Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-06-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

the Nebraska state university.
A wreck on the Kansas Central road
near Havenville the other day, resulted
IN the death of the fireman, G. w. Pur-
cell.
Patents lStely issued to Kansas in
ventors: Running gear. c. l. Lanks,
Fredonia; dough kneader. Lydia Stock
well. Atchison.
The city assessor of Topeka gives the
population of the city as s,247, an in
crease of 2,247 over the United States
census of last year.
The teachers in the state institution
for the blind at Kansas City (Kan-)
put in their places.
In the United States court at Leaven-
worth Charles A. Benson was found
guilty of the murder of Mrs. Mettman.
The penalty is hanging.
Prof. Garfield has resigned his chair
in the state university to accept the
CHARACTERISTIC of the Nebraska univer-
sity to which he was recently elected.
The trial of Mrs Rautzahn, who is
charged with being an accessory to the
murder of Mrs. Mettman at Leaven-
worth, has been postponed to Septem-
Der.
The president has appointed Hon.
Henry c. Sluss, of Wichita, one of the
judges of the new court for the settle
ment of Spanish and Mexican land
claims.
Lewis Locker, who recently escaped
from private insane asylum at Atchi'
son, was few days later killed by the
cars some distance west OF that city.
He was a German, unmarried and quite
well off.
The returns of the assessor of Atchi-
son gives the city a population of 49,
97s. This is considerably short of the
figures of the government numerators,
which were also complained of and q
recount demanded.
Sam Tolle shot and fatally wounded
John Davis the other night near Rox-
bury, a small place about five miles
from Lindsborg. They were quarrel
ing when Davis seized a stick to strike
Tolle, but Tolle got out his pistol and
fired three shots at Davis at only few
feet range.
Mrs. James Curtis, of Atch ison, went
to Lincoln, Neb., some time since to
see a sick brother. Upon her return to
husband. In her absence he had sold
verything and skipped, leaving his wife
with four small children to care for.
S. w. Busbee, of Lockwood, Mo-,
while passing through Fort Scott the
| other night with a train load of stock
| on the Kansas City, Fort Scott &
Memphis railroad, was caught by a
passing train and his arm almost torn
from his body. He lived only two hours.
Frank Luce, an employe in the Santa
Fee shops at Emporia, attempted to pass
| around an engine just as it started to
| back out of the roundhouse in that town
the other night when he slipped and
fell under the engine, which instantly
tore him to pieces. He leaves wife
and five children.
The charter of the Western Irrigation
and Land Co. was filed the other day
with the secretary of state. The head
quarters of this company are at Topeka
and Lakin, Kearney county. The cap
ital stock is $3.50, 600, and the objects OF
the company are the construction and
maintenance of dams and canals for ir-
rigation purposes south of the Arkansas
river.
| While temporarily insane Mrs An
ME Tudors the other night attempted
to burn up her twoweeks-old babe al
/ Wichita Her husband, who was sleep
ing in an adjoining room, was awah.
ened by the mother and entering the
room saw her leaning over the babe
lighted match in hand Near by was g
coal oil can and on picking up the child
its wrapings were found to be saturated
with the oil
In the United States circuit cour'
at Leavenworth the other day, Mr.
Justice Brewer presiding, an order
was entered in the case of the Mercan
tile Trust Co. against the Missouri. Kan
sas & Texas Railway Co. and others
satisfying the decree of foreclosure here
tofore entered in that case and direct
ing the receivers to turn over the rail
way and property of the Missouri. Kan
sas & Texas system to the Missouri
Kansas & Texas Railway Co. on July 1
At Centralia, on the Central Brancl
road, the other day, an Arkansas Sheriff
boarded an east bound train just as i
was pulling out of the station, to arres
George S. Elwood, a well-known stocl
dealer of Greenleaf, ON a charge O
hitting fraud to the extent O
So, 600 on a cattle bill of lading. Elwoo<
saw the officer while the train wa
moving at the rate of fifteen miles al
hour and jumped off. The officer ais
Jumped and chased his man to tn
woods, a mile away, where he captured
him.
The nine-year-old son of Lewis Gar
nett was herding cattle about ten mile
west of Garden City recently when
Mexican tramp came along and de
manded the horse he was riding. TIL
boy refused to give up the horse, an
the wretch at once seized the boy
, gashed his throat several times wi tn
razor and threw him into an irrigat Of
ditch for dead. mounted the horse an
rode off. The boy revived and manage
to get home, a. short distance, and tn
alarm was given. The tr amp was pun
sued and caught about sixty miles fror
| where the deed was committed
Nearly twelve hundred pupils attend
ed the state normal school at Empori
| during the past year. and the attene
. ance next year, it is anticipated, wi
) be much larger if the restricted a
commodations will allow Presider
! | TAYLOR to receive them
-