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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
DAKOTA ELECTION.

Light Vote POlled in Favor of the Siou1
Falls Constitution.
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 15.-An election
was held in South Dakota yesterday to
vote for against the Sioux Falls Con-
stitution, SO called because it was four
years ago adopted in that city, upon
which the Omnibus bill required another
vote and to elect delegates to a convention
at Sioux Falls to complete the work to be
done before the Presidential proclamation
of Statehood. The vote was light, but the
majority in favor of the Constitution was
overwhelming, while the delegates elected
to the convention have been two Repub.
licans to one Democrat that division
having been agreed upon before the
election.
In North Dakota delegates were elected
to the constitutional convention which
will convene at Bismarck on July
There, as in South Dakota, the minority
party (Democratic) was given third
of the delegates This being true there
has been but little contest at the polls.
The returns SO far as received indicate
that with few exceptions the agreement
to the division of the various delegates
will be strictly adhered to, and the minor.
ity will be given hearing when the CoL-
stitution is being framed.
Heavy rains lessened the number of
votes cast The total vote of South Da-
kota will not be over so. 900. The opposi.
ton to the Sioux Falls Constitution was
not great enough to be noticed
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
WRECK OF THE ALASKAN.

A Sidewheel Steamship Wrecked i'm q GAla
Five Men Reported Drowned.
PORTLAND, Ore, May 1.-THE steamship
Columbia which arrived at Astoria yes
terday bound from San Francisco to PORT
land. brought report Of the loss Of the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Company's
magnificent sidewheel iron steamer Alas
kan. which is reported to have foundered
off Cape Blanc. Monday, while on her way
from Portland to San Francisco.
The Alaskan left Portland last Saturday
bound for San Francisco, where she was
to go on dry dock for some repairs prepa-
ratory to being placed on the Puget Sound
route, and it is supposed that she must
have encountered a very severe gale on
her way down the coast She fortunately
carried no Passengers having On board
only her officers and crew when she went
down.
Five men are reported to be drowned,
but two boats containing the remainder Of
the crew have not yet been heard from.
The captain. mate, first officer and ele1en
men were first picked mp by the tag Vigi-
lante and afterward turned over to the
steamer Columbia and brought to Astoria.
There were thirty-four persons aboard.
As soon as the vessel began to founder
the officers and men deserted her. taking
to the boats Captain Howse, Captain,
Woods sad eleven of the crew we're
in one boat and the remainder OF
the crew in the others The wi2d
was blowing in a southwesteriy diree-
ton at the time and the men drifted
toward the land The tug Visilante ran
across Captain Howse and his party and
picked them up. Captain Boiler, q the
steamer Columbia, sailed up from San
Francisco last Tuesday and when shortly
this side of Cape Blanco ran across the
tug and took the passengers aboard. bring
ing them up with him.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
The Yerkes Cable.

CHICAGO, May 19.-The wear and tear
on the North side cable loop line has been
something fearful from the first and the
frequency with which new cables have
had to be purchased was cutting a con-
siderable figure in the expense account
of the road. So Mr.. Yerkes sent for
the wise man of San Francisco who
is supposed to know all about cable
roads. He looked things over and said !:
s'Oh, we can fix this easily. Your grips
wear out the rope. Grease the rope, and
then the friction will be reduced" So Mr..
Yerkes' men CREASED the loop line, and
since then people have been walking. The
cable is SO slippery that when the grip
strikes place that brings an extra strain
on it it fails to hold to the rope, the car
stops, and the passengers walk.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
Shot in the Back.

BEATRICE, NehL, May 1a-A number Of
white men attended festival given by
the colored people Friday night. Among
them was Chauncey West q well-known
nurseryman. About ESQ O'Clock yesterday
morning Bill Carson. a colored des-
perado, picked a quarrel with West,
who started to leave the house.
Thereupon Carson began shooting. West
had gotten q block away when the last
aud fatal shot was fred. The ball struck
hum in the back. passing through his
lungs. and West fell dead. Carson said he
would not be taken alive and it required
three officers to arrest him. He viii prob
ably be lynchsd
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23

TACOMA, W. T.. May I5.-Shortly before
six O'Clock Monday night twenty men
were at work in building in course of
erection when a storm from the southwest
struck the building. The structure tot.
tered for a moment and then collapsed
burying the workmen. Hundreds of men
were soon at work and in a few minutes
the body OF Walter Bates, the owner of
the building. was taken out This was
followed by the rescue of two injured
workmen, and then a workman named
Mcconnell was taken out dead w n
Smell, who q week ago was elected citv
attorney and who was q son.in-Iaw Of
Bates. was seriously injured Shortly after.
wards three dead bodies were recovered.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
ALLEN rnoRMD.kE RICE peAps
The Newly Appointed Minister TO RusaaD
Diea Suddenly.

