Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-01-07

chosen president The resolutions
adopted favored child study, school
:oom sanitation, the establishment OF
auxiliary normal schools and changing
the time of the expiration of the term
Of the county superintendent to the
second Monday in January. The sub
ect of textbook legislation was not
sven mentioned.
The State Temperance Union.
Over 9, 900 delegates are expected to
attend the annual meeting of the state
temperance union at Topeka January
IL Among the speakers will be Z. w.
Hoch, OF Marion; ex-Gov. St John, OF
Olathe: Congressman-elect Jerry ID.
Botkin; Rudolph Hatfield, Of v ichita;
Howard C. Rash, of Salina, and James
A Troutman, of Topeka The object
, Of the convention is to build up senti-
ment against the constitutional con'
| vention proposition.
City Superintendents Want Protection
The superintendent of city schools
throughout the state will ask the legis-
lature to pass law providing that
| superintendent shall not be removed
except for cause. They claim the stand
! ard of the schools can be raised only
by continued service of school officers,
from superintendent down. At the
present time the school superintendent
can be discharged at any time there is
a change in the school board.
Too Many Charters Issued.
In his biennial report Secretary of
State Edwards says that of co. char
tiers issued from that Office probably
not more than 1000 of the various COM
panies and associations so organized
- h 70
suggest that law be passed giving
the secretary of state power to pass
upon all charters filed, with power to
revoke any that are deemed unworthy.
| George Bryant a Suicide.
The dead and decomposed body OF
George Bryant, who two weeks ago
tried to murder his wife and father-in-
law on the streets of Fort Scott, was
found in coal drift near that city.
There is no doubt that Bryant, after
attempting to murder his wife because
she would rot live with him, COM
mitted suicide at the spot where his
| body was found.
A Big Irrigation Ditch.
Western capitalists have secured the
cooperation of farmers in an irriga-
ton ditch to connect the Arkansas
preliminary survey has been made and
200 teams will be put to work as soon
as the right of way is secured. When
completed the ditch will run into an
artificial lake with an area of %, SOC
| acres
| End of the Lamborn Case.
| Thomas W. Davenport and Mary L.
Lam born, of Fall Leaf, were married
at Lawrence recently. which proved
the final act in an unfortunate family
affair. The two young people had
been under arrest charged with the
brutal murder of the girls father, and
the case against them was dismissed
few days previous to their marriage.
German "Customs" Not Permitted.
| John Hitler, a German farmer, stood
On the streets of Atchison the other
night and tickled under the chin every
| woman who was without an escort
| He claimed this was a common custom
| in Germany, and cid not know he was
committing an offense. but the police
| Judge said German customs didn't ''go@
| in Atchison and fined Hitler SO.
| Threatens Mandamus Proceedings.
Secretary Upton, OF the populist
state committee, threatened to bring
mandamus proceedings against Secre-
tary Bristow, of the republican state
committee, to compel the latter to file
an itemized statement showing how
he spent SIS, 600 which he drew from the
treasurer of the repu blican state COM
mittee.
/ Plea for Young Culprits.
The board of reformatory managers,
In a report to the governor, recon.
mends change in the criminal law
SO that no boy under 16 shall be sent
to the penitentiary for his first crime,
unless it be murder, but instead shall
be sent to the state reformatory al
| Hutchinson
| Minor State News.
/ It is said there are in round mum bers
1872, 900 farmers in Kansas.
There are 1876 inmates in the Hutch,
inson reformatory at present
Chinch bugs were reported as dam
aging cornfelds in Sumner county.
Pittsburg Is trying to raise $50, DOC
as a bonus toward securing a state
normal school there
A Wichita paper says the report that
Mrs Lease has permanently located IN
| New York is correct.
The state school fund commissioners
recently purchased s107, 200 of King