Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-03
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| engagement upon the advice of his ply.
| stefan.
| Gov. Mckinley, of Ohio, addressed a
| large repu blican meeting at Leaven-
| worth on the oath.
| d. A. Haines, of Ottawa county. cut
| e1ghty-four acres of corn in nineteen
days with one horse.
The Missouri Pacific railroad has sent
$4,000 to the families of the victims OF
the Dalton raid at Coffeyville.
The wheat fields look fresh and green
and the late rains will make a good
strong growth before cold weather.
The Illinois university football team
Lawrence by the Kansas university
team, the score being 26 to 4.
Prof Willard, of the state agricult-
ural college, recently secured meteor
lite in Phillips county that weighed
about 1880 pounds and is the largest
one ever found in the state.
The Y. NJ. c. A. of Kansas. Oklaho-
ma and the Indian territory recently
met in convention at Lawrence with
500 delegates in attendance. The con-
vention was in session five days.
Mathew Armidale, of Cheyenne coun-
W, GHrcSHcO S,SOU bushels OF wheat
from ITO acres, and II. B. Steck, of Bar
Der county, had 1O4 acres of Turkey
wheat which gave him 2, 241 bushels
The executive council held a special
meeting at Topeka and passed resolu-
tions of sympathy for President Harri-
son in the domestic affection that has
been visited upon him in the death of
his wife.
L. A. Hoffman, editor OF the Harper
Advocate, died in that town recently,
aged 81 years. Mr.. Hoffman was one
of the early newspaper men of Kansas,
having moved from Pennsylvania to
Doniphan county in 1857.
Ill health and alleged mistreatment
by brother caused Edward r. Over
ton, a Kansas City, Kan, negro, to
commit suicide the other day by shoot
ing himself. The i'll Treatment COM
planned of was that he had been sick
for several months and his brother
failed to procure proper medical treat
ment for him.
The nine-year old son of j. w Clark
son, who lives five miles south of New
ton, was dragged to death by cow the
other afternoon The boy was leading
the COW to pasture with a rope tied
around his arm. She became fright
ened and ran, dragging him through u
hedge. His father ran to him and cut
the rope, but the boy lived only few
hours.
A number of Chicago bankers had a
gold medal made to be presented to
John Kloehr, who killed three of the
Dalton gang in their recent raid on
Coffeyville. The medal was recently
forwarded to Mr.. Kloehr. 1t is of gold
with large diamond set in the center.
The inscription reads: ''John Kloehr-
the emergency arose, the man APP
peared.''
The Kansas Undertakers' association
(the coffin trust) has gotten into
trouble. There are fifty-eight members
of the association in Kansas, all of
whom have been arrested by the United
States authorities on the charge of vio-
lating the antitrust law. A hearing of
the case has been set for November "a
before United States Commissioner j.
c. Wilson at Topeka.
The dead body of Charles Pickering,
an old soldier, was found the other
morning in clump of bushes near the
home. Investigation proved that death
was due to exposure. He was dis
charged from the soldiers home some
weeks ago and during this time he APP
peared to have no other abiding place
except that which he could find in
places near by the homo.
Thomas McDougal, a Leavenworth
pension agent, was recently arrested
on the charge of violating pension laws.
He is accused of OBTAINING and refusing
to give over papers belonging to an old
veteran named George w. HUT. The
arrest was ordered from Washington.
McDougal claims he went to consider
able expense to secure Hutt's papers
and that he was simply holding them
until paid for his outlay and trouble
The annual financial statement of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee railroad,
submitted to the recent meeting of the
at Topeka, showed that
the average operated mileage of the
Atchison system proper is 1874 miles;
gross earnings, $50, ass, 1S9; net earn
ings, 81, 227 ,255; increase in gross earn
ings, 2,774, 473; increase in net earn
ings, S1,606, 700. The gross earnings of
the entire system for the past year has
been SAT, 34T ,226; net earnings, S15, H.
1856: increase in gross earnings, So. 2S1,-
527; increase in net earnings, 81. 1892, 365.
Inc net income from various properties
not included in the above statement
to 81, ZOO, 900.
Paul SwitliclS visited his sister ten
miles north of Silver Lake the other
night, and when he mounted his horse
to return home a pistol shot was heard
and Swit1icl received an ugly bullet
wound in the left side. He fell to the
ground and was picked up unconscious
by his nephew. A revolver was found
tied to the saddle of Switliclz's horse,
but he said that he had no revolver and
did not know where the weapon came
from. Investigation points to a prob
able attempt at murder. Switlick is an
old settler and is prosperous farmer
and stock raiser. Recently he went in
to life insurance rather heavily and is
now carrying policies aggregating $751;
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Federal supervisors were appointed
to take charge of the election in Kan
sas City. Kan, and Wyandotte county,
upon the petition of ten electors
United States District Judge Philips
Judge Ketchum, a democrat,
chief supervisor.
William Harvey, one of the oldest
residents of Finney county and for
merly well-to-do merchant, committed
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