Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-07-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS

LIE WOot Rse7SnAssSSH sc&12xR 1tk<t
into the switch engine in the Santa Fe
yards at Dodge City the ether lpaznine.
smashing up beth engines F1esmaa
Joseph Attys, OF Ahe nassea&sr. was
killed and beth engineers wess Aaet,
of the fireman en- the passenger erafa,
who was riding oa the Fsstkaesa ek sas
baggage Gag, vas killed.
The Kansas State Aiiffe7s' AeenezA-
ton met st Newton reeeuss1 to consider
railroad Enes. EexeSeaiAEas sse4s 4eapfsd
demanding thaS tie IsseT-S*s4ss ucn-
lneree Corasa&seiea eAAsSaisA TIL same
rates or wheat saa its produces .a< en-
corn and lis prod VIC Is tse ra2ss % Do
made psR asa4eHk as freaassA ahAns1ns
results in acknowledgements
HoT winas on the 18th aa& aask did
greas damage to tire early eota Co mszss
parts of Kazsas, bat reaxssssaE sAszess
q few days aa4es 4AAtseszssy ssavsoesa
the ceaa1 *&aa es evep&
ii is sss1e& *has Goxs*nzAeas 3ns1sau
schoei Inssectox 9sesaasssaA les saaae his
repert Of the iHvssAiSstke q tSs ehsegss
against Susseri tend ent &se2eTzA Of Has
kell I8ssi4sse. e@e@e<ssih@ him tEaaa
Si"Af-d@S SaA eokz1tf@S4e<s45k 4@.S <1&esAAfSesSR
item.
LeaEenwesJa ao1 nsuhegisa% up glass Aa&
sprsnfsiM@ 1t on the siAew walk i'm asaAt Of
her house ia keep the neigh beFsIeua
childfen az, several - wazam wsee see
ve9ely cat 2sE the SlsaA
THE SUPERVISE Of tao census for sAe
Thif& district gives $ae so1eewihg e$zae
maAed pepslstioas: SsRiAa, 6,5a2; All
lefse, 5,sss; ColaeaRabas a'aas: Cay Csa-
tar, e,62f; Eea@i& Z ga; 2996dssea sbeaEk
1,Fa2; Wasathgtosa, s,@@e. and NeesNaa.
LOTS. Yhe Populsssaas rs @se @5sarieas
comprising @wseaasy-Aasbs cesssaisss, %
about 393, 0l5.
WhLIkN MONROE asas aeueaasg aaas&
5000 and sentenced @p asis as La@9eaee
for violating the Psea&b&teey law. de
opened an original Gpnekaee'' heuse and
claimed to be ageat For s. KansaH City
firm, but the evidence showed tact he
purchased and paid. for the packages,
and the Justice held that he Was not
protected by the Supreme Court decisiesa>
j. w. BIGGERsTAFF. D well Gag@ef,
was overcome by choke damp in = we'll
in Topeka the otkef day, and Ni2liaah
Quinn, who tried to rescue hiEn, barely
escaped alive.
In recent interview, Hon Maftia
Moh1er, Secretary of the State Board OF
Agriculture. said. 'There has been b
great deal of exaggeration about the
condition OF the crop in this State.
There were only few localities wheIe
the drought had hurt corn much. Those
were so limited that feel justified in
saying that the rain has made the corn
of the whole State. My best informa-
ton is that the downfall covered the
greater partof the State and that it was
heaviest in the sections needing it the
worst the southern and northeastern
portions
THE street pavement layers at Wichi-
ia recently struck for an advance of
fifty cents per day.
The other day ten young men went
into DR.. Roundtree's drug store at Lin
wood and asked for drinks. as there was
a report in circulation Chat the druggist
sold original packages. Trouble ensned,
and the crowd began to smash things.
Roundtree drew revolver and told the
men to keep back. One of them, Ed.
FGcd, stepped forward and. the druggist
raised and cooked the eevolver. AS he
pulled the trigger Henry Herald, an
other of the party, jumped between
them and received the bullet in his
right breast, inf1icting what was thought
to be fatal wound.
The Farmers Alliance of the Second
district has nominated Albert f. Allen,
of douglas County, for Congress.
RALPH COOKINGHAM, aged twelve
years, accidentally shot and killed him
self with Drevolver az Dodge City thu
other day.
In late collision on the Southern
Kansas ROAD near Nellsville, Engineer
Arthur Rose, of Argentine, IVES killed.
He was twenty-eight years of age and
leaves wife and two children.
CHARLES FIIEGE. German tailor
abouS fifty years of age, recentl9 swal-
lowed Q dose of laudanuIa with suicidal
entenS at Leavenworth, and died next
day. Dependency because he could
not get work. was supposed to have been
the cause.
Two propositions TO ameAd the Con-
stitution will be submitted to the peo-
pie at the ensuing fall election. One is
to change the time of meeting of the
Legislature to the first Tuesday in De-
cember and limiting the sessions to
ninety days and the other provides for
increasing the number of Supreme
Court judges to seven and making their
term of Office six years
FRANK BIDDLECoMB, thirty years old,
vas recently killed by the cars at New
ton. He had been at work only about
twenty minutes when the accident hap
pened He leaves wife and one child.
A LADY died at Atchison the other day
of what physicians pronounced genuine
cholera
Four small boys, ranging in age from
seven to eleven years, were recently ar
rested at Topeka charged with being
the incendiaries who have lately set fire
to numerous barns in that city.
THERE are more miles of railroad in
Kansas than in all the New England ;
States put together.
DURING storm in Scranton the other
night Swan M. Carlson was instantly
killed by lightning which entered an
open window and passed through his
breast and right leg.
Mrs JOHN SCHLIEF, of Wichita, aged
sixty-five years, accompanied the hired
girl when she went to milk the cow the
other evening and was caressing the
o,1f oD1y 70 clrod nd diSoD1-