Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-26
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The irrigation pond at Santa Fe has
beef completed and the pumping ma
chinery is on the ground.
A poker game has blossomed out in
Topeka swelldom, and the Lance
holds up it hands in horror.
The Queen Lii" mine at Galena
shows up an eighteen foot face of lead
ore, and is getting bigger as the NIL
ners go into it.
E. C. Sattley, the bank wrecker,
who is now doing time in Missouri,
used to be heart wrecker at Cawker
City.
A. B. Arment of Cowley county has
been awarded the contract to furnish
soap to the state charitable institu
tions.
Since Ed Hewins left Chautauqua
county the town bearing his name has
been able to build a new Baptist
church.
The grasshoppers did some damage
in Ellis county, but the farmers re-
sowed their wheat in time to insure
full acreage.
The people of the town CT Ellsworth
have not seen the end Of their trou bles.
The new paper says it has come to
talk finance.
The. Atchison town loafer has re-
formed and is now earning hi S living
by honest toll. A man can't stay in
lAtchison and be an idler. That is a
town of producers.
One of the chief occupations at To-
Sc III, 70
termine how industrious ande enterpri-
sing the medical college students have
been during the past month.
l. eavenworth has been called upon
to m onrn the death of giant colored
boy, who weighed 325 pounds at tie
age of 16 years, but a man still lives
there who wrote 1000 love letters to
one women.
Chautauqua county ships out low
grade wheat, and in exchange ships in
No. 2 for grinding That is following
literally the old Jewish law to give
unto the stranger the worst food and
keep for yourself the best.
When a Topeka lawyer signed pc
tition for the pardon of a chicken
thief which was circulated by the wife
himself by saying: sit is no more
than would want done for my wife if
] should be se44t to the penitentiary.'
Troy Chief: AS we go through the
country, we see great cribs and pens
piled up with corn on every farm.
This means that farmers are going to
hold their corn for better prices. 1t
Fyill make money scarce for awhile.
but there will be more of it when it
comes. -
!" A grabbed citizen of Horton signs
his in itials to kick in the Horton
Commercial against the sound of
church bells on the Sunday morning
air. Perhaps if he would get home
betimes the night before he would be
in condition to appreciate the call to
worship.
Unless the executive council will
plant that Carney tree before hard
winter sets in, the people of Leaven-
worth will secede and take the .peni-
tertiary, the Soldiers home, the fort
and the two bridges with them. They
have placed an order for a block of
granite from his native state, his name
to be carved thereon, to be placed at
the foot of the tree.
Sol Miller suggests that the people
of Doniphan county will have to or
ganize against the thieves who are
travelling through the country in wag5
ons, stealing harness, wheat and ev2
erything they can carry away. Last
Friday night some of these gentry in
vaded the premises of Patrick Kirwan,
near the Troy fair grounds, entered
his granary, and stole ] 900 pounds of
-four and twenty bushels of clover seed.
The clover seed alone was worth 500.
A butterfly drill by sixteen young
ladies dressed in airy white wings viii
be feature of an Olathe entertain
ment which, alone, the Mirror says,
will be worth the price of admission.
The dead body of an unknown man
was found Monday in the woods near
Piper, a small town 16 miles east Of
Kansas City. The body appeared to
be that of man 55 or 60 years old.
The head was partially bald and what
hair is left is gray. The principal dis
finctive mark is an artificial leg worn
by the man. The body had evidently
ain in the woods for a week.
The officers of the law had horse
thief in Jail at Ottawa, awaiting trial
They wanted a photograph of the
criminal for their rogues' gallery but
when two burly officers, accompanied
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