Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-11-29
KANSAS STATS NEWS.
The Ie-isIa4nrn

house, the pOpuEiStS 30 and the demo-
Gratis 1. Tl,is gives the republicans q
clear majority OF 80. The senate stands
% populists. Is republicans and dem
ocr'ats- On joint ballot for the election
of United States senator and state
printer the repu blicans will have ma
jority of -. There are few changes
in the list of mem ers Of the house
from that already published The pop
ulists gained one member by changes
in each the Fifth, Fiftieth, Seventy
eighth. and Eighty-sixtfr districts, and
the republicans one each by cha@ges in
the Kifty-hfth and Nine tp-eiglssh dis
tricts, while the pOpulists elected mem
bers for the One Hundred and Fourth
and One Hundred and Fifth districts
The judge Rs Correct.
Judge Johnston of the snprem9
court, who has been on the bench
twelve years and at the last election
was reelected for . term whichlwill
not expire till 1900, stated in recent
interview that he had surrendered his
railroad passes and gave as his reasons,
for So doing that in this he.
was only acting ia harmony with -
strong public sentiment in Kansas.
against the acceptance of railroad
passes by public officials
Lost Representative
The counties. of Grant stevens and
Seward, situated in the western part
of the state, have lost their representa-
tive in the Legislature this year. Each
cast less than 200 votes at the late
election. The law requires that a
county shall cast at least 200 votes.
The representatives elected are enti--
tied to pay and mileage, but they will
have no vote in the proceedings of the
house: Haskell county just saved itself,
casting col votes
The G. a. r.
An order was issued the other day by
Department Commander Campbell,
calling the fourteentk annual eIscamp-
ment OF the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie of Kansas, to be held at Lawrence,
beginning February 90. 1895, aad to
continue three days The COUNSEL of
administration will meet at the same
place on February %, and the members
of the Woman's> Relief Corps and, Sons
of Veterans Will also meet with the
Grand Army.
Helping the Needy.
Tt is said that Gov Lewel1inp~ will
recommend in his, message to the Iegis-
1ature that steps be taken for the.relief
of the needy in the dEought-striel1en
regions of WESTERN Kansas. FfeGEeRt
calls from the cropless districts have
been made upon the governor of late,
but he is powerless to act, and he feels
that something ought to be done for
the relief OF those who are in need
Against Convict Labor.
State Labor Commissioner Todd has
submitted to. the governor a voFumin-
Gus report on contract convict EibOr
and prison reform. It is an attack up
on the present system and q recon-
mendationr for mlder form of seHvi-
tude. The report quotes at length
from an article formerly published by
Gov. Click in opposition to. the contract
labor system
Shot the Serenaders>
Richard Webster. member of the
Salvation army and said to be half
vitted. was married at Wellington the
other day and in the evening a party
of young men and boys went to the
house to give him and his bride
eharivari when Webster fired into the
crowd with revolver killing John
McCook and seriously wounding Claude
Walton
DairYmen.
The State Dairy association met IN
eighth annual session at Topeka on the
2Ist. President Nissley's annual adj
dress referred briefly to the progress
that has been made by the dairy in
dustry during the past year and con-
tanned some recommendations as to
future work of the association.
Got Caught.
Several students from Kansas City,
Mo-, medical college made a raid upon
the graves of one of the cemeteries at
Kansas City, Kan. about midnight the
other night, in the interest of
science" and were gobbled by the
police, who had been given tip as te
the contemplated raid
Farmer Killed
4 farmer living on the river in
Cowley county was killed while clear
ing land the other morning. He was
cutting the roots of trees and pulling
them out with team when one tug
broke and the single-tree struck him in
the stomach.
Minor State News
John Quinn. an old citizen OF Leaven-
worth, was accidentally killed while
recently out hunting.
Thomas Collins, a negro, was recent
Iy arrested at Atchison, charged with
assaulting four different women
The students of Baker university at
Baldwin have petitioned the state mill
itarv board for permission to organize