Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-01-02
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
KANSAS.

Cs II. DTdOy anu u. II. bf1StOW are
eievating their backs at each other.
An Ellsworth tooth carpenter adj
vertises to repair grinders, for corn.
John j. Ingalls, has returned to Atch-
ison to remain until after the holidays.
Howard has a blooded filIy known
TO turfmen as the '-Campbellite Mare. :"
A Leavenworth hospital has provi-
ded few free beds for patients who
can't pay their keep.
The new church of Jesus Christ late
~ established at st. j ohm has a regu-
lar attendance of 400
Harvey county owes no bonded in
debtedness, and has never had Ii
censed joint within it confines.
The Maple Leaf recently paid SIS, ZOO
for block of ground at Leaverworth
and will increase ITS yard room there.
G. A. Yearout's year will be out as
editor of the Madison Index January 1,
when E. o. Trask will mount the tri-
pod.
Andrew Swiggett, ex-county clerk
of Butler county, has disappeared and
his friends are much concerned about
him.
In Atchison, where people rake in
their kin with a fine-tooth comb, hol-
iday shopping is called the Christmas
trot."
Fred Lobden dubs his paper the
weekly irrigator,'' which goes to
show that Fred seats fish, but once
week.
at Leaven worth when one of her
little granddaughters called Mrs. A
Lucky to Christmas dinner, she was
found dead. O.
Lynn w allis of the Santa Fe shops
at Otto, was drowned while attempting
to cross a swollen stream near Havana,
Friday evening.
John Waterman of Leroy, so years
old, has been adjudged insane, and
his friends are unable to explain the
origin of his malady.
A Topeka woman was compelled to
postpone her washing recently because
her washerwoman had selected the
regular day to give an evening dinner.
There is one paper in Kansas which
takes hay, wood, corn or straw on
subscription, but only in limited guam
titles. The editor wants a little cash
to buy sugar, coffee and tobacco.
The school superintendent, at Atch-
ison, asked the children of the Divis-
ion street building to fill barrel with
provisions for The poor. They filed
eight barrels, three with potatoes.
Jim White of Atchison says the 9TH
er evening some people were at his
house talking about John Bull, when
his wife wanted to know if it was the
same bull that caused so much trouble
last summer in Guthries pasture.
Charles B. Voorhis and Ella Ward
Smith were united in marriage at
Ottawa Friday morning. 1t was quite
a social affair, the bride being the &C
complished daughter of Fl. j. Smith,
leading citizen of Ottawa.
The deed conveying the Santa Fe
to the purchasing committee contains
9.444 words and the charge to record
it in single county was $40, which
multiplied by the whole number of
counties traversed by this road is a
good sums
Mrs. FL. T. Green's little daughter of
dCdNChWOitiis IOSC %-O On UHc SUTcoU
and it was picked up by little boy.
A fellow named Dunivan took it away
from the boy and was afterward ar
rested and paid his fine with $12 of the
amount Mrs. Green has begun pro-
ceedings to- recover the twelve dollars
from the city.
S. j. Fowler of Sumner county had
an order from San Francisco for II 900
pounds of dressed turkey, but he was
unable to fill it in full, shipping it 500
pounds short. For the Thanksgiving
trade Fowler shipped to various points
about II 900 pounds of dressed poultry
of various kinds, while for Christmas
he had orders for 6 200 pounds of chick
ems alone.
Thomas Ragsdale. who claimed an
intimate acquaintance with Abraham
Lincoln, died at the Atchison county
poor farm Saturday at the age of "a
He lived near Lincoln in Illinois in
the early days. He claimed to have
been defrauded out of large amount
of property in Atchison county, and
was plaintiff in q suit in the district
court concerning it a few years ago.
The registers of deeds of the coun-
ties traversed by the Santa Fe have
received for record copies of deed