Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1893-07-06
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Heavy rains fell in the western part
of the state ON the Goth, where they
| were much needed
j. d. Caster, of Kingman county, has
been chosen superintendent of the deal
and dumb institution at Olathe, to sue
coed Mr.. Walker.
Frank Howard shot and killed him.
self in Finney county the other day be-
cause young woman he was attentive
| to refused his offer of marriage
international money offices have been
esta blished at ARGENTINE, Burlingame,
| Ellis, Goodwin, Halstead, Howard,
| Lincoln, Pleasanton and St. John.
The Santa Fe road has issued circu-
lar in favor of one-fare excursion rates
| to Chicago from all western territory,
| and inviting other roads to make these
rates.
| The state board of railroad commits
sioners recently ordered that whole
sale rates be given to the city of Lyons.
This places Lyons on an equal footing
with Wichita, Hutchinson, Salina and
other Kansas jobbing points
| Gov. Lewelling has declined to inter
fere in the case of Fred Bassett, of
Lawrence, son of Judge o. A. Bassett,
sentenced to the county jail for wanton-
| y shooting young law student for
walking across the Bassett premises.
! Maj. w. P. Overton, one of the first
settlers of Wyandotte county, died sud
| denly at his home in Kansas City, Kan,
the other morning at the age of 81
years. He was veteran of the Next
can war, being with Col Doniphan in
his celebrated march across the plains
| George f. Murray, of Comanche
county, was recently killed while blast
| ing in a we'll He went into the we'll
too soon after firing a blast and was
overcome by the fumes of sulphur. He
| signalled to be drawn out but before
| reaching the surface fell back and was
] killed.
July IL will be Kansas day at the big
| Christian Endeavor hotel in Chicago.
and there will be special exercises OF
| interest to all Kansas Endeavorers-
| The annual convention of the society
will be held at Montreal, beginning
July 5, and large numbers of Kansas
| people will be present.
| It is stated that there is urgent need
of clothing, money and household uter-
sis at Williamstown, where the late
| tornado tore down many buildings,
killed ten persons and injured fifteen.
Many of the victims of the storm, par
ticularly children whose parents were
killed, are reported to be in great want.
The fremont hotel at Fort Scott COL
lapsed on the morning of the Goth By
the floors giving away. There were.
one hundred persons in the building at
the time, many of whom were seriously
hurt, but no one was killed. The builG-
ing was a four-story brick structure,
and the collapse came without a mo-
ment's warning.
The men who caused the terrible
wreck on the east-bound express train
on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad two miles east of Barclay on
| the morning of September 81, 1872,
which resulted in several deaths, have
finally been arrested. They are the
two Webb brothers, who resided near
Barclay and We're under suspicion at
the time.
Mrs Maggie Anderson made a de-
termined effort to commit suicide at
Leavenworth the other day. She shot
at herself three times, and succeeded
in hitting herself once in the leg. She
| afterwards jumped into cistern, from
which she was taken in half drowned
condition. She is said to have tried to
kill herself because the police were
about to arrest her husband for some
| trif1ing offense.
The commissioner OF the general land
| Office has recommended that the
Larned land office and that at Garden
| City be combined into one Office to be
| located at Dodge City. The report
| states that the business of the two Of
| fees is about enough to make one
| Office. and that Dodge City is between
the two towns now having the Office
The commissioner has also decided to
| move the Kirwin Office to Oberlin.
Edward Ashbough, an old citizen of
Kansas, was adjudged insane in the
probate court of Wyandotte county the
| other day and will be sent to an asy-
| lum. He made the applica ton himself
| and stated to the court that he had be-
| come convinced that he was mentally
| unbalanced and feared he might do
some one an injury. He stated that he
| felt an almost uncomfortable desire to
| cut somebody's throat, and was afraid
| to trust himself. He also said he had a
| great desire to swear and abuse people,
| and was fearful that in some way he
would bring about trouble and TRACE
| dy, and he wanted to be locked up.
| The governor has of late been .seceiv-
| ing many letters from western Kansas,
urging an extra session of the legisla-
ture for the purpose of providing seed
| wheat and other relief for the needy
! farmers of that section. Letters are
being received from many counties in
which the wheat crop this year has
| been almost a complete failure, asking
| the governor to take some action of
this kind. In an interview the gov
ernor is quoted as saying: 81 an of
the opinion that assistance can be
| given these people without the expense
| of a special session of the legislature.
| The farmers that have been blessed
with such bountiful crops will, I am
sure, contribute to their less fortunate
| fellow-men, and the needed assistance
| will be given them I should favor any
measure to aid them, but 1 am of the
| opinion that it can be done without a
| special session of the legislature
| Mrs lack Evans, who was injured in
the Williamstown tornado. died several
days after being injured, making the
| eleventh victim of that dreadful storm.
| William Fletcher, Kaw river fisher