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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03


Eli Carson 0nd family this
week moved to Wichita, where
Mr.. Carson will take charge of a
fruit and vegetable farm. We 70
gret having this family leave
Great Bend. They have been
residents of our city for a long
time and wo 6eel sure that we
voice the sentiment Of their many
friends.in expressing this 9egret.
We trust that they will like their
new home and tbat they will CON
Hnue 10 prosper.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03
e School Funds.

The August appOrtiOnmeAS OF
revenue accruing to the various
counties from the state school
fund has been made. Barton
county, with its SOLO pupils gets
from the state $2494.9O, o. 4S
cents per pupil. in addition to
this amount court fines collected
in this county add 81 cents per
pupil, or making a total Of so
cents per pupil from court fines
and state apportiOnment.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

Sam and ClePe Gilmore form
er proprietOrS. of the Elite cafe
have 8gain taken charge Of Che
same,o Mr.. VarbOugh eetiring
They will clean up the place and
make some much. needed imprOv-
ments, putting the cafe iB a fir&-
class condition once more. They
solicit trade asSuri@g all, chat
their place will be run clean and
proper.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

A. R. U. Livesay, a former Bar.
ton county boy, was in the city
this week on his way to his home
at AnadarkO, Okla, after a pleas.
ant visit with his people up in
the Galatia neighborhOOd. Ran
dali is practicing law in 0klahO.
ma, and is doing well.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03
Teaching Farmers Daughters 70
Cook and Sew at X. s, A. G.

Cook and Sew at K. s. A. G.
One kind of new woman may
be emancipated from the thrall.
dom of cooking and mendins for
men, but the farmers daughters
in Kansas are still willing to
emancipate themselves from the
Idrudgery of cooking by learning
the science of cookery and house
keeping. The Kansas State Ag
ricultural College, noe satisfied
with offering ils long courses in
domestic science and art, has for
several years invited 70 its class
rooms and laboratories the farm,
ers' daughters who could moi
take the long courses.
This short course opens Septela
Der q and continues for two
terms, or twenty-five weeks. a
thousand young women should at:
tend the course each year. The
College sets aside its. best labO-
EatOries and some of its best
teachrs for these shOrt-cOurse
classes, and they are given the
best possible rclp.
Nothing fanciful 10 attempted
The course. in cookery includes
the study Of stoves and. stove
management, II els, cookery q,
eereals, vegetables, meats, baking
of bread, cakes and pies; serving
of meals, study Of diet. in relation
tO disease, canning, preserving.
salads eie. 1t includes q full
course in hand and machine sew
ing, basting, darning, meAding,
drafting, cutting, fitting, and
making oi.mtderweas, plain dress
eS, and also a woolep dress, 4
includes full course in vegetable
gardening and Horticulture with
practical instruction in the grow.
ing of early and late vegetables
hot beds, cold frames, Hinter gar.
.dens, etc, culture of flowers, etc.
Girls % be admitted to the
course must be at least eighteeI
years of 6ge. Girls between eight
cen and twenty-One should bring
a common school diplOlna or Gel.
tifieatej otherwise they will be
expected 10 take "a simple examin
tiOn in reading, writing, spelling
arithmetic, grammar, geography
physiology, and United States
hiStorFs Persons over twenty-One
viii Be admitted without an ex
animation, but should have a fair
common school education.
But. the strange thing about
this is chat the attendance is 10
larger, Inst@d of a hundred or
hundred and fifty there should b.
at least five hundred young WON.
en- from the Kansas farm and vii.
lage here each year. The farm.
er who is Eeli-to-dO, certainly
owes It 20 his girls to give them
at least such q short course e
he thinks he cannot afford to
send them here for -four or five
years. One young woman of TWEEN
ty-6Our whose father owns a 1000.
acre farm writes that her parents
are opposed to her coming fog ev
en- this short course, but that. she
has saved fifty dollars and will
come and find a place where she
can work for her board. A thous
and farmers in Kansas ought to
send their daughters to the Agri.
cultural College this fall for the
short course in cooking and sew.
ing. 1t should not cost over a
hundred dollars, and it ought to
be a better investment than land
or government bonds. Give the
girls the same chance to learn.
scientific farming.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

