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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09
Barton County People Hit.

Charley Fankhauser has letter
from the folks near Haviland which
gives some details of the heavy hail
storms which visited that section last
week. About 15.009 acres of wheat is
knocked out, also gardens and fruit.
The three Fankhauser boys, Harvey.
George and Edwin all lost more or
less, Edwin the heavier, and the
Albertsons, also one of the Batmans
and young Archibald, formerly living
on the south side. Oh Batman saws he
had Ave quarters hailed out slick and
clean. Practically none of the wheat
was insured.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09
PORT ARTHUR EVACUATED
Japs Now Have Complete Control of
the Whole Works.

Cheefoo, June 6.-The evacua-
ton of Port Arthur has been
completed with the arrival here
of General Blascheff and twenty
nine staff officers, who have been
closing APP affairs. sThey have
brought the remains of General
Kenderachenko for shipment to
Russia.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09
SOME NEW CITY
ORDINANCES.
Over One And A Half Miles
of Sidewalk Ordered.
GIANT fIRECRAcKHRS cANN'D|

Believing that all citizens should
know what the new ordinances as
passed are, and in view of the fact
that the official city paper has scant
circulation, we give below synopsis
of those passed Monday evening, as
the same do not appear in the regular
proceedings.
Ordinance No. 274 provides for
the construction of great amount of
sidewalk, and is as follows. On the
east side of Stone street, abuttlng on
blocks Al, Sc, IS, and 80. On the
south side of Forest Ave. abutting on
blocks 80 and 50 H. P. addition.
On the east side of Holland street
abutting on blocks rs, 90, 90. and
11S; on the west side OF Holland,
abutting on blocks, SO, SO, 100, III,
124, and al. And on both sides of
Broadway, abutting on. blocks IS, rs,
II. 90, SO, and "a.
Ordinance No. 275 pro vides for
vacating all that part of Elizabeth
street-in the city of Great Bend be-
tween blocks So and 6S which lies
west of the west line of the alleys
running through said blocks.
Ordinance No. 276 prohibits the
sale or use of giant fire crackers or
any fire cracker more than two inches
in length or three Fights of an inch
in diameter, and provides a fine of
not less than S10O or more than
$4,000.
PROTECTION AGAINST POOR WORK.
The following section appears in
ordinance No. 274 passed by the city
council Monday night. mo person
or persons shall be permitted to con-
struct any part of such sidewalks for
the owner or owners until such per
sons shall enter into a bon to be ap-
proved by the improvement commit
tee of the council of said city in the
sum of $500 conditioned that sucn
person or persons will keep in good
repair for period of three years any
such sidewalk built by him or them. ;"
1t seems to be the intention of the
council to pass a general ordinance
along this line covering all sidewalks
built, and is really a needed protec-
ton to all property owners who are
called upon to build walks, and will
insure them first class work.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09
WOMAN CHARGED WITH MURDER
Has Been Living With Hired Man. Who
Is Also Arrested.

independence, Kas., June 6.-Mrs.
Minnie Edwards, of Sycamore, and
her hired man, Jasper Dunn, have
been arrested charged with the
murder of w. A. Edwards, the
woman's husband, in 1908. The
woman with Dunn and her children
have been living on the Edwards farm
ever since the death of Edwards.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09

The Y. M. P. c. boys will repeat
the play, The Confederate Spy" at
the opera house Friday evening,
under the auspices of the G. A, r.
post. They have bean asked by
many to do so, and will divide the
proceeds with the post. Tickets will
be on sale at Aliens. The play was
well rendered before and will meet
with full house
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09
FRANCE IS WILLING
Would Like to Act as Mediator Between
Russia and Japan.

Paris, June Cit is stated
authoriatively that the French
government has instructed it's
ambassador to Russia to give
the Russian government to IN
derstand that the French gov
eminent was willing to act as
mediator in the negotiations
with Japan.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09
TO Be EXTRADlTED.
Gaynor And Green Will at Last Be
Brought to Taw.

Montreal, June 6.-In the case of
John Gaynor and Benz. Green,
wanted for alleged connection wit b
the harbor frauds of Savannah harbor,
Co nmissioner Lafontaine today CAV e
judgement committing them for ex
tradition, and ordering them to jail to
await the American officers, who will
take them back for trial.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09
Won't Serve With HYDE.

