Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-04-11
More than LOO pupils are enrolled
IL the public schools of Enporia.

| Allen comfy farmers say that oats
and lax were very badly damaged by
last weeks freeze.
/ The Parsons police ran in nineteen
tramps In a bunch the other night.
! Four were fined and the rest run out
of town.
A l0-year-old boy at Fort Scott stole
S'4 from his grandmother and skipped
out. Extended search so far has
failed to locate him.
prairie fire in Mikesell township.
Rawlins county, last week destroyed
many acres of valuable growing tim
Der belonging to Hon. o. l.. Palmer.
The teachers of Atchison applied for
a holiday Friday in order that they
might attend the big meeting at Law
renee, but the application was denied.
The sixteen teachers in the Beloit
schools have accepted challenge for
| spelling contest with an equal num-
per OF business meE, next Friday
| night.
A. III. Griess, who knows a thing or
two about fruit, says that plums and
cherries and apples in the vicinity of
Lawrence suffered almost no damage
A mad dog made things lively in the
country south of Parsons on Sunday.
Numbers of dogs, hogs, and some cat
tie were bitten before the rabid
! canine could be killed.
The management of the Fort Scott
Monitor has been changed again. A.
L. Lea drops ont as business manager
A..
| itorial and business control.
lev. w. j. Seals of Hamilton county
is in Emporia soliciting aid for the
| people of his county who raised very
little last year and some of whom are
represented to be in dire need.
The proposition to vote 500, 900
worth of of bonds for the building of
a new school house. which was voted
on in Kansas City, Kan. Tuesday, was
carried by a trifle more than 200 ma
| jority.
A test case has been inaugurated
down in Linn county against the Kim
caids to see if they can be made liable
| in any way in connection with the re-
cent failure of their bank. Zalmon
| Kincaid has been arrested charged
with receiving money after the bank
| was in Il failing condition. He was
/ released OH a $500 bond.
| G.. T. Scranton. who was held at
! Tribune, Greeley county, for a week
on suspicion of being the man who
| ran away from Horace in April, 1883,
with 900 belonging to the Pacific
| Express company. has bcen discharged
after preliminary hearing His
! identity with the absconder was not
! clearly esta blished.
The work of cleaning the irrigating
/ bitches preparatory to furnishing an
| abundance of water to consumers is in
| progress by the various companies op-
Grating in this county. and an effort
will be made to give all who contract
q sufficient amount of water to insure
a good crop. Many of our farmers are
gong to stick to ditch lrrigating
while others will use private plants.
GARDEN City Sentinel.
The jury in the Little case at Ola
| the, Ken, was called by Jurris Satur
day afternoon. being unable to agree
The jury stood on the grst three bal
lots, five for acquittal and seven for
conviction. Afterwards they stood
! four to eight for conviction. but those
! for conviction were willing to compro-
mise on the lowest degree of man
slaughter.
One of the hardest fought round
bouts ever witnessed by Harvard uni
versity men was put up at the Spar
ring Club rooms on Brattle street Sat
urday evening. II came near being a
Sight to the finish in which f. f.
| Champeny, '93, was declared the win
ner, over W. ID. Short. '94. The con-
testants weighed in at i45 pound. and
the winner is champion of Harvard
| for the current college year.
A. Van Ripper, Reno county farm
er has just marketed thirty-three sew
en-months-old pigs, which averaged
two hundred and seventy-four pounds.
TO which he had fed two hundred and
eighty-two bushels of corn and
siXty-eight bushels of wheat. He gave
two dry and one slop raticn5 a day
grinding his grain in his own mill.
! He has figured out that he has realized
seventy cents bushel on his corn and
a dollar on his wheat.
The proprietor of the Atchison coal
mine offered to supply the Atchison
schools with 400 tons of coal at So per
| ton, but the board thought that in
consideration of the home market
that it had, to offer, 81. IS was enough.
| The deal was not made.
The grocery men of Paola purchased
of the farmers and poultry raisers of
| Miami county last Saturday over 100
cases of eggs Each one contains 80
dozen, making total of nearly 5000
| dozen. which at 3 cents dozen
| Oh sc
dent there are great many hens in
Miami county and they are very in
dustrious, also quite a source of profit.
Miami County Republican.
There are fourteen creameries in
Dickinson county. They pay $3.50, 900
each year to the farmers for their
milk. Five of these have headquar-
ters in Abilene and 5000 cows are re-
| quired to furnish the milk for them:
/ The creamery in the city cost S5, 90,
including machinery. Cows furnish
ing the milk will average S35 to $40 q
year apiece to their owners, not in
Guiding the calves. This, to my no.
ton, beats wooden mills. and Shaw
nee county is just as well adapted to
pasturing cows and producing milk
for creameries as Dickinson county
Rev. c. Holman, in Topeka Mail.
S. Z. Cowick has severed his con-
nection with the Western Kansas
World of WaKeeney. The World is
one of the oldest and the best known
papers in the western part of the
state. 1t is in its sixteenth year.
Gustavc Hagan. one of the book
| keepers of the American Exchange
National bank of New York is m IS.
ing, and so is S33.OO0 of the bankers
money. One of the banks customers.
c. f. Bartholomew, is in Ludlow
street Jail, charged with being access
ory to the embezzlement, and the DO
lice are hunting for Hagau. The plan
is said to have been for Hagan to falsl-
fy the books in Bartholomew's favor
and thus enable him to overdraw.
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