Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1899-11-17
A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS.
The occasion Deve1oped a Hero.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS nNHNE
The Occasion Developed 3 Hero.
at the village OF Catharine, in Ellis
county, a catastrophe resulted in bring
ing forth hero whose name is worthy
of enrolment among the best and
greatest. Paul Meis went down into
his fathers well after a fallen bucket
He was overcome by the gas and be-
came unconscious. William Pelzel
bravely went down after Meis, and he
in turn succumbed to the deadly vapor.
Then Paul Keoner went down after the
other two and met similar fate, and
this was the situation when Henry
Karlin arrived on the scene. Without
a moments hesitation Karlin had a
rope tied beneath his arms and silk
handkerchief over his face, and he was
then lowered in the well carrying an
extra rope. Reaching the bottom he
hastily tied the loose rope around the
leg of a man and the man was hoisted
to the surface. Twice this operation
was repeated, and then Karlin was
hauled out, he having become uncon-
scious just as he finished tying the rope
on the last man. All four remained
unconscious for a long time, but doc
tors finally succeeded in bringing them
around. Neither Peizel nor Keoner
knew the danger they were going into,
as they had never heard of water gas,
but Karlin did; and he took the chances
like hero.-Kansas City Journal
Nine Judges Were Elected.
In Wyandotte county W. G. Holt
(rep.) was elected judge of the common
pleas court and E. L. Fischer Gusion)
defeated Judge Henry L. Alden for the
district judgeship. In the Jefferson
Jackson district the republican vote
was divided between Hurrell and john
son, and Marshall Gephart ffusion) was
elected. w. S. Glass (fusion) won in
the Marshall-Riley-Cl district. Re-
publicans elected .. L. Moore in the
Dickinson Morris Marion Geary dis
trict, Walter l.. Simons in the Linn
Bourbon-Crawford district, L. Still
well in the Sho-Woodson-Allen dis
trict and M. P. Simpson in the Harvey
Reno-McPherson district. In the Sedg-
wick county district Judge Dale flu
sion) was reelected.
Seventy-Nine "Life" Men in Kansas.
Four chang" men were received at
the penitentiary last week. Two of
them were sent up from Alma for kill
ing Harry Tandy, and the other two
were sent up from Chautauqua county
for Staying the city marshal of Sedan
recently. This makes 81 hang men
now in prison. None of them will be
hanged, however, as the custom in Kan
sas is to let them serve life sentences.
Outside of these, there are % men in
prison who were sentenced by the
courts to life imprisonment.
Rroupbt R.cl. Without a Statn
Maj. Martin and company F, Twenti-
eth Kansas regiment, publicly returned
to the Christian young people and the
Y. M. c. A. of Fort Scott a large silk
flag which was presented to the COM
pany by the societies nearly two years
ago. The flag was carried through the
81 engagements in which the company
participated in the Philippines and was
formally returned to the givers in the
presence of large gathering of people
with imposing ceremonies
Partial to RepublicanIsm.
At the election for county officers on
the 18th the following counties elected
republicans almost entirely: Shawnee,
Douglas, Jackson, Reno, Usage, Wyan-
dotte, Atchison, Cowley, Johnson,
Woodson, Barber, Doniphan, Os-
borne. Riley, Mcpherson, Lincoln,
Chautauqua, Stanton. Harvey, Marion,
Lyon, Norris, Russell. Brown. Sheri-
dan, Jefferson, Allen, Elk and Meade.
Postmaster at Thayer Arrested.
Thomas McNulty, postmaster at
Thayer. was arrested by Post Office In
spector Stice, charged with being $3.50
short in accounts with the government.
Mr.. McNulty is a prominent man of
ThaUnr nd nH W he
just met his son upon his return from
the Philippines with the Twentieth
Kansas and attended the double we'd
ding of his two daughters
Divided the Spells of ONCE.
The following coun ties, among others
elected officers in the 9TH from both
political parties: Mitchell, Crawford,
Nemaha, Phillips, Smith, Washington,
Marshall, Sedgwick, Anderson. Dickin-
son, Clay. Butler, Montgomery, Frank
lin, Ottawa, Geary, Linn. Miami. Neo-
sho, Pratt, Cloud, Sherman, Saline,
Greenwood, Harper and Ford.
Serious Wreck Near Abilene.
D. A. HunnewelI, of Seneca, was IA
tally injured and C. A. Blair, of Solo
mon, seriously hurt, leg broken and
badly scalded in rear-end collision of
Two Union racine ITeiShIS III IHe log
east of Abilene. Two engines, ca
boose and one car were wrecked. Hun
newell was scalded by steam and his
skull fractured.
Fusionists Carried These.
Among the counties that elected fu-
sion tickets almost throughout on the
9TH were these: Cherokee. Bourbon,
Jewell, Rawlins, Leaven worth, Sum-
ner. Pawnee, Labette, Wilson, Chase,
Kingman and Wabaunsee.
Soldier In Trouble at Abilene.
A hiIona in a 111arrel oyer family