Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-02-27
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

are SOWING oats Ine p1OWing was
done in January.
Horace NJ. Horne of Sumner county,
Aas been appointed head foreman at
the Osawatomie asylum.
BOO cash on hand, and is in the market
10 buy some of it's own bonds.
The La Crosse newspapers have a
rival in local milliner. @who takes
butter and eggs in exchange for head
gear.
The patrons of the Hoxip postoffice
put their spare cash in money orders.
and so make the office a postal savings
bank
A Butler county woman, in antici-
patton that her COW will go dry has
canned lot of milk for the use of the
family.
Kansas lawyers who have located in
Cripple Creek make mining law"
speciality. A Kansas man is equal to
any emergency.
You may not get rich in Kansas so
fast as in Cripple Creek, but you will
be great deal richer when you do
get your fortune accumulated.
Topeka's amateur '.Mikado" per
formances Melted $500 for charity.
That's more than the mummies would
have brought had they sold them.
In southern Kansas and western
Kansas this winter several men have
been injured by heavy logs. This,
fellow citizens, was once prairie
country.
C. Wood Davis has got back into the
newspapers. Davis, like a comet,
moves in an irregular orbit, but he
gets around often enough to keep his
memory green.
That Butler county coal hole is Gre
Hting great amount of curiosity be-
cause of the secret manner in which
the work is prosecuted; all boring is
done after dark.
The Atchison Globe which knows
nothing about Western Kansas says
that the people in that part of the
state have been living on fresh air and
rabbit tracks this winter.
At Corbin, in Sumner county. skunks
have invaded the cemetery and eaten
the hands and feet off the dead people
buried there. If this ise one of their
tricks, they deserve their name.
L. c. Boyle of Fort Scott was admit
ted into the cell to see his client
Colean, the bank vrecker, Just three
mintftes'' The jailor locked them in,
and forgetting them, kept them there
three hours
Mere money is paid for lodge dues
in Simmer county than for taxes, and
the egg crop sells for more than the
interest money on the farm mortgages
amounts to. There is no kick coming
in that county
r.. S. Hicl1 of Manhatton, vas mem
Der of the Illinois legislature when
Lincoln and Douglas had their cele
brated contest for United States sena
tor. Hick will-deliver an address at
Westmoreland February 27
J. III. Brown, the new manager of
the Leavenworth opera house. has in
formed the city council that if they
will reduce his license from 500 to
$50 year he would cease to. have
Sunday night plays. The matter was
taken under advisement by the coun-
ell.
4 coal carrier at Ottawa has been
economizlng and denying himself
many of the little sweets that go to-
ward making life a pleasure. for the
purpose of helping to keep up fund
to continue the hopeless litigation
against the Anneke Jams estate. He
will sooner have fortune by putting
his spare pennies in his pocket.
Marbles and mumble-peg are now
raging at Topeka.
William Heddie committed suicide
in the jail at Norton Tuesday night.
He had been convicted of the murder
of Albert Applegate, and sentenced to
serve term of fifteen years in the
penitentiary at hard labor.
The people of Rice county are much
favored. There is only one brass band
in the county, and that is at Rich
mond, which is so far from the popu-
lous centers that it disturbs compar-
atively few of the county's inha bitants
Sunday night one of the lady men,
bers Of the choir at the Presbyterian
church in Abilene sang solo. Her
grandfather who is in his 9th year,
was occupying front seat, and no.