Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-12-26
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWkERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.

WHAT IHE JHrHAWN6hS AXE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts of
the Great sunfiower State-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.
Three coiored men in Wichita have
white wives.
Alfalfa hay is selling for sic q ton
in Hutchinson.
A crusade on house painting has
been waged in Lyons.
A grandson of one of Bcnepart's
Marshals lives in Wichita.
Albert Bigelow, of Ft. Scott, has
written a book he calls "a Hypnotic
Story"
The cost of the new electric railway
and lighting plant at Atchison was
nearly $1,000, 900.
A lady living IN Sedgwicl1 county
once had q proposal of marriage from
Henry NJ. Stanley, the great explorer.
: General Attorney Baily Wagner of
the Missouri Pacific railway was taken
violently i'll on the train between At
Gibson and Topeka on Thursday.
The Interstate Telephone company
will put in au exchange at Kansas
City, Kan. The same system as that
of the new Topeka plant will be used.
Two married women of Arkansas
City who anticipated the new resub-
mission too strongly, were fined in
police court for wearing male apparel.
The Rosetti circle at Winfield has
begun to hold regular meetings since
the winter is far enough advanced for
poetry of the 'clinging kisses" sort.
The railroad conductors nre going
to give a ball at Chanutc December
81. The girls arc making an alarm
ing number of Christmas things in
hope of getting q bid.
An Ellinwood man has proved n
public benefactor. He has discovered
how to keep cottonwood trees from
is to climb up each tree in February
and trim it.
In most sections wheat looks we'll.
Late planting seems to do the best
Early planting had too much fine
weather and the rapid growth got
nlpped by drouth in latter part of the
season.
The Rock Island is building large
dam near the creek, east of Lebanon
about two miles, for storing water.
The pond, when it rains and makes it
pond, will be the largest in that
part of the state, covering about sixty
acres.
Company Fl and Troop A of the
X. n. G. were inspected at the armorv
in Lawrence last night by Col. Geo. E.
Howard. After the inspection Cap
tain Mcclure of Company Fl. enter
tanned the officers and Col. Howarl; 81
supper.
A representative from htchison
county received a bunch OF letters
three inches thick congratulating him
on his election to the legislature and
one six inches thick asking him fol
his support for different positions in
! the house.
The recent rains in Kansas struck
the state in spots. At Garnet and
surrounding thev have all the mois.
ture needed until the spring rains,
while in sections north and west the
ground is parched and the creeks arc
drying up.
The feeding of wheat in Kansas has
assumed great proportions and the IL.
terest among farmers has grown sc
much of late that the state board OF
agriculture has been called upon tc
make the announcement that all edi
tions devoted TO special reports on the
Feeding of wheat toAFarm Animals
and "Alfalfa Growing has been ex
hausted. The Secretary wishes il
announced that further requests for
them cannot be filed.
The Esbon Torch Light and the
Lebanon Light of Liberty have been
consolidated, and the greedy flames
will now shoot up from Lebanon.
A Coffeyville darkey got drunk and
went to sleep in the highway. A
drove of hogs found him and before
he was sober enough to fight them of
they chewed off his nose, a part ot
one ear and otherwise mutilated hi.
physiognomy.
There is liable to be several suit.
brought in the courts of Norton
Phillips, Smith, Osborne, Mitchell
and Rocks counties by the mill com
panies against the irrigation compan
les confscating the water in tht
North and Solomon rivers. The frs
has already been filed in the distric
court of Norton county.
Villa Reed, n handsome Ot.aw;
girl of 20, is behind the bars at tn
city Jail charged with using caucelle,
stamps and sending obscene litera
through the mails. She is under in
dictment by the grand jury and VI
able to furnish bail, was sent to iai
to await trial. She is the daughter O
respected parents residing at Ottawa
from which place she was arrests
and brought to TT Scott.