davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

dral, are in flames. Morgan has or
dered the people of the town to fight
the fire, and some of the buccaneers
have been detailed to lend aid"
The smoke smells wondrous
strong" observed.
Il think that comes from the burn
ing of a few outlying huts," he an
swered. They are but a short space
from here. Nay, they are nigh where
I found you"
"'I might have been roasted, as we'll
had you not searched me out" said,
with long breath. yet tell mellow
near adjacent to the city are we?"
ut is the space where the paddocks
stood" he answered. 1.-The men have
pulled the rails down and converted
them, as you see, into frames for huts.
Phibbert and the man I told you of
helped me build this one"
'Phibbert is no bad fellow" I said,
gratefully. And as for you-truly,
how am L indebted to you'll"
Speak not of it," he said. lightly. 81
am indebted to you also"
We were silent a moment, and in the
interval I could hear the confused
noises and cries from the town.
though, to my vast relief, no more
shrieks.
do we quarter in the place to-
night?" L finally asked.
Morgan says no" he answered. HE
will wait till the morrow. Alas! and
dread that time!"
And how long will their hell's work
last?' L said, despondentIy.
He heaved sigh and began to pace
up and down, which showed how deep
ly he was moved, though his judgment
told him it was to no purpose. Isighed
in response and fell silent. my spirits
not little depressed.
It seemed that Morgan continued to
his resolution TO withdraw his forces
from the city till the next day, this ex-
cepting only two or three companies
that should search for any concealed
fighting men. and should also seize and
man the few ships in the harbor. The
rest of his command he meant to place
! about the landward part of the city
guarding it that none should escape.
All this, 1 may say in a word. was
done. Little resistance was offe red to
| our searching party, and indeed it was
soon found that the governor and
those of his captains who were unhurt
| as well as many of the soldiers had in
| continently fled. So my vengeance and
that of my companions on the naughty
Don Perez de Guzman must at least be
| put Off
L remained in the hut during the
| day Indeed the heatwas terrible, and
it would have been bid for fever for
| me to have ventrred out. Now and
then went TO the hut door, and thence
| could see the men extend their lines so
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
CHAPTER XIV.

OF THE CONCLUSION OF MY ADVEN-
TURE AND THE FALL OF THE CITY
LIKEWISE OF THE STRANGE THING
THAT HAPPENED THEREAFTER.
made kind of dreamlike effort to
come back to myself, and for an in
slant half succeeded. The advancing
figure came out palmer. l saw the face,
and it was indeed Pradey's. I struggled
to keep it steadily in view, but it insist
ed on swimming in with the puffs of
smoke, and as my giddiness increased it
lost all shape and outline. must have
slipped from my position against the
hut at this point, for things gave a
kind of upward flash. in particular, one
object danced out like a bright piece of
steel, and then 1 was conscious of a
hard jolt and all was blackened out.
The next that am able to recall Is
great swaying and swinging sensation,
followed b~ an abrupt pause and then
a little cold shock. I opened my eyes
and found a wet cloth on my forehead,
the ends hanging down on my cheeks.
L put up my hand and drew the cloth
away. AS L cleared my eyes a figure
close by stepped forward and L per-
ceived with joy that it was Mr.. lynn.
He was in his fighting gear, wanting
only the headpiece, and seemed to be
quite unhurt. He smiled as l stared
up at him.
You are safe, then?" l said.
"To be sure. and you, also. It was
but ~ little furrow turned along the
skull, but might easily have been seri-
Gus. Nay, but you had best remain
where you are" he pursued, as 1 would
= = hoo
wound, and in this weather it were easy
to provoke fever"
perceived the wisdom of this advice,
and settled back in my place. l glanced
about, however, and saw that I was
in a shelter made of the rails of one
of the neighboring paddocks covered
with palm thatch. BY the brightness
of the sun that came IN at the door and
the oppressive heat L guessed that it
must be nigh noon.
My thoughts seemed now to fall into
their natural order, and 1 made haste
to question him.
How does it happen that am here ,"
I said; land in what manner was L de,
Hvered from Pradey"'
ST killed the villain" he answered,
quietly. 1T were best that you did
not talk overmuch now," he went on.
"but to satisfy you will say that 1
missed you and turned back, and found
you wounded, and with Pradey making
in upon you. I had scant time, but
fired, and was fortunate enough to
send ball through his head. Then I
dragged you bit aside. and presently
was able to secure the aid of one of
the men. when we brought you hither."
This was great news, to be sure-in
especial, the part that related to
Pradey-and I was content to remain
silent moment and reflect upon it.
'Then that villain is gone! Surely
we have reason TO rejoice" I said at
last "But how think you will the
other buccaneers take it? Do they
know the manner of his death?"
''Nay, and it were best that they
should not" answered Mr.. lynn. low
ering his voice. 'Let it seem that he
died in action"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
They s,a1 Be Consolidated.

