Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-10-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Inc post once at WIDER was rOOOe0
the other night of $50 in money and
stamps Wilder is on the Santa Fe
road about twenty miles west OF Kan
sas City.
The grand lodge L o. O. F. met at
Hutchinson on the 18th with q large
attendance. When the procession moved
more than LOCO Odd Fellows were in
line. while the Daughters of Rebekah
followed in carriages.
The keystone iron works at Kansas
City, Kan, were recently closed down
by attachments, the largest being .
Pittsburgh. Pa, for over $66, 600. A
large number of men were thrown out
of work.
Leavenworth society circles were
considerably worked up the other day
by the fling of a petition for divorce
by Mrs Halderman against her hus-
band, Judge ]. A. Halderman. formerly
minister to Siam. Mrs. Halderman and
her daughter have just started on trip
to Paris and Judge Halderman is re-
ported to be travelling on the Continent
At Fort Scott the other afternoon
Smith Barker and his brother Sam got
into an alteration with their brother
in-law, Mark Scott, of Carthage, Mo-,
when one of the Barker boys threw =
stone, striking Scott on the head,
smashing in his skull and killing him
almost instantly. All the parties are
colored. The Barker boys fed and have
not been captured
The supreme court has decided that
the eight-hour law enacted by the last
legislature does not apply to the officers
and employees of state institutions Had
the law been decided to apply to state
institutions it would have been neces-
sary to call an extra session of the
legislature, as enough additional en-
ployes would be required to have made
increased appropriations imperative
At the recent meeting of the grand
lodge L o. O. F. at Hutchinson officers
were elected as follows: Grand master,
DIR. M. B. Ward, of Topeka; deputy
grand master, 81. w. Pond, of Fort
Scott; grand warden, w. B. Patterson,
of Muscotah; grand secretary, John A.
Bright, of Abilene; grand treasurer, l.
c. Slime, of Ottawa; grand representa-
tive to the sovereign grand lodge, A. L.
Voorhis.
J. d. Brown, pension attorney, was
recently tried in the United States
court at Leavenworth upon the charge
of demanding excessive fees and found
guilty by the Jury. Sentence was de-
ferred. The evidence showed that in
one case he received from a widow the
regular $40 allowed by law and after
wards present" of $110 when she re-
ceived her money, which Judge Philips
instructed the jury was a violation Of
the pension laws.
The Baptist state convention, lately
in session at Atchison, elected the fol-
lowing officers: President Rev. R. w.
Atkinson, of Ottawa; vice-president,
DIR. L. j. Warren, of Clay Center; Sec
rotary, L. H. Holt, of Emporia; treas
urer, j. R. Mulvane, of Topeka The
following new members were elected
on the board of trustees of Ottawa uni
versity: M. S. Smalley, of Hiawatha;
Rev. L. R Crawford, of Ottawa; Rev.
T. B. Thomas, of Topeka, and B. P.
Waggener, of Atchison.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of the district court in the
Spendlove murder case and the defend
ant will be compelled to serve his sem
tence of sixteen years in the peniten-
tiary. In 1889 Joseph C. Spendlove
shot and killed Gustave Warner at To-
peka- He was tried, found guilty and
sentenced to twenty-one years inn
prisonment An appeal was taken to
the supreme court and a new trial
granted. He was again found guilty
and given sixteen years and again aP-
pealed.
About eleven o'clock the other morn
ing the dead body of Herbert o. Wild
enor, collector for the Wyandotte Coal
Co., was found in the road north OF
II l.
to collect few bills from people who
lived in the country. was riding in a
buggy and carried his breech loading
shotgun with him. In some unknown
manner the gun was discharged, the
load entering the victims body just
below the heart, producing instant
death. He was twenty-three years old
and married.
Judge L. D. Bailey died at Lawrence
on the 18th at the age of seventy-three
years. He came to Kansas in 1857 from
New Hampshire and located at Law
renee. He was elected one of the
| judges of the supreme court at the first
election under the state constitution in
1860, together with Judge S. A. King
man and Thomas Ewing, and his death
| makes the first break in that historic
| judicial trio. For a number of years
past he resided at Garden City. He
leaves wife, but no children. Judge
Bailey has been a noted character in
Kansas history, and his death removes
another of the landmarks of pioneer
days
The democratic state central COM
mittee met at Topeka on the 10th. A
resolution was passed indorsing the
action of Chairman Jones and express
ing confidence in his judgment in re-
gard to the conduct of the fall cam
paign, and a resolution was also adopt
| ed that the committee deem it unwise
| and inexpedient to interfere with local
| politics of the different counties in the
state, trusting that their own good
judgment, together with their knowl-
| edge of the political situation in their
| own counties, will lead them to do
nothing which will eventually prove
detrimental to the interests OF the
democratic party of Kansas
c. O. McCaskill, mail agent on the
central branch of the Missouri Pacific,
| was lately arrested at Atchison charged
with tarnpering with the mails He
denies any guilt and says nothing can