Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-12-10
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

delegates to the river convention to be
held at Kansas City, Mo. December Is
and 16.
The superintendent of insurance is
bringing q number of insurance COM
panies to time that have heretofore
failed to comply with the insurance
law.
In the United States district court at
Topeka Judge Philips sentenced
Charles Rowe to the penitentiary for
two years for perpetrating a fraud
in securing pension
Two boys while recently hunting
near Emporia discovered the skeleton
of human being lying by valise.
They were so frightened that they ran
away and left it for others to investi-
gate
Fire at Usage City recently destroyed
Stackhouse & Cobb's livery barn, eight
cen head of horses and many carriages
Loss Sc, 600, insurance 81. 600 A num-
Der of other business houses also
burned.
Clara Hawley. a young woman en-
p1oyed at the Byram hotel in Atchison,
was run over and killed by a Missouri
Pacific switch engine while walking on
the track at crossing in that city the
other afternoon. She was nineteen
years old.
Quo warranto proceedings have been
instituted by Attorney-General Ives in
the state supreme court which may
lead to the disorganization of Kansas
City, Kan, and its return to the old
corporations of Wyaddotte. Armour
dale and Kansas City. Armourdale Is
seeking the divorce.
Dr. d. W. Hamlin, of Kansas City,
Kan, was arrested the other night on
complaint of his mother-in-law, who
charged him with abducting his wife
and child. DR.. Hamlin was married
about two years ago to a Leavenworth
young woman, and recently decided her
his property, as he was involved fnan-
cially. The matter was adjusted.
The board of managers of the worlds
fair has found it Necessary to incorpo-
rate. The member from each congress
sional district will organize his terri
tory to work supplementary to the
state board, and especially to take care
of the county organization, which has
assumed great proportion. Indication
of fitting Kansas exhibit at Chicago
could not be better.
Three judgments were recently
allowed in the United States court at
Topeka against the county commission
ers of Doniphan county on the coupons
of the old bonds issued in aid of the
st. Joseph & Western railway twenty
years ago. The awards were to the
following persons in the amount
named: Richard s. Dow, Sc, 1859. 81;
James Thompson, So. 768. "a, and Ed
ward Bingham, S.. 62L 33.
Inthe United States district court at
Topeka the other morning Michael
Willard pleaded guilty to robbing the
post office at Armourdale and was
| sentenced to one years imprisonment
The robbery was committed on the
night of December q. 1890. Willard Sc
cured postage stamps to the amount of
$500. A man who assisted him in
spending the proceeds from the sale of
the stamps gave the information which
led to Wizards arrest
A letter lately received at Atchison
stated that Bernard Schmitz, a prosper
Gus farmer of that county, who went
back to Germany two months ago to
| visit his old home after an absence of
| twenty-three years, was arrested as a
deserter from the German army, and
| is now serving as soldier. Schmitz's
| family will take immediate steps to-
ward securing his release. They say
| that he became a citizen of the United
States nearly twenty years ago
Oscar Gordon, said to be from New
| York, was recently arrested at Wichita
| having on his person about 1000 in
counterfeit greenbacks, besides large
| amount of good money. evidently taken
| in exchange for queer, as number OF
| merchants took in bad notes the day
before. He was lodged in the city
prison for several hours and when the
officers went for the purpose of trans
ferring him to the county Jail he was
missing. having evidently been re.
| leased by confederates on the outside.
| The Kansas sanitary convention. un-
der the auspices of the state board OF
health, recently held a two days ses-
sion at Salina- Chancellor Snow de-
1ivered an address, explaining in detail
the work he is accomplishing on the
chinch bugs He is preparing his first
| annual report from the chinch bug ex-
pertinent station and in it he will pub
lish nearly 1000 reports from farmers
| who have used the exterminator, and
800 of them are highly favorable. The
farmers have each estimated the value
of the grain saved by Prof. Shows ex.
pertinent and he says the total esti
mate, at a low figure, is 5000. 00o
The other day a daring robbery, &C
companied by an attempt to kill. was
| perpetrated by two unknown men at
the residence of w. w. Thompson. a
wealthy farmer living just outside the
! city limits of Wichita. Mrs Thomp-
son and her little daughter were alone
in the house when the two thieves en-
tered and drew revolvers One re.
marked that they would have to tie
Mrs. Thompson and started towards
her with a rope, whereupon she fled
towards the door, but was stopped by
bullet which passed through he1
| dress and grazed the skin of her shout.
der. The murderous villains then
bound and gagged her and went
through the house, securing $500 in
cash and lot of trinkets and silver
| ware.
| Charles Calvert, of Muscotah. Atch.
ison county. was shot through the right
temple and instantly killed at Emporia
the other evening by David L. Stanley,
of Colbert Lincoln county. Both were
students in the state normal school.