Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-11-15
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items OF Interest Condensed for HurI led
Readers.


new church at Sabct tha.
The Dickinson county high school
foot ball team will soon le ready to
issue challenges.
Enterprises school board closed the
school for week and gave the teach
ers vacation on full salary to go to
the fair,
The November term of the United
States court for the Fort Scott dis
trict convened in. that place Novcm-
ber 6.
Captain John Mcclure. one of the
pioneer Ohio river steamboatmen,
died Sunday at his home on Wheeling
Island, W. Va.
The Blue Rapids boys necessarily
have to use good deal of paint to
keep their town in the same class
with Vermillion.
Last Wednesday evening at the
Junction City Universalist church
Mrs. S. NJ. Barnes was formerly or
dained as Uniyersalist minister.
? The Nashville Live Stock company,
of Nashville, Kingman county, has
flied its charter with the secretary of
state. 1t has capital of $1,000
burglars entered the postoffice at
Kingman Saturday and secured over
$500 in money and stamps, and got off
without clue to their identity.
The man Boyd who killed a man
named Hawley in Caldwell little
while back, has been held over to the
district term of court without bail.
Richland wants ''an educated ply
sician sufficiently up in surgery as to
be able to reduce fractured limb
and care for it in way that will
not leave the patient cripple for
life"
The well for the Riley waterworks
is down 130 feet with 65 feet of water.
1t will be sunk to the depth of 200 feet
if necessary to secure sufficient water
to keep a large wind mill running all
the time.
Ellis, Emporia, ESalina, Abilene,
Ellsworth, Great Bend, Hays City, Os-
borne and Lawrence horses par
tlcipated in the races that dedicated
Russell's kite shaped track, November
s, Q ard 10.
One of the questions which is agi-
tating the citizens of Topeka is wheth-
er or not the dogcatcher shall be con-
tinued In Office. The city is under the
necessity of sailing close to land in a
financial sense.
OF late years Nortonville has become
quite market for wood. Formerly
bitumlnous coal was the principal
fuel, but now anthracite coal and
wood have become large part of the
fuel burned.
A mineral spring has been discov-
cred near Salina the waters of which
have such evident medical qualities
that the Republican says there is now
very little doubt but that the spring
will prove valuable discovery.
Alex Howell had on exhibition at
the Riley fair, recently, thirty-six
ears of corn which weighed fifty-siA
pounds. Mr.. Howell is the gentleman
who three years ago sent the seven
teen foot corn stalk to New York.
The Mitchell county schools are
preparations to bring a fine
exhibit to the North Central Kansas
Teachers association, to be held in
Concordia at Thanksgiving time. They
propose to carry off the oratorical
honors, also.
A bevy of Newton girls logged out
in masks and mother -hubbards, out.
We'd the boys in that town in their
Halloween sportive abandon. There
was no crimson coloring used, but it
is said there never was such a dust
kickt d up.
a Franklin man who was 'sbatch-
in git while his wife was away tele-
graphed her at the end of q week 10
hurry home. When she alighted on
the platform badly scared, he asked
her what on earth she had done with
the butcher knife.
The Winfield postoffice stands sixth
among the second class offices of the
United States-that there has been
but one complaint filed In eighteen
months, and that was shown to be the
fault of the complainant and unavoid-
bic on the part of the office.
Captain John A, Fisher, a we'll
known memLcr of lincoln post. who
now lives in Florence, was married
about year ago. He was then near
ly 20 years old and totally blind. He
has just written to his friends here
that he is the father Of a 12-pound
boy,
Out of the fifty-one who are taking
the civil service examination in Tone
Ia this week, seventeen are from To-
peka, six from Leavenworth two from
and the remainder from
Emporia, Garnett. Overlook, Solo
mon City, Manhattan, Holton. Alma.
Usage City and Concordia,
The editor of the Winchester Star
drops this gentle hint: Our woodpile
has almost vanished, and our pants
have grown SO thin, that 1t is with the
greatest effort, (when we seat ourseIf
in the editorial chair these frosty
mornings that we keep from shaking
off our chin.
The News expresses the belief that
another railroad will be built to
Guthrie soon; that active work will
commence within sixty DAYS. and
that it will be pushed to completion
as fast as money and men can do the
work, 1t is no disparagement to the
capital city to remark that it is a very
luiet week there that does not BRING
another railroad into prospect.
Franklin county is raising peanuts.
One field it is estimated will Weld 200
bushels per acre.
W. r. Converse of Newton relates tn
The Republican a curious incident that
he witnessed while en- route to ButIer
county Tuesday. He says he saw
what appeared to be a bicycle wheel
twenty inches in diameter and four
nches in width tearing wildly across
she prairie. When it would strike an
distraction it wonld bound.into the arr
evolving. When the wheel reached
he road it disappeared, to what place
Mr.. Converse cannot divine, 1t was
a wonderful phenomena, sad
he solution ramains to be found.
The rush to the strip took away a
quorum of Caldwell's councilmen so
hat nc meetings could be held bv
hat body or appropriations made to
'ay employees of the city. A special
election will be called to fill the va
ant aldermanic chairs.