Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-07-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS
a Pioneer Kan.an Dead

Pioneer kansan Dead.
Charles A. Faris, one of the pioneers
of Kansas, died at his home in Kansas
City, Kan, recently. For nearly 10
years he had been engaged in news
paper work. He was connected with
the Lawrence Journal at the time it
was founded and later with the Kan
sas City Times For nearly Is years
prior to his death he was connected
with the editorial department. of the
A. n. Kellogg Newspaper Co. His
wife, who is sister of eX-United
States Marshal Walker, of Kansas,
and four children survive him. Mr..
Faris resided at Lawrence at the time
of Quantrelrs raid. and was member
of the state militia during the trying
days of border warfare.
Funding Bonds Legal.
The supreme court decided the otl.er
day that township funding bonds are
legal, whether the original issue was
legal or not. The decision was on a
test case from Ness county. A town
ship had issued $50. 900 to aid asugar
mill and the bonds were funded. The
court held that when the bonds are
funded they become legal tender
whether they were legally issued or
lot.
VIII Interfere with Divorces
The Kansas court of appeals. South
.rn department. sitting at Fort Scott,
rendered a decision recently which
will practically put a stop to the di-
Sorce business in Kansas until after
the next meeting of the legislature.
The court held that a husband and
wife cannot testify against each other
n suit for alimony or an action for
divorce.
Charged with an Awful Crime.
Jacob Rogers. farmer, living near
Hum boldt, is in Jail charged with muir
iering a girl named Della Hutchinson
and her prematurely-born child. With
the aid of bloodhounds the body of the
girl was found in a shallow pond,
weighted with stones. and near it. also
weighted, was the child. Rogers pro-
tests his innocence of the revolving
crime.
Captured After Eighteen Years
Willis ID. Morton. alias E. c. Holt,
alias E. c. Holton, the colored cook at
Hotel Greenwood at Eureka, was ar
rested the other day charged with hav-
ing murdered a. B. johnson at Des
Moines, Ia, about Is years ago. The
Pinkerton detective. who has been
on Morton's trail for about six months.
An Old Law Declared Invalid.
The Southern department of the ap-
pellate court, sitting at Fort Scott, de-
clared unconstitutional the old statute
which permitted the arrest and impris-
onment of an insolvent debtor merely
upon the affidavit of a judgment cred
itor. The court declared the law in
valid in that it deprived man of his
liberty without the process of law.
An Old Church Abandoned.
The First Congregational church at
Atchison, built in 1857, was abandoned
the other night It was the first
church built in Kansas and was called
the abolition church. Its first pastor
was Rev. j. 81. Byrd, a strong free
state man, maltreated many times by
border ruffians and for many days a
prisoner in their camp.
Bicyclist Drops Dead.
Gold Smith, a prosperous young mar
chant of Hutchinson. dropped dead
from his bicycle one evening recently
after having made 17-mile run. With
his companions he had attended ball
at l. IliS CIOWO Was
seeing how quick they could make the
run back to Hutchinson.
Must Answer for Murder.
Harry Adams was brought to Pitts
burg recently and put in Jail, charged
with completely in the murder of the
four McFarlyn brothers near Pittsburg
last February. Adams was arrested in
Cleveland, o. Ben Wilmington, g.
Pittsburg man. is also in Jail charged
with the same crime.
Minor State News.
Bailey p. Waggener. the well-known
Atchison democrat, has bolted Bryan's
nomination.
Of the 60 delegates elected by the re-
cent free silver state convention to ST.
Louis, S5 were repu bIicans, 16 popu-
lists. eight democrats and one prohibi-
zionist.
DR.. George 81. Graham. convicted of
assaulting Lizzie Shaughnessey, aged
ID, at Pittsburg. was given Is years in
states prison. Graham protested his
innocence and cried like a child