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

A female fortune teller gathered up
every loose dollar in Marysville the
Dtner day.
AS soon as an Atchison couple be-
come engaged they quit buying seats
in the parquet and patronize the gal
lery.
Three Topeka women have dis
charged their ''help" with the purpose
Of saving up money enough to buy
bicycle.
That old theatrical ''Ten nights in
a Bar-room'' has come to Kansas, but
it got here too late. The bar-rooms
are all closed
Colonel George r. Fultz, OF Sumner
county, after a residence of twenty
three years in Kansas has gone to
Cripple Creek.
w. C. Gum, Fort Scott hustler. is
bringing Iowa families into Bourbon
county. He located eighteen families
there last Sunday.
The farmers who last fall pulled out
of Washington county on account OF
the crop failures are drifting back and
will resume work on their old farms.
The evangelist on duty at Hewins
thought he was done, but finds that
satin has been among his flock, and
he must convert some of the town
bad boys over again.
In an Atchison schoolroom of TWEEN
seven boys under 9 years of age the
clothes of every mothers son of them
was found to be shy from one to a
dozen buttons. This illustrates the
firm hold whist has taken on that
town.
An FL Paso man who held stakes for
couple of sports who bet on the
prize fight ran away with the money
and came to KaLsas. But Kansas is
not refuge for scamp of that kind;
when a man came with a requisitiOn,
the fugitive was turned over to him
very promptly.
rock pile has been established at
Abilene by the county commissioners
for offenders to work out their fine
and costs. Monday Mckinney and
Murphy were menacled to ball and
chain, given d hammer piece and
set to work. The novel sight drew a
great many people around.
L. M. Crawford has paid the Leaven-
worth opera house license for 1895
amounting to 500 with a balance due
the year previous, and the case which
has been against him in the court for
several months has been dismissed.
The license for 1896 became due the
first of the present month.
Mineral water, which, it is claimed,
is equal to that found at Excelsior
Springs, Mo-, has been struck at Peter
Becker's place, just west Of Atchison.
The water was struck at a depth of
800 feet, and is almost an artesian
well, coming up within few feet of
the surface of the ground.
The old soldiers in the national
home there want the next @. A. r. en-
campment held at Leavenworth. There
are $500 of them, and if genuine sol
dier sentiment prevails in locating the
meeting Leavenworth will be selected.
Besides, Leavenworth is hospita BILE,
and knows how to entertain visitors.
Major B. w. Stout of Wilson county
once took the longest uninterrupted
horseback ride on record. At the
close OF CnG war ne was dC1OnGQ dL d
post on the Gulf of Mexico, and, upon
receiving his discharge, rode to his
home in Wisconsin, The trip was
made on single horse, which stood
the trip remarkably well.
The Manhattan Nationalist con-
tanned a unique advertisement last
week. A wall paper dealer had a six
inch square sample of his best gilt pa
per pasted in the center of his an
nouncement. 1t must have taken in
finite labor to paste the sample in
each of the Nationalist's large clrcu-
lation of papers, but the advertise
ment was worth it,
At Pittsburg Superintendent Bar
rett has secured the right of way foI
the extension of the electric lines, from
the county commissions. The survey
as now made begins at Frontenac and
runs to shaft 81, thence to Litchfield,
Midway, Cornell, Yale and Minden
Missouri, giving to the line the larg
est mileage of any electric road in tine
state. President Simons, who is now
in New York, writes that he viii
reach Pittsburg in short time, an6
work will begin at once upon his ARR
val.
In Harper county the acreage Il