Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-29
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The State bank at Kinsley has failed

Reuben Bates, an old citizen, was |
killed by the cars at Caldwell the other |
day.
A late fire at Leonardville destroyed |
business property to the value of |
$50. 900.
Fire at Hutchinson the other night |
destroyed Marshalls jewe1ry store. |
Loss covered by insurance.
Charles Cutler, business man of
Balwin, was probably fatally injured
by runaway team the other day.
The president has appointed R b
Morris, of Atchison, collector of inter
nal revenue for the district of Kansas.
Rev. Henry Howe, father of E. w.
Howe, of the Atchison Globe, died in
that city the other day at the age of II
years
E. w. Combs, of Kansas, has been APP
pointed chief of division in the first
comptrollers Office in the treasury de-
partment.
Secretary Morton, of the department
of agriculture, has made an order
abandoning the experimental farm at
Garden City.
The five-year-old daughter of B. f.
Marley, of Minneapolis. was shot and
boy who was .'fooling" with Winches-
ter rifle
Ambrose Arnold, in a fit of jealousy,
shot his wife at Leavenworth the other
evening and then killed himself with
the same pistol 1t was thought the
woman could not recover.
A cyclone paid Winfield visit the
| other day and was satisfied with the
Il % E@iSo0oo1 oh11..oH
| tearing away the west wing of the
court house and badly damaging the
Babbet hotel.
Mai. Andrew Downing, special eX-
aminer of the United States pension
bureau, with headquarters at Topeka,
| has received official notice from the
secretary of the interior that after June
80 his services would be dispensed with.
| Gov. Lewelling has sent letters to
the governors of North Dakota. South
Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas,
| Arkansas, Missouri and Iowa, inviting
them to unite with him in a movement
| to persuade the railroads to reduce
worlds fair rates.
The state board of health met re-
Gently at Topeka and elected DIR. Frank
Swallow, of Valley Falls, president,
and DIR. III. A. Dyke, Of Leavenworth,
secretary. The latter Office pays $4,000
per year and is the only salaried office
connected with the board.
Matthew Ryan, a pioneer of Leaven-
worth and very prominent and enter
| priSing citizen, died in that city the
other day from blood poisoning as the
result of a scratch on the leg by a sharp
| stick. He was born in Ireland in 1919
and reported to be worth $500, 600, all of
which he made while residing in Kan
| SaS.
The executive committee of the Kan
sas republican league met at Topeka
| recently and resolved to establish a
literary bureau for the purpose of car
rying on a campaign of education
similar to the scheme recently agreed
upon by the peoples party. Charles S.
Gleed was elected managing editor of
the bureau.
While bombarding the heavens for
rain at Minneapolis the other after
noon premature discharge of the can
non caused the instant death of S. Z.
Redman and it is thought fatally
| wounded Rufus Preston. Redman was
captain of Company G, Fourth regi-
ment, X. n. G., and leaves a wife, a
small child and an invalid father.
Rev. Werter r. Davis, d. D., the first
president of Baker university, died at
his home at Baldwin City the other
| night. He was one of the pioneers OF
| Methodism in Kansas. loca ting at Bald
win in 1858, bringing with him the fac
ulty with which to organize Baker uni
versity. The deceased was 7S years old
and had been preaching for So years
The great case of the United States
vs. the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail-
way, commenced by Attorney General
Olney to declare the roads land grant
void, affects hundreds of farmers in
| Dickinson, Gearv, Morris and Usage
counties, who bought land of the rail
road. Seventy land owners of Dicl1in-
son county met recently and resolved
to fight the case, and hired attorneys
to save their homes if possible.
Attorney General Little has de
cided that the state board of public
works could not lawfully issue vouch-
er on state contract work unless it was
satisfied that such work has been done
on the eight-hour system, and that the
board may properly insert in all con-
tracts clause requiring contractors to
present to the board certificates from
laborers that they worked but eight
hours day on the contract and had re-
ceived the current wages paid in the
neighborhood for ten hours work.
While the sheriff of Butler county
was recently taking lot of prisoners
to the penitentiary one of them by the
name of Williams jumped from the
window of the train while it was run
ming at speed of forty-five miles an
hour. The train was backed, the
guards expecting to find his mangled
remains Nothing but his hat was
found at the point where the jump was
made, but, after securing the adjoining
country, Williams was found in the
timber, where he had armed himself
with shovel. and made a vigorous re-
sistance to the officers He was soon
recaptured.
| J. B. Watkins, of Lawrence. has COM
menced proceedings in the supreme
court to test the disputed points in the
mortgage redemption law passed by
the recent legislature. The main ques-
ton to be passed upon is whether the
law applies to existing contracts
Harrison Byers, 60 years old, com
nitted suicide at Leavenworth recently
by taking poison He left a note say
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