Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-08-07

EMS County Paws On.

Ellis County Pays Up.
State Treasurer T. T. Kelly has re-
ceived a draft from the county treas
urer Of Ellis for $50S-1S in payment OF
the seed grain account of the state
against Ellis county. In 1891 the Leg
isiature appropriated $50 900 for the
purchase of seed for the relief of the
settlers in the drought stricken por-
tons OF western Kansas In 1895
an additional appropriation of $780,
600 was made for the same purpose
The counties agreed to purchase seed
grain for the settlers. take their notes,
and return the money to the state at
the end of five years The accounts
were for the most part paid up at their
maturity, but some OF the counties
have been delinquent in their payments
so that there is yet outstanding
about $4,000.
Was Posing n Preacher.
J. H. Hendricks, who was sentencea
from Atchison to the Kansas reform
atOry at Hutchinson in June, but who
jumped through window in g train
and escaped June IA while being taken
to prison, was captured at. Moberiy.
Mo-, and taken to Hutchinson. Hen
bricks, who poses as a preacher. was
going under the name of Rev John
Bailey when captured. He had several
hundred dollars worth of jewelry on
his person, which he had stolen after
his escape.
Defiant Indian Doctor.
The state medical board has notified
an Indian" doctor at Fort Scott that
he must quit practicing medicine or he
will be arrested. The doctor responds
as follows: 81 defy you or anyone
else to prove single case where my
medicine ever killed a person. You
have no right to throw me out of the
practice unless You can prove it, and
intend to fight in\the courts,
Paid for State Prison Land
The state has paid SIS 900 far tn.
Green land adjoining the state peni-
Tertiary at Lansing, as auth orizeds by
the last Legislature By the purchase
of the land the extension of the peni-
Tertiary mine under Staiger's island Is
made possible and the construction OF
a new shaft on the island, which
would be an expensive undertaking.
obviated.
Twenty-One Gave to Sufferers.
With only six exceptions the 164
members of the legislature drew pay
for the extra session, but 81 of these
turned their salaries and mileage over
to the flood sufferers. The six who
did not ask for their vouchers ara
Senators Fulton, Ward and Wulfe-
kuhler and Representatives Belts
Cfr1hhS md
C.. a. r. Flood Relief.
Department Commander A w. Smith
| appointed Rev. Bernard Kelly, Topeka,
past department commander; Rev. ID.
B. Shuey, Lawrence, national chaplain,
and Mrs. Emma Walls, Lawrence, past
national president of the L. Of G.. A. R.,
as a committee to distribute the flood
relief fund of So, 100, raised by the G.
A. r.
Must Tear Down Fences.
The federal attorney has notified c.
P. Dewey, the Cheyenne county ranch
man, to tear down IL miles of fence
which partially encloses 13 sections OF
government land. Dewey and two of
his cowboys are now under arrest for
numbering three neighbOrs In a quarrel
over grazing land.
Dairying i'm Western Kansas.
H. P. Hood member of the state live
stock sanitary board, says that The
dairy business in western Kansas is
assuming greater proportions every
year and that within q few years 1t Is
likely 10 become as important an in
dustry as the dairy business is in Yer
mont.
Editor wouli Go to Senate.
Scott Monitor. has announced his in
| tention of running for the republican
nomination for the state senate in
Bourbon county next year.
Studying Foreign Languages.
John Collins, serving a life sentence
for killing his father at Topeka, IS
studying the foreign languages. It
| is said Collins never has any visitors
except his stepmother.
$4,000 School for junction City
The Junction City board of educa-
| ton has purchased three lots in the
center of town upon which will be
erected a 10000 high school and.
| manual training school.
| Apples Scarce, Grapes Plentiful
William H. Barnes. secretary Of tho
state horticultural society. and Judge
Fred Wellhouse, the apple king or
Kansas, say there will be a very short