Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-09
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

TO turfmen as the ''CampbeIl1te Mare"
Colonel J. d. Snoddy, of La Cygne,
is clamoring for an extra session of the
legislature.
Miss Lizzie High, of Lane county,
has put in $50 acres of wheat this fall.
How is that for high?
White Rock, once a busting town in
the Central Branch country, is nowr re-
duced to a single store.
The Rush county man who wrote
,"Sleep on thou cold, cold dead dead
year" must have been out of fuel.
The wooden mills machinery recent
1y sold in Topeka, will be put into
operation in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
The Pittsburg mines, those not
flooded with water during the recent
rains, are running to their utmost ca
pacity.
A Kansas man recently went to Ke-
olsuk, Iowa, expecting to have a good
time, and found everybody had taken
the Keely cure.
Mrs. Al Morris, one of the gang of
eounterfeiters arrested at Pittsburg,
tried to kill herself by taking NOR
phine, but was saved.
A Leavenworth woman has started
a Kitten garden and is now prepared
to furnish the feline market at prices
ranging from 81. SO to S..
Stafford county has minister named
Inches, but the citizens there declare
that he comes along with both feet
when revival is in progress.
The six months supplies of the in
sane asylum at Osawatomie have COM
menced to arrive by the car load. The
quantity is larger than ever before.
A skeleton was dug up at Smith
Center Monday which is believed to be
that of young man believed to have
been murdered twenty years ago for
5000.
The school directors of the town of
Huron in Atchison county gave the
children a Christmas holiday, and re-
CURED the teacher to be on hand the
next day as usual.
The latest fad among Atchison's
swell women is to teach a Sunday
school class. It is having such great
run that children are rounded up and
run in to give all the teachers material
to work on
A tramp up in Leavenworth county
was taken in and given a good supper
and a place to sleep. He paid for the
generosity by looting the. house of all
the money, watches, diamonds and
other jewelry and left before break
fast.
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and got not a cent Or the value of a
cent, because he had blown everything
in for Christmas. He is laughing a
good deal at what he calls 'sa joke on
the footpads,'' but it strikes practical
people that the ssjol1e'' was having it's
run about the time fool and his mon :
ey We're parted.
Judge Owen A. Bassett, who for
many years presided over the Law
renee judicial district, but who of late
years has resided at Ellsworth. has
been taken to Chicago for surgi cal
treatment by a brother there, who is a
slxilfu1 surgeon. Judge Bassett is SUI
fering from a diseased leg, and it is
the opinion of his Ellsworth physician
that it will be necessary to amputate
it.
Tobacco smoke is offensive to the
postmaster at Russell, and he has
posted notice that unless the patrons
of the office cease the practice he will
shut them out while he is distributing
the mail. This is an abridgment OF
ancient rights, but the Postmaster
seems to have the whip hand, and at
last accounts nobody had ventured to
smoke in the Office since the order was
posted. q
The cages in the old Jail at Atchison
were placed close against she wall
and directly under a barred window.
When the cages were moved few days
ago big pile of saws, files and other
tools desirable for Jail breaking pur
poses, were found between. the cages
and wall. The tools had been pushed
through the barred window from the
outside, only to fall behind the cage
where they could not be reached.
Fifty-six convicts were received a
the United States penitentiary at FIT
Leavenworth Christmas eve, three o.
whom were Cinnamon. They shed
their garments and took a bath al
right, but when the prison barber
went after their queues, there was {
fight right away. They used theil