Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

HE Board Of Railroad Commissioners
have refused to order the Rock Island
to establish . side track between Gladys
and Peck. in Sedgwick County.
The Kansas Sugar Association recent
lly met at Hutchinson, and perfected .
permanent organization. Prof. j. C.
Hart, Of Fort Scott, being elected presi-
dent. and w. p. Clement, of Sterling,
secretary.
d. b LONG, of Ellsworth, grand rep
resentative Of the L O. O. F., has written
the mayor of Topeka in relation to
the coming session of the Sovereign
Grand Lodge next September. The at
tention of the citizens is called to the
necessity of raising the funds to defray
the expense of entertaining the guests
from without the State at that time
Before the cantons Of the several depart
ments are called to Topeka by the grand
sire and generalissimo it is necessary
that So. 600 be put up by Kansas Odd
Fellows Otherwise there will be no
drill of the Patriarchs Militant.
PENSIONS were granted the following
Kansas veterans on April 1: James
Burnside, of Milan; Henry C. Sales, of
wick; Aaron K. Lindsey, of Sterling;
Isaac Ceilings. of Langdon; John l. OFT,
of Thayer; August Burmeister, of Ellen
wood; James Fulton. of Seneca; Samuel
| Mayors, of Olsburg; Lewis w. Hamilton,
of South Haven; Marion johnson, of
Beloit; George Large, of Troy; Levi
Rosenthal, of Leavenworth; Samuel
Craig, of Columbus; Joseph p. Swear
| ingen, of the National Military Home;
John A. Galloway, of North Topeka;
Albertus j. Doran, of Ottawa; Amos
Jenk, of Cedarva1e; John Beatty, of
Manhattan; Isaac N. Nelson. of Colby;
Albert S. Long. of Topeka; Samuel 81.
Coburn, of Wichita; William S. Fuller,
| of Sedan; John c. Burton. of Bacon;
WINFIELD L. Appling, of Wichita; Rich
ard T. Adsit, of Walton; Mary Irene
Rosenthal, of Leavenworth, and Martha
j. Clark, of Louisville.
S. DERMODY's barn, ten miles north
east of Wichita, four horses, six head of
cattle and 800 bushels of wheat were de-
stroyed by fire the other day.
THE other morning John Bobzine, and
Ross Hawley, living seven and half
miles north of Coffeyville on adjoining
farms, quarreled and fought, when
Hawley struck Bobzine on the head with
fence rail, killing him instantly. Bob
zine was an old settler, having located
on his farm in 1869.
PROF. ROBERT HAY has been down the
shaft and personally measured the first
working vein of Alma coal at 400 feet
and found It twenty inches in thickness.
He says that they undoubtedly have
semi-anthracite at the lower depth to
which the shaft is being sunk.
PREPARATIONS are being made to re-
build the Topeka sugar mill. It will
probably be finished in time to care for
this seasons crop.
THE Executive Council reelected
Hon. A. R. Greene Railroad Commits
sioner. He was chosen on the seventh
ballot. Six candidates were voted for,
viz: A. p. Forsyth, of Liberty; S. C.
King, of Atchison; P. B. Maxson, OF
Emporia; 7. E. Anderson, of Salina; j.
f. True, of Newman, and A. r. Greene,
of Cedarvale.
THE Governor has offered areward of
$3.50 for the arrest and conviction of the
person or persons guilty of the murder
of Mrs. Teresa Mettman, at Lea ven-
worth, on March %.
ROBERT FISCHER, aged forty, recently
took morphine at Leavenworth and died
soon after. He left wife and four
children. He had used some of the
funds of the Cigar Makers Union, which
he was unable to make good and so
ended his troubles with morphine.
THE Railroad Commissioners have
made decision refusing to grant the
petition of the railways to adopt the
car load system of weighing in Kansas
JOHN MCMILLAN and :. NJ. Smith have
been arrested at Conway Springs for
completely in the express robbery at
that place November 90, 1889, when over
IS, 900 was taken from the safe in the
Missouri Pacific depot Mcmillan is
young tough, while Smith is an old SOL
der and was prominent applicant for
the post-office last fall.
For some time previous to the death
of Governor Nehemiah Green, the sword
worn by him during his service in the
Union army in the war of the rebellion
had been in the keeping of Manhattan
lodge No II, /. o. o. F. The lodge re-
Gently presented the sword to the State
Historical Society, accompanied by
handsome silver plate bearing an appro-
pirate inscription.
Mr.. MORRILL,, of Kansas, has present.
ed in the National House of Representa-
tives the memorial of special meeting
of presidents of County Farmers Alli-
dACOS AC1u LII 4Opchd 1AdrCu 30, DrOCOSC-
in the name of the agricultural and
general interests of Kansas against
duties on Mexican ore.
THE ladies of the w. C. T. u. recentlv
made a raid on the joints at Kingman
and destroyed all the liquors found.
The liquors kept in several drug stores
met the same fate.
WHILE walking upon the Union Pa
cif1c tracks at Salina the other day Rich
ard Joyce, aged seventy years, was run
down by passenger train and both legs
were cut off and his skull fractured. He
died in few minutes.
PATENTS lately granted to Kansas
inventors: John P. Anderson, Olesburg,
sna p hook; George McA1lister, Sterling,
wheat steaming and heating machine;
Andrew Rowan, Buffalo, vehicle wheel;
Albert C. Sims, Winona, weather strip;
Heinrich Sommerfeld, Canton, car
coupling.
The large two-story frame residence
of DR.. A. III. Robinson at Emporia was
badly damaged by fire the other morn
ing. The fire caught from the steam
heating apparatus in the basement and