Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-10-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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of age, who kept house Tor her father
on q claim fifteen miles south of Gar
den City, recently committed suicide by
taking strychnineL Her father. 1t the
time, was in Jail at Garden City for
burglary, and Will doubtless go TO the
penitentiary, and about nine months
ago her mother died Of heart disease.
while in Jail awaiting the action Of the
district court for having inhumanly
treated her daughters child
In free fight in John AcCuny's sa-
loon at Clearwater the other day, John
Hanlon was struck over the head with q
lighted lamp and 80 badly cut and
burned that he will die. Half dozen
men we're badly injured
THE President has committed to two
years actual imprisonment the sentence
| of five years imposed in the case of B.
h Jones. convicted of making false en-
tries in the books of the National Bank
of Stafford.
A MAN about thirty-five years old. who
gave the name of Thomas Rogers. was
found by colored man lying on the
Missouri Pacific track at Kansas City,
/ Kan, the other night. with leg and
| arm cut of. He died soon after. It
| was supposed that he was run over by
passenger train
| AS train on the Rock Island road
| left Burton the other day at full speed,
when it approached a road crossing the
engineer noticed little girl between
four and five years of age on the track,
| the engine being only twenty feet dis
tant The bar above the cow-catcher
struck the child on the head, crushing
it and throwing her in the air about
| thirty feet, causing instant death. The
! high weeds concealed the child from
view until the engine was nearly upon
| it.
THE old soldiers of the State will hold
| their reunion at Topeka, October Z, 8,
| 9 and 10.
FULLY SCOTT has been nominated for
| Congress by the Democrats of the Sixth
| district
! FRED JONES, fourteen-year-old boy,
was found dead at the end of a rope in
an clubhouse on his uncle's premises at
Wichita the other night A short time
| ago his mother died and he grieved
much and had been heard say he would
rather be dead than alive His father
was in Colorado at the time looking
after his mining in terests
| Rosa CHAw, a seven-year-old girl, was
| taken suddenly i'll at the Harrison street
school, in Topeka, the other day and
| died in few minutes She had been
ailing with a severe cold, but was not
considered sick. The physicians pro-
! nounced the case heart failure, induced
by over exertion while at play.
Lon ELLIS, young farmer living
near Abbeyville. was accidentally shot
at Hutchinson the other afternoon. He
was attending an Alliance picnic at the
fair grounds, and while standing near a
party of friends who were examining a
revolver, the weapon was discharged,
the ball striking him in the left breast,
penetrating the lung, cutting an artery
| and inf1icting what was thought to be a
fatal wound.
A SHORT time ago citizen of Atchison
called at restaurant in that town and
! got bill changed by Miss Clark, a
young lady in charge of the cash. Later
he returned and presented a lead dollar,
which he declared she had given him,
and demanded good dollar for it Miss
Clark was positive she had given him
| no such coin and refused to redeem it.
| For this he had her arrested and taken
| to Leavenworth for examination upon
the charge of passing counterfeit money.
When the case come before United
States Commissioner Clough he prompt
! ly discharged Miss Clark without hear
ing any evidence for the defense.
TOPEKA dispatch says that it has
developed that large number of the
| wheat buyers of the State are loaded
up with wheat. While the wheat mar
ket was rising this fall many merchants
bought heavily and are now left with a
high-priced stock on hand to dispose Of
But small proportion of the wheat had
been marketed, a large reserve being
held for higher prices Kansas wheat
this year has not only yielded splen-
did crop, but of excellent quality. The
greater part of the wheat taken in has
tested over sixty pounds. while some
| weighed siXty-fve.
THE Judgment of S15 S24 so recently is
sued by the Supreme Court Of the State
in favor of the plaintiff in the case of Z
A. Smith against S C. Pomeroy dates back
to 1873. Smith was proprietor of the
old Tefft House in Topeka, where
Pomeroy made his ceiebra ted unsuccess-
full attempt to be reelected United States
Senator. Pomeroy quartered his political
friends at the Tefft House during the
campaign, creating hotel bill of $40 =
324 So After his defeat Pomeroy paid
|
Smith thereupon instituted proceedings
in the district court of Atchison County
for the balance. The debt, including
interest and costs, now amounts to
about $40. 900.
GEORGE PAXTON was recently arrested
at Mound City for arson. He is charged
with setting fire to the Methodist
Church at Jacksonville, Mo-, three
years ago. and up to the time of his ar
rest had eluded the officers
THE report of Adjutant-General Rob-
erts shows that the State militia at
present comprises IA officers and I, 1913
enlisted men. The report says that
the troops are now fully armed with the
| regular service rifles carried by the
United States regular army; are we'll
uniformed in the United States military
fatigue dress. and in other respects quite
we'll equipped.
PATENTS lately issued to Kansas in
ventors: Mortar mixer, James 81 Poor
baugh, Burton; rope or Irvine hook,
James K. Miller, Emporia; stiffening
| for collars atc Lizzie IT Had1ev Kan