Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-11-23

Young Kansas Hero.
In a heroic fight to save a young
girl named Sarah Gear, Jim Downs :.
was struck by a runaway team near
Cedarvale and instantly killed. Miss
Gear was driving along the road three
miles west of town when her team
started to run away. Downs tried to
stop the horses by. throwing himself
in front of them, but was struck by
the buggy tongue, which pierced his
body through and through. The girl
was thrown from the buggy by the
collision, but escaped with slight
bruises.
Mother and Daughter Convicted.
In the United States court at Fort
Scott Mrs. Mary E. Deeds and her
daughter, Mrs. Nancy NJ. Wright.
pleaded guilty to making false claims
in a pension case, and were fined ST.
900 each. Mrs. Deeds crime consisted
in signing her name Deeds" to a.
pension claim after marrying a man
20 years ago, with whom she never
lived. The daughter was an accom-
plice in having signed her mothers
affidavit.
Talk of State Salt Plant
The recent jump in the price of salt
has caused talk of establishing salt
plant at the Hutchinson state reform
atory to be operated by the prisoners
as the binding Irvine plant is operated
by penitentiary convicts at Lansing.
Gov. Stanley said that he would favor
anything designed to break the mo-
nopoly of trust, but at the same
time he questioned the wisdom of the
state going into SO many qenter-
prises.
Prohibition and Socialist Vote
The socialist ticket polled about L.
500 votes in Kansas November 6.
Crawford gave Debs ITO, Shawnee Sc
and Dickinson 60. Prohibitionists
polled about the same number as they
| did four years ago-1,500. Sedgwick
county cast the highest vote this year,
| 155, while in three other counties only
did the figures exceed 100.
Great Cattle shipping Point.
Elgin, Chautauqua county, with 300
population, is the largest cattle ship
ping point in the world. During the
shipping season, from June to Deem
Der of each year, an average of $50
cars of cattle a day are shipped from
that place.
| Soldiers Vote Will Settle Il
In Smith county a republican and
a democrat laid a wager on the re-
suit of the election in a certain town
ship. The vote was a tie, but the
township has one soldier in the Phil
ippines whose vote, if cast, will settle
it.
Son Of . Former Aechison Shoemaker.
c. H. Dietrich, governor-elect q Ne
braska on the republican ticket, is
the son of shoemaker in Atchison
in the early days. The senior Diet
rich was also the first teacher in the
Atchison German Lutheran schools.
Grain Inspection on Paying Basil.
State Grain Inspector Mckenzie last
week turned $4,151 into the state
treasury. This was collected in fees
during October. 1t wiped out the old
deficiency and left 1913 to the credit
of the inspection department.
| Corn In Too Scarce.
The sheep feeding which has been
done at Solomon for several years will
not be undertaken this year, owing to
the high price of corn and the scarcity
of the local supply.
Adjunct to State Temperance Union. :
The Twentieth Century Total Absti-
hence union, lately formed as an adj
junct to the state temperance union,
is growing. 1t has organizations in
121 KANSAS towns.
Deed OF Trust Law.
In the coming session of the Kansas
legislature an effort will be made to
secure the enactment of deed of
trust law similar in many of its pro-
visions to the existing Missouri law.
EnrolIms.e Of Kansas Schools
: The total enrolment of the public
was 369, $50, as compared to 3s1, 500
$50.
Electric Power Too Expensive.
The Lee Warren mill, at Salina,
which has been operated by electric
power, will be run hereafter by steam,
, as electricity is too expensive.
Young Woman Tired of Life.
Miss Emma Stevens. aged 21 years,
committed suicide at the home of her
father, a well-known German farmer,
= ten miles west of Salina.
). Stock Ranch Of s,7eo Acres.
n c. A. Allen, of Chicago. is nego-
tiating for SO quarter sections of land
in Greeley and Wichita counties for a
4 or