Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-02-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

killed by illegal liquor peddlers in
! Alaska.
The report of the warden of the PEN
ttentiary for January shows that the
total expenditure for the month. ex-
{; elusive of permanent improvements.
| was SO, 150 81; cash receipts. S.. 952 "a;
leaving but S198 o. to be drawn from
the state to pay current expenses
A fire at Larned the other night
wiped out property valued at 1926. coo.
The heaviest losers. were N. s. Sunder-
land, who loststhree business houses
and stock of clothing all valued at
| 800, 600; insurance, $4,000. aud Louis
Wolf. dry goods, whose loss was $40, 600
with insurance of s1a o0o.
The Kansas intercollegiate oratorical
! contest took place at Topeka the other
night and resulted in q victory for j.
l.. Pastor, of Washburn college, To-
peka; subject, "After the Shackles
Have Been Removed j. NJ Challis,
| of the state university, took second
place Eight colleges were represented
Joseph j. Spendlove, who had so long
been fighting in the courts of Shawnee
county against the verdict of two juries
at different times sending him to
| the penite utiary and was out on bail,
surrendered to the officers after the
decision of the supreme court and was
taken to Lansing to serve his term of
| fifteen years.
Charles I. johnson, state bank COM
missioner, has completed his report of
| the condition of Kansas banks for
the year ended June 2, 1891. The total
resources of III private aud EOS state
| banks is $50, 449, SOS 50. Commissioner
johnson stated that comparison of
reports shows that the banks are rap
| idly decreasing their real estate hold
| ings and giving other signs of pros
perity.
John L. Sullivan, the champion slug
ger. was welcomed by his admirers at
| many points during his recent flying trip
through Kansas At Dodge City many
| enthusiastic admirers were at the de-
pot with band of music and banners
bearing legends of welcome" John
went to the door attired in pantaloons
and undershirt. made his bow and went
back to his seat. At several other
places on the route his welcome was
equally as cordial
George w. Strannahan, formerly a
Gently sentenced to the penitentiary
| y
forging his wife's name to a certificate
of deposit for one thousand dollars
Stranahan secured the money and dis
| appeared, and was afterward arrested
at Salt Lake City, where he was living
under an assumed name. He had been
married but little over year. and his
! wife refused to pardon his offense He
is sixty years old.
| Prof. Blake, of the state university,
has succeeded in series of remarkable
experiments by which he now has a
loud speaking telephone. The pro-
fessor has been working at the matter
for long time and has the satisfaction
of hearing the voices in the telephone
at a distance of ten or fifteen feet from
| the receiver. AT an experimental ex-
hibition given by the professor he was
enabled to give large number of
friends a concert by attaching a music
box to one end of the wire and his
loud speaking apparatus to the other.
The state board of railroad commits
| sioners lately made its formal decision
| in the case of wholesale grocers of
Kansas against the various railroad
systems of the state. The decision re-
cites the agreement between the rail-
| roads and grOcerS which established
rates above the Missouri river rate on
canned goods coffee and beans in car
lots and on sugar, which agreement
runs to March 1, 1892, and suspends the
order of January 6 until the expiration
| Of the agreement. If at that time
proper rates are not given the original
order is to be put in force, except as to
| sugar, and on that rate will be made.
The presidential postmasters of the
| taft in of to
other day and organized permanent or
ganization to be known as the Kansas
association of presidential postmasters,
| which will meet annually on the sec
ond Tuesday in Fe bruary, Topeka be-
| ing the place selected for next years
convention. Officers were elected as
follows: Morgan Carraway, OF Great
| Bend, president; j. nj. Simson, of Nc
Pherson, vice-president; j. E. Junkin.
| OF Sterling, secretary; O. K. Serviss,
| of Kansas City, treasurer. This is the
| first organization of presidential post
| masters in the United States and is in
tended to advance the interest of the
| service.
On the sth Mr.. Otis, of Kansas.
introduced in congress a bill to
create a national union loan fund
to consist OF 81, 900. 600, 600 or as much
thereof as may be necessary of legal
tender paper money, to be issued by
the secretary of the treasury. and to be
| interchangeable at par with any other
kind of lawful money of the United
| States 1t is to be deposited in the
United States treasury subject to the or
der of the governors of the several
| states. Any state desiring to avail itself
! of the benefits of the fund may do so
| by the adoption of a joint resolution
setting forth that the state agrees to
pay the United States one per cent per
annum on small sums drawn and re-
tanned by it and providing for the loan
of money to its citizens upon reason
able security at interest not exceeding
three per cent The secretary is to honor
the request for loan to the amount of
SO per cent. of the assessed value of the
real estate situated within the state.
Suit has been brought in the district
court at Lawrence by the waterworl1s
company against the city for S12,
| and interest claimed for water fur
nished. The city refuses to pay the
claim on the ground that the water.
works company has repeatedly vio-
| lated its contract and has not furnished