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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-11-10

sent in the necessary money to
renew his Democrat subscription.
Bert Fancher and W. S. Elan
were given the Workman degree
in the A. 0. U. W. lodge Satur-
day night.
John Roberts down in the
third ward is making some ex-
tensive improvements on his res
ldence property.
WE. Clutter, of the Lindas
Lumber Co., was down from
Larned Saturday, and favored this
office with a call.
Mrs. A. E. Rowell entertained
a largeonumber of friends Satur-
day at cards. All present enjoyed
themselves very much.
Mat LIGHTER of Olmitz was in
town Friday and called at this
office for the purpose of renewing
his Democrat subscription.
The Poultry Catalogues can now
be procured at this office, at VIII
Ferger's barber shop, or from
Rev. S. 0linger, the secretary.
Mrs. James Sanner returned to
Newton Sunday morning after a
pleasant visit with her daughter,
Mrs. Bert Fahcher and family.
William Eikmier, of the south
side, was a caller Saturday to re-
new on the weekley for himself
and one that goes to his son-in-
law.
Arrangements are being made
for a big box supper to be given
in district IA on the 18th. for the
benefit of the school. They prom
Use a big time.
Roy EShman, of Hoisington.
was injured but not very seriously
in Southern Pacific train wreck.
which occurred in California last
Saturday.
There are several articles at this
Office that were exhibited at the
county fair and have not been
called for since. viii the owners
please come and get them?
W. f. Hayes returned FRIDAY
from the ranch in Hodgeman
county. He says they had coolies
of rain up that way also, and
everybody is feeling good.
Word comes from st. Louis
that Claude Dawson and wife are
the parents of a handsome blue
eyed girl born toe them OF the
Slst. Grand-pap Writ Dawson
is stepping high.
On October 31st Earl C. Wilson
formerly of this city but TOW
foreman for a telephone company.
was married at Zurich. Mo-. tC
Miss Herford, the daughter of f,
stock man there.
W. ;. Elan, who has for som,
time been baggage man at tn,
Santa Fe, has resigned his posi-
ton and will this week leave fol
Alamosa, Colo. where he vii
have charge Of a section.
DIR. John Robinson was in Hut
Crimson Sunday to attend III,
funeral of }. F. Blackburn, whc
was a cousin of his. Mr.. Black
burn was a prominent citizen O
Keno county, having at one tim,
been postmaster at Hutchinson.
The poultry catalogues are bein.
mailed to each patron of the rura
free delivery routes in the county
They should be looked over care
fully, and every person in tn,
county should make it a point t,
attend the show.
The weather clerk promise
something doing from now to tn
eleventh. He says: From the At
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ton for the heroic sacrifice made to
save me from disgrace. am determined
to have his name placed again before his
friends and the public unsmirched
The friendship he entertained for~me
was pure and true. Had my husband
believed he had any reason for resent
ment l would have lost my good name
and scandal would have followed"
The woman, whose name Mr.. Hansen
guards with all the care of a lawyer,
told dramatic story of the incident
which led to the exile of an innocent
man.
While her husband, wealthy bust.
ness man owning factories in New Jer-
sey, was absent one evening, the man
who is suffering unjustly now called
Unexpectedly the husband returned. and
found strange man in the apartment.
Insane fury possessed him, and he
sprang upon the seeming intruder. The
woman, placed in predicament which
she knew she could not explain to the
satisfaction OF her husband and the
world, nearly collapsed under the strain.
But the college student was more than
a match for the situation. While in the
grasp Of the Infatuated husband he man
aged to gasp out: - ~ 81.
Let me go! Don't kill me! Have me
arrested wanted to rob the fatn'
Confronted by this statement, so adj
verse to his first suspicious impulse, the
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JOKE ON GIRL BATHERS.
Hobo Sat on Their Clothes and
Smoked Until Friends Made
Him Flee.

Des Moines:-Haf a dozen girls.
daughters of prominent Fort Dodge
families, camping on the banks of the
Des Moines river, dared each other to
go in swimming one evening recent
ly. When all were in the water they
looked toward the shore and were
thunderstruck to see a tramp gather
ing up their clothes in pile This
done, he sat down upon them and be.
gan to smoke.