Tho Newly Appolnted Minister to Rusrou
Daea S1ddenly.
NEW YORK May 1z-Allen Thorndik1
Rice, the newly appointed Minister to
. at the Fifth Avenue Hotel where he was
stopping. Mr.. Rice had been suffering
from q throat affection for few days has
WAS not supposed to be in any danger.
He intended to sail for Europe Wednes-
day in the Inman steamer City OF Paria.
dut was compelled TO delay his departure
owing to his sickness
Mr.. Rice died at haif-pest three O'Clock
There were with him at the time James
Sargent, his valet of twenty years stand
ing; Henry Crisp. an experienced nurse.
Dr.. Goldthwaite and DIR. Fuller, who had
been in attendance upon him for some
time. DR.. Fuller gives the following his
tory Of the case:
'.Mr. Rice had been ill during the entire
spring, having been generally run down
from overwork in preparing to go abroad.
He took to his bed three four days ago.
suffering from tonsilitis. His tonsils had
formerly given him considerable trouble
snd had been clipped There was a cer-
tain amount of liberation apparent with
symptoms of quincy. The case had not been
considered dan gerous, however, even up
TO eleven O'Clock last night Monday was
bis worst day. On Tuesday night the
abscess began to discharge and he felt .
great deal of relief. The patients tenn
perature fell and his condition appeared
to be favorable. He also had q good
appetite. DIR. Fuller adds that Mr.. Ricess
nurse was an excellent one and that ali
was done for the sick man that was pos
sibla.
The nurse says that at one o'clock yea
terday morning, when only he and the
valet were with the patient, Mr.. Rice exc
perforated some phlegm or pus. felt
greatly relieved and went to sleep. At
about two O'Clock the nurse endeavored to
awake him to allow more phlegm to be
discharged, but was unable to wake him.
Sargent, the valet made AL haste to sum-
mon DIR. Fulle1and DIR. Goldthwaite. Tbs
latter reached the sick room first and tried
in vain to awaken the patient. When DF.
Fuller arrived they united their efforts
with the same result Mr.. Rice died with.
in ten minutes.
DR.. Fuller says the giottis swelled sud-
denly and shut of the breath. Such Q
case is Of rare occurrence and in this in-
stance was unlocked for, though every
precaution had been taken.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
THE SOUTH.

CROPS in Eastern Virginia are reported
to have been almost destroyed by fierce
hail storm.
A GANG of men surrounded the house of
q farmer named Tom Phelton at Rogers
Vile, KY, the other night and attempted
to take him out Phelton opened fire on
the gang, killing two of them. The others
fed.
SIMON s. WALKER, the negro who es-
capped lynching for a criminal assault
upon a twelve-year-old white girl in
Chesterfield County, Va, has been con-
victed and sentenced to death.
REAR ADMIRAL EDWARD DONALDSON
died at Baltimore, Md, on the 18th, aged
seventy three years. He had been long
sufferer from liver trouble. He entered
the navy July 81, 1885.
The Alliance and Wheel convention at
Birmingham, Ala, rejected the baggin g
trusts offer of jute bagging at rates equal
to five cents per pound, though cotton
bagging costs no less than 124 cents per
pound. The convention had no faith in
the trust
THE wife and two children of Lewis
Palmer were burned to death at Rock
dale, Tex. recently. The unfortunate
woman dropped lig hted lamp, which set
the house on fire.
The Southern Freight Association has
advanced rates on grain and hay to all
Southern points, 1 cent per 100 pounds,
except to coast and Florida points, which
were advanced cents per 100 pounds.
Rates on flour in sacks and barrels to last
named points were also advanced cents
per 100 pounds. New rates to take effect
June 1.
THE State Council of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, in session at Lynch
burg, Va, has determined that the word
white, =" as pertaining to representation
by delegates in the council, should find a
place in the constitution.
The monument to the Confederate dead
was unvailed in Mount Olivet cemetery at
Nashville, Tenn, on the 10th. The orator
of the day was Colonel w. c. p. Breckin-
ridge, of Kentucky.
JUDGE JOHN L. MILBURN. of the St
Mary's County (Md.) orphan court, was
struck and instantly killed by lightning
the other evening.
A PARTY of ten negroes were crossing
the river near Vicksburg, Miss, recently
when the boat was capsized. All were
drowned with the exception of little
girl.
CHARLES RUNDELL. late manager OF the
Southern Express Company at Columbus,
Ga. has been found guilty of embezzle-
ment and sentenced to forty years in the
penitentiary. He was q young man OF
talent and stood we'll in the city, but dis
sipation ruined him.
A RACE riot occurred at Forest City,
Ark, ON the 18th over the school election,
caused by negro aGitator named Neely.
The sheriff, town marshal and q citizen
were killed. Neely was killed the nexl
dag by mob. --.----------. X
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23

