Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-03
Kansas Sist'TE NRNk

AASoAo 0lAIN NEWS
GovxnxoR MARr1H has appointed dele.
Gate6 to the centennial scelebention OF
the inaueuration OF George Washing
ton, in tho city OF New York. April 80,
1880, as follows: At Large, Eugene #.
Ware, Fort Scott; George r. Peck, Topeka
First Congressional district Charles Il.
Wells, Atchison. Second district, d. E.
Cornell Kansas City, Kan. Third district,
w. B. Stone Gslena-. Fourth district
Calvin Hood. Emporia. Fifth district,
Perry Hutchinson, Marysville. Sixth dis
trict, A. a Ellis, Beioit. Seventh district,
81. w. Lewis, Wichita.
A LATE fire at Russell, supposed to be in
cendiary, destroyed property to the value
of ,O0O, with an aggregate insurance OF
$25. GOO. The heaviest losers were E w.
Shut & Co, hardware dealers, whose
stock, valued at $4,000, was totally de-
stroyed; insurance, $4,000 The building
they occupied also burned; loss, IS, coo; in
surance, 1000.
AN important will contest was begun in
the district court at Topeka recently by
Fernando Francisco Martin. Chancellor OF
the Spanish Legation at New York. who
claims one-fourth interest in the estate OF
Ross Burns, late general solicitor OF the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee railway.
Burns died in Topeka in 1882. To his Sec
ond wife, Laura Burns, his daughter, Rosa
b. Burns. and his son, Melton J. Burns. he
willed all his property. The daughter
Rosa, died in New York City, in August,
1888 Previous to her death she bequeathed
all her property, including her interest in
the estate of Ross Burns, her father, to
Fernando Francisco Martin. The title to
some of the best business property is in
volved. 1t is claimed by the Spanish officer
that one-fourth of the estate is worth
$3.50, 200. Burns first wife was q sister to
Victoria Woodruff.
GOVERNOR MARTIN has pardoned Thomas
C. Thurston, who was convicted at Leav-
enworth September 1s, 1890, of assault
with intent to kill D. r. Anthony, of the
Leavenworth Times, and was sentenced to
eighteen years imprisonment. In the fight
Thurston also wounded two other men,
was indicted on three counts, one Of which
was dismissed. He wss convicted on the
other two and sentenced to nine years on
each. The Board of Pardons had passed
on his case and made favorable recon-
mendation.
ACCORDING to the tables of the State
Board of Railroad Commissioners there
were during the year ended June 80 last
II persons killed and 961 injured on the
Santa Fe road; on the Missouri Pacific
system, II killed and % injured; on the
Union Pacific, seven killed and 246 in
jured: on the Chicago, Kansas & Nebras-
ka, three killed and 81 injured; on the
Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis, five
killed and 10 injured; on the Kansas City,
Wyandotte & Northwestern, two killed
and IL injured. In alls So persons lost their
lives and 1,4S4 were wounded. OF the
killed four were passengers, 81 employees
and the other 81 persons who carelessly
got in the way of trains or locomotives.
Carelessness is ascribed as the cause of
the injury of 81 passengers, 1923 employees
and 80 outsiders.
PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
ventors: c.. H. Bennett, Beloit, fiy-trap;
c. H. Coleman, Gideon, button machine;
Z. ID. Estes, Hiawatha, hand loom; L. j.
Lyman, Manhattan. road cart; r. A. Nc
Henry, Winfield, stone or marble drill;
w. NJ Parker, Garland. truss bridge.
Two explosions in the large millinery
warerooms of j. p. Wilcox, at Wichita,
the other morning blew out the walls, de-
molished the roof of the building and set
the establishment on fire. The contents
of the building were entirely destroyed.
The floor was all torn up, showing that
the explosive had been put beneath the
building. There was no clew to the per-
petrators of the deed.
REPRESENTATIVE PERKINS has intro
duced bill in Congre SIS for the construc-
ton of public building at Arkansas City.
A similar bill was introduced last winter,
but failed to become a law. 1t is proposed
to expend $50. 600 for the site and building,
but as the city has signified its intention
of donating the site this amount will be
used for the building alone.
w. F. BUTCHER. an attorney of Pendle-
ton, Ore, who sued w. p. F. Hedrick, ex-
sheriff of johnson County, for damages
for false arrest, has been awarded Sc, 600
by the jury in the United States Circuit
Court at Topeka. The arrest was made
two years ago by the sheriff, who mistook
Butcher for a Missouri horse thief named
Gordon, who had been traced to Oregon.
''PAWNEE BILL" arrived at Wichita re-
Gently from Philadelphia to assume COM
mand OF the immense Oklahoma move
ment, which it is stated has forces in all
the leading towns of Southwestern Kan
sas, Western Arkansas, and said to bs
from 10, 600 to ID, 900 strong and daily in
creasng in numbers. It is proposed tc
move on Oklahoma in case the bill to open
the Territory fails to pass Congress.
PENSIONS recently granted to Kansas
veterans: Orig nal, invalid, B. l.. LYMAN.
st. Francis; William P. Flood. Burr Oak :
Solomon Kindt, Beleville. Increase, Joat
w. Morder. Council Grove; Ben A. Will
liams, Everest: John Patterson, Burling-
ton; Asa F. New, Russell; d. G. Runyon,
Leon; Patrick Dowd, Wichita; William A.
Hays, Paola; Henry Duhuy, Marysville;
Anderson Underwood, Mound CITY: Oba
diah B. Webb. Beloit; Ed. l.. Allen, Neode-
sha. Reissue, Hiram A. Martin, Long
Island; Erastus Wyckoff, Menoken :
Thomas Hoch, Barry; S.las r. Harrison,
Beverly; Daniel D. v. Ross. Dodge CITY.
Reissue and increase, Edwin NJ. Dack,
Thayer. Original widows, ETC., Dicv.
mother of John Hendrix, Fort Scott.
Mexican widows, Caroline, G. c., widow of
Noses F. Moore, Argentine.
w. n. ALDRtcH, young lawyer, who
settled at Cherokee some months ago re-
Gently embezzled several hundred dollars
that he had collected for the Mccormick
Machine Company and absconded He
was captured at Lamar, COL, and taken
back for trial