Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-12-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The inauguration.

EODOWlHS Iris, speeches Will DE made
| by the retiring and incoming govern
ors, after which there will be a
musical selection by a glee club. John
/ w. Breldenthal, chairman of the popu-
list state central committee, will act as
master of ceremonies and j. A. Higgins
as sergeant-at-arms In the evening
| there will be reception in honor of
| the new officers Judge John Martin will
| be master of ceremonies and responses
| to toasts will be made by Gov. Lewelling
and the other officers, and prominent
| speakers. After the public reception
| the state officers will go to their re-
| spective rooms in the state house for
| one hour during the evening and hold
receptions of their own. The music
will be furnished by an orchestra, thus
enabling the young people to waltz, if
| they can find room in the crowd.
miscellaneous.
Napoleon BiXby, transfer man in
| the employment of the st. Joseph &
Grand Island road, was recently killed
| by the cars at Elwood.
The Woman's Columbian club of Rus
sell is having fireplace built of Rus
sell county stone in the Kansas build
| ing at the worlds fair.
Kansas university this year reaches roo,
all in regular collegiate courses, an in
| crease of so per cent in the last few
years.
James Murphy, proprietor of the Kaw
Valley hotel and prominent citizen of
Kansas City, Kan, was recently stand
ing on the roof of the front porch of
his hotel, when he slipped and fell to
lolo fol
juries.
Bernard Ford, aged fifty years, a
lamp lighter for the Missouri Pacific
railway, dropped dead the other after
noon, while on duty in the yards at
Kansas City, Kan. He was in the act
of lighting switch lamp when he fell
| and died before any assistance could be
rendered him.
The association of officers and mem
bers of the legislature of 1865 will have
its twenty-ffth anniversary at the state
house in Topeka, January 16, 1898, at
o'clock in the afternoon. All state of
ficers and members of the legislature of
1868 are members of the associate
and are urgently requested to be pres
ent at the meeting. Hon. John NJ.
Price, of Atchison, issues the call and
all persons who held state or territorial
offices or who were members of the
legislature prior to 1868
The Reform Press association, an
organization of peoples party editors,
closed it's annual meeting at Topeka
by electing A. A. Stewart, of Manhat-
tan, president: w. 81. French, of Kins.
ley, vice president, and DR.. McLallin,
Of a
resolution was adopted that the editors
have inside information that the peo-
pies party elected majority of the
members of the lower house of the leg
islature and they believe every lawful
and honorable means should be en-
ployed to get possession of that body.
Judge w. c. Webb, attorney for the
populists, has commenced proceedings
in the supreme court to contest the
election of five repu blicans to the legis-
lature. The proceedings are in the ma
t1re Of mandamus, asking the court
to pass upon the technical and consti-
tutional questions raised by the popu-
lists, and demanding that restraining
order be issued prohibiting the five re-
publican members from taking their
seats upon the certificates of election
already issued by the canvaSsing board.
The court will be asked to decide if a
person who held the office of postmaster
and was elected to the legislature, but
| resigned after the election, is eligible.
At the home of William Irons, in Sill
verdale, Cowley county, the other day
Fred Warner, the Missouri Pacific
station agent, picked up a revolver that
| he had laid on a table, and turning to
one of the girls, tapped her lightly on
| the head with the handle and remarked:
| ''That is the way I would kill my girl
| if she went back on me-" Then point
ing the revolver at his chest, said: ''This
is the way I would kill myself then"
Just as he made the remark the revol-
yer was discharged and the bullet en-
tered his body, passing through the
right lung. He lived about an hour
after the shooting. The fatal bullet
happened to be the only one in the
pistol, the remaining. chambers being
empty Young Warner was 20 years
| old.
The dairymens' association, recently
in session at Topeka, adopted resolu-
ton that the state of Kansas should
make an exhibit of her products and re-
sources at the worlds fair at Chicago,
and that. such exhibition should be
| made under the direction and control
of the legislature and of the state and
the expenses, including the reimburse
| ment of private subscribers, should be
| betrayed from the state treasury. Res
olutions were also passed that the dairy
products and interests of Kansas should
have space and money appropriation as
| their Importance demands; that a MEM
Der of the association should be appoint
ed upon the board of management, and
that an experienced and practical dairy
man should be appointed by such board
| of management or control as superin-
tendent of the dairy exhibit.
Robert Merritt. colored farmer 1iv-
| ing about two miles north of Pleasan-
ton, accidentally shot himself the other
evening, from which he died instantly.
He had been out hunting and his dog
and a neighbor's got to fighting He
undertook to separate them by using
the breech of his gun, when it was dis
charged, the contents passing through
| his head.
The wife of Almines Raybrook, a
hard working man, employed at the
| smelter works in Argentine, deserted
her husband and six children the other
! day and eloped with a young fellow by
| the name of Van Waller She lS