Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-02-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Inc senate on the 10Th defeated
O'Bryan's bill to repeal the law provid-
ing for police commissioners in cities of
| the first class.
The governor has appointed j. E.
Todd, of Butler county, labor commits
missioner in place of Frank 81. Betton,
! of Wyandotte county.
Ex-Gov. George T. Anthony and Col
D. r Anthony were both sworn in as
| sergeants-at-arms of the republican
| house and placed on duty during the
recent ''unpleasantness"
| Col. j. w. Hughes, commander of the
Shawnee county regiment, who refused
| to obey the orders of the governor dur
| ing the rumpus at Topeka. was sus-
| pended by order of Gov. Lewelling.
The street commissioner of Lawrence
has been found guilty of trespass for
tearing down fence of the base ball
park, by order of the mayor, to open a
| street The lsnd had never been dedi-
Gated for street purposes.
| Mayor Hacker, of Leavenworth, has
ordered Manager Elliott Alton to here
closed on Sundays He has also ordered
| all pool and billiard halls closed on Sun
day, ministers of the city having COM
| planned to him.
S. ID. Batson was arrested at Wichita
recently by the sheriff of Pottawatomie
! county and taken back there to answer
| to charge of embeZzlement- He was
= sewing machine agent, and had been
N hiding on farm twelve miles from
| town for some time.
| L. J. Worden, ex-postmaster of Law
renee, escaped from Goddard's asylum
| at Leavenworth the other evening and
was creating CONSERVATION at James E.
| Legate's home when taken in charge
| by the police He was confined in the
city Jail raving mad.
Any one having knowledge of the
present address of Henry c. Croll, late
lieutenant company L, 10th Pennsyl-
vania drafted militia, will confer a
| favor by sending the same to Lewis Fl.
| LutZ, headquarters Ringgold artillery
| camp No II, Sons of Veterans, Read
| ing, Pa
Mrs. Laura M. Johns, of Salina, and
Mrs. w. A. Morgan, of Cottonwood
| Falls, were sworn in as sergeants-at-
arms of the republican house during
the late rumpus at Topeka. Mrs. Johns
| addressed the house in favor of female
| suffrage at one o'clock on the morning
| of the 18th.
DIR. S. McLallin, who was appointed
commissioner of elections for Topeka
by Gov. Lewelling, is ineligible, be-
cause the law creating the Office pro-
vides that only persons who have been
householders for three years may hold
! the place, and DR.. McLallin has lived
| there less than that period.
| While recently out hunting James
| Higgins, son of the foreman of the
Lawrence canning factory, was acct
! dentally shot by gun in the hands of
| q companion. The load tore the flesh
| off Higgins right arm, broke two ribs
| and tore the flesh from his breast in a
horrible manner. His wounds are very
serious.
| The Santa Fe east bound passenger
train strucl. wagon load of people at
| Syracuse the other evening, killing one
man and probably fatally injuring sew
| eral others. The team was killed The
train proceeded, but the sheriff tcle-
| graphed to Garden City to have the
train men arrested Names of the
killed and injured were not given.
The Richardson general merchandise
stock, which was being sold at Newton
| under mortgage, was nearly all con-
sumed the other morning by fire, which
started in an upper story from a pan of
hot ashes set in the hall All the cloth
ing, shoes and notions in the stock We're
| destroyed, a few groceries and ladies'
dress goods being all that was saved.
| The damage to the stock was estimated
at $4,000; insured for $4,000.
The attorney for Col Moore in the
Moore-Funston contest case, wherein
! Moore is contestiug Funston's seat in
congress, has been taking testimony at
Lawrence to be presented to the COM
mittee of elections in the lower house
| at Washington. The contest in Doug
| las county is based on alleged Illegal
votes cast by the superintendent of the
United States Indian school and vari-
Gus of his employees and other minor
Irregularities
A hot debate took place in the state
| senate over Senator Senn's resolution
| declaring that a ''Inob of republicans
| have unlawfully broken open the door
of the hall of representatives" and re-
! solving that the senate hereby declare
its purpose to stand by the legally
elected and legally organized house
presided over by Speaker Dunsmore and
to support the governor in his efforts
| to preserve law and order The de-
| pate was very merry, and each side ac-
cused the other of being anarchists.
The resolutions were finally tabled.
| The governor made a clean sweep in
the Office of police commissioners at
! Topeka. He had asked the members of
! the old board to send in their resigna-
tions to take effect March 1, which they
did, but a few days later he desired
| their designations to be rendered at
once. This they declined to do. The
| governor, however, peremptorily re-
moved Mr.. Bonebrake and appointed a
new board, consisting of Col Allen
Sells, chairman; L. 7. Yount. secretary,
| and Oscar Krauss The appoin tmen is
were confirmed by the senate. The
| other two old commissioners gave up
the fight.
James Moore coal miner at Weir
! City, recently arranged to elope with
| the wife of James Hennesy, another
miner. Moore gave Mrs Hennesy
money with which to buy ticket to
Kansas City and arranged to meet her
| there. Moore, to save expense, broke
| into a box car to steal ride. Hen
messy learned of his wife's actions and
| concluded to follow her. He also de-