Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-04-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS

JUDGE UsHER, c1 LaWFeaca died recent
fy in Philadelphia At the age OF seventy
three years. Judge Usher was Secretary
of the Interior under President Lincoln
and his death leaves no member Of that
celebrated Cabinet alive
WoRKMKN at the Kingmsn salt shaft
struck rock salt the other afternoon at .
depth of 675 feet The salt is as clear as
glass and seems to be absolutely pure.
DETECTIVE CRABrREE, chief Of the Kan
sas Detective Bureau, was arrested ut
Wichita the other day charged with being
the principal in q recent iewelry store
burglary there. The men who committed
the crime were captured by the city police
and confessed duplicating Crabtree. Part
Of the stolen property was found in the
detectives Office.
QUITE a large number of Clay County
farmers in convention recently resolved
not to use twine in binding this years
harvest.
In the district court Of Wyandotte
County the other day Mrs. Deborah Nc
Clerken was given q verdict for s. 600
against Ed. and Tobias Hogan and
Thomas Rooney. three Armourdale
saloon-keepers, who, she testified, con-
verted her husband from q sober, thrifty
man to an habituAl drunkard. Two of the
defendants are serving sentences in the
county jail for violating the Prohibitory
law.
The other day Albert Garrison and An
derson Barr, aged thirteen and nine years
respectively, sons of farmers residing near
Medicine Lodge, were alone at the resi-
dence of young Bars parents when the
boy Garrison got hold of a revolver and
was examining it. The pistol was dis
just ov er the left eye, causing death in
two hours.
TWENTY-FIVE men recently left Garden
City for Minneapolis Mimi, to take the
place of strikers on the street car lines
there.
TOPEKA gave nearly I, 200 majority to the
proposition to issue $500, 600 in bonds for
a new bridge across the Kansas river, but
the county overcame this and defeated
the bonds.
THE funeral of the late Judge J. p.
Usher was attended at Lawrence by
prominent men from all parts of the State.
The bar associations of the surrounding
cities attended in body. The following
persons acted as pail bearers: Chief JUS
tice Horton, United States District Judge
c. G.. Foster, Associate Justice w. A.
Johnston, Judge John Martin, Colonel
Rossington, all of Topeka; Judge T. A.
Hurd. Leavenworth; Judge J. W. Green
and NJ. SUNNI erfield, of Lawrence.
DURING a recent storm the barn Of a Mr..
Hacker, residing south of Wellington. was
demolished and one of the heavy timbers
was blown through his dwelling, which
struck Mr.. Hacker and caused his death in
a few hours. He left q wife and four
children in destitute circumstances.
MADAME JEFTRIEs. keeper OF disreput-
able house at Wichita, was recently ar
rested for obtaining money under false
pretenses. She sent to a farmer named
Smith. living near Joplin, Mo-, q letter
stating that his wife who had left him
had died in her house and that she had
been to the expense OF $50 in burying her.
She said that she still had the woman's
trunk and some fine dresses which she
would forward c. o. D. If he desired. He
replied that if she would send the trunk
he would pay her bill She sent him q
trunk filed with old clothes and broken
brick. and Smith went to Wichita and re-
ported the matter to the police when it
was found that his wife was there alive
and we'll. The Jefries woman and Mrs
Smith went to the express Office and in
quired for the money when both were ar
| rested.
/ THE body of man was found the Other
night on the west bank of the Arkansas
| near Wichita. Papers showed the man to
| be Grant Tikes. A note in his memoran.
dunn book said: Notify nv father, Franl
| Tikes, Arkansas City" No money wa,
found on the body but note stated thai
hard times caused the suicide. The mar
| was recognized as a boomer, very sanguine
! of success in Oklahoma.
GEORGE MEYERS recently engaged him.
| self as a farm hand to Wyandotte Coun
| ty farmer. To bind the bargain the twt
| imbibed freely Of beer before leaving Kan
sas City. Before reaching the town o
| Quindaro they got into a quarrel ant
Meyers was shot twice in the leg. Th'
| man who personated the farmer and die
the shooting disappeared, without ever
leaving his name, and Meyers was sent t.
the hospital.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans o,
the 18th: Original invalid, Charles Bloom
| Burlington; LIE Roy Brooks, Richfield
John w. Cubbison, Mankato; William
| Carter, (deceased) Plymouth; Michae
| Jordan. Fort Leavenworth; Michael Love
Union Valley; Christopher Stine, Edna
William R Cullifer, Empire City; Samue
Belson, Council Grove; William ShuIar
Lyons; w. F. Post Ochiltree; Jacob b
Bunton, Vining. Increase, silas r
Gates, Pawnee River; Sebastian Strieger
Great Bend; David D. 8 Fike, Winfield
John Rigley, Erie; Isaac N. Flesher, Nc
Pherson; Silas W. Bardwell, Great Bend
| Willis NJ. Howerton, Dundee; James
| Maxheld, Kingman; James n. Russell
| Genesee; John Phillips, Dighton; Adam
81. Raser, Jetmore; Orren s. Womaek
Hudson; BENJAMIN F. Guy, Leon; jane
NJ. Craig, Clay Center; Richmond Devoe
Oakley; William B. Gibson, Topeka; Sila
Peters, Clyde; John w. Magiil, Richfield
Francis NJ Stahl, Auburn; William II
Hubbell, La Fountain; Charles p. Wal
bridge, Beattie; Alfred c. Crosswhite
5tillwelI; Amos Cunning, Marion; Joh1
| Kingsman. Marysville; Josiah Oliver
Parsons; Amos Van Nausdle, Dorrance
| Reissue, William 81. Van Vleet, Newton
Reissue and increase, John R Baringer
| Larned. Original widows, etc, Virginia
widow of Alexander Arney. Colokan
Mexican survivor. VIM. T. Boles, Bond
Mexican widow, Sophina, widow of Ir
! Poe, Wilmot
A LATE fire at Wichita destroyed Stew
art, Coney & Co.'S iron works. Loss oI
stock and machinery estimated at 500, 600
| insurance light
THE Governor has pardoned F. w. Oh
| man, a German farmer. convicted las
December for larceny and sentenced to tn
penitentiary for one year from KingmaI
County.
OFFICER BEDWELL. charged with tn
murder OF John Foran, and the negr
man who fatally stabbed Charles Gordo
were recently taken from Leavenworth {