The room occupied by the A.
& A. people formerly is being d.
vlded into two rooms again, one
to be used by the Western Union
and Wells Fargo people, and the
other by the Gum Watson print
shop.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

LeVerette Fits came to town
Tuesday evening for a Little Wis
it with old chums and friends. He
will attend the College Of EmpOr-
la during the coming winter.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Achatz
and d&uhters of Lakin township
were visitors in the city Wednes-
day. tIr. Achat2 says he has
nothing to complain of, had a fan
wheat crop, will get a fair corn.
crop, hss his wheat ground plow
ed, ana thinks he is doing all
right. 3HeeSre is. F
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

Miss Stella Cornell has return
ed from a trip in Colorado. Mrs,
Castle and daughter, also E. W.
Noses have returned.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Norton
of Beaver township were in the
city Wednesday visiting friends
and doing little shopping.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

Mr.. and Mrs. John Tucker and
children of the south side have
gone 20 Morton county for a yis-
it with Uncle Mike Tucker and
family. Theg will be gone about
two weeks
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

Miss Myrtle Ginder OF Norwich
and. Miss Mattie Simpson of
Chase have taken positions in
the millinery emporium Of Miss
Smith.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

+ John 1Owney returned We'd
nesday morning from Racine.
WiscoeSln. where he had been to
interview the D, |. Case peopl
relative to a patent attachment
for a. threshing machine feeder.
which he recently patented. He
met with. siderable encourage
'ment. His father accompanied
him and both visited some time
in their old home in Iowa.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03
Council Meeting

The council met agreeable to
call on Wednesday evening with
Mayor Dawson in the chair.
COuneilmen present, Honnen, Mer
ritt, Smythe, Moses and Frazier I;
absent, Miller and Smith. Min.
utes of last meeting read and ap-
proved.
Monthly reports of City Clerk
and police judge read and filed.
Petition Of A. A. Wemmer-
gren and q Others asking for a
sidewalk along both sides Of
Kansas avenue beginning at IT'S
iHteBection with Lakin avenue
and running south to its intersec.
ton with 7th street was received
and on motion said petition was
granted and an ordinance order.
ed drawn covering same.
Petition of George Winstead
and Z others asking that side
walks be built long the north side
of 18th street between Washing
ton street and jefferson street
and along the east side of block
16, HeiDer Park addition was re.
ceived and on motion said peti.
tiOn was granted and an Ordi-
nance was ordered drawn cover
ing the same.
Petition of j. NJ. Ross and 18
Others asking for q sidewalk to
be built along the north side of
block 3 A. V. T. Co.'S. addition to
the City of Great Bend, was re-
ceived. and on motion eaid peti.
ton was granted and an Ordi.
nance was ordered drawn cover.
ing same.
An ordinance Nas presented
providing for the walks petition.
ed for and mead as a whole, pass
ed by sections, and adopted as a
whole as ordinance No. $40.
All councilman present, vDt
ing aye.
Application of ]. T. Ashby &
Ben McMullen, to operate pool
and billiard room, accompanied
by bond for $500, signed by l.
Zutaverh and C S. Allison was re
ceived and on motion said appli-
cation was granted and bond ap-
proved.
Resignation Of B. E. Giles ac-
cepted.
In the matter Of the curbing
and gutterdng along the east
side of block 80 and 1O3,, and ia,
and. along the south sides of blk.
80 and east l-2 of south side of
block f03 and north side of blk.
1O3, same was let to P. COOprider
as the lowest bidder, All coun-
cilmen present voting aye.
Councilman Honnen offered the
following resolution which was
adopted.
Resolved by the Mayor and
City council of the city of Great
Bend, Kansas that the follow.
ing improvements are necessary
to be made.
Curb and guttering according
70 plans and specifications on.
file in Che office 0l she city
clerk IS follows:
On the east and. west sides OF
Kansas avenues between Lakin
avenue and 7th street.
On the north side of 10Th street
between Washington street and
street.
On Che east side of block IS,
Heller addition.
On both sides. of Lakin aNeAue
between Main and Washington
street except the east half of
the south side of block 103.
On both sides Of Morton street
between Forest aFenue and .l1th
street. II
On both SIDES Of Forest avenue
U0IWoeH hlllldlIlS and Jefferson
streets.
On both sides of Main street
between 18th street and 40 T. &.
5. railway tracks at depot.
con the east side of Main street
between 18th street and 18th
strets.
1t was moved and seconded that
the parking on the north side of
Lahn avenue between William
and Washington streets be estab-.
Eshed at % feet from the proper
ty Line and carried.
The following bills having been
by the finance commit
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

