Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-23
Kansas has ninety-five tovnsswith /.
p0pulation of C00

The Kansas county treasurers will
meet January a2nd at Topeka.
The Santa Fe paid its tax in full in
Chautauqua county. and it was s7.5Os.
A number of old veterans have left
Horton to spend the winter in Georgia.
The Labette county medical society
is waging war against quack doctors
A Leavenworth man has unearthed
an old city directory of the year 1859.
Howard has blooded fly known
to turfmen as the '-Campbellite Mare"
Ten cars of grain have been shipped
from Lebanon to Galveston during
1896.
Seven of the thirty-three SHOWS
prom Used for this winter have come
and gone.
compressed air plant to the shops at
Topeka.
: The Chautauqua circle is taking
steps to establish a public library at
Pittsburg
Colonel ]. d. Snoddy. of La Cygne.
is clamoring for an extra session of the
legislature.
The Lawrence Journal publishes an
acrostic dedicated to ''Duffys Pure
Malt Whisky.
Lawrence has a t'Wild Charlie" club
organized especially for the purpose
of taking care of the hard cider output
La Crosse dealers have bought 49,
600 bushels of wheat since last August
and paid the farmers of that section
$57 200 for it.
Pat Rydgers, S. L Kendall and J.
W. Maxim. with their families, left
Horton this week for the Horton col
ony camp in Georgia.
| An Atcllison barber who went to
Cripple Creek to seek his fortune was
one of the few successful ones. He is
now retired capitalist.
a. a. Stewart. who made a GOOD
steward of the asylum for deaf and
dumb, has resumed the editorial man
agement of his paper. the Manhattan
Republican.
Dickinson county is the home of two
men who are in the front rank of OLD
| citizens. One is a Mr.. Yarhain. and
| is aged los years. The other is Ken
meth Gum, JOG years.
| a Harvey county man claims the
distinction of having lived next door
to Mrs. O'Learv and her kicking cow
| and was one of the first to be burned
| out in the great Chicago fire.
| Bill White has been hired to write
| up Cripple Creek for the Santa Fe pas
1 i Il
| appear in newspapers and afterward
will be issued in pamphlet form
| This will go down III history as one
OF the boom years in the attendance
of the state agricultural college at
| Manhattan, notwithstanding ''hard
| times There are $40 already enrolled
| for the winter term.
The remains of Jacob Kaut, well
known Doniphan county farmer, who
| died few days ago, will be eNhumed
and an autopsy held. There is d SEN
sational story to the effect that he was
! poisoned.
Atchison Globe: The people of
| Leavenworth think so little of their
| electric line that they steal copper
wires and other things from it Up
| here we swell with pride every time
| car goes past.
| Several attempts have been made
| lately to burn the town OF Huron. the
| most recent being the firing of the
| DOYLE building. The citizens have of
fered $500 reward for the apprehension
of the parties.
Mrs Charles Duncan died Saturday
morning at Lawrence of a long illness.
She was one of the oldest citizens of
| Douglass cousaty and was prominently
identified with Kansas history prior to
and including the Quantrel raid.
A highwayman appeared at the
house of the widow Holbrcol1 in Chau-
tauqua county and demanded her mon
ey She had none and told him so,
whereupon he apologized for the in
trusion and putting some wood in the
stove departed.
The editor of a western Kansas pa
per received three pounds of dried ap-
pies on subscription the other day and
before he could get them home the
devil ate nearly all of them. To the
attending physician he remarked that
he never had suca a swell dinner
| before.