Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-12-22
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

members led to much valuable information.
Mr.. Hopkins, of Wyandotte County, stated
that he received 81, 500 for the strawberries of
OF seven -eighths Of an acre. He used as
fertilizer dry blood, procured from the
slaughter house. He received for his crop
twenty-five cents per quart. He paid for pick
ing berries two cents quart, used four hun
dred pounds of blood, which cost him about
twelve dollars. The other expenses were
slight. He did not know the exact net profit,
but it must have been over 81, 300 He ex-
planned how the fertilizer, was used. Among
the apples on exhibition was fresh lot ex-
hibited by Mr.. Shepherd, of Dickinson County,
a locality that it had been stated would not
grow fruit Mr.. Shepherd said his orchard
was about thirteen years old, but his most
prolific trees were planted eleven yeas ago.
The crop compared with any he had ever seen.
He had 300 bushels of peaches this year.
The Topeka, Salina and Western Railway
Company held another meeting In Topeka last
week, and further strengthened itself for the
immediate building of the road. One of the
principal objects of the meeting was to re-
affirm all past actions OF the Board of Direc-
tors, and make more secure the company's
defense to the suits for damages that have
been brought by the people living along the
line of the road. A charter was also filed for
the building Of a branch road from the main
line of the Topeka, Salina and Western, six
teen miles southeast Of Abilene, up to that
city. Jay Gould it is said is furnishing the
money. 1t is expected to interest the same
management in the Topeka, Ottawa and Fort
Scott Road, in order to get an out let to the
Southeast by way of Memphis, down to New
o. leans. - ~
Capt D. s. Payne, of Oklahoma fame, was
in Topeka last week, prosecuting his case
before Judges McCrary and Foster against
Gen. John Pope, commander of the United
States army at Fort Leavenworth, to test his
rights as a pre-emptor and homesteader of
lands in the Indian country. H. G. Ruggles,
Of Wichita, has been Mr.. Payne's attorney in
all OF his Oklahoma business for the past two
years. but since coming before the U. s. cir
cult court they have retained Hon. Thos. P.
Fenlon, of Lcavenworth, to assist them. Capt.
Payne and his attorneys think they have a
good case, and that the disputed territory will
be ultimately opened to settlement.
The main irrigating ditch, which was COM
menced recently at Larned, near the Pawnee,
will run in Southwesterly direction to Gar
field, there receiving the waters from Coon
creek and the Arkansas River. This will con-
meet the Pawnee with the above mentioned
streams, all of which cannot, in any bound of
reason, fail, in any season, of affording suf-
fcient quantity of water to irrigate a great
portion of the valley lands between Larned
and Garfield.
PostOffice changes in Kansas during the
week ending December 2, 1892: Postmasters
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Watson; Bgelow Marshall county, Joseph E.
Kirk; Cactus, Norton county, Patrick H. Con-
arty; Cedar Point, Chase county, Clark H.
Corey; Jimtown, Phillips county, VIM. H.
Phillips; Usage Mission, Neosho county, Jas
S. Curtis. Observation-Disclosures, Sedgwick
county; Jacksonville, Neosho county; Lam
arco, Graham county; Painted Post, Bourbon
county; st. Paul, Sheridan county.
The engineers of the st. Louis, Fort Scott
and Wichita Railroad are making final sur
vey for their line in Sedgwick County. 1t is
said that the road will be completed and in
operation to Wichita by June 1, 1888 Much
interest in the road is manifested by the peo-
pie of Wichita as it is said to be an indepen-
dent line, which will compete strongly with
the Santa Fe.
Burglars and horse thieves keep the Wichita
police busy.
AS freight train standing at the sta
ton at Chetopa lately, the fireman, w. Joyce,
crawled under the engine to clean out the ash
pan. While he was thus employed the brake
was let loose. causing the cars and engine to
move forward. Joyce attempted to crawl out,
but was caught under the wheels and cut in
two in the middle, death being instantaneous
The deceased was from North Vernon, Indi-
ana, to which point his remains were for
warded
Mr.. Drevis, from Germany, who some time
ago bought six quarter sections Of land lying
west Of Sedgwick City, will at once prepare
for the erection of his Creamery. He will be
assisted by eighteen laborers direct from Ger
many.
Corn is sixty cents a bushel in Trego Coun-
ty. The farmers out there have raised no
grain worth speaking of, and are turning their
attention entiie ely to stock raising.
VIM. A. Baker, who was tried for forgery,
raising check from sl2 to 81 200, was found
guilty in the United States Court, at Topeka
last week, and sentenced to hard labor in the
penitentiary at Chester, Ills, for two years.
La Cygne was visited by destructive fire
one day last week, which broke out in Crox-
toms Billiard Hall and made clean sweep on
the west side Of Broadway from Market to
Walnut streets. The principal losers were:
A. Friedman, Geo. j. Miller, George Eyer, H.
Deminger & Co., D. Coonradt, VIM. Sharon,
Judson & Davis, 1. Croxton, Booker Seaton,
Porter's barber shop, Tilgner's meat market,
Robt. WhisneryF. w. Pollman, c. c. Akin
son, dentist, Burton Bros, d. Ross, d. Cow,
G. F. Hamlin, G. T. Neyison and D. s. Kelley.
Wetmore will build new mill next sum
mer.
Kansas grown fruit trees are the best for
Kansas orchards. This is q fact that orchard
| lists should remember. --s-ses
G. A. Bowers, -stockman of Newton,
walked off the platform of the cars near Car
bondale few days ago and was seriously II
not fatally injured.
A number of Kansas towns viii establish
| water works next season. y
Three young men, named Elmer and Richard
Gwinn and George r James, have been ar
rested at Atchiscn for alleged completely in
/ ticket stealing. The first two hail from Glenn
Rock, N. Y, and the other is reported to be q
cousin of the noted Frank James. They were