Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-09-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

dcclueHl, especially those IN the hospital
at Topeka, are reported as doing well.
| All Emporia artist has painted life
| sized portrait of the late Senator Plumb,
which will eventually be deposited
with the state historical society.
| The encouragement has appointed
III. A Yonge assistant encouragement
| for Wyandotte county. He is expected
to move Immediately upon the works of
the jointists.
The colored people celebrated the
| thirty-hrst anniversary of the issuing
| of President Lincoln's emancipation
proclamation on the 2ad. The day was
observed as a general holiday.
| Chief Justice Albert II. Horton, of
the supreme court, has arrived home
from Europe, where he spent his sum-
mer vacation. He successfully ran the
quarantine gauntlet at New York.
| The other day Charles C. Stafford,
! Santa Fe brakeman living at Arkansas
City, was shot dead between Edmond
and Oklahoma City by negro who was
stealing a ride and whom he attempted
to put off the train.
The infant son of c. w. Thompson, a
| a prominent citizen of Burden, was re-
Gently burned to death. Its clothing
caught in gasoline stove and it was
burned beyond recovery before the
flames were extinguished.
Thirty head of cows, supposed to be
infected with Texas fever, were re-
Gently put under quarantine at a farm
near Merriam Park. eight miles south
of Kansas City. Six of the cows have
died. They belonged to Rosedale
dairyman.
The w. c. T. U. of Kansas holds it's
annual meeting at Pittsburg, October
4. Each local union in the state is en-
titled to one delegate at large, and one
to every twenty-five paying members.
Excursions on the certificate plan have
been granted by the different railroads.
Ed Horner, Sedgwick county farm
er, is a successful tiller of the soil. The
average yield of his entire wheat crop,
machine measure, was thirty-eight
bushels per acre, weighing sixty-three
pounds to the bushel. His crop of oats
yielded eighty-two and a-half bushels
per acre.
Fire the other night destroyed the
Touring mill and electric light plant
owned by A. F. Dexter at Clay Center
Loss, S22, 600; insurance $3.50 In adj
dition Mr.. Dexter lost five cars of wheat,
a large amount of flour, all ready for
shipment.
Frank LANES, or La Moss, who es-
capped from a Kansas City hospital
wagon some time since, with a bullet
in his side, is suspected of being one of
the parties who wrecked the Santa Fe
train near Usage City recently, by
which four persons were killed and
many injured.
Judge J. C. Lambki United States
cattle inspector, was stricken with ap-
opleXy while talking to friend in
front of his hotel at Wichita the other
day and in an hour was dead. The
judge had been in Kansas about thirty
eight years and was a member of the
first legislature.
James Willis one of the Oldest hard
ware merchants of Topeka. attempted
to cut his throat, the other morning
while in q fit of dependency. He lost
brother some time ago, and since his
! mind has become unbalanced. a jury
declared him insane and he was sent to
an asylum. He is unmarried.
Judge Guthrie, of the district court
| of Shawnee county, has declared the
civil rights law passed by the legisla-
/
cision was in the case of a colored man
who sued the proprietors of d Topeka
hotel for refusing to permit him to sit
| at the table with other guests.
Mrs. Louis Scott attempted self de-
struction at Kansas City, Kan, the
other night by drowning herself in q
pond. Her son, aged IA years, ran into
the pond and held her head above the
surface of the water until help arrived.
The woman stated that she made the
attempt on account Of the Maynard
habits of the boy who saved her life.
William Rodgers and c. Z. Wiley were
shot in an encounter with Il burglar 4 &
Argentine a few days ago. Rogers
wounds will likely result fatally. while
Wiley's VIII not prove serious. William
Woodson. a Santa Fe switchnan was
looked up at the county jail in Kansas
City, Kan. pending an investigation,
as Wiley declared that he was the man
who did the shooting.
About twenty-five republican editors
met at Topeka the other day to perfect
| permanent organization. The meet
ing was the outgrowth of Il preliminary
| meeting held in July, which was called
by the state central committee. A per-
the election of j. X. Hudson, of the To-
peka Capital, as president, and F. III.
Roberts, of Oskaloosa, secretary
The Topeka Capital says: Zone of
| the finest specimens of yellow corn on
| exhi bition at the state fair was from
Labette county, grown on a farm of
| Mrs. Augustus Wilson, adjoining Will
| sonton Mrs. Wilson gathered the corn
/ herself and sent it to the state fair for
| the purpose of adding it to the exhibit
| to be taken from Kansas to the worlds
! Columbian exposition at Chicago in
| 1898. The corn will average 100 BUSH
| els to the acre" Mrs. Wilson is news
| paper woman as well as farmer, being
| editor and proprietor of the Wilsonton
| Journal.
| An aged farmer of Bourbon county
committed suicide the other night by
| hanging himself to tree in his own
! door yard in the presence of his daugn-
| ter-in-law, whom he had informed OF
| his intention, but who. from his repeat
| ed threats to do so, had grown to re-
ceive them with NO serious apprehen-
sion He was 10 years of age and a
pioneer of bourbon county. Mental
| dal,,Sion is aSfrihed as the cause of his