Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-10-25

The yearly Bak tist association for
this district closed four days sue
cessful session at Alden, Barton coun-
ty, last Sunday.
Barton county claims to have sent
more visitors to the worlds fair than
any county in the state, with possibly
three exceptions.
The Mayrsville Democrat estimates
that at least Se5,0OO have been spent
by residents of th;,t town who went to
the worlds fair.
A Greenwood county man is consid-
ering plans for tie construction of a
125-acre pond. the waters of which
are to be used in rrigating a 5Oo-acre
orchard.
A raddish eight zen inches long and
SIX inches in dian eter is product OF
irrigation aad Lsnc county soil that
the Dighton Hereld vouches for as I;
reality.
The Cedarvale Star is responsible
for the statement that S. NJ. Jarvis, OF
the Jarvis-Conkli.l Mortgage company
was at one time the publisher of pc,
per in that city.
The Topeka journal says it ISM
safe in that city FOR people with golG
filling in their teeth to go out alonf,
after dark On. dentists office has
been robbed alre ady
Pawnee boasts of having the best
townsite board of any of the new
towns. The board there organized
promptly and at once took steps to-
wards proving u, the TOWNSHIP.
George Cross, the Lawrence mail
carrier, had his hearing Monday af-
ternoon before United States Commits
sioner Wilson. He was bound over
for trial in the United States District
Court.
John Diebold was found guilty in
the district court of Doniphan county.
of murder in the second degree. in the
killing of Marion Cornelius Pinyerd.
in melon patch near Doniphan last
September.
Lebanon last week celebrated its
sixth anniversary with orations by
famous orators, horse and bicycle
races, base bill game, dance, and
by indulging in Intoxicating rides on
steam merry-5o-round.
County Q com prises all the country
lying between the Arkansas and CHM
AKRON rivers as far west as the Otoes
reservation, with Pawnee City, lying
across the Big Black Bear river from
the agency, as Che county seat.
The Dodge City Light, Water and
Land company has been chartered,
with capital stock of S25O,OOO. The
company will cndeavor to illuminate
orfn IF Al
ton question by practical demonstra-
ton,
O'Donnell Bros. of Lincoln county
shipped three car loads of broom corn
from Guthrie. Tuesday. to Chicago.
They claim to have the largest broom
corn raised in Oklahoma, and own
more land in their family. The News
says they have an even leo acres.
One firm in Atchison is shipping a
car load of cabbage every day. Most
of it is raised by farmers of Atchison
county. The Champion says it was
thought for awhile that the ca bbage
crop would be cut short on account of
the hot winds, but the late rain
brought it out all right, and the crop
is immense and of fine quality.
The Indian Journal says there is N
power on Gods green earth that can
prevent some change being brought
about in the FIVE tribes, and if the In
dams sit back two years longer with
out proposing change it will bet dol
lars to doughyiuts they will find them
selves the tail and Oklahoma the kite.
But the Journal needn't fret. The In
dams have been in contact with the
enterprising whites these years to pur
pose. Look at the sixty allotments in
the strip.
Smith County Pioneer: Mrs Barlow
wife of the Old gentleman who carries
this place and Gaylord, residing at
Gaylord, went out to her farm ne u
the south line of the county last Fri
day morning and going into the corn
field cut up and shocked forty-nine
shocks of corn, sixteen hills square
This look he. until about o'clock in
the afternoon. Going to the house
she prepared and ate meal and re-
turned to the field at about 6 o'clock.
From that ii ne until o clock in the
morning she put up forty-five moro
shocks, making total OF ninety-four
After coolSir e and eating her break
fast Saturd ay morning she resumed
her la boris and cut up enough to make
the even hundred, when il commenced
to rain AMI she walked five miles
through the heaviest rain of the sea,
son. The next day she walked to he.
home in Gay lord feeling as well as us
ual. She is GA years old. Now John
Royce, Colum Borin. Sandy Barron
and that smartweed down at Mankate
all youSsng that have been Jump.
ing onto us for the last fourteen years
If there is woman in Phillips. De-
catur or Jewell counties that can
come anywhere near that, we would
like to see The color of her hair Trot
her out. You can't do it, eh? We've
got you doy,ned and intend to keep
you there, blast We.
Galena has a population Of about
1000 people, and is a driving, bust
ness-like city. 1t produces one-thirl
of all the zine produced in the Unite
States and all the lead produced -
the state. Mines are now running "a
their utmost capacity and the weekly
pay roll runs from $40, 600 to SIS, 900
per week.
The Topeka kindergarten Associa-
ton is abont to establish tire. new
schools in different parts of the city.
The Southwestern Irr1gating Ditch
company is planting 1000 awberry
plants on the Great Eastern Ditch
Farm adjoining Lakin,