Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-01-19
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

There are $3.50 miles OF railroad in
| the state
The public printing bill of the state
board of agriculture last year amounted
| TO 81. S35
school districts, with school popula-
| ton of 4ss. Sol.
Mrs Rautzahn, the alleged accom-
plice of Benson in the I.eavenworth
murder, has been released
The aid contributed to settlers 10
western Kansas during the winter of
| 1S90-91 amounted to nearly SOS. 600
| The electors for Kansas met at Tope-
ka on the 9th and cast the ten electoral
votes of the state for Weaver and Field.
Mike Kelley. of Chapman, representa-
| tive from Dickinson county, is the
youngest member of the Few legisla-
| ture. He is young farmer and a ma
: tive Kansan, being but 25 years of age.
He was born in Gray county, but has
lived in Dickinson county ever since he
| was 6 years old.
The third house, or more properly
! speaking at this juncture the fourth
! house, organized at Topeka without
friction and the governor promptly sent
/ in his message As this body consisted
| of persons who did not get there" and
as their certificates were undisputed
! the utmost harmony prevailed and the
| tenor OF the message may easily be
| imagined
w. H. Biddle, state treasurer-elect,
had not secured his necessary bond of
t 81, 900, 600 on the 18th. Negotiations
I were pending with several Topeka
bankers to make good the amount lack
ing on the bond, but the runpus over
the house organization put stop to
them S. G. Slower, the republican
| state treasurer, was to continue in pos
session of the Office until the bond is
approved.
Just before retiring from Office Gov.
| Humphrey committed the life sentences
OF McNutt and Winner to twenty-five
years each They have been in the
penitentiary for eighteen years, under
sentence of death, and this will release
| them in about two years They mu--
| dered and burned man at Newton, in
tending to palm off his body as that of
| McNutt and thus secure a large insur-
ance policy.
In the meteorological summary for
| the year 1892, issued by Prof. Z. II.
! Snow, of the Kansas university, he
says: 1.-The year 1892 was characterized
| by a low mean temperature, caused by
a cool spring and summer, while the
autumn was warm and the winter
| months of nearly average temperature
! The rainfall was abundant. making
| this the fifth successive year of rainfall
! above the average"
The senate elected as assistant en-
I rolling clerks Phoebe Turner, Lizzie
-.
Matte Convis, Clara Andrews, Mamie
| Gilbert, Edna Steele, Nellie Forney,
MAY Holmes, Mary McElroy, Katie
Day, Miss Marshall, Anna Randolph.
Lizzie Armstrong and Mabel Fortney.
C. A. johnson was elected messenger
and Charles Drury, Eddie Tucker. Har-
| vey Sanden and Porter Christy. pages.
Francis Key Brooke, pastor of Trim
| ity church at Atchison, was recently
consecrated bishop OF Oklahoma, with
headquarters at Guthrie. Great inter
/ est was manifested in the event because
| it is the first conservation of a bishop
that has taken place west of the Missis-
| sippi river The conservation took
| place in the cathedral (EpiscopaD at
| Topeka Bishop Brooke is a relative
and is named for Francis Key, author
| of THE Star Spangled Banner"
During the row incident to the organ
ization of the house at Topeka, the pop
! ulist doorkeeper had in his possession all
| keys to the hall except those leading
| from the post office to the corridors
| He went to George Higgins, republican
! sergeat-at-arnS, who was stationed at
| the post Office door. and demanded that
| he deliver over these keys. Higgins re-
| fused to comply and in the row which
! followed revolEerS were drawn on both
| sides, and general row was only pre-
| vented by the interference of few level
| headed men, who rushed between the
| belligerents
The dual legislature started out with
a good supply of officers The repub-
licans elected: Speaker, George L.
| Douglass, of Sedgwick county: speaker
pro tenn, E. w. Hoch, Marion county:
| chief clerk, Frank L. Brown, Anderson
county; assistant, John Q Royce. Smith
county; sergeant-at-arms, c. c. eleven
ger, Woodson county. with q full corps
of clerks and other offices The popu-
lists elected: Speaker, j. NJ DunsmOre,
| Neosho county; speaker pro tenn, W.
81. Ryan, Crawford county: chief clerk,
Ben c. Rich, Trego county; sergeant
alarms. Leroy T. Dick. Labette county,
| WITH a long llSt OF subordinate OH1cerS
| and clerks.
| At the recent meeting of the Kansas
! Improved Stock Breeders association at
| Topeka officers were chosen as follows:
| President, W. s. Sutton, of Russell: vice
president. NJ. b. Babcock, of Norton
vile; secretary and treasurer, w p.
! Popenoe, of Berrytown; board of direct
ors, III. w. McAfee, of Topeka: c. E.
| Westbrook, of Peabody; Willoughby
Maxim, of Florence; D. \. Heisser. of
Great Bend, and George w. Berry, Of
Berrytown. A resolution was adopted
requesting the legislature to make the
necessary appropriation to secure a
suitable exhibit of agricultural and live
stock resources at the worlds fair, and
also asking for the enactment of a law
recommended by the State Dairymen's
association prohibiting the traffic in
| yellow oleomargarine.
In 1855, when the state dental law
was enacted, there were over 800 dem
| fists in Kansas and there were only %
graduates of dental colleges There
are now 146 graduates, many of whom