Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-08-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Anthony is now lighted by electricity
and her people are happy.
Tommy Morgan, Il years old, was re-
cently drowned in the Kaw river az
Kansas City, Kan
Giacomini Bros, proprietors of Del
made an assignment
The elevator of Mcleod Bros, at
Marietta, together with &C, 900 bushels
Of wheat. burned recently.
Two boys named Skinner and Gonna
lon. were recently drowned in the
Verdigris, near independence.
Louis Schleitzbaum, aged IS years.
| was drowned in Doniphan lake, FIVE
miles from Atchison, the other day.
The Hutchinson national bank has
| recommended business The deposits
| On the first day amounted to $4,000.
A cyclone destroyed. number of
| farm houses near Larned few days
ago, but no fatalities were reported.
| A. W. Little, the slayer of b. E
| johnson, has been held to the Wyan-
dotte district court for trial without
bail
! Doc Snapp, a medical student, has
been arrested as being one of the par
| ties concerpeI in the Wichita express
robbery. He was caught in the Indian
territory.
The thirty-second anniversary of the
| battle of Wilson's creek was celebrated
at Atchison on the 10th by forty sur
| vivors and their families from the sur
rounding country.
| Martin Jacobs, son of Brown coun-
| ty farmer, recently cut his throat with
a razor. He had been working with a
| thresher all day and it was thought
| the heat had rendered him temporarily
| insane.
The police raided the lottery gam
| bling rooms of Eli Little & Co, in Kan
| saS City. Kan, the other day upon COM
| plant of a man from Alabama that he
had drawn prize which the concern
refused to cash.
The Leavenworth Home mine has re-
| sumed operation, its action having
been fastened by the return of the
men of the North Leavenworth shaft
Over 200 men are at work in the two
mines and many more applications
were being received.
Gov. Lewelling has pardoned Frank
Durin, the joint keeper who fed from
| 1OpShd 10 SOlle years 10
leaving fines and forfeiture amounting
to s13, 900 unpaid. He has settled all
the money claims of the state against
him and the pardon only relieves him
of the Jail sentence a condition OF
the pardon is that he shall not live in
| Kansas.
Gov. Lewelling has named the fol-
lowing additional delegates to the con-
vention in regard to gulf route to for.
eign markets from western states,
which meets in Chicago September u.
George Wagner, III. A. Heath and Con-
rad Myer, of Topeka; Scion o. Thatcher,
of Lawrence: c. B. Hoffman. of Enter
prise; R. a. Sankey. of Wichita, and z.
A. Kaufman, of Wellington
The citizens of Pratt county have
petitioned the governor to issue call
for special election to choose n mem
Der of the legislature to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the removal of w. +.
! Brown Brown was postmaster and
as such was ineligible to seat in the
| legislature. The republican house I'm.
seated him and declared that there had
been no election The governor will
| grant the prayer of the petitioners.
The case against the members Of the
| 1ODthd CluO, WIN were dIISSIcQ 4OL
maintaining a place where liquors
were dispensed. was decided in favor o.
the city. Judge Ensminger said the
decisions of the supreme court were
conflicting, but he believed he was
warranted in holding that the persons
arrested were guilty of violating the
law. By agreement, a fine OF 500 wa:
| imposed upon one of the members OF
! ho P1u h and annual fal
The Topeka club gained its case in
the appeal from the decision of the jus
tice. Judge johnson held that sec
ton of the city ordinance concerning
the ''use" of liquors under which the
arrests were made was invalid because
1t was not included IN the title OF the
| ordinance, and that even If it had beer
so included it was substantially the
| same as section 16 of the prohibitory
act of 1881, of which section the meth
DDS and practices of the club We're not
| in violation
The state school fund commissioner.
recently purchased from Boston firm
| $50, 600 in Harper county school bonds
They have had offers of more than
$500, 600 of county school bonds, but
| could not purchase for want of funds.
These bonds bear good rates of interest
and We're originally sold in the east al
not less than par and sometimes at a
| premium. The cause of their return
| and sale was that eastern holder:
| wished to secure ready cash. The
bonds were purchased at good mar
gin of profit
Three of the robbers who recently
| held up the United States expires.
| wagon on the streets of Wichita and
robbed it of 81, 600 have been arrested
and IS, 600 of the money recovered The
| men arrested were Howard III. Greer,
an ex-telegraph operator from FL Dora.
do: Arthur Hancher, express messen
| ger, and Jake Beck, clerk at the Occi.
| dental hotel in Wichita The other
robber. a negro. who skipped as soon
as he got his part of the proceeds, 81
500. has not been found. The iShree
men arrested planned the robbery and
| the negro executed it The men con
| fessed and the money recovered was
! found concealed in an old fruit can
a bridge on the Union Pacific three
miles west of Abilene was burned the
other evening. Thought to have been
on fire. nv hot ashes from fha ~