Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1901-03-01
KANSAS NEWS OF RECENT DATE.
1t Goes Marching On.

| The sum total of the raid was 20 bar
| rels of whisky, 60 kegs of beer and 20
cases of beer turned into the street
and 81 900 worth of fixtures destroyed.
A cheering crowd followed the cru
saders from place to place Fifteen
| masked women, on a liquor crusade.
broke into the Central Branch rail-
| road depot at COTS, Nemaha county,
| and destroyed Is gallons OF whisky
and four kegs of beer found there.
The liquor was poured out upon the
platform. The w. C. T. U. meeting at
Lawrence had the desired effect on
| the police, as they raided two joints
| and caught one of the jointists,
| negress named Nancy Hawkins. There
| was a free-for-all fight at Beloit re.
sulting from the feeling over the
closing of the joints. The temperance
men and women insisted on making
an inspection of the places to see if
their orders regarding closing haG
been observed. Soon an alarm of fire
was sounded and hose cart dashed
up and commenced throwing water
on the crowd. Some men attempted
| to cut the hose, but were prevented
by a display of revolvers. At Arkan-
sas City at four o'clock in the morn
| ing Is men went across the Arkansas
| river to a place known as the Last
| Chance" and with hatchets, axes and
clubs broke every piece of furniture
| in the place. The ice box was chopped
open and every bottle inside was
| broken. At Peck, a small place in
| Sedgwick county, Il miles south of
Wichita, 100 men, women, boys and
girls made a raid on two joints and
poS-
refused, they completely smashed the
depot platform in whole condition.
The goods were shipped to Wichita.
Crusaders Broke Down the Door.
twenty-five or 80 men and women
from Thompsonville, Perry and the
| vicinity of Newman, armed with
hatchets and axes, made a raid on the
| joints at Newman, 10 miles east of
Topeka, on the Union Pacific. The
building in which the joint was kept
was locked. The jointkeeper forbade
their entrance, but they disregarded
him and broke in the door. They then
proceeded to completely demolish the
fine cherry bar and all the fixtures.
Short work was made of the hand
some plate glass mirror.
| Merchant Charged with Arson.
L. M. Peoples, a merchant of Ham.
ilton, Greenwood county, is under ar
rest charged with setting fire to ::
store building last November and
burning up nearly all the business
part of Hamilton. Frank Mitchell is
also under arrest charged with COM
plicity. It is alleged that Mitchell saw
Peoples starting the fire and left the
country for a time in consideration
| of certain sum of money.
To Change Name Of Asylums.
| The house committee on charitable
institutions favors changing the
names Of the state asylums to hos
pitfalls and fixing the pay of members
of the board of trustees at $4,000
year without expenses. The board will
be authorized to raise the pay of SUI
perintendents of hospitals from 81 500
to $4,000 a year.
Backed by Women with Hatchets.
The principal churches of Emporie
have agreed upon a plan to suppress
the joints. A committee of ten men
from each of the churches has been
appointed, with orders to have the
joints closed within few days The
women have organized and stand
ready to do Ratchet execution if il
is needed.
Bin Affecting Child Labor.
Representative Hoag's bill to pro-
hibit child labor in packing houses.
{ factories and mines, amended so as to
permit their employment in vacation.
and exempting district messenger
boys, has been recommended for pas
sage in the house.
Warnings Were SUFFICIENT.
The temperance women OF O1pe,
south of Emporia, called on three
jointkeepers and demanded that they
close their places. They closed up
Cottonwood Falls the same policy was
4 pursued.
Four from Medicine Lodge.
The Hutchinson News cites four
Medicine Lodge people who have ar
rived at national prominence-Jerry
Simpson, Chester I. Long, Tom Nc
Neal nd Carrie Nation.
Paid 100000 to Veterans.
The 2,40O soldiers at the national
home in Leavenworth county were
paid Friday and Saturday. It took
$102,000 to cash the regular quarterly
vouchers.
Kansau Robbed Away from Home.
j. E. Mason, of Stillwell, was robbed
by man and two women at Seventh
and Central streets, Kansas City, Mo-.
OF $40. Two suspects were arrested.
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