Pittsburg, Pa, June 6.-James
Hazen Hyde is no longer director
in the Melton National Bank. The
Union Trust Company, or the great
Frick-Melton banking institution.
Frick recently declared that he would
serve upon no board with Hyde.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09

The May and June divisions of the
Ladies Aid Society of the Congrega
tional church will have charge of the
P. o. Weltmer Grocery on Saturday,
June 10th, and invite all their friends
to call. Also a nice lot of homemade
cakes, ETC., will be on sale.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09

Monday afternoon Charley sloniger,
while jumping onto a cook-shack that
was passing, fell under the wheels
and was somewhat bruised up, and
his face and neck cut. But the In
juries were not serious.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09

A Great Bend editor who said just
as little as he could to advertise the
Great Bend Street Fair, is whoopipg
it up for the Hutchinson street fair.
Does he get his support from Hutch
inson?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09

Loyalty to home is what will build
up any city. The man or newspaper
which knocks on home enterprises
and boosts neighboring towns is not
deserving of consideration or patron
age from his neighbors.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09

1.-THE st. Louis Carnival Co. made
a big stake at this town, the Hindoe
evidently did not get his'n, as it is
understood he pawned the Hindoo
kid for enough money to get him to
Garden City, Monday ~
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09

There has been talk of a motor
train on the Santa Fe branch. But
so far, the Santa Fe people tell US,
there has been no arrangement m ade
for such service.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09

Uncle Jake Klein, Of Che5enne
township, estimates that the wheat in
his locality will make an average
yield of Is bushels to the acre.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09
We Understand that Great Ben

has good prospects OF securing a
second laundry. The Greenes contem-
plate putting up one.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09

Mrs. Addie NJ. Grizzen and son
Emery came over from ClaHin Mon
day evening.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09
Commissioners Proceedings.
County Clerks Office
Great Bend, Kansas
June 5, 1905.

June 5, 1905.
Pursuant tc Law the County Com.
missioners of Barton County, Kansas
met as board of equalization at the
time and place above mentioned.
Commissioners w. B. PickerilI.
Frank Wood, S. ]. Williams and
County Clerk, H. D. Ashpole were
present.
The assessments of personal
property of the several townships and
cities were compared with the County
average and after due consideration
the following changes in the as
sessments of the items mentioned
were ordered, to-wit:
Beaver. :. horses raised 20 per cent
Buffalo +" 10
Cheyenne -" 10
Comanche sc /" 10 &c
Logan. 49," % 0o
South Bend. horses and mules
raised 10 per cent
Walnut /" q" 10 /" !,
Ellinwood 10 e ="
Hoisington {" 90 /"
Lakin. go. reduced 10
Pawnee Rock, horses and mules
raised 10 per cent
Wheatland. sc. 20 s."
Albion. farm implements
reduced 80 per cent.
Beaver, farm implements
49,. raised 60 I" 20
Cleveland farm implements
....r raised 90 E"
Eureka farm implements
raised SO i"
Fairview farm implements
raised SO &"
Homestead farm implements
-. reduced 10 I"
Independent farm nipple
ments raised 40 ="
Lakin farm implements
raised 80
Logan farm implements
raised 100 50 +"
Pawnee Rock. farm nipple
ments reduced 10 g
South Bend. farm imple-
ments raised 100 -" +"
Union farm implements
raised 20 " +"
Walnut farm implements
49,. raised SO :" d"
Wheatland farm implements
raised 80 " 90
Adjourned to meet June 6, 1905.
H. D. AsHPoLE,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09

z The Nicolet sale held Monday was
not vel, attended.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09
Edgar Bailey Must .fians.