= For more than quarter of an hour
he pulled at his old black pipe con-
tentedly, while the girls peeped at
him, with their heads just above water.
Not until a company of young men,
coming to visit the girls in camp, were
heard in the distance did the hobo
go away. -, =.
The young men arrived. The girls,
with the water half choking them as
they spoke, told what had happened.
The young men declared they would
find the brute and lynch him. But
they did neither. When the searchers
returned to camp the girls were dress.
ed and anxfously waiting to receive
company. &
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pies little howell which he built him.
self on the outskirts of Mattapoisett.
He has no possessions which it would
be worth while to pack up and carry
back with him, unless they be his cat,
Daisy, and his library, which is the
name he gives to the collection of
two books, the reading of which occu-
pies his leisure time-the Bible and
:':.Arabian Nights
He still maintains that he is going
back to England some day, and says
that he has refrained from becoming
naturalized because he wishes to en-
gage, in the old country, in an occu-
patton open only to Englishmen. But,
for all that, he fingers in his howell
alone, except for his cat and books,
and there he will probably spend the
evening of his life.
! Mr.. Rattican came to this country
In 1881, and after brief search found
his sister in New Bedford. He work.
ed for time in this city, drifted to
the cape, and finally, II or Is years
ago, migrated to Mattapoisett. There
he lived ever since, doing odd jobs
and thinking of the time when he
would return to England. Any place
where he could find room to sleep was
home, until last fall he built, unas-
sisted and in a single day, the shanty
which is now his abode.
People may pity Willie Rattican,"
he said quizzically, wiping his razor.
"but he doesn't need their pity. 1 am
not lonesome man. l have been hap
py all my life, and am fairly we'll con-
tented now"
There is suggestion of a romance
in the old mans life, but he will not
talk about it. He has some of the
picturesqueness of a Robinson Crusoe,
living in the midst of, civilization, but
living by himself and fashioning with
his own hands most of the implements
he requires.
Mr.. Rattican ueed to go to church
in Mattipoisett, following the teach
ings of others, but he now has his
own ideas of what a Christian ought
to be. He was urged to attend the
church in question, and he did so reg
ularly for a time, contributing his
mite to the church funds. At an even
ing meeting, he says, someone re-
marked that person who was not a
naturalized citizen ought not to take
part in the church affairs.
That was the last day of my
churchgoing," said the hermit.
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planhs as though they we're tooth
picks.
Capt. Ducross offered reward of $50
for the capture of the turtle, and
Frank Petty, his two sons, Frank and
George, and two others named Swan
taking nets, spears and rope a-plenty.
They sighted the turtle in deep wa
ter near Cockeno island, apparently
asleep on top of the water. They ap-
preached cautiously. and when right
upon him one Of the Swansons at
tempted to drive an eel spear through
the back of the turtle. The spear broke
short off in the tough shell of the tur-
tie, and then and there began a fight
which lasted for nearly an hour. The
water was beaten into foam and red
dened with blood The turtle attacked
the men and with his flippers almost
overturned their boat. -.
The five men beat him over the head
with their oars. These he seized and
each in turn was crunched and broken
In the thickest of the fight Swanson
was struck either by one of the hippers
of the animal" or by his leak and a
long cash was torn in his arm, but III
spite of the wound Swanson assisted
ir the fight until the turtle was beaten
off. The turtle finally sank out O.:
sight.
1t took the party nearly two hours to
paddle their craft, partly full Of water,
back to port. They all say that they
will not again try to capture any more
'oggerheads, reward or no reward.
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switching engine was seen by thoso
on shore to be bearing down upon tho
little ones at high speed.
Lawrence Noonan, who was near
the end of the bridge, saw the chill.
dren's danger and cried out to them.
The boy jumped to his feet and leav-
ing his tiny sister behind scampered
over the ties to safety to the end OF
the bridge. The little girl kept on
crawling slowly, directly between the
rails on which the engine was speed.
ing toward her. 1t seemed a certainly
that she would be killed.
Noonen dashed out on the trestle,
speeding over the slippery ties at u
terrific pace, grabbed the girl up with
one hand and the next instant jump
ed onto pier alongside the bridge
just as the engine Numbered over tho
spot where the child had been Sec
ond or two before.
