Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-02-20


Henry Watterson owns a farm in
Greenwood county.
j. S. Emery is trying his irrigation
lecture In Oklahoma.
Rents have advanced in Moline on
account of report that the Howard
bra1ch is to be operated as a part of
the Southern Kansas division.
Governor Riddle speaks of q woman
s'stooping down to tie her garter"
What kind of garter is tied, or did
she ''stoop down to tie his garter?H
The faculty of Ottawa university has
expelled twenty-one young men who
refused to say they were sorry because
they had been to a college banquet the
night before.
Henry Booth, who once cut a wide
! svvath. has taken a great fancy to i'm
migration, irrigation and other fads,
and is willing for the fellows who are
on earth to run politics.
i A dramatic company is now in
j Southern Kansas displaying Htho-
+! graphs of an impossible scene. where
in an impossible horse jumps in a most
! impossible way over an impossible
! chaSm.
/ l.. c. BOYLE of Fort Scott was admit
j ted into the cell to see his client
! Colean. the bank wreclser, Just three
/ minutes The iailor locked them in,
| and forgetting them, kept them there
! three hours.
! Frank Smiths .sAIl-Over-Li -Coun-
) ~ II
F! Bristow's country correspondence. but
for picturesque ideas and unique style
| AIDE Reynolds corps of correspondence
distance all rivals.
i jerome Pitney, who lives on the Red
Vermillion river, few miles from Wa
| mega. has a ranch of 9, 40 acres. upon
! which he feeds 1000 cattle and 300
hogs. For grinding. he has twenty
! five horse power engine.
There have been in Southern Kan
sas during the last month fou rteen
! lecturers who We're never heard of be-
fore they came and will be never
heard of again unless they should re-
| turn. which is not at all likely.
/ Georgeeand Charles May, brothers,
engaged in fight Sunday noon with
! w. l. and William Burrdett, father and
! son. The Burdetts are dying. The
/ Mays are under arrest. The fight
took place five miles southeast of Atch-
| iSon.
! Howard Cummings. son of Judge ].
4. Cummings. department command
! er of the G. A. r.. of Olxlahoms, com
| mitted suicide Monday at Fort Scott
| by taking morphine. He was a dar-
| ing gambler. well known in Missouri.
! Kansas and Texas
|! William E. Hedy. charged with the
killing of William A. -applegate. at
! Morton last November, was found
| guilty Friday of murder in the second
degree. The men formerly quarreled
| over Hedy's wife. The defendant
| pleaded self-defenSe.
E. NJ. Piper an inmate of the Leav-
enworth Soldiers Home was found dead
! Wednesday night by the Missouri Pa
cifc railroad track. His face was
| bloody and everything indicated that
he had been struck by the train. Pr
per was out on a pass.
| A half breed Indian girl lives near
| White Cloud. who has Suitors by the
score. She hasa, 900 in her own name
and also owns 100 acres Of land. 1t is
| SAID that hardly a day passes that she
does not receive proposition of mar
! riage. She has a good deal of sense,
it is said. and has refused all the for.
tune hunters.
| Willie Goshorn who has lately been
sent from Topeka to Ration, N. NJ,
set the example of doing his errands
on wheel, thus getting over the
ground quickly and removing the
temptation TO play marbles or foot
ball or to fight with other boys. He
employed his spare time at the instru-
ment. and now at only Is he has fine
position, ard can send or receive a
message as well as anybody.
! The Waterw orlSs company of Abil
! enc has received new minion-gallon
pump for use in pumping Sand Springs
| water to Abilene. 1t is from the
Worthington pump mauufactory, New
York. and is u splendid piece of ma
chinery. 1t will be put in at Sand
Springs station in addition to the
pump used at present and will thus
double the capacity of the plant The
old pump has become somewhat worn
and needs reinforcing.