Jefferson City, Mo-, June 6.-The
supreme court has affirmed the death
sentence passed upon Edgar Bailey,
the Kansas City union hack driver,
who during the hack drivers strike,
assisted in numbering a non-union
driver.
- Mrs. E. w. Moses returned from
Kansas City Monday evening and
Ed. is happy once more.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-06-09

raised 80 " I"
Adjourned to meet June 6, 1905.
H. D. AsHPoLE,
County Clerk.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

these gentlemen in here. and I can't let them out
 "I know just how far your preroga- tive extends colonel NJ, and l do not ask you to violate 1t, but l do ask you to act as Christian gentleman.
 Turning to his aides he said. Write paroles" and the pens flew
 The old lady mentioned said to me:
 "Ah, honey, how can you talk to them so?" l replied: 70, there is a soft spot in every mans heart and all you have to do is to feel for 1t until you find it.
 Colonel NJ looked as if he could have decapitated me without ceremony. but nevertheless paroles were written.
 My husband spent Friday with me. and as he was to leave Saturday. he gave me directions in regard to dis posing of the furniture. l was to leave under the next flag of truce.
 Colonel E. q kind-hearted man. kept an auction store. and to him con signed the furniture to be sold. There was nobody to buy but Yankees and negroes, so q handsome piano and beautiful carpet went for a song.
 On my last visit to Colonel Ms of flee he asked me to what part of the South I was going.
 "On to Richmond" l replied. using a much quoted expression. He smiled.
 70 you need not go there' IL is a4- ready in our hands"
 You are mistaken" answered you hope to get 1t, but it Is still In our possession. But Colonel M If you ever do get there you will need friend. Here is my card, for you have been right polite to me sometimes.
 He snid he would notify me when a flag of truce would leave. and not many days after an officer called say ing that I could shortly take my de- parture.
 went to the auction house. and found that half of my furniture had been sold. and the remainder scatter cd around in several rooms. With a negro man to assist, I spent three days getting what was left together and labelling it, to be sold after my departure. Then I applied to the clerk for statement of the sales already made. He said he was SO exceedingly busy that he could not possibly attend to the matter for q month to come. l told him it must have attention if l had to attend to 1t myself.
 70 Mrs. T." lie eagerly said, can you do it2'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

He turned the books over to me. and after working at them two or three days, l presented statement Whlch he accepted, and paid me accordingly.
 I then applied to Colonel E. to know where I could get some mules and a little wagon to take me through the lines He asked if I was a judge of mules. I told him knew one when saw it. If 1t lmped l knew 1t was lame. if it had no eye l knew 1t was blind, and that was the extent of my knowledge.
 T am a fine judge said Colonel E but you will have to go with me-
 Whats the use? l can trust you. said
 You have your own self to look out for now, trust nobody" he replied. Sc l went with him to number of mule yards. and finally selected q pail which had been raised by some Irisf people. and were as gentle as dogs.
 Then we had to look for a wagon An express wagon chanced to be pas sing, and hailing the driver, COlone F. asked If he would sell. He answer ed that he would. so 1t was purchased and white curtains were put to it.
 I notified Colonel M. was ready and he sent an officer to me to exam inc my trunk. The young man came in smiling and I rather resented his
 
 He said: Mrs T, you don't know me but 1 used to see you every day when you came to headquarters, and was al- ways glad when you came"
 I noticed that he wore a Masonic badge.
 'I have heard that Masons were always kind to brother Masuns and their families" I remarked, q don { see why you want to look in my trunk.
 "Is your husband a Mason? Shut your trunk. I'll never look anywhere but on the top of it."
 You can't catch me that way" said you want to send me North"
 No, just pledge me you will not put in anything contraband."
 T will pledge you nothing. It is my business to put in what I can, yours to see what the trunk contains.
 Don't carry the whole of anything the officer said, the law forbids the carrying of the whole of anything. Just tear or cut off an inch from the corner of articles And he never did examine my trunk. He looked over the top as he said he would. then shut and placed the required seal on the trunk.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

