The southern argus., 1892-01-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Hutchinson, elected officers as follows:
PRESIDENT, III. nj. Ives, of Topeka; first
Vlce-president Frank Finn, of Wichita:
second vice-president, David Eccles. of
Hutchinson; secretary, A. d. Bowers
Of Topeka; treasurer. S. E. Lain.
Frank Topash, half breed Indian
was recently found dead near the rail-
road track short distance west of
Topeka 1t is supposed that he fell
from train and was killed while on
his way to Topeka to attend court. His
body was found by the men of a freight
train that followed some hours behind
the passenger
Shortly after midnight recently Peter
linton, cattle inspector, was shot and
killed in the streets of Arkansas City.
He had been in a row in a gambling
room and it was supposed that John
Boucher, gambler, followed him to
the street and killed him. Boucher
\ was found at his home with his hand
badly cut and was arrested.
No more serious outbreak is re-
ported from the war in Stevens and
Seward counties. The militia were
| preserving order, and while Judge
Botkln was reported to be in imminent
danger no further attempt upon his
life had been made. Six persons sup
posed to have been connected with the
assassination of Sheriff Dunn had been
arrested, and all manner of sensational
rumors were afoat
X. d. jameson, who seems to have
several aliases, and who had been
working the merchants of the country
towns in Missouri by selling them
rights to several patent articles in
which he has no interest, was lately
arrested at Wichita on complaint of the
Albany, Mo, police and taken back to
answer a long list of charges from diff
| ferent places in Missouri A letter sent
by Jameson's wife from Cameron, Mo,
to Robert D. Hobbs, Wichita, was capt
ured by the police and led to the ar
rest
Chancellor Snow, of the state uni
versity, has issued his meteorological
summary for 1891 from observations
taken during the year. The year was
marked bv an abundant aggregate
rainfall, although the distribution was
uneven, four months of excess-April.
May, June and July-being fol-
lowed by four months of de-
ficiency The entire fall was
43. 80 inches, IT'S inches above the
annual average. The year was made
meteorologically memorable by having
the coolest summer on the record and
BY being the only year in which tho
temperature failed to go to the zero
point.
William Ehrhart, teacher of school
four miles north of Topeka, was at
tackled by three of his scholars the
other afternoon after school and re-
ceived injuries which were considered
Of a serious nature. The leader
Of the boys is a son of George
| Kistler, a prominent Shawnee coun-
ty citizen. The boys threw Ehr-
hart down on the floor, struck him over
his throat with pocket-kuife. The
trouble was said to have grown out of
the attempt of the teacher to keep the
boys in as punishment for violation
of the rules.
Mrs. Matilda Sebboyer died at Argen-
tine the other day from the effects OF
burns which she received while kind
ling fire in her cook stove the previous
morning. Mrs. Sebboyer attempted to
start q fire and procuring can of coal
oil, poured large quantity of it into
the stove. When she touched match
to the oil the blaze flashed out and
her dress caught fire. She was soon en-
veloped in flames and ran wildly about
the house. screaming AMI in great
agony. Her husband ran to her assist
ance and in smothering the flames was
himself burned severely about the face
and one arm. She was only twenty
four years Of age.
A Wichita special declares that a
prominent Santa Fe official is authority
for the statement that the Montezuma
branch of the Atchison system will be
abandoned in the spring and the mate
rial will be used to put in the link in
the Wichita & Western necessary to
connect the road with the Santa Fe's
main line at Dodge City. The com-
pletion of this link will naturally
throw the east and west traffic over
the St Louis & San Francisco, as the
distance through Kansas will be short
ened over one hundred miles, aud st.
Louis and Wichita will then get the
travel and freight which is now going
| through Kansas City. Wichita will, it
is stated, get the headquarters of the
Frisco's Kansas line, and also of the
| Gulf division Of the Santa Fe system.
| The state board of railroad commits
sioners recently decided that a locality
cannot demand additional train service
from railroad company on account of
having voted municipal aid to the road
| at the time Of its construction. This
ruling is made in the case brought by
the citizens Of Lindsborg against the
Union Pacific railway. but while the
board declines to justify the increase of
service on the plea of municipal aid, it
holds that the added service is due the
public as a reasonable and just demand
to meet the needs of the people along
the line aud to prevent disadvantage
and loss to the people of Lindsborg.
The Union Pacific is therefore ordered
to put on passenger train daily ex-
cept Sunday, in addition to the present
service on this branch of the road.
Mary Jones, fourteen years old, was
| recently arrested at Kansas City, Kan,
| ,o,, tha renuaSt of her parents and