Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-06-16
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| lege, has accepted call to Yale
Five coyotes were shot recently by a
party OF hunters near Fort Dodge.
The venerable father of the late Sen
ator Plumb has left for California on a
visit.
The Agora Magazine is soon to be
printed in Topeka. Its old home was
| Sa1ina.
John Davis was renoninated for con-
gress by the peoples party of the Fifth
district.
| Apples are failure in many parts of
| Eastern Kansas Small fruits are
abundant
The stockyards company at Kansas
City mas bought seven acres additional
land adjoining.
An immense throng of visitors at
tended the Turner'S encampment at
Bismarck grove.
Nearly fifty Indian mounds have been
discovered on the farm of Daniel Ham
ley, near Sumner.
A grain blockade has been caused at
Atchlson by recent excessive shipments
of Kansas farmers
Democrats of the Second district have
nominated Col. III. L. Moore, of Law
renee, Tor congress.
At Arkansas City a soda fountain was
sold the other day for s1.2O-by two
boys who had stolen it
Between 5000 and 5000 insurance
agents will be licensed this year by the
state insurance commissioner.
An organization of German voters
has been effected. It is called the Ger
man-American State association.
Miss Mary Abar, a newspaper woman
well known in Kansas, is city editor of
the Appeal-Avalanche at Memphis
Atchlson school teachers for the fut-
ure are to be paid according to the
amount OF experience they have had.
Edward W. Everett is the new post
master of Olpe, Lyon county, and Cyrus
Moore of Shibboleth, Decatur county.
A. 6. Stacey has been nominated To-
peka correspondent for the Atchison
Champion under the new management.
Commencement at the Normal col
lege, Fort Scott, was reported to be the
most successful in the history of the
college.
Charles Mckinney, colored man. 20
years OF age, was drowned nine miles
east of Lawrence while trying to swim
across Wakarusa creek
A Wichita girl recently lost a dia-
mond brooch that was presented to her
great-grandfather by Napoleon Bona
parte, so the Eagle says.
A twenty-four foot ditch wall fell in
on Leon Fleming and William Wade at
Topeka. Both were rescued after an
hours strenuous eXertions.
Mayor Hacker, of Leavenworth, him
self arrested a boy for furiously riding,
after the latter had knocked down and
seriously injured little girl.
Rev. A. 81. Tevis succeeded in getting
his church at Kansas City admitted into
the Methodist Protestant denomination.
A new edifice is under consideration.
John D. Sparks, aged 80, went in |
bathing at the Dexter dam, Clay Center |
his clothes remaining on the bank af- !
forded knowledge of his being drowned. |
j. M. Knight, a Topeka undertaken. |
wants 500, 900 damages from the under. |
takers combine of that city, alleged to |
have been prosecuting him because he |
was not a member.
Rumor was rife that the Leavenworth |
Terminal Railway and Bridge Co. had |
declared its contract with the Missouri |
Valley Bridge Co. off, and had entered |
into a contract with the Union Bridge
Co., of New York, to construct the new /
steel bridge across the Missouri river at
Leavenworth.
A colony of Russian Jews will settle
n Edwards county this summer The
Dodge City Globe tells OF COLONY that
zane to Ford county few years ago.
poor as church mice, and says that the
members of the community are all well |
20 do farmers to-day, and are sending
lid to others in Russia
Eighty-four students graduated from
The state university this year, divided
Emong the different departments as fol-
ows: Science and arts, 25; law, 20;
music, ID; pharmacy, s and masters
tegreeS, 9. Attendance reached 625, not
including $50 IN the university extern
ion department. It was most pros
'erous year for the university.
HI. III. Woolsey, mayor of Kingman,
Las been arrested charged with violat-
ng the law of Kansas requiring public
dficials to give the preference in their
to old soldiers. There t
las been considerable feeling among |
Id soldiers and the mayor for some
lme, and this is the elimination of it
he law is generally ignored through
ut the state, and it is proba BILE this eff
ort to make it operative will be of no
vail
Suit was brought in the district court
p the city of Topeka to revoke the
ranchise of the Topeka Water Co The
etition alleges that the water company ,
as not complied with its contract with
he city, which provides that the city ,
hall pay s15, 1000 for 800 hydrants, and ,
hat the water company shall furnish
rec all the other hydrants necessary for
be city's use. About eighteen months
go the water company's plant and
was sold by Joab Mulvane to
syndicate of New York bankers for a ,
uarter of a million dollars
No little excitement was created at
Wichita by the discovery that c. Reed, $
1dge OF the district court, had been G
hallenged to fight a duel by L n I
'ird, prominent attorney. The trouble i
riginated over uncomplimentary words 4
4 court
Ninety-two refunding bonds OF Scott c
ounty of $500 each have been exam !
led in the Office Of the state superin- s
endent of public instruction with a
lew to their purchase by the school t
md commissioner :