Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-03-05
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Tn low price of butter has closed
the Alma creamery.
An Atchison street car driver has
become an evangelist. This is proof
certain that salvation is barred to
nobody.
The wheat statistics fend has not
opened up for business in Morton
county yet. Farmers are still sowing
winter wheat there.
The Lawrence Journal published
picture of Frank Nelson, the Linds-
burg professor. This ought to COM
p1ete anybody's happiness.
Jess Mosely of Chautauqua county
is looking for pasture for $1,000 head
of Texas cattle. That's the kind of
cattlemen the Chautauqua county
buyers are.
The young Englishmen who were
brought to Kansas to learn farming
have scattered. One is at Cripple
Creek and another is on the stage at
Chicago The rest have disappeared.
The state board of irrigation will
put in no more plants remote from
it, and the town will have to give the
state deed for the land-forty acres.
Empire City, once a city of 5000
people, which went into decay when
Galena on the other side of the creek
took the boom, is picking up again on
account of mineral strikes north of it.
Charles Bluejacset, chief of the
I
tory, who claims to know all about that
tribe, says that the prophet of the
tribe, who was a brother of Tecumseh,
famous chief in Ohio, lies buried in
Wyandotte cuunty.
"A philosopher in Harper county
says that poverty is good thing for
young men. This is sensational. An
cient and modern philosophers have
held to this; always. but this is the
first time a Kansas man ever was
brave enough to say it.
One of the swell membe of Topeka s
400 in his effort to remove his over
coat at the opera last Friday night.
also removed his under coat far enough
to disclose a large rent in his shirt,
much to the amusement of two young
ladies who were watching him.
An Atchison man recently caught
three different men kissing his wife,
whereupon he went to lawyer. You
have very good grounds for divorce"
the lawyer said. 81 don't want a di-
voree," the citizen replied; 81 want
to get out an injunction to make them
quit it.
went out serenading Saturday night
and the awful noises they made
brought out the police who arrested
the whole crowd and brought them
into police court next morning. The
Judge, who has an ear for music, let
the boys off a promise to do be tier
next time.
Wednesday at nChetopa, John Lewis
superintendent of the Hall and Robin
son Elevator company of Coffeyvilles
who was in Chetopa on business, was
struck by north bound freight train.
He was at once taken to Coffeyville.
where he died few minutes after
reaching his home.
After having accepted the position
as private secretary to Chancellor
f. FL. Snow at the Kansas university.
Albert Flintom received another offer
from the management of the Lawrence
NATIONAL bank and finally decided to
stay with the bank. Archie Hogg has
been selected as secretary and entered
upon his duties. Mr.. Hogg is a grad
uate of the collegiate department of
the class of '95: he has been taking a
law course at the school.
The sixth case of suicide in Fort
Scott within two months occurred on
Sunday, when. Michael Clark. an ex-
fireman for the Missouri Pacific took
his life at the Mercy hospital. The
Sisters were attracted to Ills room by
the smell of gas. and attempted to
enter, but found the door locked
They called the police, but before aid
came two shots were heard in the
room, and when the door was forced
open Clark was found dead. having
shot himself twice nl the head.
The jury in the Hendrv- Hoffman
case at Abilene ran things on its own
schedule for a time Saturday night.
The judge. at the conclusion of the
trial. sent the jury out with instruc-
lions to remain until a verdict was
found. The jurymen did not find the
case easy to dispose of and Late in the