Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-04-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


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Farmers Alliance, recently in session al
Topeka adopted = resolution that as
| the largest manufacturing establishment
in the State, the smelling works at Ar
gentine, exists mainly through ores i'm
ported from Mexico, and as rulings had
recently been made embarrassing the
importation of this ore, resulting in q
retaliatory tax by Mexico upon our ex.
ports, Congress is therefore petitioned
not to place tariff on this ore, and that
capital invested in this direction be in
good faith protected by not disturbing
the conditions under which these indus.
tries sprung up. Congress is earnestly
petitioned for such reciprocal rela-
tons with Mexico as will admit
our products into that country free OF
duty. The committee on resolutions
presented report, which was adopted
by vote of 43 to 10, demanding legis-
lative enactment apportionlng the
shrinkage of farm values that are I'M
der mortgage obligations by reason
of contraction Of circulating me-
dunn or other unjust legisla-
ton between the mortgagor and
mortgage in proportion to their re-
spective interests at time mortgage was
drawn; demanding the election of Unit
ed States Senators by the people; de-
handing the election of Railroad Com
missioners by the direct vote of the
people, and that they be given plenary
powers to regulate rates as is now the
law in Iowa; demanding the submission
of constitutional amendment allow
ing the Legislature to exempt home
steads from taxation, and that a cumu-
lative system of taxation be levied on
lands held for speculative purposes by
non-residents, aliens or corporations in
proportion to increase of valuation; that
the taxes paid by railroads built by the
aid of county bonds shall be part of the
county school fund; that s'notwithstand-
ing the fact that John j. Ingalls, has
represented Kansas for eighteen years
in the Senate, it is difficult matter for
his constituents to point to a single
measure he has ever champiohed in the
interests of the great agricultural and
laboring element of Kansas, and that
we will not support by our votes or in
f1uence any candidate for the Legisla-
ture who favors his reelection to the
United States Senate"
Miscellaneous.
The farm house of Jerry Glathart,
about two miles from Lawrence, was de-
stroyed by fire the other night The
loss was about 81, 600, on which there
was $500 insurance.
Hon. E. N. MORRILL,, member of Con-
gress from the First district has been
appointed to the position on the board
of directors of the the National Soldiers
Homes made vacant by the death of the
late Governor Martin.
w. j. Roth, who while at work on the
capitol building at Topeka some mont tbs
ago fell to the basement and was per-
manently disabled, has sued George 81.
Evans & Co., the contractors, for $40, 600
damages
THE farmers of Scott County have Or
gained a branch of the Farmers Al
lance.
A CALL has been issued for the annual
meeting of the Kansas State Volunteer
Firemen's Association, to be held in
Hutchinson Tuesday, May ID.
Two boys the other day found the
mutilated remains of woman about
Leavenworth. The body had been
quartered with a knife and disem-
bowled, and there were also several
The body was supposed to be that of
Mrs. Mettman, who disappeared few
days before, and she was thought to
have been murdered and robbed and cut
up with the view to throwing the pieces
in the river.
THE west-bound passenger train on the
Union Pacific railroad was ditched
the other morning at Terra Gotta
Springs junction, about five miles
west of Brookville. A broken rail
was the cause. An engine, five
passenger coaches and one sleeper
were thrown down a small embankment
The coaches were badly broken and
about a dozen passengers bruised, but
no one was killed.
FULLY 5000 people attended the G. A.
R. camp fire at Concordia on the gath,
the occasion being reception rendered
Commander-in-Chief Russell a. Alger.
The city was gaily decorated. A great
procession was one of the features of
the occasion.
Tom MURPHY, who broke into r. P.
Murdock's residence at Wichita some
weeks since. was recently tried and sem
fenced to the peniten tiary for twenty
six years. Wright and Lebrandt who
were with him were each given twenty
four years.
BURGLARS recently entered the Union
Pacific Depot at Bennington and blew
off the outside. door of the safe, but got
nothing.
THE department commander of the G.
A. r. has appointed T. ]. Anderson,
Lyman U. Humphrey. Ben. Pagan, Eu-
gene F. Ware, George Trout, E. C. Culp
and B. c. Cook committee to secure
the National Encampment of 1892 at
Topeka.
THE other morning the house occupied
by L. B. Root, at Medicine Lodge, burned,
and three children aged six, four and
two years were cremated. The father
was away from home and the mother
was milking when the house caught fire.
The mother was severely burned in try
ing to rescue the children.
The Kansas City. Wyandotte & North
western road has been placed in the
hands of a receiver.
A LATE prairie fire fifteen miles forth
east of Wichita covered eight miles
square and burned ten dwelling houses
with outbuildings. The loss of property
was placed at 500. 600.
WILLIAM CARPENTER farp,or 1iv