Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-02
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

AuCa CHaAs WHO HCceutly 1ddicOs mas SeC
tied with his creditors and resumed
business.
Reports ffosA Western Kansas on the
setn stated that in some localities snow
was two feet deep on level. and had
drifted to eight feet In neany places.
Stock was suffering.
The executive council on the s5th
elected W. M. Mitchell, of Newton,
conductor on the Santa Fe, railroad
commissioner in place of Judge
Humphrey, whose term expired April
/.
The case Of the United States against
j. c. Adams for the murder of Capt.
William Z. Couch, Of Oklahoma fame,
occupied the attention of the United
States court for three days, at Wichita,
and the jury returned verdict az
guilty of murder in the first degree.
Ben Grant, the negro who recently
murdered his white wife at Topeka,
was traced to Pueblo, Col When off,
GERS went to the cabin where Grant had
taken refuge, he fed and when p;if-
sued drew pistol and shot himself
dead
The beet sugar industry is being
worked up in central Kansas by DR..
Sweitwiler, OF Germany, who is arrang
Ing for five hundred experimental tests
In different counties with foreign seed.
He says that German syndicate with
capital of ten million dollars will put
in factories If the tests prove satisfac-
tory.
Gov. Humphrey has offered a reward
of $500 for the arrest and conviction Of
each of the persons accused of killing
Thomas Duncan, of Cheyenne county,
on the night of March 16. Duncan had
been accused of stealing grain in the
neighborhood. A masked mob visited
his house and, calling him to the front
door, riddled him with bullets.
In the United States court at Wichita
the jury in the case of j. A. Hawley
and wife and E. d. Bclden, charged
with the murder of Charles Grant,
young Canadian, near Edmond, Ok,
last summer, brought in a verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree
against the boy, Belden, and discharged
the Hawleys by instruction of the
court. Grant was murdered, presum-
ably, to secure his claim.
S. M. Garrett, an attorney of Kansas
City, Kan, was found in his office the
other day, raving maniac. He was
very poor. He had no money to buy
food and was too proud to beg. Hunger
had driven him mad. He was arrested
| and an inquiry into his sanity insti-
tuted. He had fine library in his Of
| flee, and led the life of recluse, porting
over his books and paying but little at
! tention to that part of his profession
! that furnished bread and butter.
The county clerk, county treasurer
| and two of the county commissioners
| OF Comanche county have been arrested
upon information fled by the county
attorney. charging them with malfeas-
ance in Office. 1t is said that several of
the heaviest taxpayers in the county
have retained lawyers to institute civil
suits against the same officials for the
recovery of money alleged to have been
| illegally withheld from the county.
! DIR. Going, state veterinarian, recent
| ly drew Sc, 100 from the state treasury.
The legislature two years ago conclud-
| ed that the services of a veterinarian
could be dispensed with and failed to
| make an appropriation to pay the sal
airy and other expenses, but did not
| abolish the Office. Dr. Going continued
| to hold on and take his chances of being
paid and came out successful as the
| late legislature made the necessary ap-
| preparation.
| A young Topeka woman by the name
of Chilson, wishing to get rid of her
| illegitimate oh Id eight or ten weeks
old, gave it to her brother to dispose of,
who drove some fifteen or twenty miles
into the country and threw it into the
| hog pen of farmer. The farmer was
aroused in the night by the crying OF
the infant and found it nearly frozen to
! death. The hogs, with more humanity
than the mother, had not harmed the
| babe, and the farmer turned it over to
the officers who found the mother The
brother found it convenient to disap-
pear.
Chicken thieves for some time past
had been committing such depredations
in the vicinity of Rosedale that farmers
found it impossible to protect thei,
poultry, even by locking-the doors OF
their coops. The other night, however
q thief came to sudden grief. S. S
Hogue, u farmer, set trap in his hen
cry in the shape of a loaded shotgun, sc
arranged that it would be discharged
by any one entering the door in the
night The next morning an unknown
dead man was found in the doorway o.
the coop. He had broken in and beer
shot by his own thievish act.
The railroad commissioners have
made their first tour of examination
in the ten Kansas counties for which
money was appropriated to purchas.
seed grain. 1t is estimated that 90, OO
bushels of spring seed wheat will sup
ply those who stand in the most urgen
! need. There were $40 applications TO
aid to Judge Humphrey. After an ex
animation he found only twenty wh'
were in need of aid from the state
The commissioners reported the peopl'
in better condition than they expecte,
to find them. In some cases the whea
had gotten into the hands of money
lenders, who were demanding thei
. pound of flesh. These men furnisl
| the farmers with seed wheat under
contract, which ob1igates the farmer t,
, give one-third of his crop in payment.
, Secretary Mohler has received infor
nation from the state agricultural col
lege that arrangements are being mad