Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Burglars have recently been troubling
the people of Leavenworth.
The post Office at Edwardsville was
recently robbed of about $40 worth of
stamps
William Bell, 81 years old, was
drowned while fishing in Pottawotamie
creek at Osawatomie the other day.
The regents of the state university, at
a recent meeting. elected Prof. F. w.
Blackmar to fill the chair made vacant
by the resignation of Prof Garfield
A charter was recently fled with the
Association of Kansas The purposes
are to build warehouses for the storing
OF broom corn to be sold through their
agents Capital stock, $4,000.
Mrs d. NJ. Smith was found dead in
her room at Topeka the other day. She
had been dead two days when found.
She was about IS years of age and her
only son is brakeman on the Santa
F'e. He was out on the road at the
time of his mothers death and she was
alone.
The secretary of the state board of
agriculture estimates the winter wheat
crop of Kansas this year at So. 600. 600
bushels. The area is placed at 2. 900.-
600 acres In addition to this there are
10. 600 acres of spring wheat which will
bring the total crop of the state up to
60. OO0, 600 bushels
In the United States court at Leaven-
worth on the 18th Judge Riner over
ruled the motion for a new trial in the
case of c. A. Benson, found guilty of
the murder of Mrs. Mettman, and SEN
fenced Benson to be hanged November
s 1t is now thought the case will go
to the supreme court of the United
States
The post office department has made
the following re-adjustment of salaries
of Kansas postmasters: Arkansas City,
from So, 400 to So, 200; Junction City,
$1,000 to SO, 600; Kansas City, 81, 900 to
81, 700; Lawrence, g, 700 to s., 600; New
ton, s.. 200 to 81. 100; Parsons, 81. 100 to
So, 200; Pittsburgh, $1,000 to 81, 100;
Wellington, s.. 100 to SO, 600.
In the United States circuit court at
Leavenworth the other morning the de-
cree of foreclosure and sale of the Kan
sas City, Wyandotte & Northwestern
railroad was entered on the record
The sale will take place next December
in Topeka, and is to satisfy a claim of
unpaid coupons. by the Farmers Loan
& Trust Co., of New York.
The State Millers' association, in ses-
sion at Newton, elected officers as fol-
lows: President, George H. Hunter, of
Kelley. of Great Bend; second vice
president w. F. Soden, of Emporia;
treasurer. E. A. Colburn, of McPher-
son; secretary, c. v. Toppin, of Enter
prise. 1t was decided that the next
meeting of the association be held at
Great Bend October z. Resolutions were
adopted favoring reciprocity with Mex
leo.
The United States Savings bank at
Topeka, which failed some time ago,
has filed a motion in the district court
for the discharge of the receiver in or
der that business might be resumed
The bank claims to have received
enough subscriptions to its stock since
the failure to pay all of its indebted
ness It is now asserted that it can re-
open with from S125. 600 to S140, 900 in
cash in its vaults, nearly all the stock
holders having subscribed for 40 per
cent additional stock.
Rev. A. H. Tevis, pastor of the Wash
ington Avenue Methodist church. Kan
sas City, Kan, has brought suit against
Rev. E. w. Gill. presiding elder of the
Leavenworth conference, for SANDER,
claiming damage in the sum of $40, O0O
Rev. Tevis alleges that Rev. Gill, at
Washington Kan conference, last
spring, slanderously circulated among
the bishops and elders present a mali
cfous report that he (Tevis) was an
habitual user of choral and opium, and
this for the purpose of inducing the
conference to remove him from the
pastorate of the church.
Twenty years ago William B. Lingow,
until lately one of the leading farmers
of Sedgwick county, married Mary
Henry in Kansas City. Mo. The couple
took up a claim, where they have lived
ever since, and have had eleven chill
dren. For three years the husband
has made a practice of visiting Arkan-
sas periodically. ostensibly for his
health, and that is where he was re-
Gently when the sheriff of Sedgwick
county received letter from the sher-
if of Crawford county, Ark, making
inquiry about L;ngow and stating that
he was living in Van Buren, with wife
he had deserted twenty-five years ago
and whom he had visited periodically
for three years Lingow is now under
arrest
Chancellor Snow, in letter to the
state board of agriculture regarding
the new wheat pest, says it is what is
known as the wheat straw worm.
which has done much injury to wheat
IN Illinois, and did some damage to the
crop in Kansas in 1885. 1t seems to
flourish best in wet weather. 1t is a
pest almost as injurious as the Hessian
fly and nothing can be done to prevent
its depredations upon the present crop.
Prof. Snow suggests as preventive
measures with reference to the next
crop the burning or the destruction
of the stubble, which will destroy
the insect in the straw: also the
burning of surplus straw in the
spring And secondly, an occasional
rotation of the crops. Wheat placed
upon ground not in wheat the preced-
ing year is not likely to be affected by
this pest
Alfred McMurray. boy of 16 years,
was recently arrested at Wichita while
stealing letters from post office box
held by All Hallows academy. About
two weeks previous one of the sisters
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