Bent County register., 1888-08-04
Here and There.

of interest to the G. A. r. men fur
uished us by Capt. Billow-The re
publlcans at Fort Garland have or
ganized a clnb, G. NJ. Morrison is
aiding the party all he can in his pa
per.-Ex- x-Governor Carney, of Kan
sas, is dead.-Colorado stands second
in the list of precious metal produc-
ing states.-A republican club was
organized at Minneapolis Thursday
evening. The good work appears to
be progressing.-The' Minneapolis
Republican says the people of that
town thought the meteor seen a week
ago Sunday night struck ground
near Granada. We have been ex-
pecting something to hit Granada
right in the center for long time
Virgil carp well-known at Dodge
CITY and in fact all over the west, is
candidate for sheriff of San Bar
nardlno County, Californla.-DuriDg
the hot weather religious services
are held out doors at Tucson, Ari-
zona.-The Eads Bandana wants
none but rock ribbed democrats nom
mated for Office, this must be new
variety. The mossback heretofore
was considered Simon pure.-Con-
gress will do well and act strictly in
the interest of the country if they
put a check on the pauper and Grim
inal emmigratlon to the United
States.-The Trinidad papers insist
that something must be done to rid
that city of foot pads,-Was there
eyer q :ime since the state was first
settled, that Kansas did not have one
or more county seat wars on hand
There are four hundred and fifty
members of the A. o. U. w. lodge
at Pueblo.-The democrats and pro-
hibitionIsts have together put up q
flag pole at Las Animas, they have
been working together for long
time, surely politics make strange bed
fe,lows.-Charlie Reitler we hear
will open his Trinidad store the mid
die of this month.-The Brookfeld
Maverick is to be moved to Trinidad,
that town will be well supplied with
papers in time.-Three tramps have
been arrested for robbing the postof-
flee at Hartland, they do not deny
their guilt.-Vilas and Boston have
little quarrel of their own on hand
and to crow over Boston the Villas
Democrat printed with red ink last
Saturday.-There was ball at the
Carlton hotel one night last week.
The Granada Exponent says if the
new paper in Lamar is to be another
Advocate our people have its sympa-
thy. We do not know as the new
paper is to be another Advocate but
we understand at least half of it will
be printed at the office of the Gar.
den City Sentinel where the Advo-
cate was printed and it may be by
part of the same crowd. We do
not know as to that but can give
pretty good guess before long.-A
republican club has been organized
at Boston, Las Animas county, one
hundred and eleven signing the roll
the first night, the club will number
two hundred before the first of Sep
tember.-Albert McLain accidently
shot himself while hunting near La
Junta, he is not hurt much.-Patter-
son & Hart Bros, horse breeders
near La Juuta, shipped two cars of
horses to Illinois last week.-The La
Junta republican club pay a hupdred
dollars for hall to hold their meet.
ings in until after the election.-In
1850 Kansas City had a population
of seven hundred and fifty, and ten
years later boasted of only four thou.
sand inhabitants-Chief Justice Full.
Ter according to Washington cor
respondent has charming wife and
eight beautiful daughters. 1t is
rare thing to see eight girls in one
family all beautiful.-We have heard
men say IN the past week that Lamar
was better town than Garden City.
kansas ditch men complain that
Colorado bitches take all the water |
ut Of the Arkansas river, so they