Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


About eight inches of snow fell at
Emporia on the night OF the 9Th
Benson. the MettInann murderer. viii
be taken to Topeka to again have the
sentence of death pronounced upon
him
John Horton died at Wichita the other
by Artie Gates. Gates fed but was ar
rested.
On the-nigilt of the 9th heavy snow
storm prevailed in northwestern KAN
sas- 1t seriously interfered with rail-
road traffic
4 In the list of Congressmen published
| Charles r. Curtis, of the Fourth dis
trict, is classed as democrat, which
| is incorrect. He is a republican
Southern Kansas towns. including
Wichita. Arkansas City and Caldwell,
are making organized effort looking to
| the opening of the Cherokee strip at the
earliest possible date.
Mr.. Rosenthal, the straightout demo-
crat elected from Haskell county, but
| who failed to get his certificate, de-
clares that the returns were falsifed by
| the county clerk, who is his personal
enemy It is said the clerk has tlisap-
peared- There seems to be but little
| doubt that Mr.. Rosent.lal will finally
get his seat.
The Kansas Equal Suffrage associa-
ton, at its late session at Enterprise.
| elected officers as follows: President,
Miss Laura III. Johns; vice president.
! Mrs Annie L. Diggs; recording secre-
| tary, Mrs. Annie c. Wait; correspond
ing secretary, Mrs. Elizabeth F. Hop
lSins; attorney, Miss Ella M. Brown;
librarian, Mrs. May Belleville- Brown.
George o. Sharp, postmaster at Kick
apoo, is the oldest postmaster in the
| United States, having served Uncle
Sam for over fifty years. He first held
Office in Virginia in 1887, and has been
| postmaster at Kickapoo continuously
| since 1857. He has been Justice of the
peace for Kiclzapoo township for thirty
two years and was again elected No
veinber last. He is over eighty years
of age and scarcely knows what it is to
have an ache or pain.
The supreme court of the United
| States has affirmed the judgment Of the
| lower court by which C. A. Benson was
| convicted of the murder of Mrs. Theresa
Mettman on the military reservation at
! Fort Leavenworth. Benson sought to
escape on the plea that he should have
| been tried in the state and not in fed
! eral courts, for the reason that the
| land on which the murder was COM
| mitted was used for farming and not
for military purposes. Benson will,
| therefore, hang.
Gov.-elect Lewelling declares that he
| will pay no more attention to appoint
| ments until after his inauguration He
| said, in a late interview: ssMy time
will be fully occupied from now on in
making arrangements for my family in
Topeka and in preparing my inaugural
address. My correspondence has been
SO voluminous that it has been impossi-
bic for my Office to catch up with the
work, SO we will let all matters per-
tanning to appointments severely alone,
and 1 would like the public to be in
formed why replies are not received to
their appeals"
During a quarrel about dog the
other morning on the farm of ]. B.
Smith, colored, in the north bottoms 9.
mile from the limits of Kansas City.
Kan, Smith was shot in the shoulder
by Louis Whitfield, also colored. with a
load of buckshot. aud Whitfield was
soon after shot by Malcolm Courtley a
colOred farm hand who worked for
Smith. Courtley used a musket and the
charge took effect in the back of Whit
fields head, neck and shoulders He
will probably die. Smiths wound was
not dangerous Smith is pastor of the
colored Christian church of Kansas City,
Kan, and very popular with his people.
Ellsworth Wyatt, member OF the
Dalton gang who was arrested in Terre
Haute, Ind, was jailed at Topeka the
other night while being taken to Okla
slss ID T..
Kan, and Sheriff Hixson, of Guthrie o.,
both of whom had acquisitions for him,
accompanied him Wyatt is charged
| with the killing Deputy Sheriff Ralfour,
| of Kiowa county, July 4, last, and re-
ward of 81, 200 was offered by the state
and friends of the murdered man for
his arrest and conviction. The COM
plant from Oklahoma was for horse
stealing and 81, 400 had been offered for
his arrest and conviction. When Okla
homa gets through with him Kansas
will take him in hand.
The Kansas Equal Suffrage associa-
ton met in Enterprise in annual ses-
sion on the Sth with about $50 dele
gates present. The convention was
called to order by Mrs Laura III. Johns,
president of the association, and the
welcoming address was delivered by
Hon. c. b. Hoffman and responded to
by Mrs. Beleville-B Gown, of Salina.
Mrs. Johns, in the presidents an
nual address. said: This is the
hour to strike. A session of the
legislature will be held this Win
ter in Topeka The situation holds to
us peculiar difficulties, yet particularly
good advantages In both parties are
| avowed suffragists. and the life of POI
Etical parties depends upon the one
first to make the fight for suffrage in
Kansas" In concluding she said:
''The matter OF greatest Importance,
and that to which all other matters
| must give way, is the compelling of the
legislature this winter to submit an
amendment allowing women the elect
i've franchise
DIR. Samuel E. Few, one of Leaven-
worth's pioneers, died the other morn
ing at the age of II years He was
born in Woodstock, Va, settled in
Leavenworth in 1854 and was one of
the original incorporators of the town.
He had been city physician the past
twelve years
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