grooming under the load of edibIes gathered from the garden and truck
 patch.
 Yes who would not be a farmer.
 when the happy wife gathers or causes
 to be gathered the toothsome Irish po-
 tato. the tempting radish, the sweet
 turnip and pungent mustard, and the
 white -headed lettuce and long blood
 beet, the most tempting dish ever set before a hungry plow-boy, with a sprinkling of beans. fresh milk and butter. and Hch cream for strawber- ries; the cabbage head boiled with q home raised loin, fried chicken, if any one is fond of fricasse, or a dish of squads, but forbear, the half is not yet told.
 Who would swap a country home for one in the noisy, busy. bustIing city, where everything to eat Is to buy. and at dear rate too? Not I. Give me my little farm, where 1 can hear the mocking bird sing a thousand mel odius lays; where the cooing dove mourns to it's mate: where the whip porwill. when all animate beings are hushed. makes the soft twilight hours vocal with melodious songs so echant- ing that the tired toiler is rocked to sleep by the sweet notes of the night birds solo.
 The farmer has opportunity to enjoy more kinds of music than anyone else. He has the music of all the hap- py birds. singing in the grove; the soughing of the Gulf breeze as 1t pass es through the bough of the majestic oak, making a melody only equaled by the Aeolian harp.
 There is music in tho rustling corn blades when disturbed by the gentle breeze, that no vocalist can initiate.
 The hum of contentment on the farm. the natural increase, as Rufus Sanders forcibly puts it, is an ever melody to the farmers ear.
 The consciousness of having earned silent music that never reaches the ear, but echoes and re-echoes In the lepths of the heart, and is sweeter 10 the possessor than any orchestra hough led by a Beethoven.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
"1 tell the tale that was told to me.

T tell the tale that was told to me. v
 When Colonel M. was Commandant at N and ladies went to interview him. he would never offer them a seat but I would not remain standing Tn his presence. Invariably l would say to the soldiers present, "Gentlemen' will thank you for q seat.
 Once he made inquiry in regard 10 what part of the country l was from. Il am a Virginian," I replied. My grand father was d Revolutionary SOL dier-a gentleman of the old regime You don't often see them these GaSs' There was one peculiarity about nm. He never remained seated in a lady presence while she stood
 There was q general laugh and col oneI Ms face colored. l never aSaln had to ask for a chair.
 On one occasion two officers escaped from the penitentiary where they were imprisoned. Friends supplied them with citizens clothing which they put on over the gray. Dr. II. underto"k to pilot them through the picket ines, He went to headquarters and oDtaihed permission to drive two cows through the lines to the home of his daughter q mile beyond. He employed these countrynen CD to drive the cows. and while they sauntered fazily along on foot. he. on horseback. was actively assisting and scolding the clod-hop- pers for the indifferent way m Whlch they were doing their work. When ne thought the officers out of danger he said to them. Now boys you scatter And the boys stood not upon the order of their going.
 The prison was so full it was decid- cd to send the political prisoners North The young men were sent North. and the old men were put down in the middle of the road, outside the Federal lines They were to leave saturd>y. and early Friday
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

I told him to inform Colonel M. was ready. with the exception of q driver, and would be up next mornine to sec him about It.
 A gentleman member of Congress from Kentucky had been hiding at my house. He had assumed his middle name. The Yankees had been search ing for him, but had not found him He, too, wanted to get through the lines, but was afraid to apply for q permit, lest he be arrested and sent to T Northern prison.
 When I spoke to Colonel M. in ref erence to a driver, he said:
 You can drive yourself"
 But l don't want to, answered.
 i've seen you driving a mule about tho city,
 "Yes,' I replied. "that was one mule with q Yankee to whip him. I don't want to drive that span" Several times had borrowed the old buggy and poky mule of a friend. Once when using vigorous efforts to make the mule go, l met a crowd of Yankee soldiers. one of whom suggested that the whip was needed.
 You had better come and use it," replied.
 This he proceeded to do. and away we went. he whipping the mule and holding the reins.
 Colonel M. said he could furnish me a soldier to drive if I would guarantee his safety on the other side of the lines. I replied that there was a man at my house that wanted to get through the lines.
 Tell him to come and give his name and get a permit
 said he was not well.
 Whats his name?" he asked.
 I gave his middle name. and secured CA .,i as my driver. and, when through the lines. he went to Richmond. and joined Lees army,
 Next morning. the young officer of the trunk episode appeared with an escort of fifty cavalrymen. They escorted us out of the city. up the pike, where we were joined by others. After escorting the little party through the lines, five miles in the they saluted, and left LIS to pursue unattended our further jour leyings.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
"Reminiscences cf a Wcmdn Refugee
 Incidents Recalled of the War Between the States BY VIRGINIA F. DRAKE Marion.
BY VIRGINIA F. DRAKE, Marion. 1,

