Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-03-05


Caldwell. after lengthy review of the
case. reversed the decisions of the
United States district court and dis
solved the injunction. Several other
cases of like character affected by the
decision were dismissed.
Miscellaneous.
Hon. Jacob Stotler has been app
pointed postmaster at Wellington.
The president has appointed w. W.
ApperSon, of Kansas, consul at Vera
Cruz, Mexico.
Hon. J. L. Andrews, member of the
house from Cowley county, died at To-
peka on the 27th of diphtheria, after an
illness of only a few days.
Chief Justice A. II. Horton, of the
supreme court, was taken quite ill with
pleurisy of the heart while attending
the funeral of Gen. Sherman at St
Louis.
Policeman Yoost, of Leavenworth,
who some time ago entered the prem
ises of Carl Mueller, without warrant,
in search of liquors and was driven
away by Mueller and his wife, was
subsequently fined $40 by Justice Plow-
man.
The alliance editors met at Hutchin-
son recently and organized the reform
press association of Kansas, with the
following officers; President W. A.
PETER, of Topeka: vice-president, A c.
Pattee, of Salina; secretary and treas
urer, S. McLallin, of Topeka; executive
board, d. L. Armstrong, of Great Bend;
c. Vincent, of Arkansas City, and A. II.
Harris, of lola.
John Crawford, negro, made vi
cious criminal assault upon Mrs. Max
well, a widow, in the suburbs of Wichi-
ia the other day, and her cries attracted
the attention of Charles Bousman, who
fastened to her assistance, when the
negro struck him with a spade, render
ing him insensible, and then fled. He
was subsequently captured and fully
identified.
Over twenty years ago Jules Robbins,
of Turner, Wyandotte county, was Bit
ten by dog supposed to be mad. No
unfayorable symptoms resulted until
very recently, when Mr.. Robbins was
taken i'll with every appearance of ny
drophobia- He had to be strapped to
his bed and expressed his fears that his
disease was the result of the bite he re-
ceived twenty years ago.
The Armourdale elevator and Kelley's
cooper shops at Kansas City, Kan,
were destroyed by fire on the night of
the oath, together with forty freight
cars, including twelve cars of flour.
two of ats, two of corn meal
and 5000 bushels of wheat. The
entire loss was estimated at S125, 900.
The loss sustained by the elevator and
railroads was fully covered by insur-
ance.
The directors and depositors of the
Peoples Savings bank at Atchison,
which recently failed, have come to a
settlement. The directors will put up
cash enough to pay all depositors of $50
or under, and will give bond to pay all
others within two and half years. The
deposits of the bank amount to S1O6, OOO
and if the notes and mortgages can all
De collected the directors will lose moth
ing.
The agent of an English company
with an authorized capital of 81. 900, 900,
organized under the laws of New York,
was recently in Atchison for the pur-
pose of obtaining figures on defaulted
Kansas mortgages. 1t is said the COM
pany proposes to buy up all such mort
cages that can be obtained at salts
factory discount and foreclose them.
Having secured the titles, the lands will
be offered to actual settlers on ten or
twenty years time at low rate OF in
tereSt.
In Sedgwick county the other day a
farmer killed some hogs and left them
hanging in his yard over night. Next
morning one carcass was missing and
Martin eSpied some distance off what
seemed to be a man leaning against a
fence. Going up to the man Martin
found James Durham dead with a
broken neck, his body on one side of the
fence and the hog hanging on the other.
The body was quite stiff. Evidently
Durham, while trying to cross the fence
had fallen, as around his neck hung the
hogs carcass suspended by the gambrel
stick.
Joe AIulhatten and the ground hog
went into winter quarters nearHighland,
Doniphan county, and on ground hog
lay both came out. The ground hog
went back into his quarters, but Joe
staid out and Immediately commenced
sending his yarns 20 various papers.
His first was that farmer had found a
pot of gold and silver very ancient
Spanish coins) valued at SIS, 900, that had
been buried by pirates many years ago.
SET all the farmers Oh the Vicinity
digging for gold, only to learn that the
story was a flake" The next story was
that, while a man was seated at the sup
per table meteor weighing fifteen hum
dred pounds struck and demolished a
portion of his house and buried itself in
the earth. Both stories are pronounced
pure fabrications.
At the late oratorical contest at EN-
poria John /. Gaines, of Baker univer-
sity, won the first prize and the honor
of representing Kansas in the college
contest participated in by Iowa, Illinois,
Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Colorado, Missouri and Nebraska to
take place at Des Moines, Ia. next May.
The proposition to vote $4,000 in mu-
nicipal bonds to the Wichita & Ell Paso
railroad was carried by large major
ity at special election in Wichita the
other day. The road viii be built by
English capital
Hon. John A Anderson has been APP
ro;nfod br the presidenf cOnSu1-oeneral