Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1898-03-17
TRADE SUFFERING
The Present Fears of a Crisis Having a
Bad Effect on Chicago.
FOR A LAFAYETTE STATUE
A Christian Corps for Carrying the Gospel
to Wheelmen Who Take Sunday Trips
Bank Directors Liable-Initis-
tive and Referendum.

CHICAGO. March 1S.-MarShall Field
& Co., of this city, have issued orders
to their buyers to refrain from pur-
chasing or ordering goods in large
quantities during the present national
crisis, and that they shall buy only in
such quantities as their trade demands.
Similar orders have been given others
by mercantile houses in this city. Col.
Henry L. Turner, a prominent bust
ness man of this city, and commander
of the First infantry. Illinois national
guard, said that the business interests
of the city were becoming paralyzed
because of the uncertainties of the sit
uation. He is also authority for the
statement that many OF the small in
terror banks throughout the north
west are withdrawing their deposits
from the city banks Otherwise money
is easy, the crisis being felt only in or
binary business.
For a Lafayette Statue
CHICAGO, March 13.-Ferdinand w.
Peck and Robert j. Thompson, of this
city, have been in Washington for the
last two weeks, lobbying actively to
get resolutions through the house and
senate providing for the appoin tment
of a national commission to bring
Lafayette to the French nation at the
time of the Paris exposition in 1900.
The cost is to be betrayed by public
contri buttons on the part of school
children of the United States. a penny
a child. President Mckinley. it is I'M
derstood, has approved the plan, the sem
ate has passed a resolution providing
for national commission and SINH
Ia motion iS he tho hnnSa
To Christianize WheeImen.
NEW YORK, March 13.-Some of the
bicycle riders of Jersey City are about
to organize a Christian corps. The
following communication has been
sent to the church societies of Jersey
City:
1t is desirable that your representative body
aid in bringing together the Christian bicycle
riders of Jersey City with view to the ulti-
mate organization of gospel bicycle corps for
active work in carrying the gospel of Christ to
those thousands of riders who seem to prefer
the forest and green fields to the church pews
on the Sabbath during the summer It is to be
hoped that in time enough companies will be
organized with which to form a regiment
Bank Directors Liable.
OMAHA, Neb., March 13.-The dis
trict court here has decided that the
directors of bank are personally Ii
able for deposits made within so days
of the closing of their bank. The case
in point was that of Theodore Wool
stein, who deposited 50, 900 in the Ger
man Savings bank, of Omaha. which
closed shortly afterward- This de-
cision makes a large number of
wealthy Nebraskans responsible for
losses sustained by depositors in state
banks.
The Initiative and Referendum.
TOPEKA, Kan, March 13.NThe To-
peka advocates of the initiative and
referendum have organized direct
legislation league under the direction
of Eltweed Pomeroy, of New Jersey,
president of the National Direct Legis-
lation league. The league will endeav-
or to persuade the city council of To-
peka to experiment with the initiative
and referendum in the passage of
ordinances.