Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-02-16

Campbell of Doniphan
| Political Rights OF Women-Knipe. Hoch,
| Nichols of Atchison, Willis, Pearson
| Education-Beneiel OF Montgomery, East
| man, Stromquist, Price. Frazer. Bowie. Bal
finger.
Charitable Institutions Dix. Hob
Meagher
Miscellaneous.
Henry c. Burnett, formerly of Law
| renee and an old newspaper man, died
recently in New Mexico.
Samuel Millinger was recently in
stantly killed near Emporia by fall
| ing tree that he had cut down.
DR.. McLallin, editor of the Topeka
! Advocate, peoples party organ. is to be
commissioner of elections for Topeka
The governor has nominated j. w.
| Briedenthal, chairman of the popu1ist
state central committee, to be bank ex-
| aminer.
gentine, and the board of education OF
| that city decided to close the schools
| until February 30.
The governor has nominated c. E.
| Wheeler, of Trego county, as forestry
commissioner. He succeeds G. V. Bart
lett, of Dodge City There are two for
estry stations in Kansas, one at Dodge
| City and one at Ogallah, Trego county.
Senator Banner has introduced bill
in the senate providing that county SUI
perintendents shall hold an educational
| meeting in each municipal township
every year. The present law compels
| meetings to be held in each school dis
| trict, which is impossi BILE.
The young woman found unconscious
in haystack at Clayton, Mo-, some
| time ago proved to be Miss Elecla For
rest, a school teacher of Hutchinson,
who was abducted, it is thought, while
| returning from her school about fifteen
miles north of the latter place.
The other day the sheriff of Atchison
county received a dispatch from Mus
cotah signed by James Fomby, which
read: Come at once I am in danger
of being mobbed" The sheriff fastened
to his relief and instead of finding a
mob found Fomby to be a lunatic.
| A call has been issued for a meeting
| of the republican women of Kansas. at
! Topeka. March 10, the date of the meet
| ing of the republican state league, for
the purpose of organizing a women's
publican association for Kansas,
which shall be auxiliary to the national
association presided over by Mrs J.
| Ellen Foster.
Herman Lang, young farmer living
at Jarbalo, Leavenworth county, died
the other night of hydrophobia- He
was bitten last July by a rabid dog and
was treated with maidstone, which he
! thought had cured him, but few days
+ before his death, while taxing drink
! of water, he was seized with convul-
! sions which continued until ne died
Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Taclzer, OF Ar
mourdale, were chloroforned by burg
lars the other night, and when the
| thieves departed they left the doors of
the house open. When the parents re-
covered consciousness they found their
twin babies, boys only five days old,
that were sleeping in crib, SO chilled
with the cold that they died in a short
time.
On the 18th the executive council
elected John Hall, of Neosho county,
the democratic member of the board OF
railroad com missioners, and on the fol-
lowing day elected 2. B. Maxson, OF
Emporia, and w. d. Vincent, of Clay
Center to fill the places occupied by
Messrs. Anthony and Greene. Prior to
! the election the council declared the
positions held by Messrs. Anthony and
Mitchell vacant.
In the Moore-Funston contested cleo
ton case when the commission was
taking testimony at Kansas City, Kan,
the contestants counsel expected to
prove that in the third precinct of the
! First ward no less than IT'S illegal votes
were cast for Funston, but when Coun-
ty Clerk Bruce was placed on the wit
ness stand and asked to produce the
ballots he testified that they could not
be found. This created a sensation.
The next day the missing package was
found on a neigh boris gate near the
county clerks residence. How the
packet got there is the puzzling ques-
ton.
Senator Reilly's anti-Pinkerton bill,
which was favorably reported to the
senate, provides that no sheriff or other
officer authorized to appoint special
deputies to preserve the public peace,
shall hereafter appoint as such special
deputies any person who is not a resi-
dent of the state and the county In
which his services are required. and it
shall be unlawful for any private per-
son, company or association to bring
into the state any person or persons for
the purpose of discharging the duties
upon ocputN
etc The penalty for a violation of the
law is imprisonment for from three
months to one year for any person pre-
tending to act as an officer, so, 900 fine
to any corporation and Imprisonment
from six months to five years for the
agent employing such detectives
William H Bycrs. the ea,bezzler Of
Helena, Mont, who had been arrested
at Wichita, was Struggled out of that
town by Helena officers to prevent To-
cal processes in the nature of habeas
corpus proceedings for his release.
The other night James Mitchell, wife
aud one child were found in their home,
seven miles north of Topeka, frozen to
death. The bodies were found in bed
with but thin quilt over them, all the
covering there was in the house.
The executive council IS busy with
the question of appointments
Otis Wade, a brakeman, was killed
by Frisco train near Lyons the other
day.
Over four hundred bills have been in
troduced into the senate. How they
viii get through the other two houses,
after they run the senatorial gauntlet,