The Red Cloud chief., 1902-07-25
KANSAS NEWS
Late Happenings OF Interest to Residents
Of J%syhawkcr state.

Of Jsybawkcr state.
A Topeka, Kan, July 10, dispatch
says: An unusual appeal has been
filed in the supreme court here by o.
w. Coffelt, who Is charged in Cowley
county with the assassination OF Geo.
Montgomery, a detective Of the Atchi-
son. Topeka & Santa Fe railway. Cof-
felt was on trial recently and the jury
hung. Before his second trial is
called, Coffelt appeals to the supreme
court for an order discharging him.
| and failing to get such an order. ne
wants an order compelling the trial
| Judge to give him a change OF venue.
| Before the recent trial began COfelt
made a motion for his discharge, which
was denied. lie next asked FOR a
change of venue, which was also re-
fused. Then he asked for a continu-
| ancc Of the case, and again the court
| oyerruled the motion. Then the trial
came on, lasting a month. and the Jury
was unable to agree. He Is unwilling
To 20 to trial in Cowley county again,
| and SO he appeals to the supreme
| court for the order the trial court has
| denied him.
The ground of Cofelt's motion for
his discharge IA that he was Kidnapped
from Oklahoma and therefore Is not
within the Jurisdiction OF the Kansas
| courts. He declares that he was ar
rested In Texas on a charge not con-
nectcd with the murder OF Montgom-
| cry and taken to Ponca city, Okla.
| The warrant for his arrest was accom-
| panied by n reQuisitiOn from the gov
| ernor of Oklahoma. and he submitted.
but he declares that he was taken out
| of Oklahoma and into Kansas without
| dur process OF law.
George Burlington, who shot and
| killed Ode Miller, n young man M
! ploycd on Buiington's ranch. near
| Langley. in Ellsworth county. was ar
| rested Saturday and bound over until
the October term of court in the sum
| of S., 900. His friends have been UNI
| able to secure the bond. Burlington Is
a Joint keeper in Salina. but the al
| tercation Is said to have occurred over
n settlement of accounts at Buiing-
| tons ranch. Burlington says the
| shooting was in self-defense, but the
| %coroner's jury at the inquest found
| thnt Miller came to his death from
| shots fired from the revolver in the
/ hands of George Burlington and recon-
mended the latter be held.
l.. s. Crum, United States marshal.
has a bad attack of typhoid fever. n
| has gone to his home in Oswego. lie
| contracted the disease in Topeka.
| There are many cases OF this disease
| in the state and a number of deaths
| have been caused by It. Some physi-
| clans call II "malarial fever" but 1t
| borders SO closely upon typhus that
| there is little difference. The disease
is caused by the recent rains and
| foods. which have carried the germ
into wells and cisterns from the sur
face. He says 1t Is even In the city
water. The water since the rain has
| not been properly filtered.
A DARING hold-up and robbery took
| place near Eighteenth street and Mum
! Gle boulevard. in Kansas City. Kan.
| Saturday. At that hour a lone high
wayman stopped T.. Schubert, a driver
for Tegeler's bakery, and Charles
| Leech, n driver on INT OF the Eemery.
| Bird. Thayer Dry Goods c%ompany's de-
livery wagons. From the bakery
wagon driver the robber took SIS and
| from Leech $1.15. As soon as the man
/ had left them the drivers hurried to
| the nearest telephone and notified
Chief thinner of Kansas City, Kan.
| giving q good description OF the thief.
Wellington, Kan. capitalists have
organized a company to build a 500
barrel mill in that city. At a meeting
recently held sufficient funds were
subscribed and c. +. Hitchcock was
elected president; II. +. Smith. vice.
president; Edward Rothrock. score
tary. and Walter Noodle. treasurer.
The company has subscribed $4,000
and bought the nine elevators along
the Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe be.
longing to Carter & Noodle, OF Well
ington.
About 1000 soldiers surrounded a re-
sort on Main street, ~Ieavenworth.
Kan, and demolished the doors. win
dows and furniture. This was done
in revenge for the fatal %stabbing OF
Eli Loucka, a member of company f,
Sixth cavalry. by a negro In the re-
sort. Nothing but the walls and roof
Of the building were left standing. The
negroes In the district were panic
stricken and there was a wild exodus,
Mrs. Josephine Hart made an at
tempt, at Oswego. near Parsons, Kan,
to drown her daughter-in-law. Mrs,
Walter Fisher. In a well and, failing
in this, she committed suicide by TAX
ing strychnine. A few years ago Mrs
Harris husband was mysteriously
killed while he lay in bed beside his
wife. The dead I'M Is believed to
have been demented.
Miss Matte Helen Beals and Charles
w. Payne, both of Iawton. Ok, were
married at Wichita, July II. Miss
Beals o a farm adjoining l.awtor
in the grand land lottery last fall
which is now estimated to be wortl
from S35, 900 tos50,00
Fifteen Of the women operators II
the In~dCpendent Telephone eXchang,