Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-01-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Fire in Sparks Bros mule market,
at the Kansas City stock yards, the
other morning cremated three hundred
mu es and fourteen valuable horses.
Loss about $4,000.
Nelson Abbott. founder of the Atch-
lson Patriot, died at Oswego of pneu-
monia the other night aged 81 years.
He was editor of the Oswego States
man at the time of his death.
T. Il Pates. a Topeka book agent,
was recently found guilty of forgery in
the district court of Shawnee county.
he raised check from five dollars to
i've hundred dollars and had it cashed.
Fire at Wichita the other day con-
sumed the residence of III. D. Heiser-
man The loss was put at S22e, 600. with
$751; insurance. The sane day the
Saratoga hotel was burned. Loss,
S14,00
In reply to an inquiry from the
superintendent of insurance Attorney
General Ives gives an opinion that I'M
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 sl65. 531.95. The
condemned Kansas Central branch
showed deficit in operating expenses
of 500. 744.47
The 6ve-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Marshall Belden, of Kansas City, Kan,
was scalded to death the other day by
falling into 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 it 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 Sedgwicx county,
went to Kansas City the other day, got
full" raised rumpus at a theater
and when an officer undertook to ar
rest him he drew his revolver and
emptied it, but fired with bad aim. He
was fined $500 in police court and 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 week, was ar
rested the other evening charged with
Systematically robbing the guests of
the house. In her trunk was found &
number Of stolen articles.
w. w. Reynolds was instantly killed
by an electric wire at Wichita the other
evening. He was passing down
strange stairway and seeing a loose
wire caught hold Of it The shock
threw him a considerable distance, and
though the persons who saw the acci-
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 switch
rod in passing over it and the tender
and the mail, baggage and smoking
cars were thrown off the track. The
mail car fell on ole 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. tin-horn gambler,
was recently arrested at Leavenworth
and taken to Fort Scott on the charge
of committing fcrgeries and obtaining
money on false pretenses He has SUBJ
stantial relatives, who tried to fix
things up for him By paving 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 misdeed<.
Jim Burweil, 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-
well started southwark, and as he is u
desperate man and knows every hill
and valley in western Kansas, the
probabilities are that he will reach the
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 Ssh
s10.57 was distributed among the vari-
Gus counties of the state. The COM
took the obligations of the
counties in the form of the scrip turned
over to the treasurer and the cou1-
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 a.
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 at
feet sixty Kansas counties and will
in all to about 500, 900.
convict hanged himself with his
in his cell at the peniten-
tiary the ether night. It is stated that
an inves tigation will be made. Several
days before the man asked to be ex-
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