Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-06-03
schoolbooks Selected.

are lllegally formed
schoolbooks Selected.
The state textbook commission has |
selected books for use in the public |
schools. They were all taken from diff
ferent companies at the rate fixed by |
law. which is about so per cent. under
old prices Spoilers cost 10 cents. arith-
metics % to 35, algebras so, histories
80, biographies 80 and rs, grammars
IS. readers, 10. II, 25. 80 and 40. physi-
ologies soc, PHILOSOPHERS so, booixkeep-
ing 40, constitutions 40 and physical
biographies so.
Gov. Leedy and a New Railroad.
In a speech at Mankato the other
day Gov. Leedy said the only solution
of the freight rate problem was to
build north and south road to deep
water. He said party of railroad men
were anxious to construct such road,
If backed by the states of Nebraska,
Kansas and Texas, and would not ask
a cent until the road is completed. He
said the road would be LOCO miles long
and could be built for S12, 900 per mile
Kansas Poultry Industry.
Secretary of the State Board of Agri-
culture Coburn has issued an interest
ing book on the Kansas poultry in
dustry. The egg product alone for
1896 amounted to $3,60s, S15. No field
crops, with the exception of corn,
wheat'and hay, equaled in value the
poultry industry, which came within
Ia per cent of paying the entire cost
of the public schools.
Emporla Has a Night Prowler.
Emporia was afflicted with a mys-
terious night prowler who had COM
pletely terrorized all the women in
town. He would boldly force his way
into the apartments of young women
and try to carry them away. In one
night he visited so residences where
men folks were away and left only
when the screams of women aroused
the neighbors
Kansas Sunday Schools.
The annual session of the Kansas
State Sunday School association at
Newton last week was the most sue
cessful ever held. Martin Mohler was
elected president; E. r. Moses, S. B.
Wood and Mrs. Eva Nall vice presi-
dents; Mrs. Anna Foster secretary and
r. M. White treasurer. Abilene was
chosen for the 1898 meeting.
A Preacher Threatened by a Mob.
There is great excitement and con-
siderable acrimony in Montgomery
over the attempt to secure a grand
| Jury to aid in enforcing the liquor law.
At Liberty Rev. ID. Nj. Campbell, the
Methodist preacher who had been ac-
tive for grand jury, was waited upon
one night and threatened with mob
violence.
Proposed Freight Reductions.
The state railroad board has adj
dressed letter to the different Kan
sas railroads suggesting reduction of
rates as follows: Twenty per cent. on
the distance tariff now in force; 20 per
cent. on coal rates; Is per cent. on
grain rates and five per cent. on live
| stock rates.
Prof. Sanders VIII Go to Montana.
Prof. d. E.. Sanders, who has been
president of the Kansas normal col
| 1ege at Fort Scott 10 years, has re-
signed to accept the presidency of a
college at Dillon, Mont. He will be
succeeded at Fort Scott by Prof. G. w.
Martin, of Baker university,
A Good Thing for Pittsburg.
| Pittsburg has been made the division
point of the Pittsburg & Gulf railroad,
creating monthly pay roll of SIS, 900.
Pittsburg now has five railway systems
Fort Scott & Memphis, Pittsburg &
Gulf, Santa Fe, Missouri Pacific and
| Frisco.
| o. NJ. b. Lodges VIII Resort to Boycott.
A Topeka telegram said the o. Nj. B.
| lodges, anti-prohi bition, would boycott
| the Santa Fe and Union Pacific rail-
roads because the attorneys for these
roads were agitating the enforcement
of the prohibito law.
Minor state News.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison Lise, of Fort
Scott, have been twice divorced and
thrice married.
| lola will soon have the largest ice
| plant in the state which will be built
/ by Lawrence capitalists.
Clara Taylor, grown woman, was
convicted at Empire City of willfully
burning a-baby's fingers
Two thousand delegates were ex-
pected to attend the annual convention
| of the Kansas Christian Endeaver
union. which assembled at Topeka
June 2.
John Coleman, of Ottawa, tried to
| keep his daughter.away from the Sal
walton army meetings by numerically
| beating her. He was arrested an a
| charge of cruelty
| State Bank Com, missioner Breiden-
thai wards Kansas bankers that where
! one bank bids for the county funds and
| then divides the deposits with the
othet banks they are violating the
| antitrust law
t Ex-senator PETER, in his Topeka Ad-
vocate, has opened fight on Senator
| Harris, who in the legislature last
| winter abandoned the maximum rates
plank OF the peoples party platform
Cove county, with a population OF
/ 1000, does not owe dollar The coun-