Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS

Gus wound in the side. The act was
done In her bedroom when no one was
| present She declared the shooting an
accident, but would not tell how it CO.
cured She is 10 years old and had
| been married only about six months.
| Hon. A. w. Smith, Col. A. S. Johnson,
Maj. William Sims, P. /. Bone brake and
s. L. Howe, the committee appointed to
arrange for the Kansas worlds fair dis
| play in behalf of the agricultural So
c1ety, have gone to Chicago to make the
necessary arrangements for space and
buildings and will report to the conven-
| ton which has been called for April %.
Frank McGrath, president of the
Farmers Alliance, lately returned from
| tour throughout the southern part of
| the state. He says there is great inter
| est taken in the proposed convention
! at Cincinnati, and there is not county
! In the state that has refused to select
| delegates, and it looks as though /, 500
Kansans will attend the convention.
| A family named Frazee, consisting of
father, mother and daughter, were re-
| Gently arrested in Shawnee county for
sending obscene letters through the
mails. For over one year anonymous
! obscene letters had been received by
| parties living in or around North To-
| peka, and the United States authorities
| finally traced them to the Frazee
| family.
: John B. Miller, the four-year-old son
| OF John A. Miller, prominent real es-
tate man of Topeka, was burned to
| death the other morning shortly after
breakfast. The little fellow climbed
the steps which led to the hay NOW in
the barn and while playing with some
| matches set the hay on fire. He was
burned to a crisp before the fire could
be exiting uished.
The secretary Of state has received
notice from twenty national banks
throughout the state signifying their IN
tention of denationalizing and reorgan-
ling under the new state banking law.
1t is thought likely that the greater
part Of the national banks of the state
will pursue the same course. The law
assures every protection that the ma
tional banking act gives and relieves
the banks of the necessity of such q
large capitalization
The live stock sanitary commission
ers have completed their work and the
fever is now in force. The quarantine
line extends along the southern border
of Kansas to Kiowa county and thence
to the Saith degree, thence west to New
Mexico. There are six inspectors sta
toned at Chetopa, Coffeyville, Yelling
ton and Caldwell, three of whom are
| under government employ but under
orders from the state commissioners.
jeff Jukes, former restaurant keep
er of Salina, shot his wife the other
evening at 7:30 o'clock in front of the
Brunswick hotel in that city. Jukes
| and his wife were walking side by side
and a quarrel seemed to be in progress
between them, when JukeS suddenly
drew his revolver and selling his wife
by the waist fired four shots. The
woman struggled bravely, however
and only one shot took effect, and that
in her lower jaw. Jukes then fed.
Jealousy supposed to have been the
cause.
Railroad Commissioner Mitchell re-
Gently returned from trip of investi-
CATION as to the needs of destitute farm
ers in Graham, Sheridan. Logan and
other counties, where he also attended
the distribution of seed grain. The
commissioner reports that while there
are many destitute there are many
others in good circumstances who
have attempted to get a share Of
the seed. At one place a merchant
who has farm just out of the town
asked for wheat, corn, oats and pota-
toes, and another man, who owns 160
head of cattle with good farm unen-
numbered, was one Of the first to make
application for relief.
In the district court of Shawnee
county the other day Judge Guthrie adj
judged d. w. Wilder. state insurance
commissioner, guilty of contempt of
court. fined him $50 and costs and or
dered that the license of the Capital In
surance Co., which was revoked by Mr..
Wilder, be restored. Several DAYS
previous Mr.. Wilder issued an order re-
voking the license of the Capital Insur-
ance Co. to do business in the state ON
the ground that it was insolvent. About
half an hour later he was served with
an injunction issued by Judge Guthrie
restraining him from revolzing the Ii
cense. The publication of the notice of
the revocation had not been made, and
the permitting of its publ cation was
held by the court to be contempt.
At the fourth annual convention of
the ladies of the G. A. R., recently held
at Topeka, the following officers were
chosen: Department president, Mrs.
Emma Wall, of Grenola; senior vice
president, Mrs. Matte Hoffman, of
Hutchinson; junior vice-president, Mrs.
Annie Taylor, of Leavenworth; treas
urer, Mrs. Carrie McCaslin, of Chanute;
chaplain, Mrs. Carrie Decker, of Abb
line; secretary, Mrs. M. Weens, of
Grenola; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Adelia Wade, of Meriden; department
inspector, Mrs. Julia NJ. Gordon, of To
pel1a. Delegates to the national con-
vention-Ellen Wade, of Topeka;
Leona Nugent, of Horton; Mrs. New
lin, of Emporia, and Mrs. Anna Thomp-
son, of Topeka. Alternates-Mrs.
Lucy Milliken, of Topeka; Mrs Helen
Hosford, of Oska1oosa; Mrs. Fisher, of
Horton, and Miss Matte Russell, of
Valley Falls.
At no time in the history of the state
in the same length of time has there
been SO much snow in western Kansas
as since January 1. This is said to argue
well for the wheat crop which is much
larger this wear than ever before Al