Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-07-21
KANSAS NEWS.


Olathe aspires to board oftrade.
Hutchinson is soon to have the cleo
trio light.
Caldwell has shipped three car loads
of new wheat.
Wyandotte's new courthouse, COM
plete, will cost $45, 900.
Usage Mission has shipped several
car loads of new wheat,
Caldwell shipped ninety cars of
cattle in one day last week. asi
Leavenworth county wheat will aver
age twenty-five bushels to the acre.
The sorghum crop in Ellis county is
reported twice as large as last year.
Charles d. Palmer, of Silver Lake,
was thrown from his horse and Instant
ly killed.
Hanover, Washington county, is to
have new school-house, 40x60, three
stories high. .
New wheat is now arriving at Atchi-
son in liberal quantities from the Cen
trail Branch.
Two small boys, the sons of Mrs.
Trumbull, were drowned in the Della
ware river, near Perry.
Topeka tested her new water-works
recently, and Leavenworth will soon
have the same pleasure.
The notorious cattle thief, Lorenzo
Dow Beal, and three other prisoners.
broke Jail at Ellsworth.
The water-works at Wa-Keeney are
unsatisfactory. The man who hauls
the supply skips half his customers.
The Harvey county normal institute
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Newton on July oath and continue five
weeks.
The Neosho county normal institute
for 1882 will be held at Chanute, COM
mencing July 31st, and continues four
weeks.
Surveyors were at work at Hiawatha
last week locating the machine shops
and round-hOuse for the Missouri
Pacific railroad.
The Solomon Valley Sheep company
sheared seven sheep at Beloit last week,
the feeces of which averaged twenty
eight pounds each.
Eighty-one cars of cattle were ship
ped from Coffeyville last week, three ex-
tras. going out and few cars shipped
on the regular train.
Exchanges from all over the state.
but perhaps more particularly from the
Arkansas valley, are mentioning the
scarcity of farm laborers.
The Kansas Pacific railroad offers
$lOO In premiums for the best collection
OF grain, grasses, etc., produced in the
territory which it traverses.
There are, in Woodson county, about
thirty fruit trees to each inhabitant of
the county, man, woman and child, or
a grand total of 250, 200 trees.
Ten thousand pounds of wool were
shipped from Garden City last Satur-
day, by Messrs. Ames and Stotts. con
signed to parties in Philadelphia.
George Craig, who choked August
Kempmaier to death in Fowler Bros
packing house, at Kansas City, Kansas.
was found guilty of manslaughter in
the second degree.
Pawnee county has 100000 bushels
OF wheat, is estimated to have two thou
sand tons OF broOm-corn, and half a.
million pounds of wool The value of
these products alone will be 1000 for
each head of family in the county
Rather curiosity in the way of nat
ural history was found by some boys in
the mill race at Kingman one day last.
week. 1t was about six inches in length,
resembling catfish in some respects,
but having legs like lizard.
The farmers of Stafford county are in
better spirits now than at any time in
the past three years. They are now
reaping one of the best wheat crops the
country has ever produced, and corn,
oats, and all kinds of vegetables are do
ing well, and promises good yield.
Stafford county is indeed in prosper
Gus condition.
AS the Central Branch train neared
Blue Rapids, the other morning, some
miscreants hurled stone at the pass
ing train, breaking plate of glass and
injuring Samuel Stephenson, by infiict-
ing severe cash on the head This is
the third attack on the train Each
time passengers have been severely
wounded. The company intends arm
ing employees, to protect its property,
and the persons in its care.
| A passenger bound for Pueblo, on
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe.
from Efiingham, ILL.,, named John Ma
son, was set upon by a brakeman of
that road, near the station of Hutchin-
son, and severely beaten. His wounds
will cause death, as the scalp is laid
open and the face gashed. The alter
cation arose from dispute about money
and fare, and as the passenger attempt
ed to use his revolver, the brakeman
struck him in self-defence
Chanute Chronicle: Mr. Skeels, of
Centerville township, has the finest
prospect for fruit of all kinds it has
ever been our lot to see in Kansas. 1t
is truly gratifying to behold the young
trees in his orchard, bending to the
ground under their heavy loads of APP
pies. He has 1,600 apple trees in bear
ing and the crop this year is estimated
by competent judges at from four to
i've thousand bushels of choice apples.
Besides the apples, he has all man
ner of other fruit in abundance
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