Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

StdUS university 1oo OIplOluaS were
granted
The Kanapolis Land Co. has been
declared insolvent and the court has
ordered that a receiver be appointed
The shopmen of the Santa Fe road at
Topeka, will hereafter have an eight
hour day. This change is made to re-
duce expenses
Warden Chase, soon after taking
charge of the penitentiary, removed
sixteen guards and appointed new men
in their places
A burglar entered the house of James
Shaffer at Leavenworth the other
night, and was captured by MIR. Shat
fer and his wife.
June was Kansas day at the post
Office department in Washington.
Thirty-four new fourth-ciass postmasr
tiers were appointed
A special agent of the New Zealand
government was lately in Wichita tax
ing the testimony of witnesses and Sc
| curing statistics from the court and po-
lice record relative to the enforcement
| of the prohibitory law.
The Santa Fe depot at Kingman was
burned the other day. Part of the Office
| fixtures were saved. A freight car load
l Ol i've CdIS Oh separator SlO IEc1C-
| ton engines were also burned. The
loss amounted to $4,000.
Prof. S. 7. Walker, superintendent OF
| the deaf and dumb institute at Olathe,
has resigned to accept the superintend-
ency of the deaf and dumb institute of
| Illinois, at Jacksonville, which is said
to be the largest school Of the kind in
| the world
Martin Mcdonald was terribly in
| jured in the Home mine near Leaven-
worth the other day. He was bracine
| timber at the bottom of the mine when
slate fell and completely buried him.
When taken out his head was found tc
| be crushed and leg broken. He can
| not recover.
The state mine inspector has recently
been inspecting the Leavenworth coal
mines. He reported that many of the
mines there are unsafe, and that unless
the law in regard to safety appliances
is complied with prosecutions will be
| instituted. The state mine, he saws. is
no exception to this rule, and it will be
| repaired.
The officers of the fairs comprising
| the interstate fair circuit, held Il bust
ness meeting at Olathe recently, and
adopted a constitution and bylaws. be-
sides transacting a great deal of bust
| ness essential TO the success of the fall
| meetings. They reported excellent
prospects for successful fairs, and are
giving great deal of attention to the
perfecting of the speed programme.
Among a long list of fourth-class
postmasters recently appointed in Kan
sas, were the following: Bunker Hill,
Russell county, w. C. Hoopman; Caney,
Montgomery county, Levi Glatfelder;
Cottonwood Falls, Chase county. w. E.
Timmons: Coyville. Wilson county, r. B.
Wetmore: Dorrance, Russell county. FL.
S. Henderson: Lebo. Coffey county, Ma
~ V. Johnson; Pomona. Franklin coun-
ty, c. FL. Chrisman; Sedan, Chautauqua
county, J. L. Mattingley.
Stephen Hawkins. colorei police
man, was shot at LeavenEorth the
other night by John Rausman. an &c
centric old hungarian. and proba bly,
fatally wounded 4 party of drunken
foreigners had been bombarding Raus-
mans house with guns and stones and
had wrecked one end of it. Officer
Hawkins went to the house without
making himself known as an officer and
broke in the door to arrest Rausman.
Nv oOOIISI 11dC liz SAOCTSsl
man seized him in the dark and began
firing.
The Kansas sheriffs met at Topeka
the other day to discuss the question of
fees under the new mortgage law which
provides that lin any case where the
| property is bid in by or for the prior
creditor the sheriff shall receive his fee
for the sale, but shall not be entitled to
oh. 10
As most property sold by sheriffs is bid
in by or for the creditor. the principal
| source of revenue in sheriff sales is
taken away. The sheriffs propose to
test the validity of the law in the SUI
preme court.
a motion was recently made in the
supreme court to advance on the docket
| case involving the validity of one
section of the new mortgage redemp-
ton law Chief Justice Horton said
that the points involved in the entire
law ought to be decided at the same
| time. and that when cases covering
| every section of it were brought up TO
the court that all would be advanced
! simultaneously. Cases covering all
points raised will undoubtedly be fled
| this month so that the decision OF the
court may be had at the SeDtem Der
term.
The state treasurer has paid the sugar
bounty for the years 1891 and 1892. The
| total amount paid was S15.303. %. The
| number of pounds Of sugar produced
| was 2.040.511. OF this 933. 100 was pro-
duced by the Parkinson sugar works of
Fort Scott and they were paid s7,04I25.
| The Medicine Lodge company turned
| out 10000 pounds in 1871 and 10. $40
pounds in 1892. receiving 81. 9SI. james
Burgess. receiver for Pope & Hansford.
drew the Sj31.S5 which was due the To-
pella sugar works on S4,a11 pounds
| manufactured in 1891. The Medicine
Lodge Sugar Co. 0imited) received
s3.G4S for 1876. 400 pounds manufactured
last year
The current of the Missouri has been
| changed by the high water at Atchi-
son, one farmer on the east side losing
forty acres of land in twelve hours
The same man lost eighty acres by the
| floods three years ago.
It is stated by an official of the Santa
| Fe road that there viii be no further
| cuts in worlds fair rates An under
standing has been reached that COM
/ ha