Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-09-11
KANSAS STATE. NEWS.


Not = bad showing.
IN answer to inquiries addressed to
county clerks as to the number of
farm mortgages foreclosed in Kansas
during the first six months of the
year 1890, statements have been re-
ceived at Topeka from forty-three 4
counties. giving the number of fore
closures on farm property as follows:
Brown, IS; Meade sas Clay, %; Lane,
Is; Decatur. %; Montgomery, 81; Nor
ton, S5; Coffey, %; Nemaha, s; Dickin-
son. %; Chautauqua, 20; Woodson. 10;
Ford, a; Butler. 50; Morris. SO; Wichita,
so; Riley, 8; Mitchell 81; Marion, IS;
Rocks, 4S; Anderson, Is; Wsbaunsee, %;
Lyon, II; Saline. 81; Wallace. 1; Barton,
81; Rush, Is; Scott. 20; Wilson, 10; Leav-
enworth. 6; Jackson, 8; Miami, 8; Usage.
81; Phillips, "a; Cheyenne, 81; Neosho.
Is; Garfield, SO; Sheridan. II; Pottawa-
tonne, IL; Republic, 16; Shawnee, 2.
Atchison and Wyandotte Counties re-
port no foreclosures on farm property,
but number on city lots. the result of
the boom three years ago The total
foreclosures on farms in forty-three
counties amount to 1, III, an average of
twenty-six to each county. If the other
sixty-three counties make the same av-
erage exhibit the number of foreclos-
ures in Kansas during the first six
months of the present year will amount
to about 2 $50. The county clerks state
that the number of mortgages paid off
and released amounts to ten times the
lumber of foreclosures
Miscellaneous.
A n. MARTIN, brother of the late
Governor Martin, was stricken with ap-
oplexy while at the supper table at
his home in Atchison the other evening.
He was in critical condition.
: JOHN SINK, farmer living eight
miles north of Salina, recently attempt
ed to kill his wife and then shoot him
self. He fired two shots at her and
missed her. but she having fallen on
the floor he thought she was killed,
when he shot and killed himself. A
family quarrel was the cause.
THE complaint which was presented
to the State Board of Railroad Commits
sioners by the farmers concerning grain
rates to Missouri river points has been
formulated and sent to the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
FRANK FLETCHER a co1ored boy thir-
teen years old. while recently crossing
the Union Pacific tracks at Lawrence,
was instantly killed by the cars.
ANDY Bowen, ten years old, was re-
Gently killed by freight train at Mer-
Ram Park. His father worked at the
park and the little fellow had boarded
freight train at Kansas City. it was
presumed to go and see his father, and
in trying to get off fell under the train
and was killed.
Mrs. MAGGIE CALHOUN, of Wichita
tried to commit suicide the other day
by drinking extract of cactus. The
doctors saved her.
CHARLES FELL, ga good, kind-hearted
Irishman" about thirty years old. and
employed at Eudora, recently filled up
too heavily with a compound known as
hard cider" and becoming boisterous
was locked up in the city Jail. When
the marshal went to the calabooSe next
morning Fell was dead.
THE canning factory at Emporia has
already canned this season over 90, 900
cans of peaches, 10000 cans of apples,
and Is, 900 cans of tomatoes.
AT recent dance given to celebrate
the opening of new hotel near the
stock yards at Wichita, two men named
McMahan and Schilling quarreled over
a girl. The latter drew pistol and
shot McMahan through the stomach,
wounding him dangerously. Schilling
was arrested.
PARK s. WARREN, editor of the Min
neapolis Democrat has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the
Fifth district ..t
j A. COFFEE, farmer, drove his
wagon over bluff overlooking the river
near Atchison at nine o'clock the other
night and, together with his outfit, was
precipitated distance of fifty feet He
will die.
PENSIONS granted Kansas veterans on
the 4th: Original, Frank Sloan. Win
field; Wilson Boughton, Phillipsburg;
Casper Friedli, Elmo; Alex Mcfarland,
Pleasanton. Increase. Edward D.
Haynes, West Plains Reissue. William
H Cook, hatfield Green: William Eros
SOW, Wood bine; John Hall, Wichita.
Reissue and increase, Alexander Trott,
Kansas City. Original, widows, etc,
Minors of George s. Marsh. Toronto.
CAROLINE JOHNSON, colored, left her
home at Atchison some days ago to visit
friends in Kansas City, leaving Jesse
Johnson. her husband. seventy years
old, who was sick and rheumatic, alone
in their hut Several days after the
neighbors missed the old man and po-
liceman who investigated the case found
him in dying condition from neglect
and starvation. He had had nothing to
eat or drink for several days.
JUDGE GLENN, one of the most prom
inent citizens of Atchison, died of con-
gestive chill the other morning. Judge
Glenn was former law partner of Judge
Foster.
JAMES c. FREEBoRN, an inmate of the
city hospital at Wichita, removed a
bandage from his head the other day,
while the attendant was sleeping, and
bled to death within an hour. He had
suffered fracture of the skull some
weeks ago near Guthrie and was recov-
ering rapidly.
An executive order has been issued
by the President to al1ot Pottawatomie
and Kickapoo Indian lands in Kansas
as soon as an allotting agent can be ap-
pointed.
SOME boys attempted to steal water
melons from R. Sparks patch near
Girard the other night when he saw