Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-08-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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The twelve-year-old son of William
Nixon, farmer of Sedgwick county,
was recently gored to death by a
vicious bull
NJ j. Willard, charged with robbing
the Kansas City. Kan, post Office was
recently arrested in Missouri and jailed
at Leavenworth.
colored constable undertook to
break up game of craps at Quindaro
the other day when he was set upon by
the players, all negroes The constable
made vigorous assault upon one of
them and as result was himself ar
reeted.
John w. Nyce, of Caldwell, recently
finished threshing his wheat He had
seventy acres from which he secured
2, 103 bushels, machine measure. A
neighbor of his had $40 acres from
which he threshed 1880 bushels. ma
chine measure. He sold 2, 500 bushels
in the field and paid off his mortgage
and all his debts and stored 5000 BUSH
els to await higher prices
Fred A. Stocks, of Blue Rapids, has
been appointed chief clerk of the treas
ury department at Washington The
position is very important one and
commands a salary of $4,000. Stocks
has been member of the Kansas legis-
lature, mayor of his town, and is promi-
nent in his community. being banker.
There were forty-three applicants from
the various states, but only one from
Kansas.
]. NJ. Miller, president of the State
Republican league, hass issued a call
for meeting of the league in Topeka
August 26. Hon j. S Clarkson, national
president, and Hon. T. E. Byrnes.
national organizer, will be present and
are expected to deliver public addresses
in the evening. The call instructs each
local league to send three delegates be-
sides the president, who is delegate
ex-officio.
Robert r. Tankers1y, aged thirteen,
died at Wichita the other day in horri-
BILE agony from hydrophobia. The boy
was bitten on the face and arm about
two months ago, and was taken to a
hospital. After being there a few days
he bolted and nothing more was seen
of him until two days before his death,
when he was taken back to the hos
pital with all the symptoms of hydro
phobia-
The city council of Hutchinson
passed an ordinance a few weeks ago
fixing the license on hop tea and ''B.
B.. at $500 per annum. to be paid six
months in advance. Eight places took
out the license, expecting under the
head of ''B. B." to sell beer. A few
days ago they were all arrested for
violating the law, and the manufacturer
of the '.B. b. was fined S1OO and given
thirty days in jail.
Ezra Comfort and family have reached
their home at Delphos from Topolo-
bampo (Mexico), having hurried to
escape the tropic fever. The eighteen
year-old son of Mr.. Comfort was
stricken before starting and died an
hour after reaching home. Another
son died at the colony. They went out
in April and report much suffering
among the colonists. The therm ometer
has been Las degrees for two months
and it is almost impossible to obtain
good water. Many have died.
To Chicago reporter Senator Ingalls,
and I am studying other questions
now. I am seriously engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits and I am not paying
to say any thing of moment about it. I
expect to sail for Europe on August %.
1 shall remain in Europe several
months, probably till next winter, or
as long as my money holds out
have no mission to the other side, polit-
ical or otherwise. / am not going to
be one of the alleged bureau of tariff
statistics. 1 am going for amusement
and instruction A flor NV rof11rn
may consider politics again, but do
not know that will"
Receiver McGonigle, of the Oberlin
land office, in recently speaking of the
demand for western lands, said:
''Within the past ten days more con-
tests have been fled on claims in
western Kansas than have been filed
before in six months. That means that
confidence in western Kansas lands is
being renewed by the splendid crops OF
every kind of grain and fruit that are
being raised in that part of the state. -
Hundreds of farmers have abandoned
their claims in western Kansas because
of crop failures and some of them have
been gone two or three years. An alb
sence of six months forfeits mans
rights to his claim, and anyone may
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desertion, take the land, impr ovements
and all.
In escaping from his captors the other
night horse-thief is believed to have
been drowned in the Nescatunga river,
in the southwest part of Barber county.
He would have been lynched anyway,
it is thought. The man was caught
with horses stolen from farmer. who,
as soon as he missed his animals, got a
few friends together and started in pur-
suit. The thief was being taken to the
nearest tree when he made his escape
and jumped into the stream, and though
a careful search was made no trace OF
him could be found. From a descrip-
ton of the thief it is thought it was
Dave Sprague, the horse-thief who a
few days before escaped from Jail al
| Mcpherson, and who took a half-dozen
horses in Harvey county on his way
south Sprague is an old Jail bird.
Fred Parker, treasurer of the Cigar
makers union Of Wichita, has abscond-
ed and with him has disappeared about
5000 of the unions funds.
The state board of equalization has
found that the total valuation of the
property in the state for 1891 is SAL