Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
in Kansas City. Mo-, recently went to
Turner. Wyandotte County, to secure
work. Being successful he started to
walk home along the Santa Fe railroad.
He had gone only q short distance when
he stepped of one track to avoid west
bound freight train, on to another track,
just in front of an east-bound passenger
train. when the engine struck him and
his body was hurled beneath the wheels
and literally torn to pieces. He was a
single man thirty-eight years old
The last monthly report Of Secretary
Mohler, of the State Board of Agricult-
ure, makes discouraging showing on
corn Only 56.4 per cent of the corn
area of the State is worth harvesting.
and the average yield for the State is
but sixteen bushels an acre. The total
corn product is estimated at SO, DOC, 900
bushels. This estimate is about 80 per
cent lower than the Secretary's esti
mate month ago Nearly all the corn
grown this year is in the eastern third
of the State. All other crops are good.
The wheat product is estimated at 3d.,
600, 600 bushels Tho Secretary says
that on the whole the outlook in Kan
sas is more encouraging than it has
been, and the prospect for vigorous
and thrifty growth of wheat and rye
during the fall is better than it has
been in many portions of the State for
some years.
COOPER HOUFT, young German, sew
eral months ago forged two checks for
$50 each at Leavenworth and skipped
out He returned a few days ago and
paid one of them but had no money 20
pay the other and was arrested and held
for trial.
DISPATCHES were recently received at
Topeka giving an account OF the acct
dental killing at Concordia, Mo-, of
Thomas McGrath by w. NJ Lyle. Both
were residents of Topeka and were trav-
cling with circus Lyle was sitting
in the ticket wagon, and while handling
a revolver it was accidentally dis
charged, the bullet striking McGrath in
the left side and piercing the heart He
was a son-in-law of Judge John Guthrie,
aud leaves wife and three children:
Reports lately received from all parts
of Kansas show that an unusual acreage
of fall wheat will be sown' this fall.
The ground is in fine condition. In
Western Kansas where the corn crop
was failure. farmers are disposing of
stock to purchase seed wheat.
The business houses occupied by j. c.
Smith, F. E. Werntz, T. j. Hopkins, E.
Magrath, J. Kuster and Tapley & Son,
at Williamsburg, were destroyed by fire
the other night The loss to the bust
ness men aggregated $40, 600; partially
insured.
PENSIONS issued to Kansas veterans on
the 18th: George L. Sanders, Oskaloosa;
Luther F. Purvis, Louisburg; Charles
Hedinger, Strong City; Stephen Bprney,
Jetmore; Anthony Curry, Soldiers
Home; Noah Rine, Burlington; Jacob
f. Denneler, Winchester; Washington
L. Jones, South Mound; Bonsley E.
Blake, Tyrone; Levi f. Danfell, Doug
las; Elias High, Iuka; Benedict
Friday, National Military Home;
William A. McKade, Eskridge;
Conrad Englehart Highland; Frederick
Wiley, Cottonwood Falls; jeremiah p.
Parkhurst, Wichita; Mary L. Millikan,
Colony; Mary a. Davis, Cottonwood
Falls; William T. Jones, Peoria; Will
lam III. Cousler, New Albany; Henry A.
Kenworthy, Stockton Edward j. O'Don-
nell, Stockton; Aaron Jones, Toledo;
George w. Chalmers, Osawatomie;
Aaron D. Showalter, Colony, and Frank
w. Stoneking, Arkansas City.
ANDREW BYsTRoM, native of Sweden
and living in Kansas City, Kan, accom-
panied friend to the Union depot at
Kansas City, Mo-, the other night and a
short time after was run over by a
switch engine, while walking on the
Rock Island tracks, had both legs cut
off and was otherwise injured He died
in few hours. He was by trade a
blacksmith and had accumulated con-
siderable property.
IT is stated that the Union Pacific
road will build grain elevator to cost
half million dollars at Elmwood. just
opposite St Joseph. Mo. 1t will have a
capacity of one million bushels of grain.
SIDNEY O. WAIVER. late postmaster
of Hoxie, was recently arrested in Bur-
lington, VT, and taken to Topeka on
the charge of embezzling 81, 200 of Gov
time been postmaster at Hoxie and it
was while acting in that capacity that
business negligence brought about a
shortage in his accounts.
THE Republicans of the First district
for Congress, and the Democrats of the
same district have nominated Colonel
Thomas Moonlight
THE eleven-year-old son of John
BECKER, car repairer in the Missouri
Pacific shops at Ell Dorado, was killed by
a switch engine the other day.
OTIs BARNARD, about eleven years old,
was instantly killed by an 81" road
train near the City Hall in Kansas City,
Kan, the other afternoon. The little
fellow, with several companions. had
just left school, and the boys were run
| ming and playing when he ran upon the
track in front of train and was
crushed to death.
The following members-atlarge con-
stitute the Democratic State Central
Committee, in addition to those from
the judicial districts: w. c. Jones, OF
lola; James w. Orr, of Atchison; j. Fl.
Andrews, of La Crosse; w. c. Perry, OF
Fort Scott; Edward Carroll, of Leaven-
worth; 7. E Leftwicke, of Larned, and
| John Clifford of Manhattan with w