Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-08
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Leavenworth coal miners are asking
for an advance of half cent per bushel
for mining coal.
The stalwart democrats of Sedgwick
county have resolved to nominate
straight county ticket next fall.
Deputy Postmaster E. z. Potter, OF
Abilene, has been arrested on a charge
brought by Postmaster Gorder, alleging
shortage of about 81, 900 in his ac-
counts.
Four registered letters were recently
stolen from the post Office at Meade. A
young man by the name of Ned Snider
was suspicioned and steps taken to Sc
cure his arrest but he anticipated
visit from the officers and escaped.
The attorney-generalh has decided that
building associations, including nom
resident organizations, if they receive
deposits or make loans, must comply
with the state banking law and come
under the supervision of the state bank
commissioner.
John Ingram has been appointed
postmaster at Granville, jefferson
county; G. Blake, at Arkelon, Seward
county; j. A. johnson, at Horace,
Greeley county; Isaac Covalt, at Nor
land, Graham county, and Kate Hutch
ison, at Onaga, Pottawotomie county.
The mineral products of Kansas last
year aggregated 80, 26O, 900, divided as
follows: Lead and zinc ores, 81, 0OO, 600;
metallic zinc, 80, $50, 900: coal, S4, O0O, 900;
building stone, $500, 900; salt, $3.50. 600;
plaster and cement, $780, 900; oil and
natural gas, $4,000; clays, $3.50, 700;
mineral paints, 100000.
Secretary Mohler, of the state board
of agriculture, said recently that he
had been over a good part of the state,
nearly as far southwest as Hutchinson,
and that he thinks the outlook, espe-
cially for corn, is fiattering. There
will be fair yield of wheat and an
abundance of spring grains and fruits.
Alonzo Wardell, of Huron, S. D.,
chairman of the executive committee of
the National Farmers alliance was re-
Gently in Topeka looking for offices.
He has direct charge of the insurance
department of the alliance, and it is his
intention to make Topeka the head
quarters of that bureau. The national
headquarters are now at Indianapolis
In answer to an inquiry as to whether
an offender under the prohibitory law,
who has been tried by the county au-
thority, can be tried again by the city
nance, or vice vesa, Acknowledgement
Little has given the opinion that al
though the courts of the different states
ere at variance upon questions of this
scrt, q citizen OF Kansas should not be
twice put in jeopardy for the same of
Tense.
Chancellor Shows weather report for
Nay says: Zone of the coolest and wet
test Mays on our twenty-six years
record, and, notwithstanding the ex-
cessive precipitation, one of the clear
est. The rainfall of this single month
was 7.62 inches and eqxal to the total
of the preceding four months of the
year, which is now 1879 inches. This
is 30! inches above the average for the
same months the preceding twenty-five
years"
Acknowledgement Little now pro-
poses to make an advance upon the
banks of the state. He holds that the
recent agreement of certain banks to
charge for collecting checks, etc. was
in the nature of a combine and he has
issued circular letter to all county
attorneys informing them that such
agreements are in plain violation of the
antitrust law and calling upon them
toinstitute criminal proceedings against
all Offenders.
A stranger was arrested for theft at
Atchison the other night who gave the
name of George w. Davis. He had
four bullet wounds on his person. any
one of which would have killed an
ordinary person. He had been shot
through the back and lungs. through
the shoulder, through the thigh and
through the face. Davis, who had been
I,.in VIII 1,a l.
his wounds. said he was in the Dalton
fight at Coffeyville. Officers were in
clined to believe that he is really the
missing bandit.
\ decision was rendered in the dis
trict court of Shawnee county the other
day affecting the fees of sheritfs where
property is sold under foreclosure. I'm
der the old mortgage law the sheriff
received a certain percentage on the
sum for which the property was sold,
but the act passed last winter says the
sheriff is not entitled to such percent
age when the mortgages bid in the
property. The contention was that
the new act was in effect in this rela-
ton, but the court held that no part of
the law operates in cases arising out of
mortgages made before the statute was
passed.
The Acknowledgement has arranged
for the encampments of the Kansas Ma
tional guard. The first battalion, COM
panies \. b, c and II of the First regi-
ment and c and d of the Third meet at
Lawrence. Second battalion, companies
d, E, f and G. of the First regiment will
meet at Fort Scott. First battalion of
the Second regiment, companies B and
of the First regiment and a and + of
the Third will meet at Winfield. Sec
ond battalion, companies a, E, d. f, G.
and III of the Second regiment viii meet
at Hutchinson. Fourth regiment, first
battalion, companies E, E and H of the
Fourth regiment will meet at Junction
City. Second battalion, companies 4,
c, f and G of the Fourth regiment will
meet at Beloit. Third battalion, COM
panies 3 and G. of the1Third regiment
will meet at Seneca or Hiawatha.
Fourth-class postmasters lately APP
pointed in Kansas: At Edison, Sher-
man county, Madison n. Smithie; at
Lecompton, Douglas county, w. r.
Smith: at Lenape, Leavenworth coun-
ty, William Shannon; at Merriam,
Johnson county, James NJ. Campbell;