Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


ments now in many of the western
counties
The annual meeting of the State
Temperance union opened ct Topeka
on the 10Th with large attendance.
Fred A. Stocks. OF Kansas, chief
clerk in the national treasury depart
ment, has been appointed by the presi-
dent a member of the board of control
of the government exhibit at the
worlds fair
The seventeen-year-old son of NJ
Young, living near Hutchinson, acct
dentally shot and instantly killed his
mother the other day, the entire charge
from a gun entering her body in the re-
gion of the heart.
The error in certifying the vote from
Sedgwick and Wilson counties. in which
the name of Campbell instead of Cab
bell was given as one of the fusion
electors voted for, resulted in the state
board of canvassers declaring Dewey,
republican elector, entitled to the GER
titcate of election. A contest will fol-
low.
The Kansas State Temperance union,
recently in session at Topeka, elected
officers as follows: President, Rev. D.
-. 4hAAhCI, VIC JiCS1OChCs ocfiAuS1 L.
Howe; secretary, F. o. Popenoe; treas
urer, Mrs. s. A. Thurston- The execu-
tive committee is headed by James A.
Troutman and /. o. Pickering, the late
prohibition candidate for governor.
It is given out that a new veteran
organization to be known as 1.-THE
Boys in Blue" is to be started in Kan
sas- It is to be entirely non-political.
Trc<ao1 % 40. ;af
officer in the new order will be ''gen-
eral" Major generals and brigadier-
generals will follow next in command
and the subdivisions will be companies
instead of posts.
In canvassing the votes for represen-
tatives, the official returns sent from
Haskell county showed that Stubs,
republican, received 1876 votes and Ro-
senthal, democrat, 1913. A certificate
was given Stubs. This will result in
contest, as it is claimed that the vote
as cast was just the reversible clerk
of the county, it is said, made a mis-
take in carrying out the figures and
gave Stubbs Rosenthal's vote
r. L. Martin, of Chicago, was arrest
ed at Wichita the other day for fraudu-
lent use of the mails. He had been
operating over the entire west and is
said to have obtained in the aggregate
large sums of money from dealers in
different lines of goods, who sell under
government license. Martins plan
was to write these individuals and I'M
der pretense of having evidence to con-
vict them of offenses against Uncle
Sam demanded certain amount of
hush money.
As William Miller was returning to
his home, about four miles southeast of
Lawrence, the other night he was held
up and probably murdered. He was
driving home alone on wagon loaded
with coal, and when about two miles
out couple of strangers climbed in the
wagon and asked to ride. When they
had gone short distance one of them
struck Miller with railroad coupling
pin, crushing his skull. He was robbed
of about S25 and his watch and left
dying alongside the road, where he was
found by friends
Mrs. John Taylor, wife of a farmer
living south of Abilene, was recently
arrested on the charge of numbering
her husband Mr.. Taylor died Septem-
Der Is, and recently his body was ex-
humed and examined by State Chemist
Bailey, with the result that strong
traces of poison were found. The fact
that the two had not lived together
pleasantly was the principal reason of
suspicion attaching to her. She adj
mitted that poison had been bought by
herself and that it was in the house,
but did not know how he got it.
According to the official returns the
populists elected three of the seven dis
trict judges chosen. They are: l.. A.
Myers, of the First judicial district:
William A. Randolph, of the Fifth. and
A M. jackson, of the Thirteenth. The
republicans elected w. D. Webb in the
Second district, Y. R Hazen in the
Third, F. w. Sturgis in the Twelfth
and w. G. Eastland in the Fourteenth.
These, with Thompson. of Sabetha;
Mackay, of Harper. and Bashore, OF
Kingman, give to the populists six Of
the thirty-fve judges of the state.
The mystery surrounding the murder
of Paul Swetlick, a wealthy cattleman,
on October %. near Holton, is possibly
about to be cleared up. A reward of
81, 900 was offered for the apprehension
of the guilty party. Suspicion pointed
to relatives of Mr.. Swetlick, who. in
case of his death, would come in posses
sion of his vast wealth. Mrs. Anna
Stach, Swetlick's sister, is now accused
of being the originator of the assassina
ton and Mrs. Stach, her son. Joseph,
| and a hired man named Frank Nowalk,
have been arrested upon the charge.
Several weeks ago the little daughter
of Theodore f. Wheeler. Kansas City,
Kan, coal dealer, died, since which
| time the father had been unusually
melancholy, continually praying that
| he might be taken away also. His wife
| frequently demonstrated with him and
he promised to omit that clause of his
usual family prayer. The other night,
| however, he knelt by his bed and
earnestly prayed that he might he
| taken to his child He retired and dur
| ing the night his wife heard him strug-
| Cling. She Immediately gave the
alarm, but in q few minutes Wheeler
was dead He was about % years old
and physically q large, healthy man.
He left wife and babe
| Oliver Yantis, one of the robbers Of
| the Spearville bank. was recently shot
and killed by officers near Guthrie, Ok.
He was tracked by the sheriff of Ford
] county to the house of his sister in Ok
| lahoma. and when he was ordered te
| surrender. opened fire on the officers