Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-02-20
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST,"

3The Bank OF Kansas City failed Sat t.
Hrday. It was small concern with
liabilities of about $4,000. Slow col
Sections on securities was the cause.
The Haskell county school marms
have added to he attractions of the
attractions of the old fashioned spell
ling bee the interest of ''ciphering
match"
u. r. Anthony of Leavenworth has
begun improvements on his new home
for the Times and will expend 1900
in fitting up the building he has lately
purchased.
Recently Roy Farrell Green eof
Cowley county. had a poem in New
York Truth and it was illustrated by
Charles Howard johnson, an old-time
Kansas boy.
':Uncle Toms Cabin failed to draw
the usual crowd at Chetopa. The
towns high school graduates have be-
come numerous enough to govern the
tastes of the community.
4 Michigan farmer traded his daugh-
ter for her weight in pork. If this
should become a Kansas custom big
girls would stand no earthly chance of
ever getting husband.
The city council at Leavenworth
was besieged at its last session by a
number of mage claims from per-
sons who had been injured on account
of bad sidewalks, and they each got
nothing.
The Oil fields in eastern Kansas are
booming and the Kansas City Gazette
thinks new Pennsylvania will be
located there. Shouldn't wonder if
the Standurd Oil company would lOca tie
in the GREATEST state on earth, vet.
The town OF Hewins, since Ed Hew-
ms left the COUNTRY, is booming in all
branches of Industry. Trade is good,
marriages and births frequent, and
even the churches are doing well. One
evangelist dips fifteen converts every
Sunday.
The Pleasanton Observer says Mrs
E. I'll. Jones is the first to report a
brood of young chickens. For several
years Mrs. Jones and her favorite hen
''Speck,' have been the foremost ones
In presenting to the public a herd of
young fowls.
Nathan +. Brown. aged Il, is being
tried at Lawrence for Digamy. The
jury will try the case in full On Mon
day afternoon. Mr.. Brown is well
known in Lawrence. He was married
Sin 1884. Last April he married Ellen
Fisher of Kansas City.
The Kansas state board of railroad
commissioners, in its fight for lower
corn rates, threatens to complain to
the interstate commerce commission.
By the time the interstate commerce
commission gets around to the case
there will be no corn Cor shipment.
There is always way to work the
people u
Wednesday night at Pittsburg ]. H.
Price left his bride of two months and
one knows where. His wife is a lady
OF rare intelligence, and she feels he1.
condition keenly. She is utterly peni-
lses, and has written her father for
means to enable her to reach the pa
rental roof.
For the first time in the history of
Leavenworth an electric car was used
to convey a body to the cemetery. The
infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Laren
died Wednesday evening and the cas-
lxet containing the remains was place d
on special electric car in waiting
and the funeral party was Conveyed
from Tenth and ottawa streets to
Mount Muncie.
Special Agent Dixon of Washington.
sent out by the government to
make the much talked-of Delaware
payment, has arrived in Coffeyville
He says the payment will begin at
Bartlesvi1le. I. I. 10y the 18th. This
will be joyful news to a great many
merchants in the border towns. who
would have been taxed to their utmost
to stem the tide had this payment
been delayed much longer.
Fred Funston, one of the sons of
K. o., is getting to be in demand by
the standard periodicals. He has
written a great deal for Harper.s pub
GcationS, and the LAST issue of Har-
per's Weekly contains full page of
illustrations and a two column ac-
count Of his Alaska trip. Funston is
son of ex-Congressman Funston. but
he doesn't work on that reputation.
He Is a newspaper man, an explorer,
an all around writer and a good fell
low.
DIR. Martha Hall Smith of Fostoria