Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-01-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

was recently killed while hunting by
the accidental discharge of his gun
The convention of the Kansas FEEDER
alton of Labor. recently in session at
Hutchinson, elected officers as follows:
Presiden, H. n Ives, of Topeka; first
vice-president, Frank Finn, of Wichita;
second vice-president, David Eccles, of
Hutchinson; secretary, A. d. Bowers,
OF Topeka; treasurer. s. E Lain.
Frank Topash, half breed Indian
was recently found dead near the rail-
road track short distance west of
Topeka It is supposed that he fell
from train and was killed while on
his way to Topeka to attend court. His
body was found by the men of a freight
train that followed some hours behind
the passenger.
Shortly after midnight recently Peter
Hinton. cattle inspector, was shot and
killed in the streets of Arkansas City.
He had been in a row in gambling
room and it was supposed that John
Boucher, gambler, followed him to
| the street and killed him. Boucher
was found at his home with his hand
badly cut and was arrested
No more serious outbreak is re-
ported from the war in Stevens and
Seward counties. The militia were
preserving order, and while Judge
Botkin was reported to be in imminent
! danger no further attempt upon his
life had been made. Six persons sup
posed to have been connected with the
assassination of Sheriff Dunn had been
arrested, and all manner of sensational
! rumors were afloat
r. D. Jameson, who seems to have
several aliases, and who had been
| working the merchants of the country
| towns in Missouri BY selling them
| rights to several patent articles in
which he has no interest. was lately
arrested at Wichita on complaint of the
Albany, Mo, police and taken back to
answer long list of charges from diff
| ferent places in Missouri. A letter sent
by Jameson's wife from Cameron, No,
to Robert D. Hobbs, Wichita, was capt
ured by the police and led to the ar
| rest
Chancellor Snow, of the state uni
versity, has issued his meteorological
summary for 1891 from observations
taken during the year. The year " as
marked bv an abundant aggregate
rainfall. although the distribution was
uneven, four months of excess-April.
May, June and July-being fol-
lowed by four months of de-
fciency. The entire fall was
49, SO inches, 7.TS inches above the
annual average. The year was made
meteorologically memorable by having
the coolest summer on the record and
by being the only year in which tho
temperature failed to go to the zero
point
! William Ehrhart, teacher of school
four miles north of Topeka, was at
tackled by three of his scholars the
other afternoon after school and re-
ceived injuries which were considered
| of a serious nature. The leader
| of the boys is son of George
| Kistler, a prominent Shawnee coun-
ty citizen. The boys threw Ehr-
hart down on the floor, struck him over
| the head with an iron poker and cut
his throat with pocket-knife. The
trouble was said to have grown out of
boys in as punishment for a violation
| of the rules.
Mrs. Matilda Sebboyer died at Argen-
tine the other day from the effects of
| burns which she received while kind
ling fire in her cook stove the previous
morning. Mrs. Sebboyer attempted to
start a fire and procuring a can of coal
oil, poured large quantity of it into
| the stove When she touched match
to the oil the blaze flashed out and
her dress caught fire. She was soon en-
veloped in flames and ran wildly about
the house screaming AMI in great
| agony. Her husband ran to her assist
| ance and in smOthering the flames was
himself burned severely about the face
and one arm. She was only twenty
four years of age.
A Wichita special declares that a
prominent Santa Fe official is authority
for the statement that the Montezuma
branch of the Atchison system will be
abandoned in the spring and the mate
rial will be used to put in the link in
the Wichita & Western necessary TO
connect the road with the Santa Fe's
main line at Dodge City. The M
pletion of this link will naturally
throw the east and west traffic over
the St Louis & San Francisco, as the
distance through Kansas will be short
ened over one hundred miles, and ST.
Louis and Wichita w IL then get the
travel and freight which is now going
through Kansas Citv. Wichita will. it
is stated, get the headquarters of the
Frisco's Kansas line, and also of the
|
The state board of railroad comm is
sioners recently decided that n locality
cannot demand additional train service
from a railroad company on account of
having voted municipal aid to the road
at the time of it's construction. This
ruling is made in the case brought by
the citizens of Lindsborg against the
| Union Pacific railway, but while the
board declines to justify the increase of
service on the plea of municipal aid. it
holds that the added service is due the
public as a reasonable and just demand
to meet the needs of the people along
the line aud to prevent disadvantage
and loss to the people of Lindsborg.
The Union Pacific is therefore ordered
to put on passenger train daily, ex-
cept Sunday, in addition to the present
service on this branch of the road.
| Mary Jones. fourteen years old. was
recently arrested at Kansas City. Kan,
upon the request of her parents and
given over to the authorities of the
House of the Good Shepherd. Her
waywardness caused her parents any
amount of trouble and she finally
threatened to poison the whole fanil-.
which resulted in her being put under
| restraint