The Globe-republican., 1890-12-24
KANSAS STATE NEWS

ate appointed revis.o on committee to
revise certain portions of existing State
laws This committee has been at
work nearly q year. and the report
which is now ready for the Governor,
abolishes dozen useless boards: con-
solidates half dozen other boards,
revises the laws regarding the con-
troll Of the State Normal and Stats
| Agricultural College, and Hutchin-
son reformatory; decapitates s j.
! Crawford. the State agent at Wash
| ington; cuts down the numbers OF
local district judges about one-fourth;
cuts legal advertising. sheriffs' sales.
county and State printing of all kinds
80 per cent; provides for tho Australian
system of voting, and tho election Of
the State Board OF Railway Commits
| sioners; provides that the State furnish
school books of a uniform text flee:
overhauls the system of taxation and
| assessment and puts it on bona hde
basis; cuts down the fees and salaries
of all county officers except coroners
stables and justices of the peace fees.
1t is thought this report, if adopted by
the Legislature, will save $500. 600 an
nually in taxes
G. w. SIMMONS . we'll known livery
man and undertaken. was shot and per-
haps fatally wounded by James Neal,
a railway engineer, at Meals home in
Argentine. shortly after 9 o'clock the
other night Neal returned home at
that hour. and finding Simmons at his
house opened fire on him. Simmons
ran out the back door of the house and
was shot after getting in the yard. Neal
suspected improper relations between
his wife and Simmons. The latter de-
clared he called to collect bill and was
met by Mrs Neal in her nightdress,
and that the irate husband appeared
upon the scene and commenced shoot
ing without giving him an opportunity
to mako an explanation. Neal was ar
rested. Simmons has q wife and chill
dren.
NEAR Arkansas City the other day a
steer showed symptoms Of hydrophobia
and attacked and fatally injured boy.
George Rock. Another steer also showed
symptoms and it was necessary to kill
both. These two animals and num-
Der of other cattle were bitten by wolf
which it is supposed was mad.
JOSEPH HICKMAN. of Kansas City,
Kan. recently left for Texas in a wagon
with friend, and when near Fort Scott
tho two men were shooting quail and
Hickman was killed by the accidental
discharge of his gun. He was % years
old and leaves wife and two children
at Kansas City, Kan
Hoe cholera prevails to an alarming
extent in portions Of Atchison County.
1t is estimated that 1000 hogs have
died of the disease
MARTIN MoHLER, Secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture, recently
said that enough has been done in the
manufacture Of sugar from beets in
Kansas to prove that with proper ma
chinery in charge of competent and ex-
perienced men. the industry will be
successful. The soil and climate are
we'll adapted to beet culture and the
experience of the sugar mill at Medi-
cine Lodge, which is IN charge of a man
who was for years employed in the
manufacture of beet sugar in Germany,
demonstrates its complete practicable.
ity. A small run on beets was made by
the Topeka mill this year and so salts
factory were the results that contracts
will be entered into largely with the
farmers for furnishing it with beets in
1891.
THE dead body of William Higgin.
botham, a prominent attorney OF Clay
Center. was found under the ice in a
deep creek just west of that town the
other day. He had been missing for
several days. and when last seen was on
the street intoxicated As he had been
in the habit of going out of town on WIS.,
its of several days his absence created
no suspicion. 1t was supposed that he
had attempted to cross the creek on the
ice and broke through.
JAMES w. HAMILTON, livestock agent
for the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway Company. has resigned his pc.
sit on to take effect January 1. The
resignation is by request Mr.. Ham l.
ton res gned as State Treasurer bout a
year ago to accept the appointment OF
llve-stoc agent for the Santa Fe.
THE following Kansas Indian depre-
dations claims have been disallowed by
the Secretary of the Interior: j. Farris.
Ellsworth County, So, 395; John n. Bond,
Cloud County, 500: Peter Grosch, Sa-
line County, S775; Frederick Bussani,
Mcpherson County, 5000. In the claim
of A. c. Larkin. OF Labette County, for
81, $50 depredations committed by Chero-
KEGS in 1874. the Secretary allowed S672.
II is said that considerable destitu.
ton has been found to exist in North.
western Kansas. and measures for their
relief are being devised in the Older
parts of the State under the direction OF
the State Board OF Railroad Commits.
sioners The distress is confined to
farmers who have had a succession of
crop failures and are without means to
tide over the winter. Kansas railroads ,
have agreed to transport donations free
A JURY in murder case at Wichita
recently stood eleven for acquittal to
one for guilty and had been out sixty
four hours, when the Judge permitted a
cleroymaD m visit THAR room and hold