Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-07-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

AANSAO SlAlE NE WIS.
Fred Stewart was recently drown ed
while bathing in the lake near Man
haitian.
Peavey & Co., of Chicago, have leased
the Santa Fe elevator in Atchison. The
elevator has capacity of $4,000 bush
els
The United States savings bank at
Topeka, which suspended some time
ago. has resumed business with ample
cash to pay all depositors-
Ira Jones, the fourteen-year-old son
| of j. d. Jones' a prominent cattleman
of kiowa, was struck and instantly
killed by lightning the other morning.
Gus Grassage, man in charge of a
load of Mexican cattle, was knocked
from an early morning train by low
bridge at Emporia the other day and
fatally injured.
Mrs. Rautzahn is having hard work
! securing bonds at Leavenworth- The
feeling is said to be strongly against
| her, as she is believed to be guilty with
Benson in the killing of her mother,
Mrs Mettman.
The close of the fiscal year shows in
Kansas 1,S11 post offices. During the
wear forty were esta blished and sixty
seven discontinued This year Kansas
loses twenty-seven offices, while last
year the state gained twenty three.
The sheriff at Dodge City has in
formed shippers of cattle from New
| Mexico and Arizona that he has estab-
lished quarantine against their cattle
| and will not permit them to be fed or
unloaded at Dodge City. The cattle
men, it is said, will appeal to the gov
| ernor.
A destructive storm burst upon Ar
| kansas City and vicinity at an early
| hour on the morning of the Goth. Hail
broke hundreds of windows. knocked
| fruit from trees and riddled garden truck
| and melons. The wind leveled thousands
| of acres of grain and corn to the
| ground.
John Spence, Is years old, premature
| ly attempted to celebrate the Fourth on
| the first of July at Kansas City Kan.
| by firing a toy cannon. A package of
powder exploded badly burning his
| hands and eyes and rendering him I'M
conscious. He will probably lose both
| eyes
Charles Lease, the siXteen-year-old
son of Mrs NJ. E. Lease, the alliance
| lecturer, was lately arrested at Wichita
on the charge Of stealing a check and
gold watch, the property of an insur-
ance man named NJ. E. Corn. The
| youth was a student in the county at
torney's Office.
A colored man named Wilson, whose
home is in Topeka, met with a bad ac-
cident at the Santa Fe depot in Leaven-
worth the other day. He attempted to
jump off a car while flying switch
was being made and got one foot on
the track, which was crushed from the
knee down in frightful manner. The
leg had to be amputated
A fearful accident occurred in Ar
mour's Touring mill at Emporia the
other day. S. NJ. Summers, the miller,
undertook to crawl over huge wheel
while it was in motion, when his cloth
ing caught and he was spun rapidly
round a few times and finally dashed
with great force against an upright
| shaft. Both legs were broken and his
| body made mass of bruises. Strange
| to say hopes were entertained of his re.
covery.
| Senator Plumb, while lately in Tope-
| ka, was asked in regard to the prospect
of the passage of free silver coinage
act by the next congress, and replied
that the matter was problematical. 1t
was hard to foretell what could be done
| by the champions of the white metal.
He said that the hard money advocates
were SO very hard that they appeared
| unwilling to listen to q compromise,
| and the free silver men were not as vet
| strong enough to KNOCK down and
drag out"
The executive committee of the Farm
ers' Alliance, with the state officers and
the congressional lecturers, met recent
ly at Topeka to perfect an organization.
| The state will be divided into congress
sional. county and township Legislative
councils, of which the lecturer in charge
of the district will be chairman. The
township chairman will report to the
county chairman, the latter to the con-
gressional chairman and the congress
sional chairman to the state lecturer,
Van B. Prathe> who will be subject to
the national council.
Two Shawnee county farmers lately
had lawsuit over the ownership of a
dog. One finally proposed to the other
that they fight it out in Sullivan-Kil-
rain style, which was agreed to. At
the appointed hour and place friends OF
the two were gathered to see the fight
The battle was for blood, and at the
end of thirty minutes it was declared a
draw. One man lost a finger and two
teeth, the other lost part of an ear and
received black eye. The principals
then took the train for Topeka to be
patched up.
Prof Snow says of the weather for
June: The month was one of ex-
tremes. June 1876 seemed to have been
a similar one, and both lead the other
years in the amount of rainfall This
was the cooler. While the humidity OF
the other June has approached that OF
this, the wind was considerably below
the average. The mean temperature
for the month was 70.74 degrees, which
is 2.65 below the average. The highest
was 80. degrees, on the 2Sth, the least
was Sd degrees, on the 7th- The total
rainfall was 1O.1 inches, which is B IS
above the average. Rain fell on Is
days There were eight thunder
storms"
P. H. Ferguson and W. A. Hudson
the two men who passed forged check:
in Atchison, were later arrested il