Those who witnessed the act cheer.
ed Noonan as he came back over the
bridge with the girl in his arms. Had
he made the slightest misstep in his
dash over the bridge he as we'll as
the child would have been killed.
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FELL INTO A DEEP WELL,
Thrilling Experience Of a Man I'm.
prisoned in Peculiar Manner
at Norristown, Pa.

Norristown, Pa.-To drop into the
darkness of a 40-foot well was the
thrilling experience of Harry Chalk,
a grocer, the other night.
Chalk was visiting his parents at
Washington square. Desiring drink,
he ran to the pump, and while cross
ing the floor failed to notice in the
darkness that the trap-door was open,
and down he went-down, down,
20 feet through space, and then he
struck the water and went almost to-
the bottom, score of feet below the
waters surface.
When he rose to the top of the
water he attempted to gain a foot
hold and climb out, but to no pur-
pose. Then he called, but his voice
was not heard.
When he did not return the young
mans father went to the door, and
then it was that the faint cries of his
son were heard and his terrible pre-
dicament was discovered.
Two ropes with buckets on the end
were lowered, and, standing in these,
the nearly exhausted man was res
.cued.
He had torn the nails from his fin
gers in trying to dig handholes in the
wall, while one of his shoes had been
kicked off and the toe OF the other
worn through in his frantic efforts to
climb back to earth. .-
He is confined to his bed as result
of his ordeal.
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manufactures released his hold slight.
" and questioned the self-confessed
burglar. !. 57s5@.
Il frightened the lady" continued the
prisoner, and I'm sorry Have me
locked up, but don't kill me-
A policeman was called, and in the
presence Of the hysterical woman the
boy was taken to the police station. The
next morning in court he gave the same
fictitious name he had given the SER
geant the night before, and quietly,
pleaded guilty. ~ S
II went into the house to rob it, he
said, coolly. II was caught, and I'm
game enough to swallow my medicine"
There was no publicity. because the
story was 50 commonplace. The young
man was sentenced to three years in
Sing Sing at hard labor. and accepted it
manfully. 49,
II will do anything, spend any amount
of money, to have him liberated" Mr..
Hansen's client told him. Besides the
torture have suffered, thinking night
and day that man of honor and splen-
did courage has sacrificed himself for
my position, there is a minor cause for
activity on my part.
Several of my servants knew of the
incident. and after carefully scheming,
have blackmailed me out Of $50, 900, the
return for this money being their
silence on the subject AS reason for
such absolute secrecy exists no longer,
and as my husband is dead, l have de-
cided to devote every cent have, and all
my influence to the releasing of this in
nocent victim of mutual friendship"
Mr.. Hansen will give no clew to the
identity of either the convict or the
woman, whose name and friendship
were mere to him than liberty.
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FIGHTS MANIAC IN STORM.
Doctor Has Hair Raising Experience
with Patient on Lone MouH-
tain Road.

Scranton, Pa.-Through violent
rainstorm, driving along lone noun
tam road leading to Hillside Home,
with a raving maniac for his compan-
ion, was the experience of DR.. William
Lynch. DR.. Lynch is physician in the
home, which is situated in Clark's
Green, an out-of-the-way place north
of Scranton. He was called by tele-
phone to attend man in the West
Mountain consumptive hospital, and
not thinking the case was serious he
went alone in his buggy. He found
the subject was man who was de-
mented, but seemingly harmless.
DR.. Lynch placed the man in his bug
gy and started for Hillside Home.
About midway heavy storm of light
ming, thunder and rain broke. Instant
ly his patient became violently terror
stricken by the wildness of the storm
and was at out to jump from the buggy
when the doctor grappled with him.
DR.. Lynch is powerful man, but he
had the time of his life controlling the
frenzied companion and preventing his
horse from running away. Meanwhile
rain fell as from a cloudburst and
lightning played about them. More
than once the doctor was nearly over
powered and in danger Of the maniac
carrying out repeated threats to fling
him over the steep embankment along
which the road ran.
Presently the horse was frightened
by the shouting of the insane man and
the fury of the storm and tried to run
away. When DR.. Lynch reached Hill
side Home he was nearly exhausted.
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"ooa pile and, handing me an ak. told
me 10 split it. did it and was the re-
''plent OF supper consisting of but
tered bread, two eggs and coffee, as
we'll as 80 cents and directions as to
where could get a room. Of all the
rooms l ever occupied that was the
Korst, for it was near railroad track.
up and down which trains plunged all
night.
