Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1891-04-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


The average annual value of all prod.
ucts of Kansas farms for the years
1887, 1883, 1889 and 1890 is estimated at
$40, 600, 900.
Feed throughout the state was
never known to be as scarce as it is
now. Nearly every farmer is short of
feed and many have been compelled to
sell their cattle.
Len 7. Smith, of Leavenworth. one of
the best known men in Kansas and
prominent railroad builder, died sud-
denly in the City of Mexico the other
day of heart disease.
F. NJ. Grover, who has been blind
since he was twenty years of age. was
elected a justice of the peace at the late
election in Topeka He is said to be a
very able man, and has heretofore filed
the office with great satisfaction
JACOB KELLER, manager of a hack
| line, committed suicide at Wichita the
other day in the room of a woman
named Alice Connolly, with whom he
had been living for two years, but who
had cast him off for an old flame"
Tom Mckinney, farmer who resided
some miles from Ottawa, went to town
| the other day and drank too much. At
a late hour in the evening he started
homeward. Before he had proceeded
| far he fell from his wagon and broke
| his neck.
The board of managers in the Botkin
| impeachment case held a meeting at
Topeka the other day. Chairman
Wilmington was confident that enough
testimony will be produced to convince
the senate of the necessity for remov-
| ing Botkin.
| The taxes paid by railroads in Kan
sas for 1890 amounted to 81, 9S4, 141, and
it is asserted that if the annual tax paid
| by railroads remains the same, it will
pay off principal and interest on all
bonds now outstanding in aid of rail-
roads in about twelve years.
Mai William Sims and other mem
bers of the committee who went to
Chicago to secure space for the Kansas
exhibit at the worlds fair have re-
turned, having secured a desirable site.
and informed the worlds fair managers
that Kansas would be on hand with a
6rst-class exhibit.
| George w. Howell, a prominent lum-
Der merchant of Atchison, was recently
arrested by deputy United States mar
shall on a charge Of violating the inter-
state commerce law. Howell has made
|
business and is estimated to be worth
from $4,000 to $1,O0O,O0O.
| On Thanksgiving day last George
| Weston, an Atchison express agent,
beat his wife's brains out with ham
mer. Although the woman survived
she is a mental wreck. He was recently
| tried for the offenSe and the jury re-
turned verdict of assault with intent
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ceeding ten years in the penitentiary.
After Col. Anthony and Capt Fortes-
cue had their street encounter at Leav-
whipping Anthony and Anthony was
fined $40 for reporting at the police
station that he had secured a pistol for
| Anthony then swore out warrant
against Fortescue charging him with
assault with intent to kill.
Charley White, the night operator at
Huron, a small station on the Missouri
Pacific, was asleep in the Office late the
other night when Charles Roberts, a
section hand, pounded on the window
and asked him some question. White
awoke suddenly and Selling his re-
volver began firing at Roberts, whom
he mistook for a tramp burglar. One
| bullet hit Roberts in the head.
LEAvENwoRTH was much excited the
other day over personal encounter
upon the streets between Col d. r.
Anthony, of the Times, and Capt. w.
n. Fortescue, late republican candi
date for mayor of the city, in which
Col Anthony was horsewhipped by
Capt. Fortescue. The trouble grew
out of assaults through the columns of
the Times upon the late candidate fol
mayor.
In the district court of Wyandotte
county, Kan. the other day the Amer
lean live stock commission company
began a suit against the Kansas
City live stock exchange for S10O.
900 damages for the injury tC
its business through the expul
sion of the American from the exchange
and an alleged boycott of the American
and its agents by the exchange and its
mem bers.
| w. Z. L. Patterson, n Kansas City,
Mo-, contractor, was recently arrested
| at Kansas City, Kan, on the charge OF
perjury. PatterSOn's first wife, from
whom he obtained a divorce IN Novem
ber 1887, caused the prosecution. She
claimed that on November 6, 1887, Pat
terson fled a suit for divorce in the
Kansas City (Nan.) district court. and
| in his petition swore that he had been {
resident of the state for over one year
After securing a divorce he married an
other woman.
Justice Plowman, OF Leavenworth
has been called to testify before the
United States court jury in the Bender
case. Bender is st. Joseph pension
claim agent. He obtained pension
for Mrs. Carter, of Leavenworth. an6
demanded fee OF $500. He sued before
Justice Plowman and obtained judg
ment for S25, the fee allowed by law
and Sill for expenses. From this he
| appealed to the district court. where IL
obtained judgment Of only S35 and wa.
compelled to pay all costs The United
States then took the case in hand fol
extortionate charges for pension fee
and the grand jury indicted him. He
now to be tried on the Indictment.
James Below left Wichita severa
weeks ago for Mexico. via Galveston
After leaving the latter point he dlsap
! peared and his folks heard nothing o
him until the other day. when wort