Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-10-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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| THR other day Fanny Burnside. widow
| Of Robert Bufnside, colored had her step
| 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,
contested to having killed his father, be-
\ ing melted by the woman. He said that
during his absence in prison his father
| had married q young colored woman and
when he returned he became Infatuated
! with his step mother and the two entered
/ into q plot to get rid of the elder Burnside
which was done by means of poison. The
woman was arrested and held to await
| Investigation. 4
THE grand jury In the district court at
| Topeka recently returned an ind ;ctment
against Moses E Matthews. prominent
| yo0ng lawyer, for forgery. The charge
| is that one of his clients entrusted q piece
| OF real estatate to him TO sell, and that
! Matthews forged a deed conveying the
property to himself and then borrowed
money upon it
| IT is 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
| given time has been received at the bq-
| reau. 1t comprises three large square
| galvanized iron pans, which are to be
| filed with water and foated by means of
pontoons. These three pans will be placed
| in three different sections of the State
one out on the high plain traversed by
| the Union Pacific. another in the South
| west and third in the Eastern part OF
the State. They will be placed in large
reservoirs and the evaporation thoroughly
tested. The result will be made known to
/ fo,.-
ested in the question.
Lawrence and prominently known in
Kansas, died at St Louis on the 22d from
| the effect of q 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 Douglas County, who was on
February Is. 1856 convicted of robbery in
the first degree and sentenced to ten
years. imprisonment
| NINETY SEVEN men and seven women
underwent a civil-service examination at
| Topeka tn, other day. They were from
| ali parts of the West
PATRICK BRoDERIOK, twenty-five years
| of age, met with b orrible death at Kim
| gan's packing house in Armourdale the
| other afternoon. While leaning over an
| elevator shaft the elevator descended,
| catching his head and MASKING it into a
| 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-
| ry, 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 ears
| 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 ipjuring 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 State, in 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 Inter- State 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. 343; pharmacy, 80; law, 30;
music and art, Al; total, 47L
A BRAKEMAN by the name of HiP gins
| was recently killed on the Missouri Pacific
| re ad near Leavenworth.
| A MOVEMENT is on foot to form a central
| organization of the Prohibition States for
a united crusade against the liquor traffic.
| James A. Troutman, president of the Kan
| sas Safe Temperance Union, has submit
| ted q 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 l
| at Omaha for the purpose OF forming an
| organization Of the Prohibition forces of
the five States.
| A PETITION was recently filed W it'll the
! clerk of the United ST ates Circuit Court at
| Topeka by the receivers of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas railway to restrain the
| Missouri Pacific Railway Company, the
| Fort Scott Wichita & 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 ap-
| peared at Fort Scott during a very en-
thusiastic Ia lroa meeting, and served
| the papers.
JOSEPH 8 BoNNEY, aged sixty-two. for
| thirty years a resident of Lawrence and
| we'll known inventor, shot himself
through the heart the other morning.
| He took pistol astensibly to clean it, but
| the wound was such as to preclude the
| theory of accident. He was a prominent
Mason and Odd Fellow.
THE various farmers alliances of Har-
| vey County had a grand demonstration at
| Newton on the oath. Twelve divisions
| were represented and in the street parade
there were over 800 wagons and carriages
In the afternoon and evening large meet
| ings were addressed by Ben Tirrell of
Texas, National lecturer. and B. b. Glover,
| of Cowley County, State president
| ]. j. SPENDLovE. who was recently con.
victed ut Topeka of the killing of Gustave
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