The room cost 40 cents. and with
the dime that remained 1 bought cof-
tee and sandwich for breakfast. Then
bent my steps toward the residence
Oh physician in that city whom I
knew. He was not at home, but the
lady ir charge, also with whom I am
acquainted. answered my CALL AS she
opened the door closed one eye, as
though were blind, displayed my pen
CHS, moving my lips in silence, signify
ing being dumb. and told her the price
OF my wares with my fingers. She shook
her head, but | could tell from the sad
expression on her face that she felt
sorry for me. turned away, anxious
TO reach a corner 80 that I could
smile
Following this, I called on an un-
ueltaker and asked him if he would
help poor man along, by purchasing
a PENCIL. He informed me that he was
we'll stocked and thanked me. Won
der why he thanked me- Some time
when I meet him I am going to ask
him. After calling on that solemn
looking proprietor. started on my
walk to Bridgeport. and the further l
went the more mud came in contact
with.
II reached Bridgeport at about two
O'CLOCK. as hungry as a hunter, so L
stopped at the first house I reached
The man of the house called me a bum
and told me to go and earn my dinner
Then tried another back door and Of
fered to work for meal. The lady of
the house told me that as she was
going out to spend tie afternoon she
had no work, but gave me nice little
lunch. My chances # bed looked very
slim. SO proceeded down the street.
until came to blacksmith shop, told
my troubles, and the man gave me
job TO- about an hour, and paid me 50
cents.
with this money I secured a splen-
did room for the night at the Y. M. G.
A., but before retiring went on a hunt
for supper, and got it at the first place
l stopped"
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SCANDAL SPLITS
SOCIAL WORKERS
ALLEGED FESTIVE ACTS OF
LEADERS THE CAUSE.
REvELS IN SLUMS ARE TOLD
Woman Assistant to Friend of J. G..
Phelps Stokes Said to Have
Danced Can-Can in a Suit
Of Mans Pajamas.

New York.-Disruption now threat
ems the University Settlement society,"
one of the strongest organizations of
social workers in this city, as result
of the scandal that has come to light
concerning the alleged gay and frisky
practices of some of the men and women
who are it's leading spirits.
Charges that "slum work" was merged
into slum revels are made against AS
sistant Head Worker Kellogg Durland,
bosom friend of ]. G. Phelps Stokes, and
best man at the latter's recent wedding,
and Durland is alleged to have spread
about scandalous stories concerning
Miss Edna McCaughtry, his assistant
and maid of honor at the Stokes Pastor
wedding. Still another young woman
prominent in the organization and res
ident of the settlement house is alleged
to have danced a can-can attired in q
suit of Durland's pajamas for the amuse-
ment of Durland and some of his
friends. Hilarious wine parties are al
legged to have been held by the festive set
among the workers within the very walls
of the settlement house.
AS result of these stories. some OF
which have been given out by w. Patten
Bethune. volunteer worker, Assistant
Head Worker Durland has been sent
away on vacation" from which it is
said he will not return to the settlement;
Miss McCaughtry and her mother, both
prominent in the work of the settlement,
have been dismissed. and Mr.. Patten Be-
thune himself has been dropped.
Miss McCaughtry is the support of her
mother, proficient in literature and the
arts, in love with her work and spoken
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five MEN IN BATTLE
WITH HUGE TURTLE.
Monster Crunches Fishermen's Oars,
Injuries One and Then Makes
His Escape.

South Norwalk, Contour East
Norwalk fishermen padded into port
the ether evening with the stumps Of
their oars, bringing another fisherman,
unconscious and with arm gashed, in
the bottom of the boat, as result of a
fight with the 610-pound loggerhead
turtle, the largest and most vicious
turtle of this species ever brought into
Fulton market, which escaped from
Capt. Charles E. Ducross, of South
Norwalk. This is the turtle whose pad>
dies Capt. Ducross pierced, for doing
which he was fined five dollars and
costs. When the turtle escaped from
his pen it tore down and crunched the
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ENGLISH HERMIT LIVES 4
! y LIKE ROBINSON cRUSoE.s
Alone in Howell He Built in q Day, He
y. Is HAPPY with His Cat and
"Library."

