Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-02-08
Minor State News.

cameron, MO-, several years ago.
Minor State News.
A stock company mas been organized
to build $4,000 hotel at lola. C.. w.
Goodlander, of Fort Scott, will lease
it.
Farmer A. w. Smith, of McPher-
son, wants to succeed Cyrus Leland
as pension agent at Topeka. Smith has
been in Washington several days.
Rev. George Caldwell, pastor of the
United Brethren church at Salina,
was badly burned from the explo-
sion of gasoline lamp in barber
shop.
| Mark Powers, deaf mute, was
hurled 30 feet in the air by a Santa
Fee train four miles from Wichita.
Strange to say, not a bone was broken
but physicians said he was injured in
ternally and could not live.
George White, aged S3, one of tn:
old settlers of Saline county, died
from the effects of taking laudanum
by mistake. Mr.. White was the old.
est member of the uniform rank,
Knights of Pythias, in the world.
The secretary of war acted adj
versely on the petition of citizens of
Baxter Springs for the government to
| contruct macadam road from town
to the cemetery, on the ground that
| it was not national cemetery.
A thief stole $3.50 span of horses
from a hitchrack at Oxford the other
| night. Sumner county offers a re-
ward of $50 for the thief and the an
ti-horsethief association offers 500.
Those Kansans who desire to place
| orders for any quantity of Russian
| seed wheat must do so at once by
communicating with B. Warkentin at
Newton. The choicest seed wheat
| sacked and delivered at one of the
| seaports in the Crimea will cost $125
per bushe1.
| Kansas has taken first prize again.
It is announced in a Manila paper
that a Kansas soldier boy, who had
his girl follow him over to marry. is
father of bouncing boy-"the first
instance of the sort,'' says the Manila
| paper, "that has taken place on the
island."-Kanass City Journal.
In saloon fight at Bruce, two
miles west of Cherokee, a man named
Kelley was killed by bartender,
John Switzer. Kelley demanded
drinks for himself and his crowd.
When they were refused Kelley threw
a chair at Switzer, who promptly shot
Kelley dead.
The twenty-third annual session OF
the Kansas grand lodge of the An
cient Order of United Workmen will
meet in Leavenworth February Is, &c,
% and %. There will be receptions
and balls and to the latter none but
members of the A o. q. W. and their
friends viii be admitted. Tickets ars
not being sold to anyone and admis-
sion is free.
This dispatch came recently from
Washington city: In connection with
the presentation of another gavel to
Speaker Henderson, it was announced
that Mrs. Carrie Nation and the ladies
of the w. C. T. u. of Kansas are pre-
pairing to present the speaker with q
gayel made of the wood from the
first bar in Kansas which was demol
ished by Mrs. Nation in her famous
crusade on the saloons.
Two of Senator McMillan's bills
were killed by the senate railroad
\ committee-one to prohibit the is
suance of passes by railroads and the
other to create the position of STATE
auditor of railroads.
i A bill has been introduced in the
legislature to enable the county com
missioners Of Allen county to levy Z
direct tax of not more than 2k mills
on the dollar to raise funds to build
q new courthouse at lola.
George Greenhow, q dish-washer II
an Ottawa restaurant. received NOTES
the other day that he had been grant
ed pension with $1,ooo back pay.