Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-12-06
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Chrysanthemum fairs are the fash
on in many towns in the state.
Waterville uses more coal oil than
beer. Waterville ought TO be we'll
lighted city
The postoffice returns from many
towns of the state indicate a healthy
growth of business.
The annual reunion of the Eleventh
cavalry volunteers will be
held at Emporia December :.
The newly elected treasurer of
Dickinson county is not too old to
play bait, and is captain of team at
Abilene.
A prominent physician of Newton is
being sued by Pennsylvania maiden
for $4,000 for alleged breach of
promise. ..az4,.
Atchison business men are prepar-
ing to give the burglars a warm re-
ception by employing special night
A dispatch received at Cape Town
from Petersburg, reports that Com
mander Raaf has captured King Lo
The Kansas State Dairy association
Will hold its seventh annual meeting
in Representative hall at Topeka,
December to 8.
Fort Scott has a ''Coon and Pos
sum" club which captured three coons
and two possums the first night the
members went on hunt.
Mr.. Barnard Kelly, the retiring PEN
sion agent at the Topeka office, was
presented with handsome library
chair by the clerks in the office.
Canton is the home of a woman who
circulated petition for the release of
her husband, who was in Jail for un-
mercifullv beating her, but the other
people had better Judgment than did
she and refused to sign the petition.
The Salina Republican makes the
grave mistake of locating Hon. George
w. Martins paper in Missouri. SUCH
mistakes would make some Kansas ed
itors redheaded, but it won't phase
Mr. Martins head-bccause it can't.
No better evidence of the state
pride that exists In Kansas has lately
been furnished than by the deep in
tereSt manifested in the result of the
football game between the state uni
versity team and the Michigan eleven
One firm in Garden City shipped a
ton and quarter of dressed turkeys
to Colorado points one day last week
The Finney county people have some
thing to be thankful for notwithstand-
ing the magnified aridity of their sec
tion.
General T. T. Tayl of Hutchinson
removes to Lake Charles, La, where
he will assume the attorneyship of the
Jennings & Lake Charles railroad.
This road was conceived and built by
:. b. Watkins, the Lawrence million
aire.
Ente prise Journal: A Saline county
farmer sold load of hay to 7Salina
man about eight months ago. Monday
the farmer returned 81 with a note
saying the hay was not as good as it
looked. The farmer must be one of
those persons you read about some
times who have a conscience.
The other day Florence family ate
a chicken that had been caught and
bitten by dog which went mad the
next day. The worry in that family
now is to know whether rabies can
be communicated by biting "a chicken
that was bitten by "a dog that went
mad the next day after the chicken
was eaten.
Forty-nine fishermen of the vicinity
of Copenhagen lost their lives during
the recent storms. The Princess Wal
demar and the wife of the premier
have started national subscription
for the relief of the families of the
fishermen and $500 kroner have al
ready been received.
The trial of Henry S. Cochran, late
chief weigher of the Philadelphia
mint, took place Thursday lefere
Judge Butler and jury in the United
States district court. Cochran's coun-
sci made no defense and a verdict of
guilty was rendered without leaving
the box.
The excitement at Weir City over
the killing of the negro miner Nc Kee-
yer has somewhat abated, but there is
still an ugly feeling among the ne
groes. One of their preachers pub
lished a card Tuesday, stating that
the colored people are law abiding
and only want to know that the men
whom he charges murdered their COM
panion is in the clutches of the law,
and will pay the penalty of the crime
He disclaims any desire on the part of
the negroes to be riotous. President
Walters. of the United Mine Workers,
was there Tuesday and said the white
miners of Cherokee county are divid-
ed in opinion as to whether the negro
or pit boss, Elliott, was most to blame
for the shooting Mr.. Walters thinks
many complications will yet arise be-
fore the matter is settled.
There is great excitement over a
telegram received at Spokane Falls,
Wash, from Washington, stating that
the lands formerly belonging to the
Northern Pacific railway near there,
had lapsed back to the government
again by recent court decisions. Hun
dreds of settlers, young and old,
spent all night filing claims, and to
day the scene is as busy as ever. The
lands are located near the Northern
Pacific depot in the central portion of
the city. The railway officials scout
the idea that the railway company is
disI assessed of the land, but several
district attorneys claim otherwise
Two squads of policemen are on the
ground to preserve order, but so far
no violence has been reported,
A Longston minister is turning his
visit to the worlds fair to account by
giving n series of lectures about what
he saw and charging an admission fee
of Is cents to hear him.
Amelia Snyder VS.. Joseph Snyder is
the title of the only divorce case fled
in Topeka, Tuesday. The parties
were married in 1889, and the hus-
band seems to have turned out un-
usually bad, according to Mrs. Sny-
der's story in the petition. He has be-
come habitual drunkard and on a
number of occasions knocked her
down, using his shoe sometimes and
his fist sometimes. He also made a
habit of calling her abusive names.
A Jefferson county farmer has made
5000 gallons of sorghum molasses this
season and has sold it at 80 cents PEI
gallon.