Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-11-16
KANSAS NEWS OF RECENT DATE.

Gov. Stanley. Thanksgiving Proclamation. |
In his proclamation designating No
vember 20 as Thanksgiving day, Gov.
Stanley says: kansas has been |
blessed with another fruitful year.
Well-flled granaries, swelling bank |
deposits, increasing herds, intelligent |
wage-earners well employed, growing |
cities, productive farms, happy homes |
and splendid citizenship are substan-
tial evidences of her prosperity. Two !
hundred schoolhouses and many |
churches were builded buring the !
year. These bear witness to the in
terest of our people in intellectual
and moral advancement. An all wise
has bestowed His blessing |
with lavish hand, for which we ought |
to rejoice and be thankful
Total Vote About the Same.
With the exception of one county
gained votes in ev-
cry county in Kansas as compared |
with the vote of 1896. The gains |
range from one in Morton to 1,409 in |
In go Bryan carried 81 |
counties and Mckinley SO. This year
Mckinley carried 81 counties and |
Bryan "a. The changes in the vote |
by counties for Mckinley this year |
over '96 aggregate 1896. The total
vote was about the same, if not a |
little larger, this year than in '96. |
This shows that 1888 Kansans who |
voted for Bryan in go voted for Nc |
Kinley in 1900.
The Farmers Foolish Act.
A farmer in Reno county helped de-
feat the proposition to establish
county high school at Nickerson. His
tax would have been $1.53 per year.
In less than two years he has paid
to the college at that place, in tuition
alone for his daughter, more than |
$40. This amount would have paid
his county high school tax for 26
years, provided taxable property did
not increase in value.
Runaway Kansas Boy Arrested.
Willie Donoho, the 12-year-old son
of w. II. Donoho, judge of the city |
court of the First district of Kansas
City, Kan, who recently ran away |
from home and went to the Pacific |
coast, was arrested at San Francisco
and will be held until his parents
can be communicated with. He was
arrested while asking for ten cents
with which to obtain food.
Home Support of Senator Baker.
The election of four men in Leaven-
worth county who can go into the re-
publican caucus and support Senator
Baker for reelection was largely due
to the non-partisan support the ''Ba-
ker candidates. as they were called, re-
ceived from business men and manu-
facturers. Business men were at the
polls all day and worked for these
candidates.
Learned to Read at Sixty.
An Eldorado paper says a local char
acter named Uncle Spain, who is II
years old, was converted ten years ago
and Immediately took up the study
of the Bible. When he began he could
not read a word, but by persistent
effort he has succeeded in reading it
through 81 times and is more than
half through it the fifty-second time.
Twice the Price of His Land.
Frank Gilbert, near Gaylord, this
year raised four crops of alfalfa that
averaged ton and half per acre
for each crop. The four cops brought
$33 per acre, or almost twice. what
he could sell his land for.
Spaneler to Act as Chancellor.
The board of regents of the Kansas
university appointed w. c. Sprangler
to be the executive agent of the board
in the absence of Chancellor Snow,
who has been granted a years leave
of absence.
The Field Against Burton.
The question, "Who will be the next
United States senator from eKansas?'
will be settled within the next ten
days. 1t is j.. r. Burton against the
field, and the whole field to beat Bur
ton.
Capper Not the Race.
w. Y. Morgan seems to have cinch
on the office of state printer. Arthur
been mentioned for the place, said
that he would not be a candidate.
The Youngest Kansas Senator.
Louis n. Wulfekuhler, republican
senator-elect from Leavenworth coun-
ty, is only 25 years old. He is the
Youngest man ever chosen to the Kan
sas senate.
Got Every County But One.
Congressman Calderhead (rep.) car
fied every county except Clay in the
Fifth district over w. d. Vincent.
Calderhead's majority is about 5000.
Conere.sman Miller Has $500 Ms jn-ity.
J. M. Miller, republican congress