ST. PAUL, Mimi, May 15.-Specials to
the Pioneer Press from various points in
Minnesota and Dakota give accounts Of
heavy snowfall yesterday. At Warden
it first rained and then turned into a
heavy snow storm Brainerd says that
snow fell there yesterday afternoon for
several hours but finally ended in rain.
The ground was parched and the streets
and roads like ashes and the crops have
suffered, but the fall will save them At
Oriska, OAK, about four inches OF snow
fell during the morning and it rained
during the rest of the day and water i.
standing in pools all over the fields.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
Sioux wfIlipp tn sen

YANKroN, Oak, May 1.-THE Sioux In
dians at the Yanktown agency viii nego-
tiate with the Government for the sale OF
seven townships in the north part Of their
reservation Engineers are at work sure
veying the agency and the Indians ara
selecting their lands in severalty. The
reason assigned for selling this land II
that the Indians treaty with the United
States only allows them SIS 0O0 per an.
mum, and their present treaty will soon
expire. The tract embraces some OF the
best land in South Dakota and rush OF
settlers is expected to follow its openinRs
which win probably be within thirty
days These lands will furnish homes to9
1000 families, allowing each 16o acres
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
A Widespread Conspiracy.

ST. PETERSBURG, May 19.-The con-
spiracy among military officers against
the Gar, which was recently unearthed,
has many and widespread ramificationa
Officers of regiments stationed In Moscow
and Warsaw have been found to be im-
plicated in the plot and three of them COM
mitted suicide. A bomb was found in the
quarters of one of the officers IN Warsaw.
Hundreds of the conspirators have been
placed under arrest The discovery of the
plot has completely unnerved the Cxarina.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary OF the Daily News.
wAsHINGroN NOTES.

WASHINGTON NOTESs
THE followers of Anthony Comstock
have decided to fight for the removal OF
President Edward Henry Kent OF the
Mutual Benefit Life Association or Amer
-ica.
SECRETARIES BLAINE and Tracy nave
left Washington for General Augur.s
country home at Naicirma, near Balti-
more.
The clerks in the General Land-ofnce
are much exercised over the appointment
sfE the President of Rev. Mr.. Townsend,
the colored minister of Indiana, to be re.
corder in that Office. The clerks In the
division are almost entirely women and
-they do not relish the idea OF having a
scolored man as their superior
IT was understood at Washington on
the 18th that the resignation of Marshal
Jones would be called for, his explana-
ation concerning his deputies and the grab
-bing of land in Oklahoma not being
deemed satisfactory.
THE Attorney General of the United
States has authorized the Marshal of Ari-
.zona to offer a reward of $500 each for the
arrest and conviction of the robbers of
Paymas Wham.
The President has accepted the resigna-
tion of Solicitor General jerks. of the
Department of Justice, but he will be re-
tained as counsel in the telephone case.
The President On the 18th made the fol-
lowing appointments: Solomon Hirsch, of
Oregon, to be Minister to Turkey; Clark
E. Carr, of Illinois. to be Minister to Dem
mark; Henry w. Severance. of California,
to be Consul General at Honolulu; John
Jarrett, Of Pennsylvania, to be Consul at
Birmingham; Thomas H. Sherman, of the
District Of Columbia, to be Consul at Liv-
-serpooI.
COMMISSIONER STocKsLAGER has refused
to allow the "Government acre" at Guth-
~rie, Oklahoma. to be used to build First
class theater" on. The petition was signed
by its mayor, City Council and prominent
citizens.
BOLIVIA will be represented at the con-
ference of American nations in Washing
ton next fall and will also soon send a
Minister to Washington.
DURING the past week the Treasury De-
partment has disbursed $11 ,3S0, 900 on ac-
count of PENSIONS thereby exhausting the
appropriation for the current fiscal year
amounting to $S1, $50, 600.
In recent interview Representative
Perkins, of Kansas, expressed the opinion
that the next Congress would pass bill
for the regulation of Congressional cleo
tions. This measure, he said, would be
aimed at the South, but it's provisions
would of course apply equally to all Sec
tions of the country.
THE designations of the following cadets
at the Naval Academy have been accepted
by Secretary Tracy: Charles l. Kauf-
man, o. F. Scott, w. L. Murray. L. C..
Baird, H. L. Douglas and II. L. Wilder
ming. These young officers were found
deficient at the recent examination.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


