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

Marysville wants new grain ele
vator.
Potatoes retail at s1.oo per bushel In
Topeka
Gaylord had 5000 incendiary blaze
recently.
The Blue Rapids woolen-mills work
100 hands.
Peaches are ripe in the southern part
Of the state.
Nickerson proposes to erect new
school-house.
Leavenworth is to have $25,000s
organ factory.
Scarlet fever is quite prevalent in
Merton county.
Hodgeman county cattle men are
organizing pool.
Forty feet of the Solomon City dam
went out the other day.
Hogs are worth $3.50 and corn 81
cents in Sumner county.
Bronson, Bourbon county, is to haves
a $25. 900 6euring-mill.
Seneca has a fruit-drying establish
ment-on large scale.
In Jewell county clover is Is inches,
and bluegrass % inches high.
There is talk of a railroad from Ar
kansas City to Gueda Springs.
Irving, Marshall county, ships over
four hundred pounds of butter daily.
The castor bean and fax crop in
Neosho county looks quite promising.
The sheep interests of Mitchell coun--
Cawker City.
Abilene has the crack fire depart
ment of the state-90 m smbers. So says
the Gazette.
The Ford County Irrigation COM.
pany, with capital of $4,000, has
been organized.
The courthouse at Leavenworth was
damaged to the amount IF $4,000 by
the recent storm.
The Emporis Republican says fern
ers have resorted to the yard sticks to
measure the daily growth of corn.
Horses near. Millbrook, by eating
castor beans were made violently sick,
and their lives saved with difficulty.
At Atchison Wesley Wilson struck
Samuel Harrison over the head with a.
heavy chair, killing him almost Instant
ly.
Those posted say that sorghum plant
ed near rice Corn is unit for syrup, as
1t partakes of the bitter taste of rice
corn.
A little girl in Harvey county was
burned to death by the explosion of a.
kerosene can. She was pouring oil on
the fire.
Abilene Gazette: If you want work,
you can get it, One thousand able
bodied men are wanted in the Dickin.
son county harvest fields.
The locomotives. now in use in the
state, if coupled together, would cover
eight miles of track, and the passenger
cars would cover about four miles.
Lawrence and Peabody are the
champion dog towns. The former
has one which weighs $50 pounds, and
the latter boasts of one weighing $50
pounds.
Mitchell county sheep men are reap
ing bonanza from the wool clip. 1t
is estimated that over $50, 900 in cash
will be paid out for wool in Beloit dur
ing the next sixty days.
The body of Jason Richardson. who
disappeared from his home in Della
ware township, Leavenworth county,
last Friday. was found in badly de-
composed condition. Suicide is suspect
ed.
Chase County Leader: The widow
McManus, who lives on Diamond creek,
near George Britton, was so severely
bitten by dog belonging to that
gentleman that there is but little hope
of her recovery. She went into the
house. not knowing that the family
was absent, when she was attacked by
the dog, and dragged into the yard, and
before aid could reach her, her side,
breast and arms were terribly lacerated.
Peabody Gazette: A farmer, living
about three miles west of Douglass,
has 1.180 acres of wheat which is
situated on bottom lands and is so
promising that he has been offered
100000 for his crop. Hs refused it,
and Mr.. A. S. Nelson, of this city, who
told us, says he estimated that the
crop would bring. after paying all ex-
penses, not less than $26,0O0. It will
yield not less than IS, and probably 40
bushels per acre.