A movement is on foot to consolidate
Galena and Empire City into one city.
The two towns are built close together.
but ill-feeling has heretofore existed
between them, which prevented con-
Solidation. So much did they dislike
each other ten years ago that Empire
City built huge stockade between the
two towns, but the Galena police, in a
riot, destroyed ii. Portions of the wall
still stand, but peace reigns- BY unit
ing them Galena would make a COM
pact city of over $1,000 people, and
would rank the eighth city in size in
Kansas
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Savages Suicide.

The notion that savages do not COM
init suicides has often been exploded.
Lionel Decle says in his new book on
savage Africa that among the Barotse.
north of the Zambesi, a man will kill
himself on the tomb of his chief, fancy
ing that he hears the dead man call
him and bid him bring him water
n V World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Government Paid for the Funeral.

S. E. Fergus. of Yates Center. re-
eeived from the government recently
S125 for the funeral expenses of his
son Bert. who died at San Francisco
of spinal meningitis while encamped
there with the Twentieth Kansas vol
unteers. He was the first Kansas boy
to give up his life in the late war.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
He serHed Mith Fnnston in Cuba.

1t transpires that J. F. Greene, the
young Kansan killed in duel in Ha-
vava recently. was a major in the
Cuban army at the time Funston was
in the service. Greene left home in
1898 after graduating from the Kansas
normal college at Fort Scott. His
parents live in OSwegO.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
bIost Reconnaissance Pastor,

The dedication of the handsome new
Congregational church at Council
Grove calls to mind the fact that the
pastor. Rev. L. Armsby. has served in
that capacity for % years and although
a man over s. years of age he is men
tally and physically strong. He served
as chaplain in a Minnesota regiment
during the civil war.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
There May Be Two Reunions.

The annual state G. A. r. reunion at
Topeka in September may be double
headed affair. Department Commander
Coulter's committee selected the old
fair grounds as the site, which dis
pleased mum Der of pc ple. who threat
ened to hold reunion the same week
in Garfield park
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
IrluOrfalized.

She-Why don't you try and do
something for the good of mankind?
He-What's the use. my name will
live forever.
She-And why?
He-Because it's Jones-PhiiadeI-
phia Press
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Both Are Kansas-Bred.

Great interest is being manifested in
the match race during the Wichita fair
next month between John r. Gentry
and Joe Patchen for purse of s.. 900.
Both horses were bred in Kansas
Gentry at Wichita and Patchen at Pea
body.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Physicians Form a Trust.

In Atchison county the commission
ers invited bids for doctoring the coun-
tvs paupers and when they were
opened it was found they were all for
81, 900, about three times the amount
heretofore paid. The commissioners
rejected the bids and say they will
break up the combine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Critical.

That musical young mans voice is
remarkable for its volume, isn't it ~
remarked Mrs. Blykins.
'Volumei" echoed her husband;
when he gets to telling you what he
knows it's whole library.'-Wash-
irOtou Star
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
WIN Try to Interest Capitalists.

The Wellington Commercial club has
taken steps to interest capitalists in
the immense brick shale deposits lying
along the banks of Slate creek, west
and south of Wellington Experts say
the shale is the finest for vitrified brick
manufacturing in the country.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Win Hold Their Corn

An AtchisOn lum Der salesman says
that /, 900 cars of lumb Der for building
corncribs will be shipped into northern
Kansas this fall. The demand for
lumber has never been so great. The
farmers have money and many of them
will hold their corn.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Arkansas City Woman in Trouble.

Mrs. L. L. Chinn. of Arkansas City,
was arrested by Deputy United States
Marshal Trigg on the charge of send
ing obscene matter through the mails.
She was in correspondence with Jesse
NJ. Lee. free lover, who was arrested
at Ottawa. The arrest came about by
her misdirecting a package containing
obscene pictures and literature to Lee.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
In Dear Old Paris.

Mrs. Lakeside Garcong. garcong.
Observation-Disclosures moi
oh. why don't you walters understand
English?
Waiter (politely)-Why doesn't
madam speak it?-Harper's Bazaar.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
sandow on a Limited Scale.

W. II. Farr, 135-pound man in Os-
borne county, on a wager of $50 carried
$50 pounds of -four on his back three
miles without resting. On a wager of
IS he shouldered 300-pound barrel of
salt and carried it 100 feet with perfect
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Prosperity at GaIena.

