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

Inc pen1tentiary Is to have Hour
ing mill.
Coyotes are making great trouble in
Grant county.
The Salvation Army fed $50 of To-
pel1a's poor Christmas.
An Atchison woman had the courage
to buy no Christmas presents.
Mule buyers are making good money
in the Southeastern counties.
An Oswego firm shipped sixty-fiye
mules to Central America last week
]. ii. Roberts, Beloit man, has sold
a Cripple Creek gold mine for $sO,GO
johnson Eiseline of Abilene died
of injuries received by fall on Thurs
dav.
Charles NJ. Young of Argentine, who
fell down stairs Christmas night. died
Tuesday.
Seven of the thirty-three SHOWS
promised for this winter have come
and gone.
w. c. Olson is the name of a man
who has ventured to start another
paper at Wakeeny.
Bishop Millspaugh has appointed
the Rev. c. Rowland Hill of Topeka to
be arch-deacon of Eastern Kansas.
Farmers living in the southern part
of Labette county rounded up and
slew $50 rabbits one afternoon last
week.
Harry j. Brown, one of Atchison's
prominent young men, was married to
Miss Blanche Barker, at Garrett
Tuesday.
Out of twentyone telegraph mes
! sages sent out from Lawrence Christ
mas afternoon eighteen were death
messages.
The five year-old daughter of Al
bert Miller was seriously burned at
Kansas City Tuesday, by her clothing
| catching fire.
Ed Howe, who has kept cases on it,
| figures it out that if man can reach
| 80 without marrying the chances are
he will escape.
The city of Ottawa has gone daft on
| whist. Atchison used to lead in
| this craze, but several towns have
passed it recently.
Early Monday morning fire nearly
entirely destroyed the furniture house
! of w. j. Bowers of Norton. The loss
| is estimated ia 900.
Thomas Conell a soldier is under ar
rest at Junction City charged by J. Z.
| Nicholson with attempted assault on
| his 14-year-old daughter Ruth.
| Logan Ziegler died at Fall Leaf on
Tuesday night. Mr.. Ziegler had lived
in Leavenworth county fifty years and
| was an intimate friend of Jim Lane
Cora Barber of Chanute points with
pride to the Erie band, which her in
| struction has made one of the famous
| musical organl cations in that section.
It is understood that the initiation
| fee of the Mutual Admiratio society
! is to be reduced. embership has fall
/ len off awfully in the last six months.
Mrs. Lease is the name of the la
| test brand of cigars to be manufact
ured in Topeka. That ought to fill
| the measure of any new woman's am
| bition.
| When the Rev Mr.. Coe left Manhat-
| tan he thought he had converted all
| the sinners, but three came in from
the brush last week and gave them
! selves up.
| Suit has been brought against the
| city of Abilene on the So. 900 bon is
sued in 1855 to prospect for gas and on
! which no interest has ever been paid.
| The city claims the bonds to be illegal.
| B. M. MayGinnis of Mound Valley,
| last week found in his pure water well
a nest of snakes and killed seventeen
of them. They are all bull snakes
| and varied from two to six feet in
| length.
S. S. Benedict will spend the coming
two months in Old Mexico as the guest
! of A. A. Robinson, president of the
Mexican Central. He expects to visit
every part of the republic before re-
turning.
D. A. Ellsworth of the state normal
school will quit teaching in June, and
will go into the newspaper business.
The board of trustees and president
of the John Brown Industrial school
of Bonner Springs, are out in a holt
day appeal for aid. The object of the
proposed institution is to educate col
ored boys in trades
| United States Judge Foster dissolved