Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-07
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

John Carmichael was held up and
robbed 1T Atchison the other night of
s165 in cash
EN-Gov. George T. Anthony has been
! reelected member of the state board
Of railroad commissioners
| Ex-Congressman Turner, of Kansas,
| is said TO be at the head OF a project to
build railroad from Kansas CITY TO
Pensacola, Fla
Theodore OFT, q Wichita teamster. is
under arrest fo-- brutality assaulting his
fourteen-year-, id daughter for disobey-
| ing him. He kicked the girl and she is
likely toadie.
| The Kansas Wesleyan university at
Salina is free from debt and has an en-
dowment fund of nearly 10000 raised
at the late Northwest conference of the
| Methodist church, besides an incidental
fund OF s12, 00a-
| A bill has been introduced in the
| senate by Mr.. Perkins, of Kansas,
authorizing the Union Terminal Rail-
road Co., a corporation OF the state of
! Kansas, to build and maintain a bridge
across the Kansas river at Kansas City,
| Kan.
A post office inspector from st. Louis
was in Valley Falls the other day and
arrested two prominent married women,
| sisters, on the charge of sending obscene
literature through the mails. On Val
entine's day the women sent the mis-
sizes IN the form of Valentines to a
number of the most respected ladies of
| the place.
The faculty of the Kansas university
at present numbers forty-four instruct
ors. The estimated value of the entire
| ,a1 ~ &la =
1919. 600, 1855, 900 in the building and
1851 900 in department apparatus, in
| Gliding the general library of 1921
volumes. The natural history cabinet
contains 5000 specimens of botany,
history and zoology.
At a country church, four miles north
east of Fort Scott, the other night dur
ing fight, Charles Bell threw a stone,
striking David McManaway on the head
| just over the left eye, fracturing the
| skull and causing conclusion of the
! brain, from the effects of which he died
next morning. Bell, who is but sixteen
years of age. was arrested on the charge
of murder in the first degree.
In the federal court at Wichita the
jury in the trial of J. c. Adams for the
murder of Capt. William Couch, the
noted boomer, brought IN verdict OF
guilty of manslaughter. The clerk of
the court got the papers mixed in some
way and read out verdict of acquittal.
When the right verdict was read. the
convicted man broke completely down
and his condition was critical.
The peoples party state central COM
mittee met at Topeka the other day and
called a state convention of the peoples
party to be held at Wichita June Is to
nominate a state ticket, elect delegates
to the national convention which meets
at Omaha July 4, nominate a congress
man-at-large and ten presidential elect
ors. One delegate is allowed for each
$50 votes. On this basis the convention
will number about 500 delegates
The house committee on war claims
has presented favorable report on the
bill for the relief of Col. Tom Moonlight.
of Kansas. The committee finds that
Col Moonlight served five years in the
regular army and was discharged in
May, 1858. From July 20, 1861. to July
II, 1865, he served in the Eleventh regi-
ment of Kazsas cavalry volunteers. as
major and coionel of the regiment for
the term of four years. He received
only regular pay and nothing on account
of prior length of service, which was
| his due.
Senator Perkins has introduced a bill
directing the secretary of war to place
Oh file in the war department the names
OF the officers and members of the From
tier Guards of Kansas, an organization
OF Kansans regularly mustered into the
volunteer military service of the United
States at Washington on April 16, 1861,
and issue discharges to such of them as
shall furnish satisfactory proof that
t2ley rendered military service and were
honorably discharges. These discharges
I are to be in the form and language used
by Gen. James FL. Lane, captain of the
FrSAtier Guards, in issuing discharges.
| Department Commander Greene. Oh
the GA. R., has appointed the follow
/ ing comrades as aides-de-camp upon his
staff: Iva d. Brougher, Great Bend;
George Sharpe, Washington: J. w.
CrouEiey, Salina: j. F. Breeziey, Girard;
&c. e. Wood, Hamilton: w. L. Ham,
! Lansing: L. v. b. Taylor. Frankfort;
J. T. Ea&ke. Burlinrame; J. Lee Knight,
ToIssls: J. H. McHugh. Larned: w. T.
] Hp5a1Erey. BelleEille; G. w. Weed. To-
pe3Ea: H. F. Leib. Oberlin; 1. S. Walp.
Eskfidgs: III. H. Siverd. Winfield: VIII
lia1a II. Avery, FL Dorado; Samuel Mel
lison, Hays City; j. L. Daugherty, EN-
poz-;a: W. S. Nader, Atch!son.
Satisfies lately gathered show that
the prospects of good crops this season
are quite fiattering. Twenty-line central
counties show an average wheat pros
pect OF IS per cent. of the usual crop.
Forty-tflree western counties show an
increased prospect over the big crops of
} last year of from 10 t. 20 per cent,
which. G7ith continuation of favora bic
conditions, gives a prospect in the
eEtire state of SIS per cent. No HessiaIl
! ! Ay or otker pest has been reported from
any section and the small amount of
wheat wiIster killed is confined to the
. / eastern counties- Everything is re-
J pzsvtsd favorable for all kinds of fruit.
TIE repsrts covering live stock show
that all leiasfs of stock are in good con-
S;eiors, M&Fch being the only severe
| IontA.
Fl TIE case 81 Oscar Rice against Jane
SansEea, taken to the United States SUI
T y~ezae co4rt by Eugene Ware. attorney
10 for Rice, was recently dismissed for
want of jurisdiction 1t involved the