Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-03-19


mo Big Sleeves" is the party plat
form of religious sect in western
Kansas.
United States Senator Lucien Baker
has accepted an invitation to deliver
the Decoration Day address in Fort
Scott.
North Lawrence has been troubled
with a nocturnal clown: but a long
legged copper, with double triggered
pepper. got after it and scared it out
of town.
Mennonites are settling in Chey-
eynne county. They are class of
settlers who, when settled, they stay
settled, and they make the country in
which they live bloom.
AT meeting held few nights ago
at Pawnee Rock contract was made
for the location of branch of the
Heller creamery. The county COM
missioners have also decided to build
a bridge across the Arkansas at that
point.
The STANDARD Oil company's prospect
drillers struck oil Friday night near
Union town, fourteen miles west of
Fort Scott, and the people of that vi
cinity are much excited. The drillers
are working night and day and the
company's expert has been called to
make an analysis. Price of land has
risen.
Eya Clara Collins, who has been
bookkeeper in a Seneca bank for seven
years, has resigned and will invest
some of her savings in a journey
abroad. According to the Tribune
she is an up-to-date young woman.
She is business, leader in society, a
worker in the church, a dispenser of
charity and an expert. in outdoor
sports.
In kingman county school district
where there are but eight resident tax
payers and the land is mostly owned
by non-residents, they pay the school
teachers $55 mouth instead of the or
binary $780, and he boards around among
the eight families, paying SIS a week
instead of IS. the ordinary price. In
this way the residents get their money
back and the non-residents pay the
bills.
Frank Peters, little S-year-old boy
living at Fort Scott had his right hand
blown off Friday evening. The little
fellow had just started the fire and had
thrown a shovel of coal into the stove
when the explosion, which is supposed
was caused by heavy fulmina ting
cap, such as is used in blasting, oc-
Cured It is thought the cap was in
the coal which the lad had just put in
the fire.
W. - H..
secretary of the board of health at
Leavenworth, for February, shows
there Were 81 births and 80 deaths for
that month. The number of mar
riage licenses issued was IT, Dr. Car
penter says the number of deaths and
j births was unusually large for the
shortest month in the year. There
were five deaths from pneumonia,
| three from heart disease. three from
| phthisic and one from old age.
At the regular meeting of the his
| torical seminary held in Lawrence
| Saturday at the state university,
Major Abbott, of De Soto delivered a
lecture upon the subject Causes of.
Wakarusa war" Major Abbott was
! one of the pro-slavery leaders in this
state. His lecture was from personal
experiences at that time. Professor
T. FL. Holder, the president of the
| seminary, made a short address, as
| did also Mr.. B. w. Woodward, upon
| early Kansas history.
! A well dressed, smooth appearing
man has been working some of the
| Eudora citizens the past week. With
| d business like air he called upon them
representing he was government
agent looking for counterfeit coin,
and requested them to show what
money they had in their possession
He then used a chemical which turns
| the coin black, declares it spurious.
| and takes it away with him. Several
of the citizens are looking for the
| government agent"
At a restaurant in Chautauqua coun-
! ty is on sale this week maple sugar
made on the farm of w. FL. jeff from
| trees raised from seed planted by his
own hand. This shows what our farm
ers could be enjoying if they had i'm
proved the early opportunities. On
an adjoining farm John Burden has
cottonwood trees planted by himself
that measure over nine feet around
and John proposes to take one of