Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-03-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The Topeka Sash & Door Co has
failed fo- Sl2, 600 and it's property Is in
| the hands of creditors
Thomas Whetson. brakeman. fell
from box car at Kansas City, Kan.
the other day and had his head cut off
by the train.
During storm at Topeka the other
morning an electric light wire fell and
caught carriage driven by ]. a Wood
ford One of the horses was Instantly
killed and Woodford was knocked
senseless.
Thomas Perry, eighteen years old.
attempted to cross the Neosho river in
! boat near Emporia the other day
and was carried over the waterworlzs
dam and drowned. The body was
found several days after.
The supposed gold find north Of
Atchison has turnei out to be a vein of
galena A great deal of land in the
vicinity has been leased, and an inves-
tigation to learn the extent of the vein
is now being made. Samples of the
ore show very large per cent of
lead.
A new born babe was left on the
steps of the convent at Atchison the
other morning. It was in basket. to
which was attached note in which
the writer. representing herself as
silly, sinful girl of sixteen years. asked
that the mother superior should take
care of the babe.
The heating apparatus of a smoking
car on a Santa Fe train exploded east
of Topeka the other night with a ter
rifle crash, piling all the passengers
al IL,
molishing the car. Every one in the
car was more or less injured, Altman
Richards and Alexander Erickson. of
Topeka. perhaps fatally.
THE ministerial delegates to the
general conference elected by the Kan
sas annual conference. lately in ses-
sion at Kansas City. Kan, are: Rev.
6. S Dearborn, of Topeka; Rev. j. w.
Alderman, of Atchis On, and Rev. S. E.
Pendleton, of Holton- The alternates
are Rev. j. A. Lippincott, of Topeka,
| and Rev. w. A. Quayle, of Baldwin
| City. Lay delegates. D. c. Newcomb,
| Atchison; T. B. Sweet. Topeka
At Leon the other day Otis Tabing
and Mason Morris got into a quarrel,
and as Tabing is only seventeen years
| old his father took it up. After con-
| siderable quarreling between Morris
and Tabing, the former drew a revol-
yer and the latter secured shotgun.
Tabing grabbed the gun and scufde
ensued, during which the Tabing boy
| grabbed his fathers pistol and shot
| Morris four times, from the effects of
| which he soon died
The MAYOR Of Kansas City, No, re-
ceived a letter from a man in Jewell
county, Kan, the other day telling the
| story that the writer is widower
| forty-seven years old, with two girls,
| twins. of seventeen years; that he is
| drawing a pension of SIP per month
and able to support a wife, and he
writes the humane society or the may or
| to let him know of a good woman for a
wife, as where he lives there are two
men to one woman"
Senator PETER has presented to the
senate petition from Kiowa and other
western counties asking the govern
| ment to make an appropriation for
irrigation purposes. The petition sets
forth that it has been fully demonstrate
! ed that the soil of western Kansas,
| with the aid of water, is not inferior to
| the best lands in the United States in
| fertility, and therefore it is the duty of
| the government to make liberal ap-
! preparation for the purpose of estab-
| fishing system of irrigation in west
ern Kansas and other states.
The report of the state superinten
ent of insurance gives in detail the
business of the twenty-nine life insur-
| ance companies operating in Kansas in
| the year 1891. The total numb of
! policies in force at the commencement
| of the year was 1918; number added
| during the year, s. 542; in force at end
| of the year, 81, o9O. The total amount
| of policies in force at the commence
ment of the year was $50. $50, $50: writ
| ten during the year. S11. 00S, 039; in
force at end of year, $40, OILS, 947. Pre-
miums received, 1854, PSI. O3; losses
paid, S317. 924.54
The wholesale grocers of the Mis-
souri, valley have changed their plans
in their fight against the rates recently
| ordered on sugar, beans, coffee and
canned goods. by the Kansas railroad
commissioners, and recently filed a
suit in the district court at Atchison to
annul the order of the commissioners,
made March 5, 1899, on the grounds
that it is discrimin alton in favor of
interior Kansas jobbing points and in
violation of the state and Interstate
|
temporary Injunction restraining the
commissioners from putting the rates
in effect, and also restraining the rail-
roads from obeying the order.
| A statement prepared by the secre-
tary Of the board of railroad com mis-
sioners shows the earnings OF the vari-
GUS railroads operating in Kansas for
| the year 1891. The Santa Fe passenger
traffic earnings per mile of road were
81, 373. o.; on freight traffic. 50, TAO. 03;
Rock Islands passenger earnings per
mile of road, 81, $50. SO; freight earnings,
Sc, 297.S7. The Union Pacific earned
| 2,791.s 81 from passenger traffice per
| mile of line and from freight, 81, sos 80.
The Missouri Pacfc's passenger earn
ings for each mile of road amounted to
s1.O94 Os; freight earnings. $4,000. 81
The summary of all the roads reporting
| to the Kansas commissioners shows
that 90, 613, 233 passengers were carried
! an average distance of 4. 7s9 miles
The grand encampment, l. o. o. f,
recently in session at Leavenworth,
elected 81. E. Pyle. OF Mcpherson.
grand patriarch; Ed T. Rees. of Leav-
enworth, grand scribe, and Col Thomas