Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-06-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

at minneapolis.
Kansas grows more wheat this year
than ever before.
The state convicts publish newspa-
per called 1.-THE Trusty."
! Alfalfa has made very rank growth
in western Kansas this season.
Three colored men are said to be liv-
| ing with white wives in Topeka
Wheat harvesting is progressing in
the southern portions of the state.
Lieut. Gov. Andrew J. Felt has as
sumed control of the Atchison Cham
pion.
! The Cherryvale National bank is in
the hands of United States Bank Exam
liner Wilson.
James Lysaught, boy aged nine,
was drowned while fishing in pond at
Kansas City.
Robert Miller, a boy seven years old,
was drowned in the river at Topeka.
! He was fishing.
| James Whalen, a boy, has been
| drowned in the Kaw at Armourdale. He
was in bathing.
Lewis 81. Norris, young man, was
killed by the explosion of thresher
boiler near Clafin.
The Seventh Kansas congressional
convention of the peoples party renomi-
mated Hon. Jere Simpson.
Howell Jones and Judge n. f. Handy
| have been appointed receivers for the
Grand opera house, Topeka
NJ. f. Wood, of Montgomery county,
has been elected president of the First
national bank of Cherryvale.
John Gushing, aged 16, youngest son
of Mrs. c. Gushing. of Atchison, was
drowned recently while bathing.
The Kansas City, Wyandotte & North
western railroad has been formally
| turned over to the Gould interest.
The first graduate of the Kansas state
normal from Newton is Miss Ola Bow
man, who is member of the class of 49,
Henry Taylor, a young man, tried to
| kill himself by stabbing at Cummings,
Atchison county. He had been disap-
| pointed in love.
Funds have been secured to rebuild
the Congregational church at Kiowa,
which was destroyed by the high winds
a short time back.
The siX-year-old boy of Mrs. Katie
Smith, missing at Atchison, was found
drowned in J. w. Fishers cistern a few
days after disappearing.
John NJ. Kemph, veteran 81 years
old, who is an inmate of the soldiers
home at Leavenworth, sent SO to the
cyclone sufferers at Harper.
The Frankfort Bee says Frank Wat
son shot himself in the right heel while
trying to put his revolver in his hip
pocket. He had been out shooting rab-
| bits.
Including the present incumbents
there have been eleven justices of the
Kansas supreme court, and all Of them
are living with exception Of Lawrence
D. Bailey.
Moses Harmon, formerly of Valley
Falls and publisher of the Lucifer, is
again in the tolls on a charge of pub
fishing obscene literature, so says the
Holton Signal.
The peoples party at Emporia norni-
mated E. V. Wharton, of Woodson, for
congress, Fourth district, vice Otis.
The democrats met later and Endorsed
the nOnina ton.
J Twenty-Five years ago Tom Anderson
: announced in the Topeka Record that
the time from Topeka to Denver by the
| Union Pacific would be fifty hours
; Now it is made in eighteen hours.
E. w. Currier, who is a stock farmer
in Clark county, was in Dodge City tc
receive some 600 head of cattle from
Arizona, which he is to pasture for one
! dollar per head during the grazing sea
son.
Rube Davis shot and fatally wound
ed Dick Lyle at Valley Falls Both are
colored men. Lyle was an unmarried
> man who formerly boarded with Davis
and became intimate with the latter:
wife.
A terrible double tragedy occurred a
Arkansas City. Bert Mccormick foune
his wife in bed with Peter Brennan
and Immediately commenced shooting
Brennan returned the fire and bott
: men We're killed.
2 Charley Thornburg. of Pittsburg
4 was drowned while bathing in Smiths
strip pit south of town. He could no.
: swim. His body stuck in the mud Sc
f tight that it was brought up only after
several attempts.
+ R. B. Drury, q real estate agent o
S Atchison, has sued DR.. Challiss, admin
Y istrator of the John A. Martin estate
: for 81, 900 which he claims was promised
to him for effecting the recent sale o
g the Atchison Champion to A. ]. Felt
# Railroad Commissioner A. R Greens
q was on the witness stand in the hearing
of the Symns injunction suit at Atchi
e son. He stated that he signed tn
# freight order of March reluctantly
being in doubt as to whether it wa
n right and just.
D The assessors of Dickinson count,
lie are having hard time equalizing tn
, assessments of the various trustees
e The county attorney, B. c. Cranston
n advised last March that assessments b
e at full value and now says that ut wa
only Joke The humor of the affai
s is not fully appreciated and there al
hundreds of petitions coming in to hav
7, the rates restored to those of last yea
Of to correspond with the remainder c
Kansas.
n United States District Attorney AID
s. has nolled the proceedings against Mar
Rautzhan. who was indicted for bein
re accessory to the murder of her mother
n Mrs Mettfnan. at Leavenworth-
Philip Vinnidia, a Central Branc
ne bridge carpenter, whose home Is i
e Atchison, was killed while at work O
Is a bridge near Clifton, his head bt
OF ing between two heavy tinbers an
al crushed