A decision covering q new phase Of the
Prohibition laws was rendered recently
by the Supreme Court. Some time ago
the authorities of Lyon County seized an
immense quantity of intoxicants, includ.
Ing forty barrels of beer and ten barrels of
whisky. Preparations were being made to
destroy the liquors, when a Kansas City
wholesale liquor dealer appeared and
commenced an action in replevin to regain
possession of the liquors. The clerk of the
court refused to issue the papers. The
wholesale dealer appealed to the highest
court, and a decision was given in his
favor. The Supreme Court held that 'the
clerk of the district court is purely min.
isterial officer, and whenever an action OF
replevin is brought. and in such action the
proper affidavit for an order CT delivery
and the proper undertaking are each filed
in the clerks Office, it is the clerks duty
to issue the order of delivery. 1nto<icat-
ing liquors are not contraband in this
State They are still property, and may
be legally manufactured and sold for cer-
tain purposes, and may be legally used
for almost any purpose for which intoxi-
eating liquors may ever be used. The
clerk must obey the law"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23


States Marshal for the district of Kansas,
vice Jones, removed.
BEFORE daylight the other morning
Fred E. Rose went to the banks OF ths
Solomon river at Minneapolis. placed q
revolver to his breast and fired a bullet
through his heart causing instantaneous
death. Rose was a young man about
twenty three years old. we'll respected
and until quite recently had been local
editor of the Solomon Valley Democrat.
No reason for the act was known.
susie ELLIS, a young negro woman,
was fatally stabbed at LeavenwOrth the
other night by William McGee, a noted
negro tough whose advances she rejected.
A GALVESTON (Tex) firm recently
closed a contract for 1000 tons of Hutch
inson salt. The Galveston firm last year
used 40 coo tons of English salt and have
decided to use Kansas salt in the future,
which is considered superior.
DURING the storm on the 18th lightning
struck the house of George Washington.
colored, of Kansas City, Kan, and set it
on fire. Washington and tw two-year-old
child were seriously burned.
The Sumner County Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance Company, of Wellington.
has been admitted by the State Commis.
sioner of Insurance.
THE State Bankers Associations at its
recent session in Topeka reelected j. R
Mulvane president and vice-president
from each Congressional district and from
each city of the first-class.
The livery barn and contants of George
Burton at Frontenac, ten miles east Of
Girard. was consumed by fire the other
day. Twelve borses, ono COW, harnesses,
hay and buggies were destroyed. Loss,
3, 500; insurance. 81 500.
TIE Wholesale and retail dry goods
house of R K Taylor, at Hutchinson, re-
ssntly failed
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-23

