Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-02-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS

L. Anthony, j. u. MOhIer and NJ. w.
Sutton. p. B. Gerow, George Trout, d.
G. Bliss, G. A. Stanley, E. B. Parke, A. B.
Arment, E. T. Sprague, j. Ri. Howe. E.
M. Park, E. g. Putnam, Lewis Hanback,,
III. d. Shaffer, w. r. Hopkins and A. w.
Hoyt, district delegates.
The Sons of Veterans elected the fol-
| lowing officers: Colonel, C. d. Jones, of
| Norton; Lieutenant-Colonel, f. A. Ag-
! new, of Newton; Major, E. D. Form
| ley, of Cottonwood Falls.
The following were elected officers of
the Woman's Relief Corps: President,
Mrs. j. C. Junckerman, of Wichita; sem
| Tor vice, Mrs. 81. S. Culber, of Topeka;
| junior vice, Mrs. M. S. Crowley, CT Sa-
| lima; treasurer, Mrs. E. NJ. Wharring, of
Topeka; chaplain, Mrs. f. M. Shields,
of Mcpherson.
Miscellaneous.
THE pupils of the public schools of
the State generally celebrated the
twenty-ninth birthday of Kansas on
January 90.
GEORGE UMMETHUN, ex-mayor of Leav-
enworth, died the other day from pneu-
monia as a result of an attack of la
grippe. He was fifty -four years old.
A LATE fire at EN- poria did damage to
and fixtures of the drug store of J. NJ.
TObie were destroyed.
REPORTS received by the State Board
of Agriculture show that many farmers
in Western Kansas are taking advantage
of the bounty offered by the county COM
| missioners, under the act of the Legisla-
ture in relation to the planting and
growing of trees. The maximum bounty
is $40 per acre for trees planted this
year and cultivated for five years, the
trees to be ten feet apart each way, and
| to be kept in thrifty, growing condition
for five years. The provisions under
| which the bounty is offered do not apply
| to lands held as timber culture entries
under the laws of the United States.
THE preliminary hearing of Riley
| County's ex-treasurer, James M. Fort
ner, was held recently at Manhattan,
| and Fortner held for the embezzlement
| of 49,, 900, and also the improper use of
| public money as county treasurer, to the
| May term of the district court. His
| bond was fixed at Sc, 600 on the charge Of
| ENFORCEMENT and 81, 900 ON the charge
| of improper use of public money while
treasurer.
LATE the other night fire broke out in
| the buildings of the Kansas City Pack
| ing Company on the banks of the Kaw,
in Armourdale, raging furiOusly for two
| or three hours. The damage amounted
to over 100000, fully insured. The
property was sold week before to Bos-
ton capitalists, who had made prepare
| tions to greatly extend the works.
| THE Governor has appointed Major
| William Sims Treasurer of the State to
succeed James w. Hamilton, who re-
/ signed several days ago. Major Sims
was for many years secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture and is we'll
known throughout the State. He is "a
| prominent farmer and is at the head of
the State Grange.
| LAAPHERE & Co.'s box factory at
Atchison was totally destroyed by fire
| the other night. The loss was $15, 900.
E. N. GARDLEY, well-to-do grocery
keeper of Leavenworth, recently met
with a singular and probably fatal acct
dent. He was engaged in taking some.
| barrels of salt into a cellar under his
store, when he lost control of one of
them and it passed over his body, ter
ribly crushing it.
GEORGE BLACK, very strong man, re-
Gently became suddenly insane at Wich-
tia, and bouncing upon his brother-in-
law. w. Crosby, beat him with club
| most horribly. He then turned upon
his sister and seriously injured her.
When officers arrived he had locked
himself in a room and threatened to
shoot any one approaching him. He
was finally secured.
AN application for the appointment of
q receiver of the Topeka Rapid Transit
Railway and suit for foreclosure of a
mortgage was recently fled in the United
States Circuit Court at Topeka by the
Thompson Houston Electric Company,
of Boston.
In Central Kansas winter wheat is re-
ported to be looking better than it ever
did at this season of the year. very
large acreage was sown. Prominent
farmers predict the largest crop the COM
ing harvest ever known.
A COMPANY with a capital of $50, 900
has been organized at Winfield for the
manufacture of cement.
ATroRNEY-GENERAL KELLOGG recent
ly addressed a letter to the Governor in
reply to the question whether the sale
of lottery tickets in Kansas was legal,
saying that the organic law of The State
forbids the sale of lottery tickets, but
that the law was practically dead let
ter, because the statutes attached no
penalty to the offense. He said further
that the proprietors of newspapers
which printed lottery advertisements
might be punished under the law by a
fine of not less than $50 nor more than
81, 900 or imprisonment for not less than
thirty days or more than six months, or
by both such fine and imprisonment.
THE sugar company at Medicine Lodge
is experimenting with ''thirds" with
good results. The output for the first
; season will reach $4,000 pounds OF
} sugar. Beet seed have been ordered
} from Germany, and the adaptability OF
the German beet for this country will
be thoroughly tested.
Il w. ID. MURPHY was recently shot and
killed at Coldwater by j. E. Stratum, a
] druggist A woman was the cause OF the
| trouble between the two men. Lombart
, way1aid his victim and shot him several
1 times.
Il ArcmsoS is again agitating the sub
, iect of the building of the Missouri Pa
cific shops at that place.