Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-17
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items of Interest Condensed for Hurried
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Readers.
Clifton musicians have organized
an orchestra.
Eight troops of cavalry are stationed
at Ft. Riley at present.
The bounty ON coyotes has been
raised to So in Douglas county.
A Sylvan Grove, Lincoln county,
man has an orange tree in full bloom.
The Burr Oak, Jewell county, cream
cry is starting out with good patrol
a ye.
A big irrigation meeting will be
held at Oakley, Logan county, next
Saturday,
Norton county pays Sl1. .63O04 this
year toward maintaining the state
government.
The Lawrence gas company has C.
duced the price OF the product to S1.90
per 1000 feet.
Smith Center is trying hard to Sc
cure the location of good Touring
mill at that point.
A Rochester, Shawnee county, man
Is preparing to put mis- entire farm, III
acres. into small fruits.
The business interests of Chanute
are enlarging. new mil I. man has
Caney, Montgomery county has a
new Touring mill of large capacity
nearly ready to begin operations.
The Sulumerfield Sun says that land
in that part of Marshall county is rent
ing for from 50 to 81 an acre cash.
Lawrence has established a rock
pile for the purpose of affording EN-
ployment to the poor of the city.
A Fort Scott bum got SO drunk last
week that three days in Jail failed to
sober him up and he was turned loose.
All the movable property of the dis
continued Salina land Office WAS sold
at auction the other day. 1t went
cheap.
Two street railway conductors were
held up by foot pads in Kansas City,
Kan, Friday night and $40 or S12 Sc
cured.
Life ana limb are endangered by
reckless III lers on the streets of Par
sons, and the Sun calls loudly for re-
form.
Wine is selling at one cent n quart
in France and is a drug. 1t is also a
drug in Kansas, but costs more than IL
cent u gill.
III. A. Moss has just been sentenced
to two years imprisonment at Lam
sing for stealing IA load of wheat in
Smith county
Riley county's new poor farm is
ready for occupancy. j. q. Voiles has
been appointed superintendent for the
ensuing year.
The University Glee and Banjo club
were the honored guests at two recep-
tions and a ball when they were in
Manhattan last Monday
There will be q civil service exam
ination at Lawrence on February 10.
Applications to take the examination
must be file by January 81.
Lyndon, Usage county. citizens have
subscribed within 500 of enough to
insure the esta blishment of canning
factory there in the spring.
An epidemic of measles is affecting
the inmates of the lmbeciIe asylum at
Winfield, sixty cases being treated at
one time Two deaths have resulted
from the disease.
Nowa citizens have raised money
by privat, subsc ription to build a
briugc across Driftwood in the Indian
territory in order to attract the trade
of county NJ TO their town.
Three hundred and five car loads of
hay, averaging ten tons to the car
were shipped from Blue Mound, Linn
county. during 1898. This amount re-
allied over $1,000 for the shippers.
The people of Osborne county still
pin their faith to the untold value of
the gold mine recently discovered
near Downs. The latest report is that
the dirt runs ten ounces of Sl4 gold to
the ton.
Frank Bro vn, of Carbondale, Ozare
county, topped the Kansas City cattle
market on Friday with car load of
superfne export steers. The steers
averaged 1,541 pounds and sold for
$4.90 over S75 apiece.
1t is reported that the new superin-
tendent of the Haskell institute at
Lawrence will be selected according
to civil service rules If this is cor.
rect ii. Il. Peairs, now head teacher.
will probably be the fortunate man.
A farmer living near Garden Citv
undertook to drain his fish pond the
other day and overdid the matter. He
put in all the next day gathering up
the fish from the dry bed of the pond.
Three hundred of them were frozen
stiff.
f. P. Kellogg, cashier of the Ex-
change Bank at jamestown, Cloud
county, which closed it's doors last
August after turning over the larger
portion of its assets to an Atchison
bank, is under arrest for crookedness
in connection with the failure. His
preliminary examination will be held
at Concordia, January 10, before
Judge Shaefer.
bourbon county citizens are vigor.
ously protesting against the plan OF
farming out the county's poor to the
lowest bidder and demand that a re-
sponsible person be hired at speci-
fed rate of remuneration to have
charge of the county poor farm. AL
bert Bigelow Paine is the principal
agitator in favor of the prop sed re-
form.
Petitions are being circulated in the
Sixth district asking Congressman Ba-
ker to introduce in congress a bill
providing for the conduct of irrigation
experiments in Norton county.
Two youths robbed the store of
Shlles Bros. at Decring, Montgomery
county, on Tuesday. They secured
about S25. Neither of the robbers has
been arrested
Several farmers in the vicinity of
Farllnvllie, Linn county. have lost
stock recently from hydrophobia. The
disease was caused by the bite of a
mad dog which ran wild In that r.
eion some five weeks ago.
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