OCaCe 1ney are SCiII property, anu may
be legally manufactured and sold for GER
for almost any purpose for which intoxi-
eating liquors may ever be used. The
clerk must obey the law"
miscellaneous.
ON the afternoon of Saturday the 18th a
bloody tragedy was enacted in the court
room of Justice Lewis at Kansas City,
Kan. James Smith, notorious crook,
was having a preliminary examination
upon the charge of safe blowing and
burglary, when he suddenly and stealthily
approached Detective Gilley, who had
worked up the case against him, and in an
instant drew a knife across his throat
almost severing the head from the body.
Smith then made desperate effort to
escape from the room when the officer,
although mortally wounded, steadied him.
self by table and fred four shots at the
desperado, three of which took effect and
he fell dead at the door. Smith also
stabbed another policeman in the thigh
in his desperation and received a shot
from that officers pistol. Smith did not
live a minute after he cut Gilley's throat
and Gilley died the following Monday
morning.
LAST November Olof Hammerbeck, a
patient in the insane asylum at Topeka,
disappeared and could not be found, al
though diligent search was made The
other day while men were removing some
hay which had been stored in the
asylum stables since last fall, they
were Mortified at finding his body
hanging from a beam, where it
had been for nearly six months. The
supposition is that Hammerbeck climbed
to the top of the hay NOV and going into
the furthest and darkest corner of the
stable deliberately hanged himself He
was only nineteen years old.
ABOUT midnight the other night Charles
Myers, employed at Fort Leavenworth as
q tailor, went to his home in North Leav-
enworth, where he found the doors locked
against him. Being refused admittance
by his wife he burst oper the door and
discovered a well knoUnssG. .eeracter, Tom
Harrington, in q compromising position.
Myers opened fire with a navy revolver,
and one Of the shots struck Harrin gton in
the left thigh, shattering the bone and
severing an artery. After the shooting
Myers and his wife fed. and the police
had not been able to find their where
abouts. Harrington's wound was con-
sidered fatal.
BURGLARS recently entered the dwelling
of William Hetherin g ton at Atchison and
carried away property worth about $500,
including fine gold watch, diamond ring,
shirt stud and sleeve buttons
THE insane wife of farmer named Bier,
residing near Bavaria, suddenly sprang
upon her husband the other day. grasped
his long beard and beat his head with q
poker until he was insensible and helpless.
Although Bier knew that his wife was
Tombstone daily epitaph., 1889-10-09
First publication october 6. 1889. AppIicattoa No. S2a Tor T Tai Ii; {. ;h-
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Nctice Is hereby gym that n vursuan-- Chapter DIX oi Iile laHty-two of h. Revised >t4tIIes of the United States L. B. Van Bur; l.d K. C. Pearson, whose pOstcrr,e 4G-re-s Is loU.Dstone. ATIzOna, C!aiHILg the \IClCl.s ui .ng clam, l,ing and being -I uIt.d .n tn, tombstone nnnng distinct. county ot CoCHise, Territory Oi AII1oni a e about |, u.ake tp hC.t- uol tO iu. United States for p,tcnt Co the ,>ItuJ.IS mining ClaIm. wh ,Ch l. more iIl.y de-
 z 0rd ls 10 mctes and bounds i.y the Off.cIaI gitt and field notes of th: survey t.er-oi, nov on aic l the oifCe of the Register of Ihs | . S Ltnd Office al IuC~Dn. AT zona which fed notes ot surrey describe the b baunitres and extent oi sad claim on the suriIc-. wIth nag netC variation al IF 8 Ea-t, as follows, to-wII
 Be iH-I-g at the norh-r.y center end a .;- inch post In monument, pCS' marked l '. - .tl- O. IS N No 1. L . Vi Al No Derrs N v
 31s3 feet, thcrce $ 6o' 57' zo6 feet 10 a | men post m mOnumeut post mark | V N C No ?: thence Io' lo' W I42t feet 10 d i-,nch post q monument of st ne. post marked N Ni C No }; thence V S6- g W 80 feet 10 a 1 inch o,t in monument post marked \ M ( No {; thence So' 57' w 21S i, et t0 l-ircn post il a monument. post marked N NJ C No 5; thence zSo I6 l. I+z3 feet 10 l-inch post m
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 ! Any and all persons claiming adversely the | above described mining claim any portion ' thereof so described, surveyed, plated and sp- | piled for are hereby notified that unless their adverse claims are duly filed according to law, and the regulations hereunder, within the time l prescribed by law, with the Register of the U,
 .. Land Office at Tucson. county of Pima, III
 the Territory of Arizona. they will be barred
 by virtue of the provisions of sad statute.
 And it is hereby ordered that this no'ice bt puoiish-d for ten consecutive weeks in the I omb
 stone EPITAPH, daily newspaper published al Tombstone, Cochise county, Arizona
 Dated this 2d day of October, A. D. 1889. l HERBERT BROWN, Register.