Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-01-16
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Kingman has a Temperance union. {,
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They are going to bore for coal e III.
Ian, Summer county.
w. B. Weir. was arrested at Wyan-
dotte for bigamy, last week. n
Over 500, 900 worth of broom corn
was shipped from Lindsborg.
The Kansas exhibit at New Orleans
was not ready on the opening day.
Illinois and Missouri are said to make
the poorest show at New Orleans.
Sterling p. Woodward, formerly OF
Missouri, committed suicide at Sedan.
New York capitalists have recently
invested about 100000 in Montana
ranches. +1-
Hon. N. T. Stephens, judge of the 4th
judicial district, died at his home in
Lawrence. aiss-s
The interstate commerce bin passed
the house by vote Of l5s to Is In the
negative. or
There are seven denominational col.
leges IN Kansas, representing as many
leading denominations. 10
In Wyoming stockmen are contract.
ing the next years calves at the lucra.
tive figure Of SO per head.
Twenty-one years ago last week, Kan.
sas was covered with foot Of snow and
travel was suspended several days.
John Wilson, an employe at Woo
Bros. ice house at Atchison, was killed
by falling timber one day last week
The sleet on Wednesday and the snow
storm on Thursday of this week, vii
no doubt greatly increase the losses Of
stockmen.
There has been q secret attempt e
remove the post-ofice from Rochester
Kingman, county, to Westpoint, but il
failed.
Last year Pratt county had nearl,
one million acres of vacant land and nov
every foot Of this has been taken up By
settlers.
Secretary Allen, Of the Idaho Stock
Growers convention estimates the mum.
Der Of cattle on range in the Territor,
at $50, 600.
A Swedish lady named Christin.
Goldbranson, aged "a years, was ont
day last week drowned in a well neal
Bridgeport.
George @. Kenney has been arrested
for the murder Of NJ. A. Henry which
occurred in the suburbs of Emporis
four years ago. -v,ts
The Lawrence Standard urges tht
claims of Major E. G. Ross to the gov.
ernorship Of New Mexico, under thu
new administration.
The German people who were only
25,OoO,OOO in 1851, are now At, 100000 and
their present rate of increase is greater
than that Of any European race.
The Usage county Chronicle says that
Kansas corn Cubs this year are useless
for fuel. They are SO large they CAM
be put into the kitchen stove,
1t is fixed law among the Apache
Indians that a man and his mother-in.
law must never visit each other or see
each otherif 1t can possibly be avoided
Labette county has 5000 Sunday.
school scholars, fifty Sunday schools and
All teachers. Crawford county has lOC
schools and Cherokee county has sixty
eight.
The Connecticut legislature, which
assembled last week had the privilege OF
selecting an entire ticket of state off,
GERS, as nobody received a clear majority
at the election last November.
Cherryvale II 10 have a telephone SER
vice, and viii organize as a city Of the
second-class, provided that the census
which has been ordered shows the requi-
site 1000 Inhabitants.
Kansas has 9,lel public school houses
in which 40l ,Sl6 pupils have attended
school the past year. The number of
teachers employed was s,l55, the salar-
les aggregating $, 900, 900.
A settler residing forty miles south
west Of Dodge City was engaged in
chasing wolves with dogs, but the infu-
rated animals turned upon him and he
barely escaped with his life.
Twenty-Five merchants in Solomon
City have signed an agreement and
given notice to the public that with the
beginning Of the year they would close
their books against the credit system.
Germany is buying breeding hogs
from the United States and so Is Cuba.
Sixty-five head Of Poland China were
shipped TO Germany lately by an Indi-
ana breeder, and large number to
Cuba.
Secretary Teller says the Indians have
the right to secure compensation for
pasturing stock on their reservations,
and DOW that they are doing so freelv,
they are receiving $50 for every dollar
received under the old system.
Thepractice Of dehorning cattle seems
to be gaining favor among stockmen
generally. 1t can be done quickly and
without the loss Of q pint of blood, be-
sides it insures the owners of cattle
against loss by goring.
Senator William Malone OF Virginia
is dangerously i'll. In the event Of his
death, q democrat viii be elected to sue
coed him in the United States senate.
Malone was readjuster and acted
with the republicans.