Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-01-31

number Kansas has &c, ,00O-the largest
number of any state in the Union, in
proportion to population.
TOPEKA papers state that many who
have gone to Washington Ty. in the
hope of bettering themselves, are turn
ing back as rapidly as possible, satisfied
that Kansas affords as many advan-
tages as the far west. .
AMONG the various prizes offered at
dog show in San Francisco was one
for the quietest animal. The surprise
of the judges was great when they
found that the-winner was dog which
had died and been stuffed two years be-
fore.
THERE are ITO, 600 more democrats
than republicans in the United States,
yet the republicans claim the democratic
party is dead, and get on their ear
when one of the large majority party
will not assert it is dead.-Abilene
Gazette.
The QUESTIONS of rotation of crops;
deep planting; early or late corn; de-
horning of cattle; breeding of graded
horses, cattle and hogs; poultry raising;
cane growing; sorghum manufacturing,
ETC., could be touched upon at the farm
ers' meeting with good advantage to
all.
THERE is nothing startling in the
fact that many Russian people have
been frozen to death this winter. It is
the business of Russia to be very cold
for three months in the year, and
something would be out of order if
few hundred people bidn't freeze to
death.
THE Wichita Beacon says Hutchin-
son 8 salt kills sheep. The Beacon's
informant is man by the name Of
Nye, farmer near Belle PLANES. If
the farmer is anyway related to "Bill
Nye' we can vouch for the exactness
and answering truthfulness of the
charge.
THE Hustled Investment Company, of
Kansas City, Kansas, is doing a good
work in advertising that city and Kan
sas in general. The city at the mouth
of the Kaw has rapidly grown into
commercial prominence, and its sue
cess is greatly due to the efforts of
such men as compose the above named
company.
The Chicago Times has report that
the Canadian government has been
invited to visit the United States, and
that the entire Parliament of Canada,
consisting of 32O members, will soon
set out for Washington and from there
make an extended tour of the states
and territories. The movement is in
the interests of annexation.
AMONG the indictments found by
the grand jury last week were two
against j. w. Gregory, editor of the
Sentinel, of this city, one for criminal
libel and one for perjury. Editors have
their trials in this world just the same
as white men, and republican editor
who can keep out of the penitentiary is
daisy.-Garden City Democrat.
A LEADING business man who has
investigated the question to a consider
able extent believes that $4,000 judic-
lously invested will build q creamery
that would distribute $25 to $40 a day
among the farmers in the neighbor-
hood of this town, almost all of which
would pass through the hands of our
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. City Gazette.
IT ONLY cost the state of Kansas
36, 600 to send state troops down into
Stevens county last summer on pleas
ure trip. 1t seems that these little
county seat difficulties are bonanza to
the state MALTA; but rather an expen-
sive luxury to the tax payers of the
state. Why not make the county where
the dancing is done pay the fiddler?
FEW people will agree with the
chairman of the Kansas Senate when
he says that the bitches taking water
from the upper Arkansas do not effect
the flow of water below: It is pretty
near time for our people to begin in
vestigating the matter of scarcity of
water in the river here and below here,