Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS


ported by the assessors for 1855 which II
on q basis Of one-third their actual value,
is 1858, 220, 155. The value of farm imple-
ments is placed at s., 1872 534.
On New Years day Governor Marlin
pardoned i've convicts in the psnitentisry.
They were: s. s. Spangler, sentsnced
from Ness County in 1883 for one year for
manslaughter; Frank E. Rawlins, sem
! fenced on February. 1888, from Cherokee
County for three years for manslaughter;
Frank Houghtaling, sentenced from Craw-
ford County in September. 1888, for grand
larceny; Fred Blue, sentenced from STAFF
ford County for one year for assault with
intent to kill, and o. S. Keyser, convicted
in Elk County of embezzlement, and SEN
fenced for one year.
AT the present time there are $50 stu
dents enrolled at the State Normal School
at Emporia. These students represent
elghty-two counties of the State and if
teen States and Territories Or these 134
are natives of Kansas
MAJOR WARNER, Commander-in-Ch Chief
OF the q. A. r., was recently rendered q
public reception in the hall of the House
OF Representatives at Topeka. An address
OF welcome was delivered by Captain L.
J. Webb on behalf of the G. A. R. and the
eral Campbell on behalf of the State. Sew
eral days later Major Warner was given q
! reception at Dodge City.
| ASSESSORS returns show that there are
in Kansas 81, 637 mich cows.
The farmers who supplied the Fort Scott
sugar works with sorghum cane last year
i cleared SIS per acre over and above all ex-
! penses of cultivation and delivery, allow
ing good wages for every thing done and
two dollars per acre rent.
| The retort and meter rooms of the Inter-
State Gas Company's works at Hutchin-
son burned the other evening. The fire
was caused by the explosion Of gas which
had accumulated in one of the rooms from
leak. The loss was about Sic, 900.
THOMAS ANDERSON, a Lyon County
farmer, was recently arrested upon the
charge of forging a note for So The
charge was preferred by one McCaw, of
Americas. Anderson was arrested in COL
orado, where he was working in quarry
under the name of Murray.
! THREE suits were recently filed in the dis
trict court at Leavenworth against the
Kansas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern
railroad for damages to property through
which the road runs in entering the city.
George Fisher asks Judgment for 81, 500;
Mathew Ryan for $51 900, and Joseph
Whitaker for SIS. 900.
THE other day Thomas Kerr, a colored
man, in taking a loaded shotgun from his
wagon at Americas was accidently shot.
The whole charge passed through the
lungs from the front. He lived only an
hour.
THE other night the corn meal and feed
mills of Russell Bowman & Co., at Law
renee, caught fire and burned to the
ground. The origin of the fire was doubt
less the work of an incendiary. The loss
was about 81 900, partially covered by in
surance.
| GOVERNOR MARTIN has received q letter
from Hon. S. j. Crawford, State agent at
Washington, in which he states that he
has an adjustment in the General Land
Office of the Kansas five per cent. ac-
count, on sales of public lands for the
years 1886 and 1887, amounting to SAB, =
O4S.97, which sum has been certified to the
treasury for settlement The letter also
states that should the Direct Tax Refund
ing bill become law, which he believes
will. Kansas will receive as her proportion
ST., 1888.
: PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
ventors: G. A. Benkendorf, Wilmot, air
draft engine; Francis and w. j. Brogan,
Hartford, fence post; George Hackney,
Topeka, stock car; Isaac Holzmark. Kan
sas City, dish drainer; Edwin FARRELL. Har-
per, vehicle spring; j. T. and S. w. Miller,
Thayer, window shutter; Heinrich Som.
mer6eld. Canton, car coupling; F. A. VIE
brock, Humboldt, fence for intercepting
insects.
A SENSATIONAL shooting ARRAY took
place at Leavenworth the other night.
, Charles Rosenthal, a young Hebrew, went
into second hand store kept by E. Bern
| stein, and commenced firing at young
man named Hoffman. He fired four shots,
, one taking effect in Hoffman's leg. The
cause of the act was jealousy between the
two men over young lady. She was in
the store at the time of the shooting, and
the shock SO affected her that she went in
/ to Mysteries, and a fatal result was feared.
/ A YOUNG man who gave his name as
| Horace Hadley, was recently arrested at
/ Atchison on the suspicion of being Tascott,
j the murderer of Smell, the Chicago mill
| lionaire. He was lodged in Jail, and the
charge of vagrancy placed against him
until he could establish his identity.
THE st. John & Marsh lumber yard, to-
| gether with the buildings, at Digit on
were consumed by fire the other night;
loss, $4,000, we'll insured. The family
| sleeping in the upper story barely es-
| capped with their lives by jumping from
| the windows. One boy broke his arm in
| the fall. The household effects were to-
| tally destroyed, including diamonds worth
! $500.
THE other morning the body of man
| named Norwood was found lying across
| the bed in his dugout in Lincoln County.
| The one window was blown comp letely to
| pieces, and bits of glass were found in the
wound, showing that the murderer had
| deliberately shot his victim through the
| window while he was asleep. The weapon
was shotgun loaded with buckshot. Cir
| cumstances pointed strongly to a man by
| the name of Stevenson as the murderer,
| the two men having had some difficulty
| over a small amount Of money borrowed
| by Norwood from Stevenson. The sheriff
was searching for the supposed murderer.
JAMES STEWART, a prominent farmer.
was shot and killed by George D. Beach,
| another farmer, in Shawnee County on the
| night of the 7th. A feud had existed be-
] between the two families, and a quarrel
| between the children involved the paren