Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-05-31


tors and guardians and of the amounts
of funds in their hands, but so far as
has been learned by the auditor of
state no attention has been paid to
the act.
LeEate in the Soldiers Home.
the noted Kansas politician and pio-
nee, has retired from participation Tin
the active affairs of life and has be-
come an inmate of the national sol
diers' home. Advanced in years, fee
BILE in health and almost blind, Mr..
Legate has taken to the seclusion of
the soldiers home to undergo an
operation to save the remaining dim
sight of his eyes and for rest from a
long and arduous political career, COW
ering among other things a service
of II sessions in the Kansas legisla-
ture.
Checking Up Pauper Insane.
The members of the state board of
charities are visiting the various
counties and checking up their pauper
insane accounts. This duty was
thrown upon the board by the new
law. The object of the provision is to
cut down the expense. It is estimated
that under the new act the expense
of maintaining pauper insane outside
of asylums this coming year will not
aggregate over $4,000. In the past it
has run from 100000 to 100000 a
year.
To Test the Biennial Election Law.
Proceedings were begun in the SUI
preme court to test the constitution
atty of the biennial election law. The
test case is brought by A. III. Wilson,
fusion nominee for Judge in the Thir-
ty-third judicial district. Secretary of
State Clark refused to file the paper
and mandamus to compel Clark to
act was filed and a hearing set for
June 8.
Pay of Railroad Conductors.
The state labor commissioner has
received reports from 81 railway con-
ductors in Kansas as to their work
and pay during the past year. The
conductors ran on an average Of 1883
miles per month last year. Their
average annual income was 81 ,O71 and
their expenses were SITS.
Suicide Did Not Stop Wedding.
j. M. Piper, OF Labette, was married
to Miss Alma Plaff, of near Oswego.
Piper is the man for whose love Miss
Mabel Fortner, of Fort Scott, COM
| mitted suicide last week. Miss Fort
ner claimed that Piper had promised
| to marry her. This Piper denies.
Minor News Items.
| Morris county has voted bonds for
| a new courthouse.
Mary, Madge and Maud Cook, the
Kingman county triplets, appeared
! at the ST. Louis baby show last week.
Seniors of the state agricultural
college were publicly suspended for
posting their class emblem at the
top of the smokestack.
| Clarence D. Huffman, graduate OF
| the Kansas state university and a
| prominent educator, was killed in a
| collision between an electric car and
| Frisco engine a mile southwest OF
Pittsburg.
| Louis Tote, who had just been re.
leased from the Kansas penitentiary
and was going to Atchison on q
| freight train, was run over and killed
while trying to alight from the NOV
ing train in the Missouri Pacific yards
| in Atchison.
The library of the Kansas State
Historical society contains 23,o51
books, 67,41S pamphlets, 23,eo7 vol
umes of newspapers, 1897 manu-
scripts, 6,397 relics, 5000 pictures, 4,
$50 aliases and maps. Estimated
value of the society's collections, $175,
900.
Judge Hook convened the fedora
court at Salina Tuesday, the first time
the court sat in the Salina fedora
building which has been furnished By
the government for court purposes
E. d. Anderson, ex-postmaster a