Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

ALPHoNsE e. DICKENS, son of widow
living near Eudora, recently committed
suicide by shooting himself.
GEORGE T. FUNK, an old farmer living
north of Wichita, was killed recently by
falling on pitchfork-
SECRETARY MoHLER has issued cir
cular on Publicity of Crop Reports
calling the attention of farmers and
others to the necessity of full, complete
and accurate farm statistics He says:
''The farmer has every thing to gain
and nothing to lose by publicity of the
results of his labors. He can not keep
these results a secret if he would, and it
would be extremely injurious to his in
terests if he should. These propositions
are susceptible of easy proof, and they
can not be overthrow. For the collec-
ton of these facts he must depend on
the Government. He represents too
numerous and scattered body to obtain
them otherwise. Once in ten years the
National census is taken, at a cost of
several million dollars, and then its ac-
curacy depends on the intelligence and
interest with which the facts are re-
ported to the enumerators."
IRA A. STEVENSON was recently ar
rested in Colorado for the murder of
Albert Neubaur in Logan County, Kan,
on December, 1883.
A. j. EwARr & Co, lumber dealers of
Topeka, recently made an assignment
for the benefit of their creditors. The
liabilities aggregate $50, 742. IS, of which
amount $50, zoe. "a is secured by notes
and real estate mortgages.
THE Farmers Alliance is said to be
strongly in favor of special session of
the Legislature for the purpose of pass
ing Stay law.
Doc MILLER was recently arrested at
Cheffyva1e for passing counterfeit silver
dollars. In his house were found mate
rails for counterfeiting and seventeen
| unfinished dollars. His wife was also
arrested.
PORTIONS OF Western Kansas were
/ visited by heavy snowstorm on the 9th.
THE quarterly report of the State
Board of Agriculture, just issued, makes
| a handsome showing for Kansas. Last
| years winter wheat crop is valued at
$19, $40, 573.77, the corn crop at $51, 649,-
| S76. 10 and the oat crop at S7,654, S12. %.
The total value of all agricultural prod
| ucts in 1889 is estimated to be $104, 572, 1913.
FRED WILLIAMS, student of Garfield
University at Wichita and a specially
commissioned officer of the building at
| night, was dangerously wounded shortly
after midnight the other night by man
who first sandbagged and then shot him.
| The ball passed through the students
thigh near the groin.
E. P. MCCABE, of Topeka, formerly
| Auditor of State, and very prominent
| among the colored people of the State,
| is candidate for Governor of Oklahoma
Territory. Petitions in his behalf are
being circulated.
The entire stock of the w. E. Weaver
Hardware Company at Emporia was re-
Gently taken possession of by the First
National Bank of that city to satisfy a
cha ttel mortgage of $4,000. The assets
will net over $4,000.
In recent attachment suit at Wichita
a Justice held that corn used for fuel was
not subject to attachment. A thousand
bushels of corn belonging to farmer
| named Steadman had been attached.
Steadman said he was using corn for
| fuel and that /, 900 bushels was not more
than enough to last year. The justice
ruled that under the law exempting a
years fuel the attachment could not
hold.
RECENTLY two hundred women of Col
| by, signed petition to the City Council
to require the removal of paint from
billiard hall windows.
| J. r. GARDNER. Jr., of West Virginia,
has been appointed as storekeeper at
Haskell Institute, Lawrence.
MAINS are being laid in Cherryvale for
natural gas to all the business and dwell
ing houses.
| STATE SENATOR MCTAGGART, who has
been engaged in farming near Cherry
vale for many years, is reported to be
| quite enthusiastic over the prospects for
Kansas becoming something of a cotton
State. He lately received returns from
three bales of cotton grown on his farm,
being his ''toll' from nine acres of
ground rented to colored tenants, his
share being one-third the yield. The
three bales sold on the ST. Louis market
for S1s4 net, and was classed as high
grade.
In the the United States Circuit
Court at Topeka Judge Foster re-
Gently made decree in the case
of the Armour Banking Company
against the board of county COM
missioners Of E;nney County, granting
the plaintiff $15, 146.7S, which sum was
claimed on a warrant issued by the COM
| mlSS1OnorS January 10, 1901, In FAVOR OF
A. II. Burtfs for certain lands and trans
ferred by him to the plaintiff The in
terest, which is included in the above
sum, amounted to S2,666.7s.
LAST fall j. C. Gillian, cashier of the
Citizens Bank of Selden, was arrested
upon complaint of the American Loan
and Trust Company of Nebraska, who
alleged that he had obtained S12, $50
from the company by fraud. He was
taken before Judge Foster at Topeka
and held ten days, when he was dis
charged. The other day Mr.. Gillian
brought suit at Topeka against the
trust company for false imprisonment.
laying damages at S25, 913. 10, the amount
of the indemnifying bond.
w. G. MELVILLE, an old resident Of
Lawrence and a we'll known railroad and
bridge contractor, recently died of pneu-
monia. He returned home from Texas
a few days previous sick with la grippe.
PROCEEDINGS were recently brought
before the probate Judge at Wichita by
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