Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

THE other night Madame ogborn, an
old clairvoyant, was assaulted In her
house at Wichita and robbed of $500 in
greenbacks by two white men and
negro. The old woman had the money
hieden in a box attached to the bottom
of her bed, and in getting at this the
robbers awakened her. She alleged
that she recognized in the negro man
living near by, who has since been ar
rested.
The Governor has offered a reward of
$500 for the apprehension and conviction
of Charles Carroll, who murdered George
Dockhorn, at Elwood, on Sunday, April
90. The county has also offered q re-
ward.
JOHN n. REYNOLDS has bought a sixty
The price of the paper is understood to
be $4,000
THE police commissioners of Wichita
have decided to return to the fine sys-
tenn of handling the joints, and the po-
lice have been instructed to call on
those suspected of being in the joint
business and inform them that $50
monthly fines should be paid and they
would not be disturbed.
JAMES GARRETT, serving a six years
term in the Leavenworth penitentiary
from Topeka, was found dead in his cell
the other morning. The deceased was
subject TO fits, and it is supposed his
death was the result of one of these at
tacks.
ANTHONY TRAINER, and his son Samuel
got into a drunken quarrel at Kansas
City, Kan, tho other night when the
father drew knife and fatally stabbed
the son. The elder Trainer is an old
soldier and draws SIT per month for
wounds received in the army.
A LATE Topeka dispatch says that it
has been discovered in Grant County
that the county treasury has been robbed
Of several thousand dollars About q
year ago the board offered bounty of
five cents for each rabbit scalp and one
dollar for wolf scalps All along there
have been indications of crookedness,
but when the allowances were made at
the April meeting of the county board
it was discovered that there was an
open, bold robbery. Payment has been
made for over SO. 600 sca1ps which were
never taken.
THE programme has been arranged for
the Chautauqua assembly which meets at
Topeka in June. ALI the railroads will
sell round trip tickets for one fare from
June "a to July inclusive from all
points within $50 miles of Topeka, and
on June "a, June 26 and July % from all
points in the State at same fare.
News was recently received at To-
peka of the attempted assassination of
Judge Theodore Botkin, at Ulysses,
Grant County. 1t is reported that an
attempt was made to force him to decide
the bond case in opposition to his best
Judgment, in a suit in which the county
commissioners were interested. which
he would not do.
ANOTHER vein of coal, about ten feet
below the first vein, has been struck in
the deep cut north of the plaza at Fort
Scott. The coal is of bright black
color and of an excellent quality.
NINE prominent citizens of Grant
County, including three county officials,
have been arrested for defrauding the
county by presenting the same wolf
scalps several times and securing the
bounty thereon. In the complaints filed
against the accused, it is alleged that
one of the conspirators would present a
sack of scalps to the county commits
sioners, who would authorize the issue
of scrip in payment of bounty. The
sack would be placed where another
member of the party could conveniently
steal it, who would in turn present it
again to the commissioners. In this
way the one sack was presented over
and over again, until bounty had been
paid to the amount of SIG, 600.
RECENTLY a deputy United States
collector created quite a commotiOn
among the lunch counter and restaurant
men of Lawrence by making them take
out Government licenses to sell hop tea.
He says while it is not intoxicating it is
by breweries and stamped
the same as beer, hence it comes under
the license law.
The National Starch Company, a
syndicate which controls extensive
starch works throughout the United
States, has purchased the Topeka starch
works, valued at $3.50, 600.
THE estimated assets of E. b. Purcell,
the Manhattan banker, who failed re-
Gently, are: Cash and sight exchange,
Sc, $50. 10; overdrafts, S114.90; bills re-
S317, S3s.3s; open accounts. $780,
90; Office fixtures, 81 200; stocks,
$685., O53; one-sixth interest in trust,
S155, 1Ss. rs; total, 81, 2O4, O74.11-
r. L. GARDNER, special agent for the
Indian Bureau was recently in Topeka
paying the Pottawatomie Indians for
lands purchased sixty years ago. About
1 300 Indians will get$1O6. IS each.
WIrHIN three months 500 lodges of
the Farmers Alliance have been or
ganized in the State with an average
of thirty. The new lodges
have for the most part been organized
in the western part of the State.
THE Kansas Livestock Sanitary Com
recently in session at Topeka,
agreed upon an order under which cattle
from the Eastern States must be held
ninety days at Kansas City, at the ex-
pense of the owner, and until they shall
receive bill of health signed by the
State Veterinarian of Kansas.
The Railway Frog and Supply Manu-
Company has made arrange
ments for the erection at Topeka of q
plant consisting of foundry, machine
shops and pudding works at cost Of
about 100000.
SAMUEL DAWES, express agent, was
found dead in his bed at Wichita the
other NOR ming. A box of morphine