Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-02-27
Wild fowls are plenty on the Chey-
enue marshes in Barton county.


enne marshes in Barton county.
Two well developed cases of small
pox are reported from Kansas City.
death loves shining mark. A Blue
Rapids man of that name is visiting in
Kansas City.
A Douglass county man is planting
an orchard of $50 acres and a paying
investment it will be.
An eastern Kansas editor says: The
clock and the delinquent subscribers
are about the only things that go on
tick nowadays
AIuscotah, said to be the toughest
town in the state. has turned out an
"evangelist., and he has struck a job
at Washington
Some women are. SO worthless in
Lawrence that when another woman
kills one of them she gets only four
years in the penitentiary.
4 laborer over at Cherokee had one
of his arms torn off In clay crusher
at the Cherokee Zinc company's works.
He has sued the company for $4,000.
a peddler of piano polish is travel
ing through Kansas. He is reported
as being very impertinent to ladies
who refuse to buy his worthless stuff.
Prof. Huber has quit the Lindsborg
college and gone to Minnesota to live
with his son. He will devote the rest
of his life to writing commentary on
the Bible.
The business men of Clay Center
have incorporated a stock company and
organized a brass band. The business
men will furnish the moneys: the band
boys, the horns, and the corporation
the wind.
The farmers of Brown county are
turning their attention to the raising
of Kaffir corn. James Hite, of Baker,
raised II acres, 81 bushels to the acre
and 6 Il tons of fodder. Kaffir corn
sells at rs cents a bushel.
Nathan F. Brown, aged II, is being
tried at Lawrence for bigamy. The
jury will try the case in full on Mon
day afternoon. Mr.. Brown is we'll
known in Lawrence. He was married
in 1884. Last April he married Ellen
Fisher of Kansas City.
Michael MtArdel. an Atchison man.
who is now in the penitentiary. and
whose sentence was recently commu-
ted to expire April 10, has written to
the governor asking him to let him
out March 1, instead of April 10, in or
der that he may have time to put out
a crop on his farm in Atchison county.
Railroad Commissioner Loves name
is pronounced ''Lo," and Railroad
Commissioner HoWe's How" The
other day granger, who has q slight
acquaintanc with Mr.. Lowe, called,
and while waiting for him remarked
to Secretary F1enniken: Amt it
funny that you have Mr.. Lo and a
Mr. Ho on the board at the same
time"
While John Roder of Grant county
was absent on visit to Missouri,
thieves entered his house and carried
away his furniture and clothing, took
out windows, unhinged doors, tore up
part of the floor and one side of the
roof and hauled all away, leaving no
trace. Mr.. Roder is thankful howev-
er that the foundation of the building
was not disturbed.
Leavenworth revels in .'fagot'' par
ties. The young ladies are seated
around the CRATE fire, and each one
in turn drops tiny bunch of fagots
tied with baby ribbon on the Goals,
she is supposed to relate a story.
which must be finished before the fag-
OTIS shall have burned. It develops a
sense of bretity in the young ladies
which prove an alluring faculty, as a
prize is given to the person telling the
best short story.
Charles Bush, who has been sleeping
on straw and eating corn bread in
Haskell county for ten years. last
week received word that he had been
left legacy of So. 600. Years ago
Bush's father gave poor boy lift.
The boy grew into manhood and pros
pered. The Bush boy fell into hard
lines, and became stranded on a Has
kell county claim. Not long ago the
man. who as boy had been helped by
old man Bush. died, and in his will
left So. 900 to Charles Bush.
D. E. Sorrow and other eastern cap
italists interes ted in the distillery at
Peoria. ILL.,. have submitted a propo-
sition to erect $50 900 plant at Leav-