Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


struck by train at = crossing the other
night and knocked forty feet and badly
demoralized. Two passengers, John
Rood and Mrs. Coleman, were reported
to be fatally injured
THB other day Dewitt and William
Mcdowell. prominent butchers and
stock dealers of Arkansas City, were ar
rested charged with getting away with
| 81, 900 worth of cattle Some time ago
Beach & Fagin, cattlemen, located in
the Territory, mortgaged their cattle to
| the Arkansas City Bank. The Mellow
ellis are charged with buying the cattle.
smuggling them past the inspector and
selling them to Kansas City dealers.
! Warrants were issued for the arrest of
Beach & Fagin.
| THE elevator and mills of Thayer &
Gilmore. at lola, burned the other night
About 6, 600 pounds of flour and several
hundred bushels of wheat and corn were
destroyed. The loss was probably
| $40, 600; insurance. 81. 600.
THE Supreme Court has refused to
| grant the writ of mandamus applied for
by c. E. Lobdell, who demanded a certif-
icate of election for Representative
from Lane County. Lobdell based his
claim on a provision of the Constitution
which gives each organized county in
the State casting $50 votes represen-
tative in the Legislature. If Lobdell
had been admitted seventeen others
| elected as delegates would have been
entitled to the same privilege
WILLIAM MORSE, aged about 20 years,
was found dead in an ice house at Law
renee the other morning. His skull
was crushed and he had evidently been
murdered for his money. He was from
Iowa and had been visiting son at
Linwood, eight miles east of Lawrence,
| who stated that his father was known
! to have about $35 in his pocket The
| general belief in Lawrence seemed to
be that the old man was murdered by a
crowd of negroes similar to the old
Vinegar gang" three of whom were
hanged by a mob on the Kansas river
was committed in the same locality.
THE annual convention of the Episco-
pal Church for the diocese of Kansas
was recently held at Topeka The an
nual address of Bishop Thomas showed
a healthy growth of the church for the
past five years. In 1886 there were in
the diocese i36 confirmations 80 clergy
men, 2,219 communicates, with offer.
he showed that there were 1873 confrma-
tiOns, 3, 500 communicates and offerings
to the amount of Sc, 400
JOHN N. IVES, AttorneyG enera1-elect,
is reported as saying that the action of
the State Board of Canvassers in declar-
ing Rood elected to the Legislature
from Marion County over Maxwell by
lot, to settle tie vote, does not finally
| of hn hn n of
vassers,'' said he, sis not authorized to
gamble any man into Office. The Con-
stitution plainly says that the candi.
date receiving the most votes shall be
declared elected. It makes no provision
for the emergency of tie vote except
| in the case of Governor and Lieutenant
Governor, when it delegates authority
to the Legislature to elect these officers.
AS the Legislature has no auth GRITTY to
elect a Representative in case of a tie
of two or more candidates, it has no
right to delegate that authority to the
Board of Canvassers" Mr.. Ives holds
that while the Legislature may recog'
nize Foods certificate, still it has the
right to declare a vacancy and notify
the Governor to call special election
to fill it.
JOHN BALDWIN. Wichita negro. re-
Gently had fight with smaller mar
than himself and got whipped. He then
went to his room and shot himself dead.
He left note stating that he did moi
wish to live when "a smaller Niger
could whip him.
MRS o. S. DACEY recently went into
a gambling den at Wichita and de-
manded the return of $500 that her hus
band had just lost at a game, and when
it was refused drew revolver and com
menced firing at the keeper of the
house. who soon came to terms and
handed her the money.
THE American National Bank of Ar
kansas City has failed
NJ. DEEGAN, an iron worker employed
upon the dome of the State House al
Topeka, stepped upon loose plank al
the summit of the dome the Other
morning and fell a distance of 100 feet
He was killed instantly. Deegan is the
from the dome.
A BILL has been introduced into the
Senate of the United States making ar
appropriation for the purchase and dis
tribution of seed to farmers in Kansas
who suffered loss by drought the pas
year.
Mrs. II. L SHERWOOD. wife of travel
ing ian of Rochester. N. Y, fell down the
elevator shaft of hotel at Arkansas City
the other night and was probably fatal.
ly injured.
JACOB MCKNIGHT, of Hutchinson, ha:
been appointed examiner of National
banks by the Comptroller of the Cur
rency.
COLONEL NETTLEToN and Prof. Hay
of the Agricultural Department at
Washington were recently at Hutchin-
son making Investigations of the sheet
water supply underlying the surface of
Western Kansas with view to utiliZa
ton for irrigation purposes.
An old veteran from the Soldiers
Home was recently found dead at the
House of notorious woman of the
town in Leavenworth. An empty whisky
bottle was found by his side, and the in
dication were that liquor caused hi
death.
Two boys. w. W. Davis and Franz
Boo, recently attended a turkey shoot.
ing near Chanute and had a dispute abou
a turkey. The next morning they me-