Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1895-12-05
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mu1vane with its new cement facto e
ry ought to be well .'sot" in it's ways.
Cy Leland has gone to Atlanta with
a shipment of three car loads of horses.
The city of Pittsburg is putting in
forty acre park just south of the town
site.
Coffeyville is experiencing a relig-
ious revival as well as a natural gas
boom.
Stafford county farmers have discov-
cred that a profitable crop for them is
celery.
Southern Kansas is liable to lose its
reputation as "a summer resort, in No
vember.
The lost Albert Griffin has been
found in Philadelphia, writing book
on finance.
Finney county farmers are paying
their taxes promptly. Irrigation did
the business
An amateur opera show is the eli
max to the recent sens ational events
at Ft. Scott
Oysters and Chrisanthemums made q
great hit for the Presbyterians of Lib
era1 last week.
Daniel Web ster was in the Atchison
police court la st eek, charged with
licking his wife.
The members of the Sumner county
foot ball team are gentlemen" but
not foot ball players.
Robert Hutchins, who was injured
Wednesday at Atchison while coasting
died Thursday morning.
The annual crusade for better plays
and more free tickets at the opera
house has begun in Topeka.
Topeka boys have hard time. A
big party and good show this week
and walking is mighty bad.
Prof. Dyche is going to Rice county
December Goth, to tell the people there
how the north pole looked.
An Atchison man saw white horse
and rider 500 feet above the earth,
going across the Missouri river.
Francis Schlatter registered at the
Revere house in Jennings Thursday.
He kept his room very closely all day
and very few people were able to see
him.
cap on the back of his head, was ac-
costed by small boy thus: Say, mis-
ter, amt We afraid you'll be shot for a
woodpecker?"
Edward Mahan, 67 years old, was
found dead in his coal house by his
wife Friday, sitting in a natural
position on box. Heart disease is
believed to have caused his death.
The new engineering building at the
State University will be dedicated this
week. Kansas University is the only
institution in the west where electric
al engineering, the greatest of all
sciences, can be thoroughly studied.
Old man Lane refuses to print it
s'Will T. Walker" He puts it up
civilian T. Walker or ''W T. Walk
er." He argues no doubt that Mr..
Walkers ''voice changed many years
ago, and he should no longer have
boys name.
Susan B. Anthony once named Mrs.
L. o. Case, DE-. Eva Harding and Mrs.
N. w. Lyon of Topeka as her ''Kansas
trinity" Recently Clay Lyon wrote
them up in the New York World, and
his article is having wide run in the
Kansas papers.
VIII Chilcott, 80 years of age, a
brother of R. NJ. Chilcott of the Wa
mego Times, died in Wamego last
week. He had come from Grand
Forks, N. D., on Monday of the same
week to visit his brother, who was
absent at Atlanta, and only arrived
home in time to attend the funeral.
The Atchison Champion reads lect-
ure on good manners to the LADY and
her grown daughter who make it a
practice to attend the Dunkard meet
ings and occupy front seats with
crooks" in their pockets with which to
raise racket" 1t is certain she is
+'lady;" The Champion knows where
to draw the line.
The talk about Wentworth, the al
legged Atchison healer, which is a re-
suit of the Schlatter craze, continues.
Wentworth's mail Monday contained
sixty-nine letters from different parts
of the country. Notwithstanding the
attention he is creating, he still re-
tains his position as Waterman of the
Thirteenth street railroad crossing.
The State University regents have
= selected new professor. His name is
Professor Holmes and he comes from
Baltimore, Nd. He is not over 80 years
of age, but ne has graduated from Ohio
I'll.