Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-03-12
Eunice Goour1cn is working the
Western Kansas towns

Riley county man trapped two
American eagles recently.
Farmer A w. Smith will deliver the
memorial address at Osborne
In Reno county this year corn will
be assessed at cents bushel
Robberies of Kansas postoffices are
becoming altogether too numerous.
The Fort Scott water works will be
sold on a mortgage for fifty thousand
dollars.
Strong City citizens are preparing to
open up the earth to see if there is
anything in it.
The music of frogs is heard this sea-
son in Finney county for the first
time in three years.
there is such a thing as joking the
ground hog too much.
Among the things taken by a bur-
glar at Clay Center was "a blue feath-
er FAM That was cool
C. B. Hart of Beatrice, Nebraska,
has become general manager of the
Hutchinson and Southern.
IL cost a Kansas postmaster SIS to
'scuss' the administration at Wash
ington through the postoffice depart
ment.
Governor Morrill, has issued quar-
antine proclamation, fixing the line in
accordance with the last order of Sec
rotary Morton.
Sixty people from Kentucky, passed
through st. Louis, Tuesday night on
their way to Kansas. They were to
locate in Franklin county
Prof. Williston, of the state univer-
sity. has been invited to accompany
an expedition of scientific men through
Asiatic, Asrilan and Pacific waters.
+ A Kansas City man, Wednesday, run
up the American flag and by the side
of it flung out the new Cuban banner
to take a full breath of fresh, free air.
Close observation reve ais that as
terror-creator the loss of the county
printing is getting farther and farth-
er away from the Kansas editor every
year.
Judge Hazen doesn't like the new
courthouse at Topeka. He says it is
magnificent building for show and has
some fine halls, but that is not what is
required.
Colony Weldy and his Short Creek
Repu blican may well be proud of
Cherokee county, which, last week,
put out 1,559 cars of mineral, valued
at S75, 900.
The university faculty has expelled
Charles /. Lucas, co1ored law student.
convicted of stealing university law
books. Lucas will fight both court
and faculty action.
A Topeka man recently advertised
in paper for wife. and among the
answers he received were letters from
over nineteen hundred husbands, say
ing he could have theirs
A Clay Center man was fined $35 for
beating mule and another was fined
So for whipping his wife. There has
something gone wrong with the new
woman up in Clay Center or these con-
ditions would not exist.
A Hoiton woman ordered fish from
the market. When then came she dis
covered they were still alive. She was
kind-hearted and someone told her the
easiest way to kill them was to drown
them. She tried it but they still swim.
J. b. Parks of Washington county
drove across the line into Nebraska
after load of corn. He also loaded
up with corn juice, and on the way
home, being unable to manage his
team, was thrown from his wagon and
killed.
A Kansas court has ruled that ga
man who calls upon woman regular
ly and takes her to entertainments
occasionally, is legally engaged to
marry her." Such decisions have
been rendered by courts in other
states, also.
The city and township assessors of
Wyandotte county, at their meeting
agreed to assess both real and person
al property at its real value. That is
business like plan. 1t will make
more favorable showing of both prop
erty and taxes to stranger.
John S. Long is prosperous young
farmer living near Oskaloosa and has
a pretty. young wife. A few days
ago she went to town and wrote Z
check against Johns bank account for
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