Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-12-28
Minor State News.

c. E. Braley, of Atchison, has "a
relatives who are Catholic priests.
The census developed that Fort
Scott has 397 more women than men.
State Treasurer Grimes is getting
up a 100000 bond for the second
term.
The addition to the federal build
ing at Topeka will be completed in
March.
A carload of fulIblood Hereford
cattle was burned on Katy freight
train just south of Burlington. The
car was next to the engine and caught
fire from a spark.
A strong effort will be made at
the coming session of the legislature
to pass a law prohibiting the opera
ton of private banks. There are now
81 such banks in the state.
The two girls who were arrested at
the Beloit industrial school for girls
for setting fire to the school were re-
leased from prison last week and then
dismissed from the school.
Representative Long, of Kansas, APP
peared before the house committee
on public buildings and made a state
| ment in hebalf of his bill to appro-
pirate 100000 for the erection of q
public building at Hutchinson.
T. A. McNeal, of the Topeka Mail
| and Breeze, who was an announced
republican candidate for United States
senator, has withdrawn from the race.
He says the only candidates who will
| be balloted for are Baker and Burton.
In Montgomery county a county
4 avnr0 n
| for the purpose of inducing eastern
| capital to locate in the gas fields OF
that county. The club embraces In
| dependence, Coffeyville and Cherry
| vale.
A delegation of building and loan
| men called on Gov. Stanley and urged
| that the next bank commissioner, Mr..
Albaugh, appoint practical building
and loan man as one of his deputies.
The governor said he believed this
would be done.
Secretary Coburn, of the state board
of agriculture, has issued quarterly
devoted to dairying in Kansas. This
report is intended to contain as con-
cisely as possible the latest and best
information bearing upon the COW
and her product and their profitable
management to date.
The question as to whether there
shall be created the position of state
pension agent to look after the in
terests of the Kansas soldiers is now
up to the old soldiers themselves
Gov. Stanley is willing to incorporate
such a recommendation in his mes
sage providing the soldiers want it.
Deputy United States Marshal Fred
Trigg served papers on the city Off.
GERS of Medicine Lodge to compel
the payment of $1,000 interest on $15,.
600 water works bonds. The order OF
the court is that special tax levy
shall be made to secure the sum in
controversy. The counter claim il
/ made that it is impossible to secure
the money. The proceedings may re-
suit in the sale of the water works
plant.
An Anderson county man claims
he raised 40 bushels to the acre o1
peanuts last year, and an Abilene mar
claims he cleared $1,000 on roasted
peanuts.
The Kansas commissioners of the
Buffalo exposition have formulated
bill providing for an appropriation
of $50, 1000 to be used in fixing up {
Kansas exhibit.
An anti-joint crusade was started
in Dickinson county, the temperance
people asking injunctions against
men owning property in which joints
are operated Abilene joints an
closed, the first time in years