Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-03-06


KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Mrs SAMANTHA BAKER, . widow, and
her SON, eight years old, were recently
burned to crisp In their stable on .
farm three miles southeast OF Brook
vile. The Indications were that they
had gone to the stable with lantern
to feed the horses. Singularly the
horses had got out but mother and SON
persisted.
PATENTS recently issued to Kansas in
ventors: r. A Brogan, Usage Mission.
key rail joint; A. j. Chapel. Arkansas
City, car coupling; w. R Dean and w.
II. Barnett. Ottawa, cash and parcel
carrier; c. F. Hartman, Valley Falls.
loading apparatus; G L McCarten, Kan
sas City, means for supplying COM
pressed air to motors; A. E. Perine, To-
peka, listing plows; A. c. Sherman.
Rossville. self-registering canceling
stamp; Paul Thielen. Kansas City, steam
heater; William and e. II. Ulrich. Man
haitian, clamp for stone saws
A CHARTER has been fled in the Office
of the Secretary of State by the Omaha,
Garden City & Southwestern Railway
Company; capital stock, 50, 2e0, 600. The
road is to be constructed from point
on the north line of Kansas, in Smith or
Jewell County, running thence south
west through the counties of Osborn.
Rocks. Graham. Trego, Grove, Lane,
Scott, Garfield, Enney, Grant, Stanton,
Stevens and Morton, terminating at
some point on the west or south line of
the State, a distance of about 200 miles.
The business of the company will be
transacted in Garden City and New
York City. m
DAVID LIMP, formerly of company I,
Forty-sixth New York Infantry, has
been dishonorably discharged from the
soldiers home at Leavenworth on the
ground of having received 81, 600 arrears
of pension and never having given any
to the support of his wife, she being a
worthy woman and dependent upon him,
and for his persistent refusal to send
her any portion of his monthly pension.
THE twelve-year-old son of George C.
Allen, of Atchison, was recently leading
a calf to water when he tied the rope
around his body. The calf ran away
and dragged the boy over the rough
ground until it was thought he was ia
tally injured.
THE grand lodge A. o. q. W.. recently
in session at Wichita, elected the fol-
lowing officers: Grand master work
man, r. NJ Emery, Seneca; grand fore
man, d. S: Sossell, Belleville; grand
overseer, DIR. A. w. Mckinney, Hutchin-
son; grand recorder, E. M. Forde, En-
poria, (re-elected); grand receiver, T. o.
Beck, Topeka; grand guide, d. j. Rob
erts, Usage City; grand Waterman, S. D.
Hallowell. Wichita; grand trustee, E. P.
Young, Winfield; grand medical direc-
tor, Frank Swallow, NJ. d., Valley Falls;
supreme representatives, Hon. A. P.
Riddle, of Minneapolis; j. E. Riggs, of
Lawrence, and Hon j. NJ. Miller, Of
Council Grove.
In the United States Court at Topeka
Judge Foster recently decided case
which involves the title to about 500 of
the most valuable lots in Arkansas City.
Thirteen years ago these lots were given
away because they were about to be sold
for taxes, but the property is now val
ued at over $4,000 Subsequently
suit was brought to recover the prop
erty. Judge foster holds that the sale
was legal and must stand.
The report made to the grand lodge
A. o. U. W., recently in session at Wich-
itA, showed that 2, 5fs applications had
been made for membership during the
past grand lodge year. OF this number
236 were rejected by the grand medical
director. Ninety-three deaths occurred
during the year, necessitating the pay
ment of $1s6, 600 from the beneficiary
fund of the order. The Kansas lodges
contributed S6,618 to the fund for the
relief of the Johnstown sufferers. All
reports showed the order to be in a
healthy and growing condition.
IT is related of Shawnee County
farmer that he sold steer to Topeka
butcher and agreed to take one-fourth
of it when slaughtered in part payment.
The butcher charged him selling prices
for the beef and when they came to set
tie the farmer owed the butcher bal
ance of 81. 80.
AN important Jail delivery was averted
at Wichita the other day through the in
formation of prisoner. Two burglars
and two Territory murderers, Gagged to-
gether, had been furnished with drills
and saws by outside friends, and the
prisoner in the cell below heard them at
work at night and next day informed
the jaller. The prisoners had made
good progress and another nights work
would have enabled them to get away
had the prisoner below not informed on
them.
CITIZENS of Emporia were induced to
subscribe bonus of $40. 900 to get the
Duvall iron works of GAINESVILLE, O.,
to locate their plant at that place, on
the representation that it was worth
800, 900, but aninvestigation showed the
works to be old and worn out, therefore
the bonus was withdrawn.
THE sugar mill bonds at Syracuse
were defeated.
j. c. PICKENs, the keeper of an intel
igence Office at Topeka, has disap-
peared, leaving wife and eight chill
dren in poor circumstances.
ASHER L. COIN, one of the oldest resi-
dents of Douglas County, with his wife
and daughter attended a reception at
Lawrence the other evening, and he went
home in advance to make fire. When
the wife and daughter reached home
they found him kneeling before the
stove dead. He had gotten every thing
in fo c<or ~ %ho