The southern argus., 1892-01-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

mules and fourteen valuable horses.
Loss about $4,000
Nelson Abbott founder of the Atch-
ison Patriot, died at Oswego of pneu-
nonia the other night aged 81 years.
de was editor of the Oswego States
man at the time of his death.
T. R Pates. Topeka book agent,
was recently found guilty of forgery in
the district court OF Shawnee county.
He raised check from Ave dollars to
five hundred dollars and had it cashed.
Fire at Wichita the other day con-
sumed the residence of H. D. Heiser-
man. The loss was put al. $40, 900. with
$4,000 insurance. The same day the
Saratoga hotel was burned. Loss,
$l4,OO.
In reply to an inquiry from the
superintendent of insurance Attorney
General Ives gives an opinion that un-
der the laws of Kansas mutual fire in
surance companies cannot insure school
houses.
The Union Pacific road paid taxes to
the state for the year ended June 80,
1891, to the amount of S165, 531.95. The
condemned Kansas Central branch
showed deficit in operating expenses
of S65. 74447.
The five-year-old son of Mr.. aud Mrs
Marshall Belden, Of Kansas City, Kan,
was scalded to death the other day by
falling into a tub Of boiling water that
the mother left for few minutes
standing on the floor.
Miss Minnie Nixon, station agent Of
the Union Pacific road at Bonner
Springs, was recently confronted by a
robber while she was alone in the
ticket Office and robbed of 500 The
thief escaped without being identified
When the case against James Bren-
men, the slayer of Col S. N. Wood, was
recently called at Hugoton. Attorney
General Ives announced that the state
was convinced that 1t could not secure
an unprecedented jury in Stevens coun-
ty, where the killing took place. and
moved to dismiss the case without pref
udice.
James Smith, of Sedgwick county,
went to Kansas City the other day, got
full" raised rumpus at theater
and when an officer undertook to ar
rest him he drew his revolver and
emptied it, but fred with bad aim. He
was fined $500 in police courtaud in de-
fault of payment given twelve months
in the local bastile.
A young woman, giving the name Of
Howells and claiming to be from Sa.
lima, who in company with her alleged
husband had been at the Commercial
hotel at Wichita for a week, was ar
rested the other evening charged with
Systematically robbing the guests of
the house. In her trunk was found a
number of stolen articles.
w. W. Reynolds was instantly killed
by an electric wire at Wichita the other
evening. He was passing down a
strange stairway and seeing loose
wire caught hold CT It ia, lock
threw him q considerable distance, and
though the persons who saw the acct
dent picked up the victim within few
seconds, he was dead, with the wire
still grasped in his hand.
The Chicago express on the Santa Fe
was wrecked at Newton the other
morning. The engine broke a switch
rod in passing over it and the tender
and the mail, baggage and smoking
cars were thrown off the track. The
mail car foil on one side at right angles
with the track, the trucks were torn off
and the car otherwise demolished. w.
F. Jones had several ribs broken.
w. C. Carroll, a tin-horn ambler,
was recently arrested at Leavenworth
and taken to Fort Scott on the charge
of committing forgeries and obtaining
money on false pretenses He has sub
stantial relatives, who tried to fix
things up for him by paw ing forgeries
amounting to $500, but when the officer
presented third for 5000 they refused
to put up and he will be allowed to
stand trial for his misdeeds.
Jim Burwell, charged with completely
in the recent express robbery at
Lenora, broke out Of the Norton
county Jail the other night. stole a
horse and escaped, leaving the jailer.
who attempted to stop him. locked in a
cell minus his keys and revolver. Bur-
we'll started southwark, and as he is q
desperate man and knows every hill
and valley in western Kansas, the
probabilities are that he will reach tho
Indian Territory in safety.
The board of railroad commissioners
lately turned over to the state treas
urer the scrip taken by them for seed
grain furnished the farmers of western
Kansas under the act of the last legis-
lature. Seed grain amounting TO S54,-
s10.57 was distributed among the vari-
Gus counties of the state. The COM
missioners took the obligations of the
counties in the form OF the scrip turned
over to the treasurer and the coun-
ties hold the notes of the farmers to
whom grain was supplied
Attorney General Ives has instructed
the various county treasurers OF the
state to collect from the Pullman Pal
ace Car Co penalties and interest at
the rate of so per cent per annum on
all unpaid personal taxes. Four years
ago the Pullman company enjoined the
treasurers of the various Kansas coun-
ties in which they operate from collect
ing personal taxes from that company.
The United States court has decided in
favor of the counties and the Kansas
statutes authorize the so per cent PEN
atty which the attorney general directs
the treasurer to collect This viii az
feet sixty Kansas counties and viii
amount in all 10 about 500, 600.
A convict hanged himself with his