The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1903-04-23

The senate has passed the bill ap
propriating s25 900 to defend the Kan.
sas-Colorado water suit.
sons is the hrst freak bill" OF the
season. and ought to be the last. The
East takes toem seriously.
Senator Moorehouse is sponsor for
a bill making the sunfiower the official
emblem OF Kansas. and designating G
Kansas as the "Sunnower state"
Charles Parmenter, q saloon keeper
of Fort Scott. was convicted Of man.
slaughter In the second degree for
Killing Frank Drummer. a base ball
umpire.
Very recently Lindsborg-tbe Kan.
sas town whose people sing the Mes
siah" SO often and SO well-shipped q
cargo OF -four direct to Barcelona.
Spain.
Old timers are recalling that before
the war Cole Younger served as a
member OF the Kansas territorial leg
islature, although he was citizen OF
Missouri
Clifford Davenport OF Kansas City.
nxt,tss nd NJ hA
of his brother.in.law, James Stewart.
near Lenape. Kan. to avoid arrest on
chare, OF felinious assault.
The Ave counties in the southwest
corner Of Kansas which have neither
railroad nor telegraph communica
tion-Stanton, Grant. Haskell, Morton
and Stevens-want q telephone sys
TEN.
w. W. MARBLE has arranged for q
meeting OF creamery men In Saiina
March 2 and 3. The meeting will be
attended by 200 delegates from all
Western and Middle states, also repre-
sentatives from New York
The young bride OF widowsr In
Arcadia who was married last week
will never be able to show that she
was deceived. His s-year-old son led
'-r to the altar and he was accom-.
his 11.yearold daughter
IAN WAS killed in Western Kan.
>sfhe other day by falling Of tree
The time may yet come for the vindi
cation OF that Illinois man. hearing
about the timber claims" OF Western
Kansas, brought out with him a stump
puller.
Frederick Seibert. 2i years old. liv.
Ing north Of Lebanon. met death
while telling a tree across q draw.
They we're saving the tree In two with
leg swung around and piuioned Sci
bert to the earth. killing him.
The jury In the case OF Miss Olive
Sells against Peter Allen OF Atchison
for $4,000 damages for breach Of
promise. gave Miss Sells a verdict for
10000 The defendant. who Is . So
oiety young man. Is the son OF J. w.
Alien. a wholesale and retail druggist.
He has been missing since the suit
was brought
Writing from Washington. Cons gress.
man Scott says that General Fred
Funston Is about to receive from the
Cuban government his pay for serving
in the Cuban army. frst as captain
end then as lieutenant colonel The
Cuban government Is negotiating q
loan which Is TO be used In paying her
insu,rcctionary army. and Mr.. Scott
deal
Sarah Burr Daniels was buried at
Oskaloosa on January 30 She was
born In Green county. Pa. In 1906. and
at her death she was 81 years OF age
Her father was first cousin TO Aaron
Burr. the American statesman OF un.
peasant memory She remembered
the war Of 1879 and often talked OF
seeing the soldiers She was married
IN 1870 at the age OF IA and she be
came the mother OF fourteen children
"Old Man" Moxham was found dead
near Sabetha the other day For
years he had been a peddler. going
tie rounds OF the farms OF Nemsha
county end coming TO be regarded as
enc Of the local institutions. Once
he was a trumpeter In the British
arr In his life there was one Incl.
dent which. To his simple mind. had
all the glamor Of a glorious achieve
ment Al certain point In the cor.
ona,i9n ceremonies Of Queen Victoria
IN 1891 he was required TO step from
the ranks and blow a fanfare
Robert Larmer was found guilty In
the district court a. Emporia last
week of robbing a man named Nord
g. EN- OF $3.50 Larmer's defense was
that he found the money He admit