Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-10-18
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
The Odd Fellows.

further to do with it and the property
reverts to the trustees, The grand
lodge elected the following officers for
the year: Grand master, Levi Ferguson.
of Wellington: deputy grand master.
DIR. Taylor. OF Topeka; grand secre-
tary, c. w Main, Mankato: grand
treasurer, L. G. Bean. of Topeka;
grand warden, G. W. Walters, of 0s-
weqo. The Kansas state assembly OF
Rebekah elected the following officers:
President Adelaide Smith Wayland.
OF Washington; vice president. Blanche
NJ Dryden. of Spring Hill; secretary,
Lydia Sheppard, OF Wichita; treasurer,
Ida II. Blum. of Kansas City.
Reia<ed Justice.
TWENTY-FIVE years ago J. T. Holiness
then postmaster at Wichita, was con-
victed in the United States court at
Topeka of stealing registered letters
and sentenced to ten years in the peni-
Tertiary. Eighteen months later
Holmes was released at the interces-
sion of friends who paid the shortage
and whose pleadings almost convinced
the authorities that he had been wrong
fully convicted. The other dav Mr..
Holmes received a letter from King
Price in the Michigan penitentiary,
which completely exonerated him
Price was clerk in the office at the
time and his letter recites how he lost
money by gambling; how he first
robbed the money drawer of the post
Office, and finally took the registered
packages.
The Tax Legal.
The supreme court has affirmed the
decision of Judge Hazen. of the Shaw
nee county district court in the case
of Reno lodge l. o. o. T.. of Hutchin-
son. against the grand lodge of Kan
sas. The case involved the right OF
the grand lodge to assess a per capita
tax in support of the De Boissier or
phans' home. The decision of the SUI
preme court is that members of fra
ternal organizations are bound by tbs
rules of the society, and that courts Will
not undertake to control the internal
| policy of such societies. The decision
is adverse to the Hutchinson lodge.
| Not Part of Their Creed.
The recent announcement that rvc
women of Topeka who were active in
their advocacy of the suffrage amend
ment would organize a dress reform
club and appear in boomers as soon rs
the election is over and the amendment
is carried has caused Mrs. Laura NJ
Johns, president of the Kansas Equal
Suffrage association, to issue a mani
festo, in which she tells the Topeka
women that dress reform Is not =
part of the equal suffrag-ists' creed.
Suspended Lodges Admitted.
At the recent meeting of the grand
lodge /. o. o. f. at Wichita, lively
time was had over the question of ad-
hitting representatives from the
twenty-six lodges that were under sus-
pension for not paying the per capita
assessment to the De Bossiere orphans
home When the vote was taken the
suspended lodges were admitted by
vote of I76 to 129. An appeal was inn
mediately taken to the sovereign grand
lodge.
Equal Suffrage Plans.
The equal suffrage campaign COM
mittee recently decided to have a
representative at each voting pre-
cinct in the state on the night of
the election for the purpose Of keep
ing a record of the vote on the proposed
amendment and the vote for governor
In this way the committee hopes to be
able to determine which political party
has rendered the most aid to the srf-
frage cause
Football Runpus-
The president of Baker university at
Baldwin has put his foot down upon
the playing of football and as result
seven of the students who were last
year in the champion team left the in
stitution. They were driven to the
depot in carriages dFaped In black, fol-
lowed by all the other students, and
many indignant citizens
Alfalfa to the Front.
It Is stated that a great many farm
ers in the western part Of the state win
devote a portion of their land next
season to alfalfa. Alfalfa will stand
more drought than any other farm
product, and it is asserted fattens cat
tie very much the same as corn, except
that it does not make the flesh quite 50
solid.
Leavenwortl.-s First Child
Mrs. Allen, wife OF J. NJ Allen, a
clerk at the military prison at Fort
Leavenworth, died suddenly IN a Kan
sas City hospital the other day. She
was the daughter of Mr. Kyle, one OF
the original incorporators of Leaven-
worth, and the first female child born
in the town.
Miner State News.
George johnson, farmer, was re-
Gently gored To death by a bull near
Wellington.
: Newton has had it's water supply