Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-11-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

arrest and conviction of Isaac Kay. who
is charged with having committed a
double murder in Cowley county in
June, 1859.
The Topeka sugar works were re-
Gently sold by the sheriff of Shawnee
county. The property was bid in at
81, subject to heavy membranes.
The works are reported to be consid-
cred hampered by litigation
The police of Kansas City, Kan.
raided two gambling houses at the
state line the other night and carried
off forty-seven persons who were
cited to appear in proper person (if not
nancy at the police court next morning.
The Farmers Alliance. of Shawnee
county, and the Citizens Alliance, of
Topeka, gave a farewell banquet to
Congressman Otis upon the eve of his
departure for Washington Senator
PETER is already at the national capital
The Bandana club of Leaven worth
celebrated the seventy-eighth auniver-
sary of the birth of Hon Allen G. Thur
man by banquet on the evening of
the 18th. A number of prominent DEM
ocrats were present from Kansas, MIS-
souri, and Nebraska
notified the Kansas agents of the
Farmers Alliance benefit association,
which has been doing an insurance
business, that it must conform to the
requirements of the law and receive a
license from his office, or else go out of
business
Willie Shaw, eight years old, was
killed by train on the L road at Kan
Tha
father works for the road and his two
little boys were in the habit of taking
his meals to him, and Willie and an
older brother were on that mission
when the little fellow was killed.
As a result of recent rains in south
ern. central and western Kansas the
wheat crop is in good condition In a
few sections of the state the continued
dry weather caused the wheat to
sprout, but no great damage has been
done Fall wheat is not all in, and re-
ports from all portions of the state
represent the acreage to be by far the
greatest in the history of the state.
A mammoth mass meeting was re-
Gently held at Arkansas City for the
| people of that and surrounding towns
kee strip and memorializing congress
in regard to it. Speeches were made by
| a number of prominent men. There
| was a strong sentiment in favor of
having the lands opened to settlement
| at as early day as possible.
The three Linn county prisoners con-
fined in the Bourbon county Jail at Fort
Scott, in order to protect them from
| mob violence, are now considered inno-
| cent of the brutal crime charged against
| them. Information has been received
| that one of the men named Bert Austin
| was not in Pleasanton or vicinity at the
time the crime took place, and had the
mob succeeded in its effort at lynching,
one innocent man, at least, would have
suffered.
A call has been issued for a meeting
| of the state central committee of the
| peoples party at Topeka, Tuesday
afternoon, November "a. The pur-
| poses set forth are consultation and
| such action may be determined upon
with reference to the interest of the
peoples partyin the election of 1892.
Chairmen of county com mittees and adj
| vocates and friends of the cause are re-
| quested to be present and participate
| in the deliberations.
j. w. GRANGER & Co., wholesale hard
| ware dealers, of Leavenworth, re-
| Gently caused the arrest of their
| shipping clerk, George Faerber, who
had been trusted employe Of the
firm for the past eight years, charg-
| ing him with series of robberies
j. A. Endress, a hardware dealer,
and ]. M. Carroll, timer, were
also arrested as accomplices The
| loss is about 81. 900 and for several
years the firm has been Systematically
robbed. Endress denied any knowl-
edge Of the thefts. Faerber has wife
and four children.
Suit has been commenced in the
United States court by the United
| States government against the Leav-
enworth Coal Mining Co. demanding
q full accounting of the coal mined by
that company on the military reserva-
ton lands in Leavenworth county be-
| tween the years 1868 and 1891. The
vast amount involved cannot be de-
| termined, but it will reach into the
millions. The government sues for the
value of all coal mined since 1884, for
the value of coal consumed on the
reservation while the lease was in
force and for royalty on all coal mined.
|
the company from taking any more
| coal from the land
John Bradford, a wellto-do farmer
| of Sedgwiclx county, has strangely dis
appeared, and his relations can find no
trace of him. About two months ago
he sent his children to stay with some
neighbors, saying he was going on a
trip to Missouri He was next heard
from at Montgomery, O., where he was
we'll known. The information was
that he was insane, and a friend was
sent after him, but when the latter
reached Montgomery Bradford had
disappeared, and that is the last heard
of him. It has developed that Bradford
disposed of his farm before he started,
but he left behind him large number
of cattle, hogs and horses. 1t is thought
that he must have had SO, 900 in his
pocket when he left
The warden of the penitentiary has
made his October settlement, which
shows an expenditure of SIS. 71o.2i. the
receipts being less than half that sum.
Most of the supplies for the year are
laid in at this season. Of coal there
were mined 154. 562 bushels, one-third