Galena, the great Zinc-mining town
In southeastern Kansas. is having a
great building boom. The Interurban
electric railway will extend its line
from Galena to Riceville and Empire
City. With work on a big foundry,
boiler works, a new wholesale grocery,
a large hotel, II big business houses.
so residences and many large mining
plants that are being urged rapidly
forward. Galena bids fair to be one
Of the most important commercial cen
tiers of the southwest.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
They Met Violent Deaths.

Two fatal accidents occurred near
Dlpe, Lyon county, the other day.
Henry Naussen, aged 10. was drowned
while in swimming with young COM
panions. William Grieder, a wealthy
young farmer. was hitching up a
vicious horse when he got too close to
the animals hOofs and the horse kicked
him. the hoof striking him in the breast
near the heart. He died almost in
Stantlv.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Choked His Wife to Death

James Best. of Columbus, choked his
wife to death early the other morning.
Best is mill laborer. % years old He
had been married five years. The
couple had not lived happily for some
time and had separated. but recently
became recOnciled. The old quarrel
was renewed that morning, and, in a
fit of jealousy, Best seized his wife by
the throat and chol1ed her to death
He surrendered to the sheriff and was
hurried out of the county, because of a
fear of mob violence.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
For the Care of the Insane.

During July the following amounts
were paid for keeping the wards of the
state: Topeka state insane asylum,
So, 521.39; Winfield imbecile asylum.
%, sos. AS: Osawatomie insane asylum,
SIS, 596.O1.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
She Had Gone with Another Man.

N y. Mcpherson, 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.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Fortune for a Topeka Lawyer.

John ]. Schenck, a 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 beuueathed
all of her property valued at $50, 600 to
Mr. Schenck
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Awful Charge Against 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 strange
man. Fisher is 4 stranger in the COM
munity and but little is known about
him.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Voted Against the Road Levy.

In Bourbon county the commits
sioners refused to make the two-mill
levy for road Improvement under the
good roads bill passed by the last leg
islature. number of the county's
heaviest taxpayers petitioned for the
levy.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

Gov. Stanley received a cablegram
from Col. Metcalf, of the Twentieth
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-
mentS; Burton J. Mitchell, Of Fort Scott, first
lieutenant; J. @ Tent. second lieutenant; Al
bert H KrauSe, captain; Samuel q. Hopkins
first lieutenant, and Chauncey = Pratt, second
lieutenant
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

The prohibitionists at Lincoln Cen
ter have offered $50 reward for each
conviction of 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
70 S5
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
The Strange Events That Time Brings.

Miss Bessie Messy has been Engaged
to teach in the Cartwright school in
Sedgwick 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.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
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 a
small pumpkin than a tomato.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

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 We're becoming overbearing and
that the white residents We're alarmed
lest serious trouble should break out at
any time.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
Twentieth Kansas Captain Home

Charles NJ. Christy, formerly captain
OF company E. Twentieth Kansas, has
returned to his home at Waverly. Capt
Christy was wounded at CaloOean and
then had smallpox He was in hos
pital at San Francisco several months.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18
EIrht Ear on one stalk.

Henry Ceaser, a Marshall county
farmer, has stalk of corn in his field
upon which are eight good ears and it
promises to produce a peck of good
corn.
May Remain In the Army Permanently .
Congressman Calderhead, just back
from Washington, credits President
Mckinley with the following remark
about Gen. Fred Funston: THAT young
man has a fine army career before
him." This is interpreted to mean that
Gen. Funston will be permanent fix /.
ture in the army.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

POpulists Indorse Striking Miners.
The executive committee of the popu-
list state committee, at 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
lend the strikers financial aid IN their
fight against the coal mine operators
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

OF THE CONCLUSION OF MY ADvEN-
TURE AND THE FALL OF THE CITY
LIKEWISE OF THE STRANGE THING
THAT HAPPENED THEREAFTER
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-08-18

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
great-grandmother of 60. Three of
her sons were 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 90 presidents came and
went and the nation passed through
eight wars
Washington sentinel., 1899-01-14
"a LIAM

ysAcoUNNrEo WITH THE oEooRNPHY OF TIE COUNTRY wus
OBTAIN MUCH INFORMATION FROn OF THIS NAP OF tn
Washington sentinel., 1899-01-14
Iemelad sword for sehley.

