Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-05-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.


summer.
NJ. d. Henderson has been elected
secretary of the new board of railroad
commissioners.
Gen. James B. Weaver, late peoples
party candidate for president, was re-
Gently in Topeka.
Cashier Yeiter, of the bank of Ingalls,,
is reported to be short in his accoants
to the amount of $4,000 or $4,000
A destructive hailstorm recently did
great damage in the vicinity of Hays
City. Calves, chickens, rabbits, birds,
ETC., were killed.
The reports of the city assessors of
Leavenworth show that the population
on March L, this year, was 20, OFT, a fall
ing off in the past year of tvs.
The appropriat ton of 81, 900 TO pay the
expenses of the senate Doodle investi-
cation committee has been exhausted
and number of witnesses are left
without pay.
L. C. Ruczer, who killed w. S. Os-
born in Cowley county on Christmas
day, 1873 and who broke jail soon after,
was recently arrested in Monroe county,
Ark, and taken back to Jail at Win
field.
The governor has offered a reward of
$500 for the apprehension of the parties
concerned in the lynching of Dan
Adams, a negro, who stabbed the sta
ton agent of the Union Pacific at Sa-
lima a short time ago.
Luke 6. Herring, editor and propri-
setor of the Sumner County Standard,
who had been suffering from cancerous
Il L,
his home in Wellington the other day,
leaving widow and two small chill
dren.
school has arranged for an excursion to
the worlds fair. A special train will
leave Emporia just after commence
ment, designed to accommodate the
faculty, alumni and students and their
friends.
The governor was recently notified
by telegraph that 500 head of cattle
shipped into Chautauqua county were
stopped at Juniata and quarantined by
a posse of thirty farmers, who were in
formed that the cattle were from the
fever district. The live stock commits
sion went down to investigate.
Mrs. G. 7. Jehu was killed by an
electric car on the Chelsea Park line at
Kansas City, Kan, the other night
She was going to drug store, walking
on the track, and seeing a car ap-
preaching stepped on the other track
when she was struck by a car going in
the opposite direction. She was g.
years of age and lately from Stafford.
Frank Segor, a young farmer, disap
peared from his home near Wichita the
other day and the next morning his
body was found on an island south of
the city. A bottle of morphine that
he had purchased was found empty in
his pocket and also a note of farewell
to his wife and three children. Finan-
cial worry as well as the modification
of having been arrested were the causes
of the suicide.
Judge Hazen, of the district court, at
Topeka, has decided that the mortgage
redemption law enacted by the last
legislature does not apply to existing
contracts. The decision was in a case
to foreclOse a second mortgage on a
farm in Shawnee county. The decision
is the second in its line in the state
since the enactment of the law. The
first was by Judge Reed, of Sedgwicl1
county, soon after the law was passed.
Several more >postmasters We're APP
pointed in Kansas on the 10th. They
were CassiuS NJ. McGowan. at Thayer,
Neosho county: Andrew j. Howell, at
Virgil, Greenwood county: Charles S.
Locknane, at Welmore, Nemaha coun-
ty; Flavia Longton, at Aurora, Cloud
county: L. o. Clary, at Miltonvale,
Cloud county: Isaac Brown, at Caven,
Pratt county: T. c. Craig, at Easton,
Leavenworth county; Adam Loeb, at
Lane, Franklin county; z. F. Santer,
Shawnee, johnson county, and c. A.
Shepherd, at Wilmington, Wabaunsee
county.
Gov. Lewelling has telegraphed to
the president of the Missouri, Kansas
& Texas road, calling his attention to
the law of Kansas requiring all Kansas
corporations to maintain their general
Offices in the state, and warning him
that steps would be taken by the state
to revoke the charter unless the gener-
al offices should be moved back to Kan
Isas from ST. Louis. The governor also
|notified Acknowledgement Little of his
faction and unless the company moves
its offices back at once a suit in quo
wNrranto will be instituted in the su-
preme court.
Kansas secured batch of fourth
class postmasters on the Sth, all to fill
vacancies caused by designations. They
we're: e.. NJ. A. Samuels. at Boicourt
Linn county; w. j. Stone, at Fulton,
Bourbon county; G. w. Daniels, at Gar
field. Sawnee county: Miss c. l.. Porter,
at Glenloch, Anderson county; E. V.
Blake, at Guelph. Sumner county: L. A.
Ramsey, at Lansing, Leavenworth
county: 4. Hanna, at New Murdoch.
Kingman county; w. B. Morgan, at
Parkerville, Morris county: J. E. COT
fey, at Cock Creek, jefferson county;
Mary +. See, at Rosedale, Wyandotte
county; J. w. Tibbetts at Shibboleth,
Decatur county; ]. d. Cannon, at To-
ronto, Woodson county; John Gallagher,
at Wheaton, Pottawatomie county; G..
w. Penner, at Whitewater, Butler
county.
Emporia put on her best clothes the
other day TO welcome Commander-in-
Chief Weissert and Adjt--Gen. Gray, of
the national g. A. R., and Department
Commander Bernard Kelly and Assist
ant Adjt. Zen. Campbell. a large body
of veterans met the party at the depot
and escorted them to the Hotel White
ley, where the mayor and delegation
l.