Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-09-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Leavenworth people are hopeful o.
having linen factory established In
that city.
A barge line is proposed at Kansas
City, Kan. to operate on the Kansas
and Missouri rivers The charter for .
company was recently fled with the
secretary of state. Capital $50. 600
The interstate reunion of veterans
commenced at Chelsea park, Kansas
City. Kan, on the 7th. with q large at
tendance of veterans from Kansas Mis-
souri,. Nebraska, Iowa and adjacent
states.
While several young men were re-
Gently cleaning a pistol at Kirwin the
weapon was discharged and the ball
took effect in the breast of Tom Bel
ford. indicting what was thought to be
a mortal wound.
The colored voters of Wyandotte
county talk of running a county ticket
this fall composed entirely of colored
men They argue that as there will be
three other tickets in the field they will
have an equal chance to win.
Mrs. Eliza Hastings, a widow resid-
ing in the outskirts of Wichita, was
druQged, assaulted and robbed the
other night by an unknown man. A
neighbor who passed her house next
morning found her still insensible.
A foot bridge broke at the fair
grounds at Atchison the other after
noon and several women and children
were thrown into the creek and hurt.
Miss Mary Koehner had her left leg
broken and was seriously injured in
ternally.
Henry Hahn, formerly q farmer in
the northern part of Clay county, was
charged in the spring Of 1890 with COM
hitting a number of forgeries and fed
Recently he was located at Welsh, La,
arrested and taken back to answer the
charge.
The board of trade of Hutchinson
has unanimously passed resolutions in
dorsing Hon. Almerin Gillett, of EN-
poria, for the vacancy in the interstate
commission caused by the resignation
of Thomas Cooley. Mr.. Gillett was for
five years railroad commissioner Of
Kansas.
Henry Friedenburg. a we'll known
hotel man of Atchison, attempted to
take dose of strychnine the other day,
| but his little daughter knocked the
was the cause. He was under the in
fuence of liquor at the time. Twenty
years ago Friedenburg was a wealthy
dry goods merchant. but misfortune
overlook him and he lost every thing.
A free fight at a colored dance in
Atchison the other night resulted in
several persons being badly carved.
knives and razors being used freely. A
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the right breast and her condition was
precarious. The police arrested eight
people but the man who stabbed the
Jamisom woman escaped The fight
| was started by two women who were
both infatuated with the same young
man. -
On the second day of the interstate
reunion Of old soldiers at Kansas City,
Kan, it was estimated that forty
thousand people viewed the parade
and thirty thousand visited Chelsea
park. Hon. John L Webster. of Oma-
ha, was one of the speakers who de-
lighted the veterans His word painting
of battle scene was thrilling and
realistic Lieut. Bachelor, Hon. James
r. Hallowell, Gen. ]. C. Caldwell.
Lieut. Evans and others also spoke.
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Mutual Life insurance societies of
| Kansas met in Leavenworth recently.
The convention was made up of twenty
eight delegates, representing insurance
societies all under the auspices of the
Catholic church. The principal work
of the convention was to form a state
organization and to elect officers for
the ensuing year. as follows: Anton
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F. Dolan, Atchison, first vice-president;
Samuel Shuck. Topeka, second vice
president; P. C. Becker. Leavenworth,
secretary; George h. Heavy, Leaven-
worth, treasurer.
The Santa Fe road recently sent Mrs.
L. M. Short, the mother of C. E. Short,
the deputy United States marshal who
was killed by Charles Bryant, the train
robber, a draft for $500. the amount of
the reward offered by the road for the
arrest and conviction of Bryant, who
was one of the parties engaged in the
robbery of the Santa Fe train near
Wharton, Ok, in May. There was no
doubt that Bryant was one of the rob
bers. and as he was killed by Short
while attempting to escape, the COM
pany doubtless considered this manner
of disposing of him quite as satisfactory
as by trial and imprisonment.
The census Office has issued a bulletin
which gives the mortgage indebted
ness of Kansas by counties. The total
assessed valuation of real and personal
property in 1890, not including the
value of railroad property, which is
placed at S57, S66, 1913, was $3.50, 593, II
It is found that Kansas has mort
gage Indebtedness of 1926. 4s5, los,
which does not include state and rail
| road land contract debt of 81. 661. us.
OF the total mortgaged debt S167, 145, 03e
is upon acres and SOS, $40, 069 upon lots.
Thirty-four per cent of the total debt
in force against acres is on real estate
in the western half of the state, where
it is said values are low and where set
Element was made but a few years ago.
Superintendent Porter says the larger
debt exists in the sections where there
is the greatest prosperity and where
there has been an advancement in inn
provements.
The United States consul at Warsaw,
Poland, has written to the chief of po-
lice of Leavenworth for information
regarding one Francis Lambert, a Pole
who lived in Leavenworth twenty