Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


away by the sudden rise on the 10Th. The
loss was estimated at Sc, ,000
THE State of Kansas through Governor
Humphrey received recently An exquisite
souvenir Of the New York centennial
The gift is plate of delicate china deco
rated with unique symbols. In the center
10 the monogram an W., )" radiating from
which is a golden halo reaching to an
endless chain. the links OF which enclose
the names of the States in the Union in
1889. The souvenir is otherwise embel-
lished with appropriate inscriptions and
designs.
PENSION AGENT CLICK has had placed
to his credit $3.50. 600, which, added to the
$275, 900 on hand, will be used for the pay
ment of pensions June 1. The appropria-
ton is $25 900 short of the amount needed,
so that while 81, $50, 600 will be drawn
upon. the pensioners newly added to the
list will by order OF Commissioner Tanner
be compelled to wait until the July pay
ment for their money.
OVER two hundred delegates attended
the meeting of the Kansas Travellers As
sociation recently held at Hutchison.
The officers elected were: President, J..
F. Kimball, Salina; first vice-president
c. f. Byrens, Emporia; second vice-presi-
dent, Fred WArdenburg, Atchison; secre-
tary R J. Haus, Emporia; treasurer,
Harry Devlin. Leavenworth.
IT is the verdict of all that Kansas
never before at this season had such
splendid crop prospects. Fruit of all
kinds promise q mammoth yield.
A LATE fire at Fort Scott destroyed the
furniture warehouse of the Stout Furni-
ture Company and the stock of A. w.
at $25 600, and the total insurance about
$1S, 600
The Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias,
met at Leavenworth on the 2lst with 1SO
lodges repre- and 900 KING hts pres
ent The following officers were elected !:
Grand chancellor, Morgan Caraway, of
Great Bend; grand vice chancellor, N. L.
Hallowell, of Kingman; grand prelate.
w. T. Walker, of Wellington; grand mas
ter of the exchequer, George Link. of
Leavenworth; grand keeper of records
and seal. G. j. Neubert, of Kansas City,
Kan; grand master at arms, F. Z. Craig;
grand inner guard. Joseph Mayrath, OF
Linwood.
WHILE Willie Sheehan, eighteen years
old, and his ten-year-old brother were on
the Union Pacific railroad bridge at Kan
sas City, Kan, the other afternoon, the
elder boy lost his balance. fell into the
river and was drowned.
TOPEKA has discovered that she has no
and number of Cinnamon are running
dens in that city. The defect is to be
cured by proper legislation.
THE other day Thomas n. Fahs. a brake
man on the Denver. Memphis & Atlantic
railroad, was badly smashed while max
ing a coupling at Olcate, a station few
miles east of Larned. The drawheads
passed each other, catching his head and
body between the cars.
LEVI A. DoANE. an old citizen and
promfn eht real estate dealer or Lawrence
pleaded guilty to the charge of forgery in
the district court of Douglas County the
other day and was sentenced by Judge
Benson to two years in the penitentiary.
He appropriated funds left him to loan
and gave his client forged paper, ex-
pecting to take it up before it became due.
DURING recent storm three horses be-
longing to Thomas Highly, of Douglas
County. were struck by lightning and in
stantly killed.
The assessors returns show that Sum-
ner County this year has in cultivation
e6, 433 acres Of wheat, 81, 1872 acres of oats,
and LAT ,6l4 acres of corn. In March there
were yet in farmers hands 76 73o bushels
of wheat and S53 $50 bushels of corn.
A JURY in the district court of Shawnee G
County recently awarded $3.50 damages to
James Halloran, who sued F. P. Baker,
late owner of the Topeka Commonwealth,
for $40, 600 for libel. The Commonwealth
and State Journal charged that Halloran n
belonged to a gang of toughs who stole
from the Santa Fe at Lawrence. Halloran
sued the State Journal last fall and was
awarded 81 damages. Baker has fled a
motion for a new trial.
MATILDA POWELL, a colored woman
fifGy years old. dropped dead in front of
her door in Kansas City, Kan, the other
day.
The Kansas Christian Sunday School
Association closed its annual convention
at Manhattan on the 23d. Two hundred
were raised for the State work and $1,000
toward the endowment Of Garfield Uni.
versity.
LEAvENWoRrH celebrated the opening of
her new coal mine the other day with a
trades display that astonished the ma
tives.
SAMUEL r. TAFPAN, who was promin ent
in Kansas in the early days of the anti
slavery agitation, has been appointed
United States storekeeper at Baltimore.
Md.
RETURNS from the eleven counties COM
prising the Fourth Congressional district
showed that General Harrison Kelley was
elected to Congress by a majority of about
5000. The total opposition vote was only
about l. 500.
MILES KIRK. a wealthy farmer living
nine miles north of Newton, went to his
barnyard to quiet an infuriated Jersey
cow the other night, when the animal
sprang at him, caught him on her horns,
threw him to the ground and gored him
horribly, laying bare his lungs, breakin e
his arms and tearing his stomach. 1t was
feared his INJURIES were fatal
IT was stated that the heavy rain Of the
23d assumed the nature of a water-spout
,, in the vicinity of Lawrence and that much
damage was done. The damage by hail
was also reported to be considerable.
FoR the week ended May 21 the stock
yards at Kansas City, Kan, received:
Cattle. 13. .965; hogs. 49,05S; sheep 4,967 ;
hcrses. $40. The shipments were 1925
cattle, 10 44S hogs, 2.371 sheep and 4O1
horses.
The storm of the 23d was particularly
severe at Newton. Lightning struck a
number of houses and the residence of DR..
Scatter was completely wrecked and the
occupants injured, but no one was killed.
ANDY TIPTAK. a young man nineteen
years old and packing house employe,
was recently drowned by the capsizing OF
his boat in the Kaw river at Kansas City,
Kan. A companion in the boat had mar
row escape from like fate