The Royal Arcanum, whose member
ship reaches all over the United States
and Canada and numbers about 200, 600,
will present a ieweled sword to Rear
Admiral Winfield Scott Schley, IN
Carnegie Music Hall, 57th and 9TH
avenue, Manhattan. on Friday evening,
January 20 next. Grand Regent Howard
c. Virgins, OF Rome, N Y,willintroduce
the Supreme Regent Of the order, Edison
M Schryver, of Baltimore, who will
preside, and the Grafton of the evening
will be delivered by a member of the
Royal Arcanum, Hon, John Z. Pound,
of Lockport, ~ Y, who is one OF the
noted speakers Of the order. The 23rd
regiment band will furnish the music,
and after the presentation OF the sword
Rear Admiral SchleY will hold an in
formal reception. Senator Mason and
wife, the Governors Of Maryland and
New Jersey and stats, and many other
prominent people will be present.
. The sword is now on exhibition at
Cats Jewelry Store, in this city.
Washington sentinel., 1899-01-14
Law Against "HoochinOo.'' -

The name of fire water in Alaska is
"hoochinoo," and last Monday the
House gave its official sanction to the
word by enacting that no whisky, beer
or "hooChinoo" shall be sold in Alaska.
The wordIndicates place infested with
bears, "hoo" me aiming bear and'Chinoo"
home When the United States laws
established prohibition for Alaska the
natives Of that island began furnishing
a mixture Of rum and molasses, which
has gradually taken the name Of hoo
chinoo.' This is the first legal recog.
milton Of the word and Congress is ahead
OF the dictionary makers.
Washington sentinel., 1899-01-14
Local H4otes.
senator steve Elkins.

Of West Virginia, some day will be q
veryrich man. To-day he is millionalr
but before the end of the century, if his
business affairs glide along as smoothly
nc thew have during the past few years
he will have nothing but money.
II there is a business enterprise ofany
magnitude IN West Virginia in which he
IS not interested the fact has not been
recorded. He owns a town down in his
country-Elkins, w. Va.-and coal
mines, iron mines, railroads, water
works. electric light plants and street
railways are some OF his properties. In
partnership with Dick Kerens, Of St.
Louis, he is interested in gilsonite lands
in the trans Missouri country, gold
mines in New Mexico, silver mines IN
old Mexico and what not.
Washington sentinel., 1899-01-14
LitnrnrY Notes.

The most notable single article in the
January Magazine Number of The Out
look IS one by Governor Theodore
Roosevelt on his former commander,
the original Colonel of the Rough
Riders, General Leonard Wood, who IS
well called in the title OF the article "A
Model American Military Administra-
tor" This article is, we believe, the
only one written for magazine by Col
onel Roosevelt since his return from
the war, with the exception of his ex-
tremely interesting series Cf war articles
now running IN "Scribner's Magazine" 4"
Other features Of interest in the January
Magazine Number are a portrait and
brief sketch Of Maior-General Brooke,
the Military Governor OF Cuba, two
stories; an illustrated, light, and semi
humorous talk about the Senate, under
the title SIN the Seats OF the Mighty"
a readable article on Naval Wives and
Daughters" Dv Miss Annie Paulding
Meade, daughter OF the late Admiral
Meade; and a comprehensive survey OF
The Educational Situation in the
West" by President J. II. Garfield, of
Ohio University. tB5 year. The Out
look Company. New York;
Washington sentinel., 1899-01-14
Chlcnro,s Beer Bnsiness.

During the year 1898 the quantity OF
beer sold in Chicago increased 20 per
cent. The Chicago breweries made over
3 900, 600 barrels, other cities, especially
Milwaukee and St. Louis, sent in 6oo,-
600 barrels, and imported beers sold to
the extent OF $3.50 gallons. Evenly
distributed this amounts to three bar
rels each per year for every man,
woman and child in the city. One glass a
day amounts to one barrel a year; ten
glasses a day to ten barrels a year. The
sum OF money received by the brewers
for the domestic beer, wholesale prices,
averaging the price at S. per barrel,
was SIS, 900 900. If all sold by the glass
(355 glasses) the receipts OF the saloon
keeper for a barrel OF beer would be
$IS IS. At this rate. for 100000 bar
rels the receipts would be large, indeed
-S67, 100000; but, alas, most Of this is
sold by can measure atlittle or no profit
tD the saloon keeper
Internal revenue taxes collected on
beer in Chicago for 1898 amounted to
S4sa7, ,2z6; in 1897, $2,854,269, the large
increase being caused by the additional
beer tax,
The brewing industry in Chicago is a
very extensive one. Chicago brewerIes
do not ship much away Indeed it re-
quires all they make and large supplies
from other cities, as we'll as the imports
to meet the demands IN the city.
There was an increased tendency
among the people toward beer drinking
during the year, and also a leaning
among thinking people toward bottled
beer.
A good percentage of the increase in
beer drinking is credited to the warning
from the City Hall against the lake
water, and the assertion that many of
the softer drinks also contained mis
crobes or germs of fdisease. Admonished
to "boil the water" people realized
that ihe beer was already boiled, and
took to It. It was introduced into the
household more generally than ever
before, women and children making a
common beverage Oft.