Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-06-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

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THE sixteen-year-old son of Charles
Downing, of Clay Center, was drowned
recently while bathing in the Repu Bill
can river.
The Encouragement has received in
formation that all the NJ, K. & 7. rail-
way offices have been removed from
Kansas to st. Louis
Willard and Marion Higley, aged
respectively 10 and II, were drowned in
Stranger creek, near Atcl,ison, the other
day, while swimming.
The body of DIR. F. B. Robinson was
found in the river at Arkansas CITY re-
Gently and coroner's jury decided it
to be a case of suicide.
The Kansas City, Kan, grain in
spectors continue to inspect grain at
Argentine, notwithstanding the orders
of the state grain inspector to the con-
trary.
The supreme court has decided valid
the act of the last legislature making
of the disorganized county of Garfield
the township of Garfield and annexing
it to Finney county.
In response to request of President
Walters, of the miners union, the coal
miners OF Scranton, Peterton and Usage
City suspended work until the Pitts
burg strike is settled.
w. H. r. Lykins, once a prominent
banker of Lawrence, one of the first
settlers of the town and mayor of the
city at one time, died recently in Kan
Sas City, Mo-, at the age of CT years.
Superintendent of Insurance Snider
has received notice that crooked Ohio,
Virginia and West Virginia companies
are running system of underground
Insurance by wildcat agents in the
southern and southwestern part of the
state.
Rev. C.. F. Mortimer, a member of the
Christian church who lived recently at
AtchiSon and Salina, was found dead in
his room in Lincoln, (Neb) hotel the
other morning. He used morphine to
relieve neuralgia and probably took an
overdose.
a man supposed to be Thomas Kelly,
of Marshalltown, Ia, was killed by a
Rock Island freight train near Atchison
the other morning. He was evidently
a laborer about so years of age, and
was walking upon the track when
struck by the train.
The supreme court in a late decision
holds that the reserve fund of the Kan
-sas Mutual Life association of Topeka,
which is deposited with the state treas
-urer. is taxable. and that the company
has no right to deduct the sum of it's
liabilities from it's credits subject to
taxation.
Five men held up the California linn
ted express train on the Santa Fe rail-
road, half a mile west of Cimarro. nearly
the other morning. wounded Express
Messenger Whittlesey. of Kansas City,
and escaped with n bag of silver dol
Z lars and the contents of the way-safe.
They secured about $1,000.
The controversy over the grain in
spection at Kansas City, Kan. has been
settled by ruling of the attorney-gen-
eral. in which he reverses the opinion
of his assistant, made some time ago,
to the effect that the state grain in
spector at Kansas City had authority
to cause the arrest of the deputy grain
inspectors.
RAILROAD attorneys lately held a
meeting at Topeka to discuss the pro-
visions of the bill passed by the last
legislature compelling railroad COM
panies to put in track scales at all
stations where during the year 1892 100
cars of grain were shipped. 1t is
thought the law will be contested in
the courts.
Samuel Childers, cclUred. was shot
and instantly killed at Kansas CITY,
Kan. about : o'clock the other even
ing by Constable D. W. White. The
shooting took place in front of Childers'
residenc on Thompson avenue and was
caused by Childers refusing to go to the
court room with the constable after be-
placed under arrest.
IRENE. the three-year-o1G daughter of
MIR. and Mrs. Otto p. Murash, was
killed by a Northwestern train at
Kansas City. Kan. the other day. The
child had wandered onto the track in
the suburbs. when a train came dash
ing along and when the engineer saw
it he reversed the engine bazt could not
check up in time to save the little one
Mrs. Chris Berger, the wife of q
farmer living a few miles from New
ton. came to her death in Il shocking
manner the other day. \ can of kero-
sene leaked and she removed the can
and then tried to burn the oil off the
floor when her clothing took fire and
she was so badly burned that she died
in short time. She had becn married
but Il little over a year and left a
young babe.
In two days the past week Kansas
picked up the following new postnast-
ers: At Rosel. Pawnee county. Fhilo
Wilcox: at Chautauqua, Chauhauqua
county, James Supple; at ElgiD. Cbau-
tauqua county, Horace Wait; at Els
more, Allen county. j. DOnohOe: at
Lebanon. Smith county. O. Glenn: at
Leon. Butler county, John Kline at
Belle Plane sumner county. Valentine
Heffner: ut Bonner Springs. Wyandotte
county, John McDaniel; at Vineland,
Douglas county, James Tiff; al Cen
tropolis. Franklin county. c. Wilson:
at Wellsville. Franklin county, Charles
Cayot: at williamsburg, Franklin
county, Thomas Hagan.
The Woman's Progressive Political
club was recently organized at Topeka
with the following officers: President,
Mrs. John G. Otis, of Topeka: vice
president. Mrs. ]. c. Bare. of baldwin,
City; secretary, Mrs John Davis, Of
junction City: treasurer, Mrs. ]. c.
Ruggles, of Emporia; chxplain, Mrs
Anna Sells Marshall, of Garden City;
state organizer. Mrs. Anna L. Digs,
of Lawrence. The club adopted reso-
buttons indorsing the peoples party,
the Omaha platform. prOhi5StiO and