Work has begun on Lpu Gunn'
new house, which he is erecting
ON Forst avenue, opposite Che
HemkSr property.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

F.F. Hull has gone to Pitts
field, Ills, for a shore business
Grip. q,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

The Riddles will soon begin
preparing the Stauffer building
fog theis new commission lEtlSe.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

Miss Lola gtewaE$ arrived ilOm
Kansas City Wednesday morning
and resumed her position with
Miss smith's millinery establish.
ment
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

T If your subscription to the
Democrat Aas expired, please re
new Is. We sort Of nesd. the
money right now.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-09-03

Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar Frazier are
Onw occupying their elegant new
home % MOrphg street.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-07-28
VULCAN GROUP.

Work on this property was begun last week. There is already a tun- mel ninety feet in lngth, which is being continued. A ear and tracking arrived last week, and will be imme- diately put into commission. The property is composed of about ninety eight acres of ground in the imme- diate vicinity of Jerome, and is di- vided into eight claims. The capital izatiOn of this company is $3,OOO,- 900; par value, $1O a share. Sur rounding this property is the Verde Grande, Hebrew group, Haynes Cop per, Hull Copper, and the United Verde Copper company, the distance being $50 feet from the nearest point to the United Verde No. l shaft. It is being promoted by Prescott busi- ness men.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-07-28
CLAIMS SOLD ON THE
 BILL WILLIAMS FORK
(From Saturdays paiIyt

Among the recent mining sales of prominence is that announced by J. C. Rogers, visitor to the city yes terday. He says that himself and brother, T. J. Rogers, have disposed of group of eighteen claims on Bill Williams. Fork, in Mohave eoun- ty, to Ban Tibbetts, who represents Los Angeles syndicate of mining men. The first payment of $12,00O has been made and the ground turn ed over to the purchasers. These properties are located in a favorable mining field in that section, the Clara being but eight miles distant, and the Planet about the same distance in another direction. It is his be- lief that this zone will be one of the liveliest in that region, and that other investors are desirOus of coming to it. In speaking of the claims sold, MT. Rogers says that he has devoted considerable money to generally de- veloping them, and in prospecting the surface of the entire group. As depth was given on these claims it was soon recognized that they were attractive, and from an ordinary re- gard being entertained for them they soon entered permanent regard and favorable rating.
 Mir. Rogers still retains a large number of other claims in that i'm mediate vicinity, and has associated with him several Prescott people as eO-owners. He believes that that sec tion is to be favorably considered in the near future, and had it not been for the climatic conditions pre-
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-07-28
(Frsm TuesaaY's DanYl

