Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-04-13
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Frank Mapes secured the post Office
at Kansas City, Kan.
The seventh congressional district re-
publican editorial association will meet
in Pratt on April "a and 25.
The s<army of liberty" is said to be
a new organization in the state that ID
working against prohibition
For the week ended April 1 there
were thirty-five new fourth-class post
masters appointed in Kansas
At many places in Kansas on the 9Th
the thermometer indicated 90 degrees,
the hottest April day on record.
Mrs Potter, who was confident of be-
ing elected mayor of Kansas City,
Kan, received total of 25 votes out of
a possible 10, PAS
It is stated that the wheat which was
sown last fall among the corn stalks is
standing the dry weather better than
that which was planted on open ground.
The population of the penitentiary
was increased the other day by the
addition of sixteen United States pris-
oners lately convicted of various crimes
at Wichita
Mrs. Potter, who ran as an independ-
emit candidate for mayor of Kansas City,
Kan, had about so, 600 tickets printed
When the polls closed her tickets were
well nigh exhausted, but she was about
5000 votes short of an election
DIR. OBrien, secretary of the state
board of health. says he is receiving
reports from all over Kansas that the
cities are cleaning up Cholera will
find little to entice it in this state. The
general health of the state, he says, is
good
Judge c. G. Foster, of the United
States district court. has left for In
dianapolis e place himself under the
rratZzNEt of specialist in that city.
Judge Foster, while no worse than he
has been for some time, is not thought
to be improving any.
It is suggested that a convention of
of delegates from every county in
southwest Kansas meet at some central
point for the purpose of discussing
ways and means for protection from
the greatest enemy known to south
western Kansas-the prairie fire.
1t is stated that 1and-seekers are
rushing into Cheyenne county by the
hundreds and buying up land at from
$500 to 81, 600 per quarter. It is further
stated that fully one hundred thousand
acres in the county will be planted in
broom corn.
In the district court at Topeka the
other day County Attorney Curtis, upon
the recommendation of Attorney Gen
eral Little, dismissed the criminal pro-
ceedings against James Billingslea,
charged with defalcation in office while
assistant insurance commissioner under
d. w. Wilder.
Lucien Scott, the well known banker
of Leavenworth. died in New York city
the other evening. He had been in fall
ing health for some time Mr.. Scott
was one of the oldest pioneers in Kan
sas and for many years was president
of the Leavenworth First National
bank. His wealth is supposed to be
over two million dollars
Fire at Newton the other day burned
j. Weigand's cigar factory and the
cigar stock valued at 81, 900 was wholly
destroyed. j. B. Thompson's barber
shop and p. Luhn's store were also
burned Luhn had $4,000 stock of
shoes and his loss was estimated at
fully IS, 900. He carried no insurance.
Incendiaries are blamed.
Gov. Lewellin2 has appointed as
Kansas delegates to the Transmissis-
sippi congress at Ogden, Utah, April
"a: John N Ives, of Topeka; A. c.
Shinn, Ottawa; A. II. Mccormick. Par.
sons; Charles w. Goodland, Fort Scott;
A. b. Cook, Paola; Quincy A. Glass,
Winfield; John p johnson, Highland,
and, j. F. Todd, Eldorado.
Col Townsend, commanding the post
at Fort Leavenworth, has received or
ders to hold in readiness for immediate
movement the four troops of cavalry
4 IL Il 4 ~
the cavalry is to be sent to Antlers, I.
T., in case of further trouble there or
in that section of the country. The
four troops comprise 240 men.
The National Union Co.. which has
been furnishing dry goods and gro
ceries to the farmers of the country for
the past year, is in the hands Of re-
ceiver The union had six stores in
Kansas, one of which was located at
Topeka. All the stores except the one
at Topeka have been sold out and the
stock of that is being disposed of by
order of the receiver.
Information was recently received at
Topeka of the destruction of much
property by prairie fires In Graham and
Phillips counties Only meager par
ticulars could be learned. It was
known, however, that a great deal OF
hav, several head of horses and about
fifty head of sheep perished, and that
Mrs Bowen and three children were
caught in the flames and so badly
burned that they would not recover
An atrocious crime was committed by
an unknown brute at Salina the other
night Mrs Frost who resided in the
suburbs of the town, was dragged from
her home in her night clothes q distanct
of mile and brutality assaulted. The
villain then seized the woman's two
year-old child and crushed it's skull
against it's mothers head Believing
them both dead the brute dragged them
to a straw stack and made his escape
The woman was able to reach a neigh
boring house and gave the alarm. The
sheriff with 200 men went in pursuit
Mrs. Frost described her nssailant as &
negro or Mexican
Emporia schools last. year sent SSt
for relief of tornado sufferers at Well
ington and Harper. $40 to the orphans
home at Leavenworth, gave about foul
tons of provision and clothing to tn,
needy in Emporia. purchased and raiset
eiCht largo and beautiful daOS auf