Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
KANSAS NEWS OF RECENT DATE.
The Baxter springs Reunion.

The Baxter Springs Reunion.
Extensive preparations are being
made to entertain the annual reunion
of union veterans at Baxter Springs,
August pa to September >. The reunion
grounds include 100 acres on Spring
river. A big amphitheater, capable of
holding 1000 people. is being completed
and other accessories for camping are
being provided This is the historic .
spot where QuantrelI murdered $50
union soldiers after they had surren-
dered- Over 100 well-known speakers
from Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri
viii be present. The Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Memphis railroad has eN-
tended a spur to the center of the
camp so that the visitors will have no
extra fare to pay.
Witnessed Many Exciting Events.
Mrs Eliza DotSon, who died at Con-
cordia recently. was born in 1900,
married in 1916 and became a widow in
1862. She was the mother of II chill
dren, the grandmother OF 81 and the
Observation-Disclosures of 60. Three of
her sons We're soldiers in the civil war
and three of her daughters married sol
diers- She died at the age of 90 years.
three months and % days, and there
fore had lived So, 251 days and nights
In her lifetime 30 presidents came and
went and the nation passed through
eight wars
POpulists Indorse Striking Miners.
The executive committee of the pOpu-
list state committee, at a meeting helda
in Topeka, issued manifesto declaring
sympathy with the striking miners;
coudemning the federal court for en-
joining miners from doing violence to /.
persons or property; denouncing Gov
Stanley for permitting the importation
of negro miners from the south, and
calling upon the populists of Kansas TO q.
lend the strikers financial aid in their
fight against the coal mine operators
Want Protection from Negro Miners.
Sheriff Sparks, of Cherokee county,
was petitioned by residents of the
northern part of the county for pro-
lection from the Alabama negro
miners recently shipped in there. The
sheriff selected ten men who went to
the scene of the trouble and are acting
as deputies, 1t was claimed the ne
groes were becoming overbearing and g.
that the white residents were alarmed
lest serious trouble should break out at
any time.
New Officers in the Twentieth Kansas
Gov. Stanley received a cablegram
from Col. Metcalf, of the Tween tieth
regiment. recommending the following
appointments, which were made at
once:
Lieut.. Z. J. Hardy, of Salina. to succeed Capt
H B. Orwig. OF company d, who resigned to be-
come major in one OF the new volunteer regi-e
mentS; Burton J. Mitchell, of Fort Scott, first
lieutenant; ]. Q. Tent. second lieutenant; Al
bert H KrauSe, captain; Samuel e. Hopkins,
1 rSE--~1
lieutenant
Awful Charge Against a Young Farmer.
Mrs. Charles Fisher, wife of a farmer
| living near Atlanta, Cowley county,
was shot and killed early the other
morning, and circumstances indicate
that the deed was done by her husband
He Is in Jail at Winfield Fishers story
was that the shot was fired by a strange
| man. Fisher is 4 stranger in the COM
munity and but little is known about
him.
She Had Gone with Another Man.
\. y. Mcpherson, a laborer, asked
the Kansas City police TO help him to
recover his wife. whom he found gone
when he returned from work in the.
evening. She had left a note saying
she had gone with another man and
Mcpherson would never see her again
Fortune for a Topeka Lawyer.
John j. Schenck, Topeka lawyer,
| attended to the legal business of Mrs.
Mary Mason. a widow She died few
| days ago. When her will was opened
it was found that she had bepueathed
all of her property valued at $1,000 to
Mr.. Schenck.
Reward for the Conviction OF Jointists-
The prohibitionists at Lincoln Cen
ter have offered $50 reward for each
conviction of a violator of the prohibi-
| tory law in the town and county a
| voluntary reward fund of $500 has been
raised in contributions of from so cents
to 81.
| The Strange Events That Time Brings
Miss Bessie Messy has been engaged
to teach in the Cartwright school in
Sedgwicl& county. Miss Nessly's
mother taught in this school before
her. and the young woman has engaged
| board in the house in which she was
born.
Voted Against the Road Levy.
In Bourbon county the commits
sioners refused to make the two-min
| levy for road Improvement under the
good roads bill passed by the last leg
| islature. A number of the countv's
| heaviest taxpayers petitioned for the
! levy
| The Champion Tomato-Grower.
| Green Clay, living near Frankfort,
picked from his patch a tomato that
measured Is inches in circumference.
1t was as smooth as an apple, without
| a blemish, and looked more like q
| small pumpkin than a tomato.
Eight Ears on One Stalk
Henry Ceaser, a Marshall county