Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-12-19

Abilene and Salina played another
game Of foot bali last Monday.
The ice men predict light crop for
this season. Prices will be according
".
Fish Commissioner Wampler distrib-
ated 700 gold fish in Kansas last
month.
The Independence schools have been
ordered closed on account of diph-
liberia.
The western part of the state was
visited by fair fall of snow on Tues
day night.
A Girard firm purchased $4,000
worth of poultry during the month of
November.
Henry Leib, OF Oberlin wants to be
sergeant at arms of the House of Rep
resentatives.
Accusing tournament was held by
Kansas and Oklahoma sports near TT.
Scott Monday.
Corn is worth 80 cents bushel at
Chetopa and thousands of bushels are
being marketed.
Tie Fifth Avenue hotel at Arkan-
sas City is to be raffled off the latter
part of December.
Newton is overrun with buns,
Seventeen found lodging in the city
cooler Friday night.
The Marysvillc Democrat has chang
ed hands. John Fritts of Manhattan,
succeeds A. Ii. Clark.
In Clay county an aggregation called
the Cyclone Dramatic Company is TAX
ing the houses by storm.
A rainbow fair is soon to be given
in Manhattan. This will give the
young ladies chance to get a beau.
Charley Johnson, candidate for
bank commissioner, has a rival. Grant
Hornaday of Fort Scott wants the Job.
The new electric company at Atchi.
son furnishes incandesccnt lights for
go cents a month. The old price was
51.5O.
Kansas man is now publisher of
The Bun at Lewiston, Montana.
He has a dead cinch OH his bread for
the winter.
The Swedes celebrated the third
centennial anniversary of the birth of
Gustavus Adolphus this week at
i&1dsborg.
The Clay Center postoffice was clos
ed Friday on account of the funeral
Of Mrs. Anthony, the first postmaster
of the town.
A woman named Pebbles who was
in the police court at Lawrence real
ICES that the way of the transgressor
is rocky one to travel.
The insurance business is so quiet
at Atchison that the local agent has
hired out 10 be n motorman on the
new electric street railway.
Ex-Governor Thomas A. Osborn, one
of the new Santa Fe directors, says 2
new president will not be elected un,
til the company is roorganized.
Miller, the burglar, recently es
capped from the Osawatomie insane
asylum, was run over and killed by a
Missouri Pacific train near that place
Sunday night.
Gov. Elect Morrill, has taken uI
headquarters at the Copeland in To
pclla. Tie will move his family to the
Capital city as soon as suitable quar-
tiers can be found.
Water is very scarce is some sections
Of the state and farmers drive stocl
five miles to water. Deep Creek il
Riley county has only little pools o.
water here and there.
j. :. Hamilton, fish vender, ha.
sued the city of Wichita for SAG. s.
which amount he claims to have los
through confistication by city author
tics without any authority.
w. II. Weathcrman has been ap
/ pointed postmaster at Centerville.
/ The plan for the national bank cur
rc0cy based on new issue of 215 pc
1 cent bonds, which is creating SO mucl
interest all over the country and es
peciaily in bank circles is production
of Kansas brain and orethought. MI
| Edward Wilder of Atchlson is its faith
err.
Senator PETER has introduced a bll
to authorize United States alto ney t
Institute proceeding III equity indie
pendent of the attorney general un
der the antitrust act, and Represents
tive Frederick has bill to restore tn
Mckinley duty of $40 per head o
cattle entering the United States i
place OF the bill now in force of 8
per head.
Chas, cunliff, Waterman in tn
Whitaker Packing House at Wichits
met with horrible accident by scalc
ing to death on Monday night.
stoPpagc was noticed in the reservoi
and on opening the escape cock in tn
fertilizer tank a deluge of hot stea,
and boiling grcese caught hir
in such position that he perishe
before assistance could release him
He leaves a'family of wife and seve
small children.
At the oncoming debate between til
University students of Kansas an
Nebraska, to be held at Lawrence i
carly spring, the following subject
will be taken up: The Moral InGr
eDcc of the Novel is Stronger tina
that of the Newspapers" The Init;
tive and Referendum Should be Intro
duced into the United States" '.Nat
rral Monopolies Should be Controlle
Nv the General Governments" Les
Weight Should be Given to Preceden
IN Legal Decisions" Tho Standiu
Army of the United States Should b
decreased.