Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-06-30
A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Presidential Post Office Statistics.

Presidential Post Office Statistics.
The total number of presidential Of
fees in Kansas is 1873. The postmasters'
salaries at 90 have increased 500, and
at eight 5000. Nine offices have been
advanced from the forth to the third
class, and five from the third to the
second class. The Kansas offices at
which the postmaster's salary will be
increased are as follows:
Abilene, s., 900 to 81 100; Alma ST. 100 to 1900;
Anthony, 81 400 to 81 800; Argentine, S1,5O0 to
81 600 Augusta, 81, 900 to S11O0; Cawker City,
81 100 to 81 200; Cherokee 81 600 to 81 100; Cherry
vale 81 500 to 81 700; Clifton 81 100 to S., 300;
Clyde 81 300 to 81 400 Cofeyville, 81 100 to 200;
Colby 81 100 to 81 200; Columbus 81 700 to 81 800;
Concordia, $500 to $1,000; Cottonwood Falls.
81 200 to 81 800; Eldorado 81 700 to 81 800; Els
worth ST 800 81 800; Erie 81 800 81 400; Flor
ence, ST. 100 to 81 200; Frankfort, 81 300 to 81 400
Fredonia, 81 800 to 81 800; Garden City 81 400 to
81 600 Garnett, 81 800 $780, Coodland, 81, 100
to 81 200; Great Bend, 81 700 to 81 800; Halstead,
81 900 to 81 100; Harper 81 300 to 81, 400; Hiawa
tina, 81 800 to 81, 900; Horton 81 500 to 81, 700;
Humboldt, 81 300 81 400; independence, 81 800
to 81 600; lola, 81 700 to 81 800; Jewell 81 900 to
SLIGO; Junction City, 81 300 to 81, OOO Kansas
City So 200 to So 300; Kingman, 81 500 to 81 800;
kinSley, 81 100 to ST. 200 kiowa, 81 200 to 81 800;
Kirwin, 81 900 to 81, 100; Larned 100 to 81 800;
I-indsburg 81 300 to 81, 4O0 Lyndon, 81, 100
81 200 Mcpherson s. 900 to 81 100; Marion. 81. 500
to 81 800; Marysville, 81 800 to S,700 Medicine
Lodge 81 200 to $1,000; Mound CITY, IL, 100 to
$780, Nickerson, 81 900 to 1905 Oberlin 81, 200
81, 400; Usage City, 81 800 to 81 600; Osborne
81 400 to 81 800; Oskaloosa 81, 900 to 81 100; Pea
body 81 800 to 81 800 Pratt, ST. 800 to 81 400 Rus
sell 81 300 81 400; Sabetha 81 400 to 81 SOD; st.
John 100 to 81 200; St. Marys, 1900 to S1400;
Salina, 5 800 to $780, Sedan 81 100 to $1,000;
Seneca, 81 600 to s., 200; Smith Center, 81 300 to
81 400 Stafford, 81 100 to 81 200 Sterling, 81 800
$1,7OO; Topeka $1,000 to So 400; Valley Falls,
200 to Sl,4OO; Washington. $500 to $1,000;
Wellington, 81 900 s., 600; Yates Center, $500
to 81 800.
Concordia, Hiawatha, independence,
junction City and Wellington advanced
from third to second class Fort Riley
is relegated from third to fourth class.
The salary of the postmaster at Fort
LeavenwOrth has been decreased from
81, 300 to 81, 200; Neodesha, from $1,000
to S1.4OO; and Weir from 81 800 to 81, 500.
ill Be Elaborate Structure.
o Work has already been commenced
on the memorial gateway to Forest
park in Ottawa, which will be erected
in honor of company X, Twentieth
Kansas. The gate is to be an elabo-
rate structure. The entrance will be
the width of a street and will consist
of a series of iron gates swung on stone
pillars. The center pillar will be seven
feet high and three feet wide. Upon
this will be placed a bronze tablet con-
tanning the roster of company X. The
estimated cost is 1.4O0 and this
amount is now insured.
Fine Increase in Population.
Up to June % the state board of agri-
culture had received assessors returns
from II counties in Kansas and it is in
tereSting to note that 81 of these re-
port an increase over 1898 in popula-
tion of %, 172, while 10 show decrease
of 1875, leaving a net increase for the
~ counties of 25, 797, equal to nearly
two per cent. on the states entire pop
ulatiOn of one year before. The larg
est gain is ), 421, in Cherokee county,
Shawnee following closely with 3,36S.
Most Brutal Crime Committed.
Minnie, the ten-year-old daughter of
Tony KOrnStead, farmer near Bluff
City, was sent on an errand one after
noon recently to the home of her aunt,
three miles away. Failing to return, a
search was instituted and the child's
dead body was found in an old aban-
doned well in lonely spot near her
aunt's home. The boards over the
we'll were in perfect order, showing
conclusively foul play.
His War Fever Soon Ebbed.
Roscoe Richardson, a young man at
Circleville, got the war fever last week
and gathering up six other patriotic
youths started for Topeka to enlist in
the regular army. Richardson was the
first to be examined and was accepted.
While his companions We're being eX-
amined Richardson had an attack of
''buckague;" and watching his oppor-
tunity, slipped away. Officers were
looking for him
Good Report for April.
In his April report of the Twentieth
Kansas regiment, Gen. Funston said
that of the 1, Ola men in the regiment,
65 were on special duty, 124 We're sick
and $50 We're on the fighting line when
the report was written May 1. Thir-
teen men We're wounded during April,
one was killed and three died of
wounds. During the month not man
in the regiment was under arrest.
Toe from Each Foot.
Miss Florence L. Kinser, of Eureka.
submitted to an operation for the re-
moval of toe from each foot. From
birth she has had six toes on each foot,
and it caused her no end of annoyance
in fitting shoes. This extra toe trouble
seems to be inherent in Miss Kinser's
family. Her father and both of her
brothers have six members on each
foot.
Worried About Her Soldier Husband.
At Independence, Mrs. Eva Fairleigh.
wife of Jesse Fairleigh, was declared
insane. Her husband enlisted in the
Twentieth Kansas regiment when the
call was made, and it is thought that
constant worry about him affected her
mind.
To Become Philippine Editor.
Dwight Loofbourrow, son of Rev. w.
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