Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-09-05
Latest Kansas Events.
Troubles of the Billing. Family.

Troubles of the Billings Family.
Recently the farmhouse of d. r.
Billings. near Glen Elder, was struck
by lightning. All of the inmates were
more or less affected. One girl was
killed outright and another was SO
badly burned that she died a few
days later. Tragedy hovers about
the house of Billings. 4 few years
ago the family went to the celebra-
ton at Downs, leaving one of the
daughters at home. The girl re-
manned behind because she had no
suitable dress to wear. When the
family returned they found her hang
ing dead by the neck, and evidently
she had committed suicide.-kansas
City Journal.
Measuring the sIarais Des CyEnes.
The federal government has es-
tablished a gauging station at Otta-
wa to gauge the amount of water
that passes down the Marais des
Cygnes river each year. Thousands
of gallons of water run off every year.
The time is coming when all this
water will be saved for irrigation.
huge canals and reservoirs but until
the rivers are tested little can be
known of the necessary capacity of
the intended reservoirs. Kansas has
IL stations.
This Is Prairie Chicken Time.
In Kansas prairie chicken may be.
killed between August Is and October
1; doves and plover, between July Is
and September Is, and quail in the
month of December. 1t is unlawful
to kill. at any time, partridge, grouse,
pheasants, meadow larks, robins,
thrush, red birds, bluejays, turtle
doves, blue birds or orioles, except
that the owners of orchards may,
for the protection of such orchards,
kill orioles and bluejays at any time
Alfalfa as a Money Maker.
Alva Crandel, a farmer near Little
River, has 80 acres of alfalfa. He
let the second crop go to seed and it
made four bushels to the acre, or
$50 bushels, which is worth SO per
bushel, or 5000. or $40 per acre. He
will get two cuttings of hay, which
will make him about 200 tons of hay,
worth SIS per ton, or $1,000, a total
of Sc, 20O-this on land which was
bought few years ago for less thar
SO per acre.
To Bar Dealers in Tax Deeds.
In many counties of the state the
county commissioners will take ad-
vantage of the law and bar dealers
in tax deeds from the September
sales. One provision of the act gives
the county the right to take in all
real estate upon which taxes are de-
linquent, and thereafter, until re-
demption by the owners, the invest
ment draws Is per cent. interest.
Col. Anthony Prefers Charges.
Col. D. II. Anthony, editor of the
Leavenworth Times, has sent a letter
to the post office department COM
planning that the assistant postmas-
ter at Topeka, j. K. Rodgers, is
treasurer of the republican club and
is taking an active part in the cam
paign in the interests of Congress-
man Curtis candidacy for the United
States senate.
Unique Political Convention.
The Kansas City Journal calls at
tention to perhaps the most unique
political convention ever held in Kan
sas. In Gray county the republican
convention for the nomination Of
county officers was composed of Is
delegates, of whom named the en-
tire ticket of u officials.
Grain Stacks are Green.
a dispatch from Emporia said:
Wheat and rye that has been stacked
is in a bad way. The wet weather has
caused the grain to grow as far
down as the water reached. Many
Of the stacks look like huge green
mounds in the middle of the fields.
His Plea Didn't Go.
Charles and James Monnett are
in Jail at Salina charged with rob-
bing a residence. Charles in order
to clear Lewis, who is married, tes-
tilted that he (Charles) had commit
ted the burglary. but the officers
wouldn't believe him.
Jumped from Fast Moving Train.
Harold Pierce, arrested for forgery
at Sylvia, leaped from a train near
Partridge while it was going 40 miles
an hour. No trace of the fugitive has
yet been found.
Rev. LoSther q Socialist.
Rev. Granville LOwther, who waA
dismissed from the Methodist church
and ministry for his peculiar re-
ligious views, is now delivering So
cialist speeches.
EIopers Sent Back Home.
Arthur Jones, aged %, and Daisy