Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-09-01

recOroSs mas Oeen competed ana sealed
on the summit of Pixies peak in Colo
RADIO. It is cut in solid gray granite at
the north end of the cog railroad, over
looking the bottomless pit, 1000 feet
below and in full view of all the plains
to the Kansas line on the east, New
Mexico on the south. the snowy range
on the west and Wyoming on the north.
Col. LAYTON wired the governor OF
Georgia on the 27th that the situation
in Mcintosh county, Ga, had greatly
improved and that the arrest of Della
CELL had broken up all armed resist
ance on the part of the negroes. 1t
was evident from the kilograms OF Col.
Lawton that he did not expect the
negro mob to give up so soon.
WHAT is believed will prove to be a
valuable bed of zinc was discovered on
the farm of John Cummins, adjoining
the city of Guthrie, Ok, on the east.
Workmen digging a well struck the
oed 20 feet below the surface. Two
specimens were taken out, which per-
sons who have examined findings from
the valuable Arkansas zinc fields say
rival those products.
EDWARD RHODES shot his wife at
Evansville, Ind, because she had sued
for divorce.
THE National Farmers congress will
meet in Boston October to 6. The
congress is made up of delegates from
the different states and the governors
are now making the appoin tments,
Ex-Gov. Hoard, of Wisconsin, is presi
dent of the congress and John NJ.
Stahl, of Chicago, is secretary.
THE governors of &c states have APP
pointed delegates to the antitrust con-
ference at Chicago September Is to 16.
WHILE Miss Mary Carr, who was
charged with theft, was being con-
veyed by an officer from Port Huron to
Detroit, Mich, on steamer, she
jumped into Lake ST. Clair and was
drowned.
THE war department has contracted
for a powerful movable searchlight,
which will be Immediately sent to Ma
Mia. The searchlight will be mounted
on intrenchments and used at night to
light the surrounding country. The
use of the light will, army officers say,
prevent any surprise.
ED TURNER, formerly an engineer on
the Missouri Pacific from Eldorado to
Fort Scott, Kan, has written a letter
from Arizaba, Mex, saying he has been
in prison for five months for being in
wreck on the Mexican & Vera Cruz
railroad. He did not have a trial and
is not able to get one. He expresses
the fear that he may be taken out and
shot, as engineers are, frequently, in
Mexico, and sends an appeal to Gov.
Stanley for help as an American citizen.
Fossil remains were said to be re-
ceived daily by the University Of Wyo-
ming from the scientists now operat-
ing in the fossil beds beyond Medicine
Bow, Wyo. The University of Wyo-
ming is proceeding rapidly with the
task of unearthing the largest reptile
known to science.
SILAs A. BROWN and Matthew Craig
were hanged at Muskogee, I. T., on the
a5th for murder.
THE Iowa Mutual Fire association
has failed. An application was made
for a receiver at Des Moines.
THREE people were killed by light
ding during a thunderstorm at Owens
borO, KY, on the 25th.
A FINANCIAL crisis is said to be i'm
ninent in Turkey.
A GREAT forest fire ragged on the 18th
at Rothiemurchies, Invernesshire,
Scotland, miles of superb woods around
Lake ELLEN being involved.
THE forest fires in the Adirondacl1s,
u. Y, have been eXtinguished.
The thermometer reached 100 de-
grees at three o'clock on the afternoon
Of the Esd at Kansas City, Mo.
ABOUT half of the 40 pattern-malers
employed by the Union iron works at
San Francisco went out on a strike be-
cause demand for an increase of %
cents day in their wages, made sew
eral days ago, was refused.
A HERD of cattle, 1000 head. STAN
peded for water in a pasture in the
Kiowa reservation in Oklahoma and
they piled upon each other in a canyon
and So beeves were killed and many
others injured.
SMALLPOX broke out at Colbert, /. T..
and people were fleeing from the place.
JAMES WILLIAMS, a StOckman, was
shot from ambush near Collinsville, l.
T.
AT Santiago de Chilli an entire pas
senger train fell into the river, all the
passengers being drowned. Great floods
prevailed and property valued at FL,
500, GOO was destroyed.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for
the organization of a $4,000. 900 dry
goods corporation in New York to con-
troll and operate dry goods and depart
ment stores throughout the country.
THE Union Veterans union closed its
| annual convention on the 25th. The
final reports showed the order prosper
Gus financially and increasing rapidly
in membership. The next meeting
will be held in Washington in October,
1900.
THE Cherokee spirit dance to deter
| mine whether the Great Spirit was ia
vorable to the moving of the tribe to
Mexico closed at Hanson, I. T. At its
conclusion the medicine men of the
tribe decided that it had demonstrated
the Great Spirits unfriendliness to the