Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-01-05
A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS.
state Teachers Association.

State Teachers Association.
The annual meeting of theKansas
State Teachers association at Topeka
last week was the largest attended of
any ever held. Jewel county was
awarded the silk flag for the largest
mileage travelled and Fort Scott Sc
cured a collection of books for being
the city of the first class having the
largest number of teachers present.
The G. A. r. made fight for a reso-
luton denouncing Taylor's school
history, but it was suppressed.
Among the resolutions adopted were:
For school exhibition at Paris;
for compulsory educational law;
for manual training department in
the reform school; for an equitable
distributor of school funds to rural
districts; renewed diligence in the
teaching of the evil effects of alcohol
on the human system.
Buyer Made His Own Price.
Saturday, December %, Walter
Sharits, a clothing merchant of Yates
Center, deserted his wife and family
and left town. A Chicago firm had
a mortgage on the stock and fore
closure was imminent. Sharits' sons
declared a special sale and all day
Sunday and Monday the store was
crowded by people, many coming 20
miles to get bargains. Four-dollar
shoes sold for 81, SIS suits went for
So. The buyer made his own price.
Nearly the whole stock was disposed
of in the great rush. The creditors
stood helplessly by, for Sunday and
Christmas were both legal holidays
and no steps could be taken to stop
the sale. The creditors took charge
of the stock Tuesday morning.
He Favors the Bill.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal is
heartily in favor of the bill intro
-duced recently in congress by Con-
gressman-at-Large Bailey amending
the war revenue law so as to equalize
the tax on banks, and says that all
the small bankers in the country
should use their influence to secure
its passage. The bill provides that
banks employing capital not to ex-
coed $1,000 shall pay $40 tax, and the
banks employing greater capital
shall pay So tax for each additional
$1,000. The present law fixes the
minimum at $50.
Sets Up n Unique Answer.
The city of Mcpherson is torn up
over the unique answer filed by one of
its prominent citizens to his wife's
petition for divorce. The husbands
answer is that at the time CT the mar
riage he obtained his license, beau
tiful marriage certificate and the GER
emory uniting them, on credit, and
still owes for them, he is not legally
united to the woman, and prays her
petition for divorce be dismissed on
these grounds.
Found Dead In His Store.
At Hutchinson Christmas day a
family reunion was arranged at the
home of J. FL. F. Plate, a wealthy
merchant. When the relatives had all
gathered, Mr.. Plate was sent for, but
he was found dead in his store, a
suicide. No cause was known for the
act. Previous to taking his life Plate
sent box home which contained a
big roll of money and statement
that all debts were paid.
A Santa Claus Clothes Burned.
At a Christmas tree entertainment
near Atchison Perry Lucy, acting as
Santa Claus, wore suit covered with
cotton, which caught on fire. Lucy
rushed, his clothes in a blaze, into
the frantic audience and panic re
suited. Lucy was dangerously burned
about the face, and Henry Nestler, {
farmer, and John Heffiefinger, &
teacher, and child were also burned
The Bank Finally Won Out.
District Judge Bland, of Atchison
set aside a jury verdict in favor o.
Of ho LOT.
Senator John NJ. Price. She sued tn,
First National bank to set aside mort
cages to the extent of $4,000 given b.
her husband in 1894, on the GROUND
that her husband was of unsounC
mind, and was also unduly inhuencet
when he gave the mortgages.
Southern Cattle shut Out.
The Kansas live stock sanitar.
commission issued bulletin shutting
out all cattle except for immediate
slaughter, from the south of tn
quarantine line, after January 1. o.
that date all of the inspectors aloni
the line were discharged.
Negro Preacher Arrested.
Rev. Robert Cole, negro preache
who says he had expounded the gos
pei in Kansas and Oklahoma for 1
years, was arrested for stealing
horse in Hiawatha after the close o
a revival service and selling it in 81
Joseph, Mo.
Want the Mayor Ousted.
The joint war at Arkansas City ha
reached that stage where the ten
perance element has asked the attol
ney general to bring proceedings t
remove Mayor Hess, who IS accuse
of being in league with the jointists
Suffoeated by Cs.al Gas