Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-31
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

John Mcdowell colored man thirty
six years old was killed by the cars at
Topeka the other day.
! An unknown tramp was recently
found dead in the cellar of a vacant
house in Argentine. Physicians de-
! clded that heart disease was the cause
| of death.
| In the great fight for free silver in
the national house of representatives,
| upon the motion to lay the Bland free
| coinage bill upon the table. Messrs.
BrodericlS, Baker, Davis. Funston, Otis
and Simpson voted no. Mr.. Clover
did not vote 7.et3
| William Jay. aged seventy-four years,
died at Emporia the other day. He
was quite wealthy and became widely
known as the guardian of the young
| widow in the Minnie Walkup case some
year ago. when the young widow was
on trial for the poisoning OF her hus-
| band. 5
George Easten was recently arrested
| at Winfield upon the charge of attempt
ing to kill Miss Meta Rogers He had
been paying attention to the young
woman. but got on spree and she re-
fused his company. Meeting her on
the street he drew a knife and made
the assault for which he was arrested.
| = The Missouri and Kansas woman's
convention was recently in session at
Fort Scott Many prominent women
took part in the proceedings, among
them Anna Shaw, of Chicago; Miss
| Jennie Shelly Boyd, of Philadelphia;
Mrs p. A. Thurston, of Nebraska; Mrs.
Florence Balgarnie. of Liverpool, and
Mrs. Laura NJ. Johns. of the Kansas
association.
! The board of railroad commissioners
recently requested Gov. Humphrey to
| institute mandamus proceedings
against the Union Pacific railroad to
enforce it's order of May 20, 1891, call
ing for additional train service on the
Lincoln branch of that road. Shortly
after this order had been made the
Union Pacific increased its service. but
subsequently removed the train.
Martin Collar and Charles Christ
| quarreled in Leavenworth saloon the
| other day, when Christ struck Collar
across the forehead with spade. The
handle of the spade was broken and a
| great hole made in Collars skull.
The blood flowed profusely. but Collar
was not even stunned, aud tying a
handkerchief about his head, went to
the police station to lodge complaint
against Christ. He walked home and a
physician soon afterwards found him
unconscious. His recovery was doubt
full
If the post Office building bill. which
has passed the senate, meets with sue
cess in the house, Kansas will get fifty
nine post Office buildings, ranging in
cost from $4,000 to S75. 900. According
! to the bill the postm is to
have erected in every CITY where the
| gross receipts of the post Office siEe not
less than 5000 year nor more than
$50. 600 building which will not ex-
| coed in cost more than three times the
| annual receipts of the Office. Fifty
nine Kansas cities come within the pro-
visions of the bill
The executive council has declined
| to grant the request of Commander
Greene, setting aside department in
the capitol building for a memorial
hall for the 6. A. R., because the coun-
Gil has no authority to grant such a re-
| quest, and alse, because there is no
room in the capitol that can be so used.
| The executive council, however, by
resolution asks the next legislature to
provide by law for the setting apart of
suitable xoom or rooms in the capitol
building, when completed, to be occu-
| pied as department headquarters of the
| G. A. E. of Kansas
Martin Mohler, secretary of the state
beard of agriculture. has recently
made an extended trip through the
western part of the state. He and w.
A. Smith, secretary of the board of
managers of the worlds fair associa-
ton, organized county fair asSocia-
tions and Colum bian exposition as
! sociations in several counties. The
work of raising funds for the Kan
sas exhibit is progressing finely
and enough will have been paid into
the treasury to- warrant the letting of
| the contract for the Kansas building as
soon as the specifications are approved
and building permit issued by the
| board of directors in Chicago. The
/ legislature will be asked to make an
appropriation to repay all money sub
scribed and there is little reason to
doubt but that this will be done.
| A suit for the recovery of a quarter
section Of land, most of which is within
the corporate limits of Wichita, was
! commenced in the United States circuit
court in that city the other day by An
toinette Sanders, a resident of SPRING
field, Ill The petition sets forth shat
in 1878 Lindley Lee, of Fulton, N. Y.
| decided the land in question, then a
farm, to George A. Sanders. trustee
| for the three minor children Of George
| and Antoinette Sanders and grandchil-
dren of the grantor. All the children
| died in youth. In 1882, after their
death, George Sanders decided the prop
| erty to Thomas Devereaux. Since
| then it has been divided and sub-divided
| into town lots and is now known as
| College Hill, one of the most fashion
| able residence quarters OF the city.
| representing value to the present DC
cupants of probably s5oo.0 Mrs
Sanders alleges that her husband had
nc power to deed away the property
and sues for an undivided half interest
| to it, which she claims as the heir OF
| the deceased children. Upwards of
one hundred personss are named as de-
| PENDANTS to the suit
| When the Missouri Pacific pay car
| stopped at Hutchinson the other day to
| pay some section men Baker heater
| used in the car exploded with great
force, blowing out one end of the car.
Roadmaster Richardson was badly hurt,