Last nights meeting of the various committees to arrange for the Labor Day celebration was a notable one for the interest shown to observe the day, set for September 6. A good representation was present, and the alloting of purses for the many events was tremendously conducted. In the aggregate $500 was the sum agreed upon, disbursed to the follow ing committees:
 H. D. Ross, chairman of the lit- erary committee, asked for the sum of s to defray the work of his as- sigRment. He also selected Charles Colquitt and Ward Harrington as his assistants. Henry F. Ashurst will probably be selected as the orator of the day.
 Joe Cook, as chairman of the cow boy sports, selected as his assistants Orville Bozarth and c. c. Jackson, and asked that the sum of $500 be set aside for this feature of the day.
 Chief Johns of the Prescott Fire department, informed the meeting that Jerome would not appear in the hose races, and believed that $500 would defray that end of the days pleasures in skillful work by the Prescott fremen.
 Fred Decker, appearing on behalf of the juvenile end of the program, asked for $75, which was given him. MT. Decker is the instructor of the manual training department of the public schools of the city.
 Charles Born, who is at the head of the tug-of-war committee, sub mitted an estimate of this tryout of the skill and muscle work, an dit was allowed him. He was also allow
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-07-28
VERDE GRANDE.

A receipt for final payment on patent of the property known as the Verde Grande Copper company has arrived. This property is situated in township 16 north, range west, .G. and s. R., and consists of 124.- 76s acres. There are seven claims, the Harold, Humboldt, Vernon, Vir- ginia, Charm and Tiger, Lodes Nos. 3 and 4.
 There has been about Sl00,00 spent on this property, which is at the present time shut down. The development work done consists of a shaft s3s feet deep, 500 feet of tunnel work and 56O feet of cross cuts. Some good showings were encountered in the various work ings.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-07-28
tFrom Tuesdays Daily)

What appears to have been an attempt to hold up William Gammill's saloon, near the depot, was made last night at about twelve o'clock. It was nipped in the bud by William Barclay, on the night shift, who thwarted the would-be highwayman before he could reach the interior of the build ing. Barclay fired two shots at the man who was evidently trying to enter the room, from the rear yard, and had reach ed a point known as the pigeon house, when the barking of a little.dog in the saloon room attracted his attention.
 In speaking of the affair, Mir. Bar clay says that he has been on the
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-07-28
ACTIVITY IN THE COPPER BASIN
 DISTRICT P. A. Company Ready To Commence
 Sinking

Indications are that mining in Copper Basin will be generally re- sumed in the near future, several companies intending to start up work in that field. To this end the P. A. company, the owners of good looking ground, are ready to begin develop foot head frame, and entering into negotiations for a hoist with east ern manufacturers. The work out lined will be to sink on their ground and a sufficient force will be placed on the property to carry out this plan at once. Joseph Sherer, well known practical miner, will be the superintendent
 It will be learned with interest by many that the work recently started by Len A. Flint, on the Gold Star group, is progressing more satisfae- torily than was anticipated with the depth shown. This group was pur- chased few weeks ago from Mir. Roberts, and immediately following the sale the ground was put in shape for development. A vein of fine ore is said to have been struck, and the management felt somewhat elated as this work continues. The Gold Star les also in the Copper Basin district, few miles to the north of the Skull Valley foothills.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-07-28
CONSOLIDATION OF B|G COPPER
 INTERESTS
Rumor That Cananea And Copper Queen
 Will Merge

According to a high official of the
 Cananea Consolidated Copper com pany, plans are on foot or have al- ready been completed for the biggest copper consolidation in the history of the southwest.
 According to this, official, the first of the year will see the retirement of Dr. James Douglas from the head of
 the PhelpsDodge copper interests. His retirement will mark the eonsOli- dation of the Cananea and Copper Queen interests and the retirement of the Phelps-Dodge company from the copper business. According to information, pr. Ricketts, present general manager of the Cananea com pany, will become the head of the new consolidation.
 The Phelps-Dodge company, it ;s said, will go into the railroading busi- ness exclusively. In combination with the Rock Island, these two mammoth interests purpose building a great rival system to the Hartman south ern lines. Much comment has been caused by the recent enlargement of the capital stock of the Fl Paso & Southwestern from $17, ,5O0,OOO to s25,OOO,OOO, and the general opinion is that the increase had much to do with the eventual extension of the Fl Paso & Southwestern as the link between the Rock Island terminal at New Mexico, and the eastern terminal of the Spreekles line, now building with all haste from San Diego.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-07-28
REMAINING MAN

