Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-31
Attest Kansas Events.

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Coxvley and the Candidates.
Cowley county is entitled to the
banner for supplying candidates for
state and district officers this year. |
1t has nine candidates for state and |
district offices. They follow: Judge |
j. C. Pollock, of Winfield, republican
nominee for judge of the supreme |
court; C. r. Mitchell, of Gueda, So
cialist nominee for judge of the SUI |
pre-ne court; j. d. Botkin, of Win |
field, democratic nominee for con- |
gressman-at-large; A. NJ. Jackson, of |
Winfield democratic nominee for con- |
gress in the Third district; Luella |
r. Kraybil1, of Winfield, socialist |
nominee for state superintendent of
schools; E. +. Green, of Arkansas
City, populist nominee for secretary
of state; Samuel Gould, of Arkansas
City, prohibition nominee for state
auditor; G. L. Swarts, of Arkansas
City, republican nominee for judge of
the Cowley-Sumner district; G. L.
Brown, of Arkansas City, socialist
nominee for judge of the Cowley
Sumner district.
QuarreIed Over Line Fence.
After an exciting trial at Osborne,
Homer L. Beck was acquitted of the
murder of L. B. Foster near Alton.
Many witnesses were examined, but
the on1y>account of the shooting was
given by Beck. Foster and Beck quar-
relied over a line fence dividing their
farms. Beck was working on the fence
when Foster came up on a horse.
He was carrying a shotgun. When
within 40 yards Foster dismounted
and took aim at Beck. Beck imme-
diately discharged both barrels of a
shotgun which he had taken with him
to work.
They Fought Rees for Judge.
The Farmers Cooperative Grain
& Live Stock association took hand
in the political game in the Thir-
tieth judicial district, where r. r.
Rees was nominated for judge by
the republicans. The members of the
association charge Rees with being
an attorney for the grain trust, and
say that he did all in his power to
break up the Farmers association
when it was struggling two years
ago to effect an organization.
Kansas Is Interested.
Kansas takes a lively interest in
that Indictment brought by the fed
eral grand jury in Iowa against an
express company, alleging a viola
stion of the revenue laws by the c.
o. d. metho' of handling liquor ship
ments. The C. o. D. play is an i'm
portant factor in supplying the
thirsty of Kansas with their wet
goods.
Hutchinson's Heightened Wedding.
Leland Stanford Stillman, a mem
Der of a leading law firm of New York
city, was married at Hutchinson to
Miss Ada Latimer, a niece of Mrs.
Houston Whiteside, of Hutchinson.
Stillman is nephew of the late SEN
ator Leland Stanford, of California,
for whom he is named, and son of
James Stillman, the multi-millionaire
banker of New York.
GriswoId for Episcopal Bishop.
Rev. Sheldon Munson Griswo1d, rec
tor of Christ church at Hudson, N.
y, in the diocese of Albany, was
elected missionary bishop of Salina,
Griswold is Al years old, and is a
: graduate of Union college, at Schen-
ectady, N. Y, and of the General
Theological seminary.
Piano from Helen Gould.
The Y. NJ. C. A. at Coffeyville will
receive a fine piano from Miss Helen
Gould, she having promised to make
the gift when the association reached
membership of 500. That member
ship was reached last week. The
membership is composed largely of
Missouri Pacific railroad men.
They'll Meet Together.
A joint session of the Kansas Asso-
citation of Charities and Correction
and the Kansas Society for the
Friendless will be held at Lawrence,
November 10, 20 and 21. To a GER
tain extent these two societies have
common interests and to quite
@ degree, have the same workers.
The Orient I'm Sumner County.
The board of county commissioners
CT Sumner county granted the appli-
cation for a commission to appraise
and condemn the right of way
through Sumner county for the ORR
ent railroad. The survey passes
county sls miles.
Ixansans Were Outw Shed
The football game at Madison,
Wis, between the universities of Kan