Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-11-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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! d. T. Hoover, of Shawnee county, has
| raised 634 bushels of apples this year,
| and sold 434 bushels.
Jacob Miller, of Rawlins county,
| raised 81 bales of broom corn which
averaged 375 pounds per bale.
The many threshing machines
throughout the state are still grinding
away at this years wheat crop.
Corn in Riley county is averaging
about 40 and SO bushels to the acre on
the bottoms and from Is to 80 bushels
on the prairie.
The average yield per acre of rye in
Kansas is placed at 1879 bushels. This,
on an acreage of 249. 1.3 acres, makes
the rye product 4. 042, 613 bushels.
Wesley Best, of Elk county, lost his
fine residence recently by fire. The
house cost IS, 600 and was total loss,
with much valuable furniture. Insur-
ance, IS, 500
j. Is. Miller, foreman at Davis & Co. s
elevator in Topeka, was killed the other
day by falling from the attic to the
ground floor, distance of sixty feet
He left q wife and one child.
The pupils of the Wichita university
have found time during their other
studies to get the question of domestic
economy down to such a fine point as to
secure good club board for $3.50 per
week
Mrs. Julia Osborn. wife of Ex-Gov.
Osborn, died recently at Phoenix, Ariz
of consumption. Mrs. Osborn was the
daughter of Judge M. w. Delahay.
deceased. The remains were taken to
Topeka for interment-
Patrick Egan, car repairer. was
killed in the Santa Fee yards at Wichit q
the other evening. He was caught be-
tween two cars and horribly mangled.
Egan took the place of Charles Tracy.
who was killed in just the same way a
month previous.
Fred Sorter, a farmer, who murdered
Enoch Link, Quindaro blacksmith on
decoration day two years ago, will have
to go to the penitentiary to serve out
his sentence OF ten years, the supreme
court having affirmed the sentence Of
the Wyandotte district court.
D. t. Mitchell, of Douglas county,
realized from thirty acres of land, which
had been in grass for the past seven
years, a crop of excellent potatoes aver
IAS LOU 10 OIIS acre, anu disc
d crop Of corn which, without tending,
yielded thirty bushels to the acre.
The fifth annual convention Of the
Kansas Farmers Alliance & Industrial
union met in the Whitley opera house
at Emporia on the 10th. The morning
session was presided over by Mrs. Fan
ME R. Vic!zry, who is vice president,
the president, W. FL. Biddle, being
absent.
The case of the Cherokee Strip Co.
against j. V. Andrews was called for
trial in the district court of Kansas
City, Kan, the other morning. The
suit, although for a small sum, involves
the right of the Cherokee nation to the
six million acres comprising the Chero-
kee strip.
The amount of sorghum sugar pro-
duced in Kansas thus far this year, as
shown by the internal revenue report,
is as follows: Fort Scott mill, 500, 900
pounds; Medicine Lodge mill, 500, 900
pounds Total, 1900. 600 pounds, which
at the price paid in Chicago for it, 81
cents per pound, would make the hand
some sum of S45, 500.
John Slavens, xan employee of the
Stock Yards Co., met with very serious
accident about two o'clock the other
afternoon in the Cypress yards at Kan
sas City, Kan. He was riding on box
car that was being set out on 4 side
track, when he fell from the top onto
the tracks. The wheels passed over
his left leg just below the knee, crush
ing it badly.
Clarence Root, aged about IL years,
was run over and instantly killed the
other night at 6:20 o'clock in the ele-
waited road tunnel at Sixth aud Mime
sofa avenue, Kansas City, Kan. He
was a newsboy and got on the train to
sell papers. In getting off he fell under
another train going in the opposite
direction and his head was severed
from his body.
The assignee of NJ. V. Ingram, of
Kansas City, Kan, has brought suit
against the Exchange bank of that city
and its late president for SO 500. The
complaint states that on November is,
1890, 4 mortgage was given to the Ex-
change bank for So. 900, on the stock
valued at s22, 500. The assignee makes
sensational charges against the bank
officials, claiming that there was no
money consideration received. The
plaintiff prays for a Judgment for
SO. 800.
Pensions granted Kansas veterans on
October %: Original-Jean Aiziere,
Adam Van Meter, William Tweedy,
Harvey Champion, William Brenton,
Jerome Dillenbecl, Lewis E. Arthur,
Winfield s. Sharps, William Trip, Ben
jamin T. Hembree, jeremiah Harvin,
James Flynn. Additional-Cyrus G.
Allen, Joseph W. Bennett, Harrison
Guy, Elias Fought, Isaac Bales, James
D. Henderson, Zebulon E. Binns. Will
liam C. Geary, Mannard Bell, Chauncey
A. Green. Horatio E. Hanna; William
son Page, Arthur B. Crazy. Supple
mentary-Lewis Ginger. Increase
Joshua S. Green, Isaac w. Williams,
George w. Ross, Joseph A. Law, Mahlon
Huff, Archibald Antry. Reissue-John
w. Cramer (deceased), Elijah C. Baker,
Moses Sewer. Original, widows, etc
Ida K. Bryant, Mary Anderson, Sarah
Cramer minors of Ephraim Earps.
T. j. Smith, of Green1eaf, reports that
silver ore has been found in the hills
six miles south of that town. He says
he saw the ore assayed in Kansas City
recently and he thinks the vein viii pay
to work.
The vinegar works at North Topeka,