morning the office was besieged by ladies eager to get paroles for their husbands to spend the day at home be- fore leaving.
 On account of repeated disasters to the Federal arms Lincoln had appoint ed this a fast day. Presently Colonel NJ. came in, his heels ringing on the marble floor, and looking as cross as d child who had not breakfasted. Evi- dently he had lasted.
 An aged couple present asked that their son might spend the day with them. He was to leave on the nor row. and their eyes might never behold him.
 No" thundered Colonel NJ. T will give no paroles to-day"
 A young girl whose parents were refugees from Kentucky was also present. Her mother had died. her father was imprisoned, and with mer little brother she was at boarding house in a strange city. She had heard her father was to be sent away and was eager to see him and beseech that some arrangement would be made whereby his children might accom- pany him. Again Colonel NJ. thunder cd "No!" and the young girls distress was pitiful to see. I told her not to weep, that my condition was similar to hers. and wherever l went would take her with me.
 Until then Colonel NJ. had not been aware Of my presence. and l saw him vince. I said to him:
 colonel NJ. the Bible says a good and acceptable fast is to loose the the prisoner. set the captive free. and give food to the hungry When you come to die. be 1t at home or on the bat tle-fieId, will the memory of this hour when you made childhood and old age feel your iron heel, lessen the bangs of death"
 Mrs. IT. he answered. T didn't put
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17
Cbe muSic
 of fhe Farm
BY J. R. 1icLENDON.

While l sit under my own vine anC
 fig-tree to rest my weary limbs iron
 long walk to see the young corn and
 beautiful cotton and waving rye. re- joicing in the bright sunshine, I hear the wing song of the swarming bees
 the cheerful chuck of the hen as she leads q half grown brood in search of food. the noisy guinea cackles and rejoices over a newly laid egg. and mother goose comes slowly along lead a dozen quacking goslings to break fast on young and tender grass, the piercing neigh of young colt Is heard in the pasture because the mother is drawing the plough or gone to office for the morning paper. the bleat of n young calf in the lot is answered by the mother as she eagerly crops the tender grass beneath her feet In the big pasture, where herd of grade Jerseys ruminate at will in the shade of an occasional oak or hickory The red Jersey or Berkshire is heard with many sympathetic grunts while she lies on her side m the shade of an old crab tree. giving nine or ten little piggies the chance to draw from her distended teats-the delight of all piGs-sweet milk.
 Yes, who would not be a farmer. where happiness and contentment make the plow-boy whistle Yankee Doodle" or sing Dixie" with such pathos. that every nerve Is quivering with happy responses to each note; the hoe-boy Is just over wonder sing ing Sweet By and Bye" and beating time with hoe as he thins the long rows of green and glossy cotton plants.
 Cheerfulness and increase hold every acre of the farm in strong em- brace, and the owner has nothing to do but provide ways to enjoy the com tentment and husband the increase.
 Who would not be a farmer. when the dinner horn invites the dusty toll CTS to come home where they can sit down around the old family table
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

Swipes-So Billy the crook got plnch- ed. Caught in his own trap, supposef Haffles. Jr.--Naw. he got caught in somebody else's trap. Just climbed in- to it and drove off when 1t was Iefk standing outside a saloon.-chlcago Dail News
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

Church-Are there any complaints against your street railroads? Gotham --Yes; they are of long standing.-
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1905-10-05

Many lost souls will have 20 stay
lost in the future. II the recent gem
eral order Of Mayor Baillnger, pro
hibiting the holding OF meetings on
downtown streets, is enforced by
the police.
The 6rder holds that no meetings
shall be held on First. Second. Occi-
dental or any other streets In the
vicinity By any band Of men and
women. but that these meetings
may be held In Pioneer square
Fortson square or Washington
street
Adiutant James Wolfe Of the
Salvation Army. states that he was
assured personally by Mayor bal
linger. SOME two months ago. that
he and his workers would not be
moleated. wherever they choose TO
meet Tho mayor denies this state
ment polntblank, and says that
members Of the Salvation Army
will be arrested II they hold their
meetings IN the prohibited districts
But the Salvation Army men and
women tell the mayor and the po-
hoe 20 60 ahead and arrest them.
that I'm spite of all this. as the
term II, persecution, they will hold