Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-03-08


voted to hold the 1902 session at Fort
Scott. George II. Lamb, of Yates
Center, was elected grand master
workman; NJ. b. Light, of Winfield,
grand receiver; e. NJ. Forde of EN-
poria, grand recorder; DIR. George n.
Brown, of Chanute, grand medical ex-
aminer. The grand master work.
man was authorized to expend 81 900
for the printing of leaflets to furnish
information to persons not members
of the order, as to the benefits fol-
lowing membership therein. The
good of the order committee recon-
mended the holding of annual county
A. o. U. w. picnics and the forming
of associations of county lodges Tor
such purposes.
Forbes Married q Negro Girl.
JOHN w. Forbes, brother of Will
liam G.. Forbes, who applied the
match to the pile that burned to
death the negro, Fred Alexander, at
Leavenworth short time ago, mar
rined Tennessee Holt, negro girl, at
Leavenworth last week. It was the
niece of the groom, Pearl Forbes, who
was found murdered one morning.
others, Alexander was burned at the
stake. John w. Forbes did not aid
in the burning.
To Fight for the British.
w. B. Leicester, of Manhattan, re-
ceived commission in the English
army through authorities at Cape
Town and left Immediately for the
Transvaal, where he will be captain
of a troop of irregular cavalry. Maj.
Leicester was in the Twenty-second
Kansas in the Spanish-Amcrican war
and is now major of the First regi-
ment, X. N. G. He has been granted
years leave of absence to cross the
water for Cape Colony service.
Growth of the State Grange.
The recent meeting of the Kansas
State Grange developed that there
were A oranges in the state, with a
membership of 1884; cash balance ir
the treasury, 81, 125.3O. The largest
grange in the state is at Cadmus.
Linn county, with 237 members, and
Hurricane grange, Usage county,
made the largest gain during the last
year, towit, 60 members.-Topeka Mail
and Breeze.
Wholesale Liquor Dealer Quits.
AS result of the prohibition agi-
tation in Kansas, j. C. Stevens, of
Salina, one of the big wholesale deal
ers in the state, announces that he
will close out his present business and
open a wholesale drug house in Sa-
lima. All attempts to enforce the pro-
hibitory law against Stevens in the
past have been unsuccessful.
Albaugh Names His Deputies.
Morton Albaugh, who succeeds John
w. Breidenthal as state bank commits
sioner, has named his assistants as
mer, of Republic, and Eugene Davis,
S. Albright, of Leavenworth and S.
p. Moore, of Douglas; stenographer,
Miss Anna Speck, of Lyon.
Married at Long Range.
Mrs. M. E. Peterson and John Rus
sell, quarantined in the formers
house at Parsons on account of small
pox, decided to get married and called
q preacher. He "tied the knot" while
standing so feet away from the cou-
ple,- who stood at an open window.
shouting the ceremony from the side
walk.
No Prosecution In Hudson Case.
At the inquest over the body of Mrs.
Rosa Hudson, who was killed in the
joint raid at Wildwood, Leavenworth
county, the jury returned a verdict
that the shot was fired by persons
unknown to them. No attempt was
made to bring out who the raiders
were.
Killed Her Son-in-LAw.
Mrs. John Campbell, wife of
wealthy farmer of Smith county,
killed her son-in-law, Hubert Day, as
he was entering her house after she
had warned him not to. Day mar
>ried Mrs. Campbelrs only daughter a
year. ago but they separated several
weeks ago.
Gov. stanley's New Private secretary.s
Gov. Stanley's new private secre-
tary will be Clyde Miller. of OsaRr
City. He Is a young man. recently
graduated from the state university
and is son Of States Senator Miller.
He was chairman of the republican
campaign committee of Usage county
last year.
An Awful Warning to Others.
The Conway Springs Star announces
the first death from smallpox in that
vicinity and says that the man con
tracted the disease while playing
seven-up in local joint.
School-Teacher for 81 Years.
The oldest school-teacher in Kansas
il said to be w. W. Walker. of Sheri-
dan county, who has been teaching