Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-07-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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Allen, of Erie
The state board of railroad assessors,
lately in session at Topeka. valued the
railroad property of the state at about
$50, 900, 900, an increase of SO, 000, 900 over
last year.
While recently running Stag car
through the smelling works at Argen-
tine, William Steinbach and Charles
Peterson We're caught between the car
and the side of the building and badly
crushed. Steinbach died from his in
juries.
While lately digging well at Wa
terville, William Springer, "a years old,
felt the effect of foul air and asked to
be raised When within ten feet of the
top his hold on the rope relaxed and he
fell back distance of thirty feet and
was killed instantly.
Gov Lewelling has received letter
from George r. Peck, general solicitor
of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fee
railroad, informing him that the man
agement of that road welcomed the
governors efforts to secure lower
worlds fair rates and that it would
cordially cooperate with him
A. c. Shinn, vice president of the
AthCIiCoAh 1DiilStoti1lC uS1 1oi nan
sas, has issued call for a bimetallic
state convention to meet in Topeka,
July 90. The financial situation will
be discussed from timetable stand
point and a delegate will be elected to
the national bimetallic congress to be
held in Chicago August 1.
Homer Baker, a young man of Kan
sas City, Kan, got into quarrel in
a Kansas City, Mo-. saloon on the night
OF the Sd and fatally stabbed William
A. Caldwell, of Armourdale. He then
returned to Kansas City. Kan, and
registered at the Rvus house under an
assumed name, with woman. Next
morning, learning that Caldwell was
dead, he purchased a pistol, returned
to the hotel and in the presence of his
paramount, shot and killed himself. He
was the son of a motorman on the E1e-
| waited road.
The governor granted the following
| pardons on the 5th: Prince Gibson, Of
Shawnee county, convicted January 9,
1880, Of burglary and sentenced to the
! penitentiary for seven years: David
Hiles, of Norton county, convicted
| February ?, 1891, of rape and sentenced
| to five years: Edward Johnson. of Linn
county, convicted April %, 1886, of rape
and sentenced to fifteen years; Al
Smith, of Cowley county, convicted
| October 5. 1883, of assault to rape and
sentenced to ten years. These were
recommended by the board of pardons.
| The state board of health met re-
Gently at Topeka and made prepara-
tions for a possible visitation Of cholera.
The state was divided into nine dis
| tricts, one for each member of the
] board. Each member will have ten or
twelve counties to look after person
ally, in which it will be his duty to see
that local health officers enforce the
| law. The board is preparing rigid
set of rules for the guidance of the 10
cal boards, and proposes to leave moth
| ing undone which will prevent the
| dread disease from getting fOOthold
| in Kansas
| About midnight. on the Fourth, an
| explosion in Carriers gun store, on
| Minnesota avenue, Kansas City, Kan,
! wrecked the building. shattered scores
| of windows in the vicinity and injured
! three men who happened to be stand
ing across the street. The escape of
| all of them from fatal injuries was lit
! tie short of miraculous, and had it oc-
! Cured earlier in the evening, when the
| street was crowded. the number of IA
talities would have been great. The
Herald Office on the opposite side Of
| the street was badly damaged, and the
total loss Of property was estimated at
| between $50, 900 and $40, 900.
The June report of Secretary Mohfer
shows a continued improvement of crop
prospects throughout the state. In the
eastern part of the state rains have
been abundant and timely. improving
the condition of all crops except wheat.
Rust and chinch bugs have damaged
the latter crop in some localities. Oats,
barley and grasses are in good condition
in the eastern half of the state, but not
SO good in the western half. Present
conditions point to a good crop of corn,
potatoes and forage crops of all kinds
| in all parts of the state. The condition
of oats compared with average is 81
per cent, barley 81. broomcorn rs, cas-
tor beans So. Lax 80, millet 70, clover
IS, timothy 20, blue grass 50, alfalfa IS,
prairie grass, IS, sorghum ~, potatoes
! -, apples %, peaches 46, grapes IS.
! The report of the weather for the
week ended July 3, showed that the
state in general had been well watered,
the rains being well distributed in time
and fairly well in area. The rainfall
| was heavy IN Logan and Wichita
counties. and eastward through the
Smoky Hill and Saline valleys; it was
very heavy from central Jewell south
| eastward to Allen; it was extremely
heavy from Abilene, in Dickinson, to
Wcstphalia, in Anderson. in which area
it amounted to upward of seven inches.
But the most interesting feature of the
week was the cloud burst occurring be-
| tween midnight and a. N. of the Goth,
extending from the head of Badger
creek, in Lyon, to the head of Hickory
creek, in Coffey. wherein upwards of
eight inches Of rain fell in three hours
| time. Light rains from Ford to King
man and in the extreme southeastern
| counties
| Postmasters lately appointed in Kan
sas: At Blakeman, Rawlins county,
w. p. Beverstock: at Bucyrus, Miami
county, W. F. Whitehead; at Willard,
Shawnee county, Virginia Douglass;
at Gaylord, Smith county, a. d. Har-
ran: at Hoxie. Sheridan county, S. P.
| Davidson.
James Kinney, of Kansas City. Kan,
who had been separated from his wife
| for months. concluded on the evening