Surgery of the present day is not at all dismayed by the somewhat dis eouraging maxim that man is fear fully and wonderfully made. The knife has entered upon course of extirpation that promises to eliminate even if by heroic methods, some of the ills that flesh is heir to. Al ready it has become a not infrequent operation to remove the vermiform appendix in early childhood, in order tO do away with the possibility of perilOus appendicitis in adult life But progress is the onward cry of science. It has become elementary to live usefully with one lung or one kidney. That is only taking advant. age of a duplicate preeaution of na- tUre. The removal of the stomach, once cited in the text books as won aerful, has become a we'll known, if lnfrequent, expedient that merely en- tails upon the subject attention to a diet restricted in variety, says the Albuquerque Citizen.
 But now an authority upon bac- teria, Prof. Metehinkoff, finds that the ailments of advancing age are due largely to poisoning by male deent garms which have their habitat
 in the large intestine. The logical inference is obvious. If man may prolong life without that organ, away with it! There is confirmation of this doctrine in the further investi- gStions of Dr. Distaso, who has col iected and compared a number of recorded cases of this operation. Two recent subjects have received his par ticular study. He has found their bacteriological status of an exception ally desirable order, and he is con rlneed that they are destined to live lar longer than they could have done If they had retained all of their ori- ginal internal apparatus. As re- suit, it is stated that he advocates the universal extirpation of this part or the machinery of the human race. 1t would be daring conjecture to predict what surgeons of the future may spare as essential to keep to- gether soul and body. It would be interesting to establish the ratio be- tween the capacities of earning and of consuming of these revised edi- uons of the image of divinity. What the learned doctors should do to round out their discovery is way of plotting out that historic edict that man shall earn his bread in the sweat of his face.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-07-28
COURT BUSINESSES CASE AGAINST
 HANCE-
Did Not Argue With A Shotgun As Was
 Alleged

Erroneous reports of an exagger
 ated nature have been published over
 the recent trouble that was sup
 posed to have taken place in tho
 Verde valley, in which George W
 Hanee was placed in an undesirable
 light. The arrival in the city, Sat
 urday, of District Attorney Ross, rep
 resenting the county, and J. E. Rus
 sell of counsel for Mir. Hanee, to-
 gether with the dismissal of Hanee by Judge Dennison, clears the at. mOsphere of a case that practically amounted to nothing. The statements made that Mir. Hanee used a Win chester against the Zanjero of the Verde ditch to enforce the turning on or off of the water, was a myth, says MT. Russell. Mir Hanee en- deavOred to force no one, but on the contrary. the examination at Jerome showed that he was demanding only the right to which any other patron of the water service there is. en- titled. It seems that when Mir. Hanee made a threat against the water be- ing turned away from his strip, the display of firearms alleged was due to the fact that he had an old Colts pistol wrapped up in a bag, and did not in any manner attempt to inject it into the argument. It was also established that the seere- tary of the Water Users association on the Verde had issued a receipt to MT. Hanee for the pay due the as- sOeiation for the month claimed, and that the zanjerO was unaware of this hence the refusal of the last named to permit Hance to use the water. Judge Dennison accord ingly dismissed the ease against Hanee for want of jurisdiction.
Weekly journal-miner., 1909-07-28
FIRES SHOT AT A
 SUSPECTED ROBBER

alert ever since Mike Chianteretto was held up, and for the last three nights at late hours things in that neighborhood have been suspicious.
 When the rain was coming down Sunday night his mare in the back yard acted peculiar, creating a dis turbance, causing him to investigate. The night previous to this demon stration by the animal, he heard things fall.
 Last night the climax was reached, he believes. The street was dark, the lights all being extinguished, with only a few people around the other saloons, and he was alone. when he saw the intruder.
 The first shot fired by Barclay brought two other neighbors to his assistance, but the suspected robber by that time had vanished, and there is no trace of him. Officer McMahon was soon on the scene, but it was use less to attempt to pursue the man.
 No description could be given by Barclay, as it was dark, and but an outline of his form was discern able.