Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-24
miscellaneous.

miscellaneous.
The Fifth avenue hotel at Topeka
was recently leased for a term of nine
ty-nine years.
The secretary of war has issue a gen.
eral order for the establishment at
Fort Riley of a school of instruction
and drill practice of light artillery.
The directors of the Peoples Savings
bank of Atchison, which failed over
year ago, recently declared dividend
of twenty per cent, which pays up the
depositors in full, eighty per cent hav-
ing heretofore been paid at different
times.
Fred Lance was caught between two
freight cars near the Santa Fee depot
at Emporia the other morning and
nearly cut in two after which he was
dragged nearly a block. He was in
the employ Of the Santa Fe and was
prominent in the A. o. .. ". select
knights.
The Kansas Salt Co.. of Hutchinson,
of which Jay Gould is understood to
be one of the largest stockholders,
filed with the Kansas railroad commits
sioners complaint against all the
Kansas railroads, charging them with
discrimination in rates on salt in favor
of the Michigan salt fields
Bert Burns. aged ten; Roxie Willie.
aged eight, and Sammy McGrew, aged
ten years, sons of respectable people,
were arrested at Wichita the other day
for robbing three stores and starting
two fires. The money drawer in each
store was robbed and considerable
money secured by the youthful thieves.
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the penitentiary, escaped the other day
and was captured about twenty miles
from the prison by farmer in half
famished condition. The young fellow
was trusty and had only twenty days
to serve. He was sent on an errand
and the temptation for him to leave
was too great for him to resist.
The Kansas freight rate fight has at
last been taken to the federal courts
An injunction was recently issued by
Judge Riner, in the United States dis
trict court at Wichita restraining the
railroads from putting into effect the
recent order of the railroad commits
sioners in regard to the rates on sugar.
coffee, beans and canned goods
The cost of maintaining the various
charitable institutions of the state for
February was: Institute for education
of the blind, 81, 334. 81; deaf and dumb
asylum, So, 759. SO; Osawatomie insane
asylum, Sc. 1856. OS; idiotic and imbecile
asylum, S1,631. 40; industrial school for
girls, S949. 40; soldiers orphans home,
81. 572. SO; reform school, 81, 915. 50; To
peka insane asylum, 81. 65S.17.
The Woman's Suffrage association,
recently in session at Fredonia. elected
officers as follows: President Mrs. Nell
lie Case; vice-president, Mrs. William
Oakford: secretary, Mrs. James NJ.
Kennedy; corresponding secretary.
Mrs. S. S. Kirkpatrick; treasurer, Mrs
7. C. Singleton. Addresses were made
by Mrs. Laura M. Johns. Mrs. Jennie
Shelby Boyd, Miss Florence Belagardy
and others
The experiments of Melbourne in
Kansas have left an unexpected crop
of rainmakers who claim to have dis
covered his secret, and who are now
ready to supplant irrigation. Two
companies have been incorporated and
have proposed to make contracts with
counties at 5000 a county, engaging to
secure from one to two inches of rain
under each contract These companies
will sell the secret at 50, 500 per
county.
The general freight department of
the Union Pacific railway has complied
statement of the acreage and condi-
ton of winter wheat in the counties in
Kansas through which the road runs.
The statement shows that the acreage
in the thirty-two counties traversed by
the road is LAT. 600, an increase OF
100, 600 over last years acreage In
ten counties the condition is given as
excellent; very good in three; fine in
five; fair in five, and good in nine
The charter of the Leavenworth
Electric Railway Co. has been filed
with the secretary of state The OBJ
ject of the corporation is 1.-The build
ing, buying, owning and operating a
street railway or railways within the
incorporated limits of the city of
Leavenworth and from said city to
Fort Leavenworth, aud the soldiers
home and town of Lansing. and from
said city of Leavenworth to the sub
urbs thereof" The estimated length
of the lines of the railway is fifteen
miles and the capital stock $4,000
The agitation of the question of rail-
road tariffs in Kansas is causing an I'M
usual number OF complaints to be for
warded to the state board of railroad
commissioners for investigation and
adjustment.
Ike Wiley, burglar well known
from ST. Louis to the Pacific. was
caught at Wichita the other morning
while entering building with all his
tools ready for work. He is wanted in
several places.
The police of Kansas City, Kan.
raided the gam bling houses at the state
line the other night and raked In four
proprietors and 1875 others who were in
attendance.
The island in the Missouri river a
short distance north OF Atchisou is be-
ing rapidly cut away by the current Of
the stream The land is in cultivation
and has farm houses and other inn
provements upon it
Charles Morris, barber, was found
dead in his bed at Pittsburgh the other
morning. His death was caused by
morphine taken with suicidal intent
He leaves wife and child
All the cases against the parties
ch arged with killing Sheriff Dunn were
nolled at Springfield, it having been
found impossible to secure jury in
the county.