Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-02

OF a majority was cast against 1t.
KANSAS county superintendent OF
public instruction will hold their next
annual meeting at Wichita on May
14th to 10th.
ARKANSAS CITY merchants are said
to have taken in over $500, 900 from the
Oklahoma boomers who purchased out
fits and supplies there.
THE young men of this 9 are ing
in appearance, and are un=ed for
gazing; they do not have ~ a lamp
post to keep themselves perpendicular.
AS is right and proper, Kansas man
was the first to file papers on claim in
Oklahoma. Thus does Kansas still
maintain her position at the head OF
the procesh.
NEVER 60 where you are not wanted.
If a man wants you to visit his house
he will invite you. If he is business
man and wants your trade he will invite
you through the columns of the news
papers.
THE league base ball season has now
opened, and Oklahoma killings will
have to take back seats in the tele-
graph news and give place to the pro-
fessional twirlers and twisters and
high handed hard-hitters.
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OKLAHOMA is speculation; Kansas
is ''sure thing" In Oklahoma peo-
pie are already wondering where they
will.get. bread and meat the coming
year, while in Kansas the people are
wondering where they will store all
their grain.
Tom POWERS, of the Sterling
Champion, was struck by lightning one
day recently; but as Tom is straight
anti-civil- service-reform-b loody--shirt
republican the stroke OF electricity had
no effect on him, though it knocked the
man who was with him silly.
THE name of the new city clerk of
will need fathers head, and an uncle's
cheek, and Cousins legs, and Jobs
patience if she has the same amount of
work to do that generally falls to the
lot of the city clerk in this city.
THERE are now $50 more creameries
in Kansas than there were year ago,
but Great Bend cannot claim one of
them. This must not be said a year
hence, when the increase will be double
what it was last year, and millions of
dollars coming into the state from the
COW product alone.
THE exodus from Oklahoma has
fairly begun. Remember, boomers.
that if you want work you can get it
by helping Kansas farmers harvest
their wheat and tend their corn. If
you are ''heeled," and want to buy
land, Kansas has welcome for you,
too; her acres are broad and valuable.
OUR court house park has now be-
come an ornament to the city and a
credit to the county. The shade trees
are all thrifty and have now attained a
growth that makes splendid shade.
The south end of the park is now
pretty we'll seeded to grass, and the
north end will be seeded this summer
APRIL came into Kansas on raft,
with her umbrella up and her slicker
o." says an exchange. So she did,
and she had to procure pair of rub
Der boots to wade out in. May will
wear more flowers, but her smiles cam
not be sweeter to the Kansas farmer
than were the tears of her predecessor.
The republican land-boomers, who
got into Oklahoma ahead of the pro-
cession and contrary to law, are not
having as easy sailing as they may
wish. Money and influence go long
way in republican politics, but when it
comes to robbing men of their consti-
tutional rights, money and influence do
not always win.
AND now they come back with the
report that the land, or most of it, in
Z Oklahoma is not adapted to agriculture.
Strange the boomers had not found
that out before. Kansas men who left
this state for the new territory ought
to be made to stay down there and let
men take their places here who can
better appreciate our country.
VERIFY the guttersnipe is awake!
On April IL the weekly DEMOCRAT
contained notice of the suicide of w.
H. Bright on April II. On the 9th
the daily guttersnipe startled its readers
with the following astounding piece of
news:
sMr.Wright who formerly lived here,