assault to kill. The assault was pro-
voked by quarrel between neigh boring
families, and as the offense was not a
serious one the sentence was deemed ex-
cessive. Hopper was an Industrious
young married man of good reputation,
this being the first crime with which his
name has been associated.
Corn for Fuel.
The farmers of the neighborhood OF
Hiawatha are burning corn for fuel,
finding it cheaper than coal. Corn is
sold on the farm at 20 cents per bushel,
while the average price of coal delivered
at the farm ranges from FL to % cents
per bushel. The Farmers Alliance
brought the attention ct kbe farmers to
the relative prices of TIE two Sosz..eSfi-
ties, and advised that half the corn crop
be used for fuel, thus advancing the
price of the other half, and saving
money in their fuel bills. The farmers
have begun to act on this advice.
Railroads Must be Accommodating.
The State Board of Railroad Commits
sioners has issued it's decision in the
matter of the complaint of the mayor
L
son, Topeka & Santa Fe and the Kan
sas City, Fort Scott & Memphis rail-
roads. The petition asked for an order
requiring the railroads named to con-
meet their tracks, to enable freight in
carloads to be transferred from one
road to another. The prayer was granted.
Work for Judge Lynch.
While J. Montone, farmer five mile 8
from Wilset, was absent from home one
night recently, masked men broke into
the house, and selling his wife stripped
her and took her some distance along a
lonely road intending to assault her.
BY quick slip she escaped them, and
running reached a neighbor's house and
was taken in. The men are being
looked for, and as their victim is hys-
terical, severe measures will be taken
if they are apprehended.
Again Before the State Supreme Court.
Attorney-General Kellogg has filed in
the Supreme Court the papers in the
case of the State of Kansas
VS.. r. w. Fulmker, which prom
Uses to be one of the most inter
esting cases which has been brought
before this court for some time. 1t
raises a new question regarding the Pro-
hibitory law: whether the shipment of
Intoxicating liquors from another State
into Kansas and the sale of these liquors
in the original packages is viola ton
of the Kansas Prohibitory law. This is
the first time the question has been
raised.
Kansas Wins Blue Ribbons.
Secret ary Mohler of the Agricultural
Department says that Kansas can safely
challenge the world on agricultural
products. An agricultural display from
this State took the first premium at the
Southern Exposition at Montgomery,
Ala, and it also took the first premium
at the Alabama State Fair at Birming-
ham. III. II. Kern, who owns one of the
finest farms in Kansas, near Bonner
Springs, is the gentleman who made the
display.
To Be Laid Before Congress.
Judge j. w. Gregory, of Garden City,
was in consultation with Governor Hum
phrey recently for the purpose of agree
ing upon plan for bringing the sub
ject of irrigation in Western Kansas be-
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