The Globe-republican., 1891-04-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

". W. Curdy, the Topeka dry goods
merchant who recently failed, has set
tied with his creditors and resumed
; business.
; Reports from Western Kansas on the
26th stated that in some localities snow
, was two feet deep ON a level, and had
drifted to eight feet in many places.
Stock was suffering.
The executive council on the 25th
elected w. NJ. Mitchell, of Newton, a
conductor on the Santa Fe, railroad
commissioner in place of Judge
Humphrey, whose term expired April
The case of the United States against
j. c. Adams for the murder of Capt
William L. Couch, of Oklahoma fame,
occupied the attention of the United
States court for three days, at Wichita,
and the jury returned verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree.
Ben Grant, the negro who recently
murdered his white wife at Topeka,
was traced to Pueblo, Col. When off,
GERS went to the ca bin where Grant had
taken refuge, he fed and when pur-
sued drew a pistol and shot himself
dead.
The beet sugar industry is being
worked up in central Kansas by DR..
Sweitwiler, of Germany, who is arrang-
ing for five hundred experimental tests
in different counties with foreign seed.
He says that German syndicate with
capital of ten million dollars will put
in factories if the tests prove satisfac-
tory.
Gov. Humphrey has offered reward
of $500 for the arrest and conviction Of
Thomas Duncan, of Cheyenne county,
on the night of March 16. Duncan had
been accused of stealing grain in the
neighborhood. A masked mob visited
his house and, calling him to the front
door. riddled him with bullets.
In the United States court at Wichita
the jury in the case of j. A. Hawley
and wife and E. D. Beiden, charged
with the murder of Charles Grant, a
young Canadian, near Edmond, Ok,
last summer, brought in verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree
against the boy, Belden, and discharged
the Hawleys by instruction of the
court. Grant was murdered, presum-
ably, to secure his claim.
S. NJ. Garrett, an attorney of Kansas
City, Kan, was found in his office the
other day, a raving maniac. He was
very poor. He had no money to buy
food and was too proud to beg. Hunger
had driven him mad. He was arrested
and an inquiry into his sanity insti-
tutcd. He had a fine library in his Of
flee, and led the life of recluse, porting
over his books and paying but little at
tention to that part of his profession
that furnished bread and butter.
The county clerk, county treasurer
and two of the county commissioners
OF Comanche county have been arrested
upon information filed by the county
attorney, charging them with malfeas-
ance in Office. 1t is said that several of
the heaviest taxpayers in the county
have retained lawyers to institute civil
suits against the same officials for the
recovery of money alleged to have been
illegally withheld from the county.
DR.. Going, state veterinarian, recent
ly drew Sc, 100 from the state treasury.
The legislature two years ago conclud-
ed that the services of a veterinarian
could be dispensed with and failed to
make an appropriation to pay the sal
ary and other expenses but did not
abolish the Office. DR.. Going continued
to hold on and take his chances of being
paid and came out successful, as the
late legislature made the necessary APP
preparation.
A young Topeka woman by the name
of Chilson, wishing to get rid of her
illegitimate child eight or ten weeks
old, gave it to her brother to dispose of,
who drove some fifteen or twenty miles
into the country and threw it into the
hog pen of farmer. The farmer was
aroused in the night by the crying of
the infant and found it nearly frozen to
death. The hogs, with more humanity
than the mother. had not harmed the
babe, and the farmer turned it over to
the officers who found the mother. The
brother found it convenient to disap-
pear.
Chicken thieves for some time past
had been committing such depredations
in the vicinity of Rosedale that farmers
found it impossible to protect their
poultry, even by locking the doors of
their coops. The other night, however,
thief came to sudden grief. S. S.
Hogue. a farmer, set trap in his hen
cry in the shape of a loaded shotgun. so
arranged that it would be discharged
by any one entering the door in the
night. The next morning an unknown
dead man was found in the doorway Of
the coop. He had broken in and been
shot by his own thievish act.
The railroad commissioners have
made their first tour of examination
in the ten Kansas counties for which
money was appropriated to purchase
seed grain. 1t is estimated that 10000
bushels of spring seed wheat will sup
ply those who stand in the most urgent
need. There were $40 applications for
aid to Judge Humphrey. After an ex-
animation he found only twenty who
were in need of aid from the state.