Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-01-01
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The twentieth annual meeting of the
State Board OF Agriculture con-
venes in Topeka on Wednesday, Janu-
ary IA, at o'clock, and will continue in
session three days. DR.. Paul Paquin,
State Veterinarian of Missouri, will be
present and address the meeting on
"black leg.r "Hog cholera will also
be discussed. Chancellor F. III. Snow,
of the State University, will give full
report of the results of his experiments
for the determination of chinch bugs.
Other prominent persons will also take
part in the proceedings. In connection
with the annual meeting of the board,
the improved stock breeders of Kansas
are called to meet on the same day.
The object of this meeting is to organ
ize a Kansas Improved Stockholders
Association. Reduced rates will be
given by the railroads.
The report of the warden of the peni-
itentiary shows that the output of the
coal mine for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1889, was 1, 733, oil bushels, and for
the year ended June 80, 1890, it was
1,672, $40 bushels. The mine is in excel
lent condition, is supplied with an
abundance Of pure air and no care or
expense is spared to provide against ac-
cident. There has been no accident in
the mine mourning loss of life or limb
in the past two years, and but one life
has been lost by accident in the opening
and operating of the mine during its en-
tire history: and that one was the result
of carelessness and disobedience of or
ders by the victim of the accident.
A decision by the Railroad Commits
SiOnafS oOvorinr MANY inf
recently rendered. Although this de-
cision pertains to a certain complaint
against the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis railway for refusing coal ship
ments, the ruling covers shipments of
wheat, corn, cattle, lumber and all car
load freights on any and every road in
the State. The principle is broad one,
the board holding that railroads must
supply cars when they have them with
out the slightest discrimination. The
acts of railroad company which might
possibly ruin person or firms business
will not be tolerated.
Mrs. Bertha Mayse, wife of John E.
Mayse, committed suicide at Topeka the
other day by taking ''Rough on Rats"
She was 10 years old and had been mar
ried only nine weeks. She had told Mr.
w
before she married him that she should
some time take poison. She never en-
tirely recovered from a fall received in
her ninth year, which injured her head.
When her husband left for his work the
young wife patted him on the cheek and
told him he ''would not find his pet
when he returned" During his absence
she took the poison.
TIo n e -
soldiers home at Dodge City has
been submitted to Governor Humphrey.
The home now contains 200 inmates,
and there are a large number of ap-
proved applications for admission, but
the applicants can not be taken in for
lack of funds. An appropriation of
$40, 300 is asked for the year ending June
so, 1891, for buildings, salaries of en-
ployes, subsistence of inmates, etc, and
for the year ending June 80, 1892, an ap-
preparation of 81, 200 is asked, and for
the deficiency of the present year &c. 75
is necessary.
The Douglas County Farmers Insti-
tute adoped resolution some time ago
asking the Legislature to appropriate
81, 500 to enable Prof. f. II. Snow, of
the University of Kansas, to experiment
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| the chinch bug. This resolution has
been taken up and passed by the farm
ers' institutes of other counties of the
| State, and before the Legislature meets
| it is thought the appropriation will have
| the Endorsement of large part of the
| farmers.
| c. B. Emery recently found in the
| Southern part of the State gun-barrel
with this inscription upon it: Presented
to Mike Jones by Kit Carson, 1S49." Il
was found on a low spot of ground al
most surrounded by plain twenty fee
the vicinity and also the bones of three
horses. The barrel is four feet 81,
inches long. The woodwork had rot
| ted away, but all the iron parts wer,
| there.
Officers of the new grand lodge O
Kansas of the new political order
Knights of Reciprocity. were elected a
| Garden City as follows: D. n. Frost
grand Judge, and B. F. Stock, CRANE
clerk, both of Garden City; T. J. Nor
Bailey, of Great Bend, grand treasurer
Adolph Gluclz. of Dodge City, and JOIN
c. Fry. of Larned, grand bailiffs.
| Z. A. ROO1nSOn, one OF the 1eauln
merchants of Hazleton, went huntin
the other day, taking his wagon an
team. at night his team returned wit
his dead body in the wagon. A bulle
hole in his heart showed the cause G
his death. His gun was still loaded an
it was evident that he had been mu1
dered.
Thomas Plummer, farmer twent
miles north of Wichita, committed su
eide the other day by throwing himsel
in front of passenger train on the Mic
) land road. He was 26 years old and II
Gently married. Domestic trouble sal
J to be the cause.
A quarrel between the Captain an
) the members of Atchison's militar
! company has resulted in the compan
being disbanded.
A late fire IN the livery stable of
w. Morrow at Topeka destroyed tt
building together with nine buggies an
ten horses, one of the latter being va
ued at g. 200.
The executive committee of the Stat
: Farmers Alliance met at Topeka r
| Gently to make changes in the organic: