Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| Jim Mitchell fatally stabbed Bob Jen-
| nings in gambling house at Atchisen
| the other night Both are colored.
Kansas City, Kan, is figuring on Sc
curing the location of the new Methodist
Protestant university which the church
in the west proposes to build.
| DIR. T. I. Ingalls,, q brother of ex-Sen-
etor ingalls,, and president of Drury
college at Springfield, Mo. died in that
city on August 5 after a brief illness
| Mrs Groves, wife of w. 81. Groves, a
| well known farmer living near Efhng-
ham, took a dose of strychnine the other
| night and died before the arrival of a
| physician. When asked why she took
| the poison she said she did not want to
be talked about
| Col N A English, one of the origi-
nal settlers of Wichita. died suddenly
| the other morning of congestion of the
stomach. He was out driving the day
before apparently all right. He came
from Leavenworth in 1869 and Wichita
| is now built all over the land he settled
| upon.
! David and Mary Martin, father and
mother of George w. Martin, of the
Kansas City, Kan, Gazette, died recent
| ly at their farm near Lecompton- with
| in few hours of each other. Mr.. Mar
tin was 7s and his wife ~ years old.
They died on the farm Mr.. Martin pre-
empted thirty-seven years ago.
The body of the young man found
| hanging at the Fort Leavenworth milf
| tary reservation has been identified as
that of Solomon Bernstein, OF Atchison.
He was lately coufned in the Topeka
insane asylum, from which place he es-
capped. Bernstein was from one of the
best Hebrew families of Atchison-
The body of young man about 25
years old was found hanging from a
limb in bunch of trees on the Fort
Leavenworth military reservation the
other day. The surroundings indicated
| that he committed suicide. The only
articles found on his person were
chloroform and memorandum which
failed to disclose his indemnity.
| Acknowledgement Ives has written
another letter, in which he says that
the Interpretation put on his recent
opinion relative to the state inspection
| law is entirely erroneous and that in
spectors from the state of Missouri or
any place who attempt to inspect grain
on Kansas soil without qualifying un-
der the Kansas law should be promptly
| dealt with.
| Secretary Mohler said recently that
SO far as he could Judge at present time
the proba bility is the corn crop will
| be the largest ever produced in Kansas.
Additional reports from the wheat har-
vest indicate that the secretary's esti-
mate of thirty days ago will fall below
| the actual product at least 10000, 900
bushels, making total yield of over
&c, O0O 900 bushels in the state.
The other day can of gasoline upon
| the platform above the well on q, S.
| Phillips place, near Newton, was over
| turned by pigs and the gasoline ran in
to the well. Next day the well was
pumped out and Phillips dropped a
match into the ventilator. An eXplo-
sion followed and Phillips was badly
burned and the sight of one eye serious
ly injured. Mrs. Phillips, who stood
further away, was also severely burned.
The colored emancipation day ce1e-
brated at Leavenworth wound up with
two cutting scrapes- A colored soldier
from the fort, named Jones Bass. put
in an appearance at the hall where the
festivities were held and was so insult
ing that William Hawkins, colored, a
special policeman, attempted to eject
him. While doing so Bass suddenly
drew out a dagger and stabbed Haw-
izins twice. In the next ARRAY William
Bailey, colored, stabbed his sister-in-
law, Mrs. Ishams, with long knife in
the left abdomen, inficting a supposed
fatal wound. Bailey was intoxicated
at the time.
The July report of the state board
of agriculture shows an increased
acreage in the three leading crops
Of the state, wheat, corn and oats.
| The increase in winter wheat is G. So
per cent, spring wheat 10.4 per cent,
making the actual wheat acreage 4, 11S, :
564. The increased acreage in corn
is IA, making the acreage 1854, sO7.
The oats acreage is 1.G13, T97, an in
crease of over "a per cent The corn has
been greatly injured by drought, es-
pecially in the central corn belt and
in the southern and southwestern
parts of the state. The corn through
out the eastern parts of the state is in
frst-class condition. Corn is later
than usual, and good crop conditions
from now on may make comparative
| Iy good crop where almost a total fail
ure is now feared.
All Harper county was recently in an
uproar over the alleged abduction of
one of the county commissioners and
the attempted carrying off of second
member. 1t was the day on which the
board of county commissioners was to
meet and levy tax to cover county
railroad bonds to the amount of S11O.-
BOO long overdue, and which it is
claimed are fraudulent. The people,
through the commissioners, fought the
payment of the bonds through every
court. and finally the supreme court
ordered that they be paid The story
is that Commissioner Farmer was
carried off by body of masked men
while another party attempted to carry
off Commissioner Terrill AS result
no levy was made. The bonds were
voted a score of years ago, when first
the county was organized, to some rail-
road company that built a few miles of
road, sold the bonds. then tore up the
line and left the country.
/ Eighteen insane old veterans were re-
Gently taken from the soldiers home to
Washington, D. c., for treatment It
is stated that the number of old veter-
ans who lose their reason at the