Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-04-05


he had to soak his hogs to make them
hold swill.
The fishing season will soon be
here, and in view of this fact, large
stock of fishing tackle is being OBJ
tanned by our merchants who deal in
sportsmen's goods.
J. H. Bement returned Wednesday
evening from his trip to Arkansas,
where he was called TO attend the sick
bed of his father. He left his father
still alive but very low.
Cal. Chilly, of Great Bend, was in
town the first of the week looking for
a. horse-.hief and team of ponies
stolen from that part of the country.
-McCracken Enterprise.
The street sprinkler made its ap-
pearance Friday for the first time
this year. Its appearance was hailed
with gladness, and it soon laid the
dust as though June rain storm had
visited us.
AS several rabid dogs have been
reported in different sections of this
country, it might be good idea if
our city dads would see that dogs in
this city were kept in accordance with
the ordinances.
E. nj. Hill, of Hartland, Kansas,
father of onr townsman, E. G. Hill,
is in the city on a visit. He says the
western part of the state is in good
shape, anda large average of crops will
be put in this spring.
Mr.. Ed. Hubbard, representing the
Arkansas Valley Fire Insurance
Company, was in the city Friday
making arrangements to remove his
family here from Wichita and make
Great Bend his headquarters.
The drill at the prospecting well
has now commenced its search for the
hidden treasures of the earth. Some
people believe their treasures are
above; but our gas and fuel company
look to find them in the lower regions.
We heard one lady say Friday night
that twenty-five men shut up in a
room with plenty of cigars and good
fellowship, could raise more racket
and become harder to control than
woman's rights convention. Can it
be possible!
J. B. Daniels team started from
one of the elevators near the depot
Friday and ran away. In front of
the residence of James Brown, on
Main street, they ran into fence and
one of the horses was terribly cut.
Both horses are blind.
Sam Shanks met with serious &C.
cident Saturday afternoon, which will
likely lay him up for some time. He
was setting glass in the new photo
graph gallery in the Wilmer building,
when step ladder on which he was
standing gave way and precipitated
him into the glass, which cut both of his
hands in terrible manner.
A horse attached to dray cart ran
away on Peter avenue, Saturday af-
ternoon and knocked the supports
from in under the awning in front Of
Chappell's livery barn, which fell with
crash. The horse was stopped with
out further damage. 1t looked as
though cyclone had struck the aw-
ming.
Friday night Richard Manning's
blacksmith shop was burglarized, and
several carpenters bits, ratchet
brace, socket chisel and a claw ham,
mer we're stolen from Frank Mall,
who has charge of the carriage shop.
The burglars cut hole in the side of
the door, evidently with a jack-knife.
These tools were stolen probably to
aid the thieves in working more
burglaries. Later in the morning
when Frank Kramer opened his shop
he discovered that his place had also
been broken into and several tools
were missing.
DIED:-In this city, on the 1st inst,
of consumption, DIR. w. M. VanPelt,
in his SD year.
DIR. VanPelt came here in 1880,