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

norman, Emporla, junior vlce-cOm-
mander; E. B. White, Independence;
w. j. Mendenhall, Great Bend; f. r.
Hayes, Medicine Lodge, mem bers di-
vision council, with full list of SUBJ
ordinate officers
Miscellaneous.
During the past year 1855 comrades of
the G. A. R. in Kansas have died.
George Washington was very gen.
orally remembered on the 22d by the
patriotic school children of the state.
William Haddock, prominent farm
er residing near Hays City. recently be-
came violently insane and drove his
family from home.
A barn in North Topeka was lately de-
stroyed by an incendiary fire and three
work horses belonging to a very poor
man were consumed.
Tom Costello a Santa Fe locomotive
engineer at Wichita, is said to have
fallen heir to $50, 900, left by brother
who recently died at Detroit Mich.
Kansas came to the front with the
largest delegation at the St Louis con-
ference. There were three hundred
delegates and attendants from the
state.
The sixth annual conference of the
secretaries of the Young Mems Chris
tian association of Kansas met lately
at Wichita There was large attend
ance from all quarters of the state and
much interest was manifested
George M. Beebe, who was tempo
rary chairman of the late Hill demo-
cratic convention at Albany, was once
secretary of the territory of Kansas,
and was its acting governor when it
was admitted to the union as a state.
Ex-senator John ]. Ingalls, was the
other night made a mem Der Of John A.
Martin post. 6. A. R., of Atchison. Mr..
ingalls, was judge advocate on Gen.
Dietzler's staff during the Price raid,
which position he held three months
Fire at Haven, Reno county, the
other day destroyed the buildings occu-
pied by C. C. Sweetland and s. Dore-
myes, with stocks of groceries and
hardware, together with all their con-
tents. Loss, about $1,000; no insurance.
David E. Davis, under sentence of
death for the murder of his wife at
Leavenworth, has been taken to the
penitentiary to spend the balance of
his life, the supreme court having af-
frmed the sentence of the district court
in his case.
Irwin Spencer, a well-to-do farmer,
became violently insane at Wichita the
other day and was jailed for safe keep
ing. He first attempted to murder a
younger brother with a knife, and
when captured was preparing caul-
dron of water in which TO cook his
mother-in-law:
Milton Knapp, a farmer living near
Leavenworth, caused a sensation the
other day by clipping with neighbours
daughter. Knapp. who is a married
man. lately came into the possession of
considerable money. through his wife,
which he evidently intends to spend on
the other woman.
At the late meeting of the G. A. R. at
Atchison the report Of the assistant adj
jutant-general was read which showed
receipts during the nine months as S.
920.55; expenditures for the same pc
riod, S.. 251.53; cash on hand, 81, 1874 16.
The report also showed that the posts
of the department had received S32,-
021. ga and expended $40. 053. II, and that
they now hold in their general post fund
an aggregate of SIS, 257. SO, while the re-
lief fund Of the posts now amounts to
81, O44 O3 The membership in the state
is 20. 61O.
Frank Cotton was arrested at
Armourdale the other day on the
charge of counterfeiting. The police
seized a complete outfit of counterfeit
ers' tools, consisting of a trunk, two
valises. stove for melting the metal
and large assortment of dies The
trunk and valises contained stamps,
metal nodded into the size of a silver
dollar, yet rnstamped, and tools of va
rious descriptions. On the other hand
it was asserted that Cotton was only a
detective who had the outfit on hand
for the purpose Of trapping a gang of
i counterfeiters.
A Medicine Lodge dealer the past
winter shipped 10, 600 bushels of cane
seed. 1t went mostly to Texas, and a
local paper remarks that sorghum can
be grown profitably just for seed. It
produced last year twenty bushels to
| the acre. and the average price for the
seed have been 40 cents Sorghum hay
makes the best and cheapest feed for
stock that can be had.
A post Office inspector recently
caused the arrest OF John Belcher.
clerk in the registry department of the
post office at Wichita, and Sebo Tuck
er, letter separator, on the charge or
purloining registered mail. They were
trapped by means of decoy letter.
Frank Mckee, a young man about
twenty years of age and residing some
eight miles west of Columbus, was re-
Gently killed by the accidental dis
charge of gun in the hands of COM
panion while out hunting.
T. H. Young. of Leavenworth county,
FL a
a nap, apparently in the best of health
When called for supper he was found
TO be dead.
F. j. Atkinson. in drilling a well at
Edw ardsviiIe, the other dav, attempted
to blast a rock. A sudden explosion
occurred and he was terribly mangled-
It was said he could not live