Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-23
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Lorraine in Ellsworth county has
new brass band.
Coffeyville has just shot another
gushing gas well.
Cloud county people are complain
ing of dry weather.
1t only costs $500 a year to belong to
eTopelka's Swell club.
: Kansas stands third in the column
! in railroad mileage.
One of the commissioners in Ness
county is named Sidebottom.
The late j. c. Kyle of Topeka left
$4,000 to Christ's hospital in that.
city. q
O'Keene over in Blaine county wants
good -four feilI, and they ought to
have it.
An Atchison billiard hall pays $50
month for lunch alone. People who
drink billiards must have bite with
it.
Cashier Colean will be tried at Fort
Scott February g. L. c. Boyle, who
ordinarily is a mascot, will defend
him.
peka, who has for some time been
missionary in Africa, is dead from
fever.
A Kansas City man carried war
rant to police headquarters for his own
arrest, thinking it was for the man
who had tried to lick him.
According to the Ottawa Journal the
new woman has not yet invaded that
town but some fellows ''old woman"
gets out at a. M and splits kindling.
The new NJ E. church at carlton
will be dedicated by Rev. Bernard
Kelly Sunday, February 9. A special
invitation has been issued to old SOL
diers to attend.
A woman broke into Abilene selling
n patent button fastener for men last
week, and stories are coming out that
cause storm of Indignation among
the usually anna BILE wives of the town.
A southern Kansas exchange says a
t'new woman issued an ultinatum to
her antiquated father to the effect
that she would weae. boomers or moth
ing. The old man preferred the
boomers.
1t is impossible to keep a good man
down. John Prestoa Campbell, crowd
ed out of all other classes. breaks into
print as the owner of thirty dollar
inlaid chessboard. In reserve ne has
a proposition.
AtchisOnS street car line has been
tied up for day or two because of a
broken clutch on the shafting at the
power house, People have been wa
ding through the sticky slush and
abusing the company.
On the 24thsof December Hattie Nc
Cumber, a young girl Of West Plains,
went to Liberal. where she married
Lee Wilson. On the 3Otlf she thought
better of it and left her new husband,
it is supposed, to former steady.
Atch1son Globe: A certain girl in
Atchison has at last got nibble; the
nibbler earns a good salary, and is
even inclined to be good looking.
There is nothing the matter with him
except that he has the consumption.
c. p Carlson, the new Greeley coun-
ty man, who has located on Wilson
creek in Weskan township. is the adj
vance guard of number of Greeley
county people who are going to loca tie
on the low lands in Wallace county.
and go into the irrigation and stock
raising business.
The home of E. NJ. Sheldon of Otta-
wa was entered by burglars Monday
night and $3.50 worth of silverware
was stolen. Some Silverware was
found hidden in corn shock near the
town, but it was evidently the pro-
ceeds of some other robbery, and has
notsyet been claimed.
Here comes the Dalton gang" OBJ
served w. W. Guthrie as Cy Leland
John Schllling, Phil Kelly and some
more of the lambs entered the din.
ing room at the Copeland the other
day. When Leland heard of it after
ward, he said: s'Abouts once in eigh
teen years Guthrie gels off a good
thing. In 1878 he said. in speaking o.
the same gang These damned
postmasters are to congressman what
the yellow dog is to movers wagon.
slim Arterbridge of Topeka opened {
snap on the Sante Fa's coal last week,
and until the police closed him out he
did land Office business. His scheme
was to sell coal for cash below the
market price, and direct the buyer t.