New Bedford, Mass.-Twenty-tive-
year:old William Rattican, of Stock
port, England, came to this country in
search of his sister. whose sudden
discontinuance of letter writing had
filled him with alarm as to her safety.
His idea was to make but short visit
to the states, yet he is still here, loyal
enough to Great Britain to retain his
citizenship, although once his refusal
to become naturalized drove him from
a church, yet at the same time unwiH-
ing to pull up stakes and sail back to
the old country.
Mr.. Rattican has no ties to hold
him here. He lives the life of her.
NIT, ministers to his wants and occu-
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OF everywhere as woman of the highest
ideals. Her mother taught a class of
boys in the settlement house on Eldridge
street without pay.
The trouble, which in all probability
will result in a far-reaching investiga-
ton by the council at it's next meeting,
seems to have started in January, a
month after Miss McCaughtry became,
at the recommendations of Mr.. Durlaud
and Mr.. Stokes, assistant to the former
In his work of organizing children's
clubs in the various tenement houses
throughout the city.
Such was his manner toward his as
sistant that when Miss McCaughtry was
selected as maid Of honor to Miss Rose
Pastor and Mr.. Durland was asked to
act as best man to Mr.. Stokes in July.
the newspapers were told that second
romance in the settlement house was
about to be fulfilled, that Miss McClaug-
try was to we'd Mr.. Durland in the fall.
Mr.. Durland denied this published
statement at the time, but friends of
both looked upon it as a denial Of con-
venience.
Patten Bethune. who was formerly one
Of Durland's best friends, now declares
that on a certain "all-night stroll''
through the slums Durland drank heav-
lily and visited various disreputable re-
sorts and acted in manner highly dis
creditable to a settlement house worker.
Patten Bethune further declares that
when he demonstrated with his friend.
asking him what Miss McCaughtry
would think of his conduct, Durland
made remarks about the young woman
derogatory to her character.
Patten Bethune. who had never met
Miss McCaughtry formally. went to her
mother the next day and asked for an
introduction to her daughter. His re-
quest was granted and the whole story
of the night before was laid before the
young woman. She tainted and was i'll
for two weeks.
When she returned to settlement
work she told Durland what she had
heard and told him she wished him not
to speak to her again. Durland's atten-
lions became more marked than ever.
Miss McClaughtry repudiated him. and
the next incident in the life of the set
Element house were stories that the
young woman was addicted to the drug
habit and was unfit physically for set
Element work. She was soon dismissed.
Miss McCaughtry's friends held a
meeting and arranged to give Durland a
thrashing. He eluded it, however. by
seeking an asylum in the settlement
house.
Now one of the young woman's friends
has threatened to shoot Durland on
sight.
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TRIED HOBO LIFE
FOR FIVE DAYS
EXPERIENCE OF A BUSINESS
MAN IN DISGUISE.
TRAVELLED WITHOUT A CENT
Sold Shoestrings and Pencils and
Begged for Food and Lodging
on Trip from New York to
Torrington, Conn.

Ninsted, Conn.-William A. Gleason,
q young business man of Torrington
and county director of the Connecticut
Total Abstinence union, who attended
the national temperance convention in
Wilkesbarre, Pa, recently, and purely
for the experience played hobo on the
homeward trip from New York city,
reached Torrington safe and sound,
we'll satisfied with his adventures. He
sold shoestrings and lead pencils and
begged for food and lodging, like the
zeal tramp. Disguised as a vagrant
and carrying needles and thread for
use il anything should happen to his
frail clothing, Gleason left his hotel
in New York on a Monday morning
and reached Torrington the following
Friday night.
Relating his experiences, he said: II
had not single penny when I started
out from the hotel. but had supplied
myself with dozen lead pencils and
half dozen shoe laces. The sale of a
pencil for five cents enabled me to ride
to the Bronx, where had to wait I'M
til found another customer, and on a
nickel from him got part of the way
to South Newark, where I was going
TO remain over night. The uncovered
distance was too great to walk, so I
beat my way on successive trolley
lines, boarding new cars as fast as I
was put off the old ones, until reached
my destination.
"In South Norwalk I picked out a
!llely-looking house and asked it's mis-
tress If I could do some work for sup
per and lodging. She took me to a