Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-02
KANSAS MATTERS.
Condensed News from All Parts of
the Great SunnOwer State--A Gem
eraI Summary of Kansas New.


eraI Summary of Kansas New.
Diphthcria is prevalent at Strong
City.
Oberlin is to have new postofficc
building
There are thirty cases of measles in
Green, Clay county.
An equal suffrage club has been or
ganized at Garden City.
The contract for building the new
Turner hall at Leavenworth has been
let for S23, 376.
postmaster at Lawrence, has filed
bond for 100000
1t cost $40 a month to keep the poor
Of Greenleaf during January, Febru
ary and March.
September ,, 6 and : have been Sc
lected as the dates for holding the
Brown county fair.
Twelve pupils seven boys and five
girls-will graduate from the Abi-
lene high schools in May.
Two hundred and six men are en-
| plOyed in the construction of Leaven-
wOrth's new electric line. -, .--....,. ...-.,.
a car load of poultry was shipped
to California from Wakefield last
week at an expense for freight of
S691. There were 81, 500 fowls in the
| car.
George Addison expects to receive
| several thousand head of feeding cat
tie at Eureka, Greenwood county, in
few days. The cattle will be kept
during the summer on pasture lands
near Roscoe and Hamilton.
The Rawlns County Democrat
wants to know why it is that the two
one per cent on county deposits while
the Mcdonald bank has to pay three
and one half per cent
The Leader-C Courier says that many
| of the stones that fell in the hail
storm at Kingman Tuesday were as
| big as goose eggs Several plate glass
windows were broken and damage TO
| the amount of twelve or fourteen hun
dred dollars was done.
Conductor W. ID. Hardin of the Kan
sas Central is under suspension, pend
ing investigation of the charges pre-
ferred by brakeman, that "A lIeg of
beer was tapped and emptied in one
of the cars Hardin says the lleg was
tapped without his knowledge.
| a young man named Mcmahon was
arrested at Peabody Monday on re-
| QUESTION from Texas charging him
with rObbing a barber shop in that
state of a set of BARRIERS tools. The
| Texas officer came and identified the
man and took him back with him.
y dago whom the marshal of Dodge
| City arrested the other day for va
| grancy made desperate attempt to
| commit suicide while on the way to
| the lookup. He used a big Barlow
| knife and slaShcd his throat viciously.
| but did not injure himself seriously.
The pupils of the Brenner school
have collection of thirty-three kinds
| of wood grown in Doniphan county.
The idea of learning a good deal about
your own county i good. More Atch-
ison pupils can bound Germany than
can bound Atchison county
| Globe.
Watchman Long of the Central
Branch shops, says he never before
saw so many trampS travelling over
the country. He counted fifteen in
one car Lost night. Every night from
ten to thirty pass through Atchison.
The men he saw last were going to
Omaha.-Atchison Globe.
The Union Pacific railroad recently
applied for an injunction to prevent
| Wallace county from collecting a spec
ial tax levied for the purpose of pay
| ing bounty on gOpherS. The case
! came m in the ia, iof lo l.
and was decided against the company,
the court deciding that the levy was
legal The company will appeal to
the supreme court.
The Interstate Fair circuit includ-
| ing Eastern Kansas and Western Mis-
souri, will hold it's fairs and races at
the following places upon the dates
below mentioned: Belton, August 21-
25; Olathe, August 2S-3l: Garnett
September Al; Burlington, September
11-15, Ottawa, September 1921; Paola,
September 25-2S; La Cygne, October
%.
5 The police commissioners of Atch:.
son turned over So, 900 to the city dur
ing the first three months of the year.
L. n. Smith was once mayor of FL
Dorado and while in this position en-
ployed himself to defend the city
against one Frances Drapere who
claimed damages from falling on a
defective sidewalk. He says as mayor
he was bound to secure the best legal
talent possible and so engaged him
self. The joke is in none of these
funny facts, but it is in this. that
Smith has sued the city for $50 attor-
ney fee in the case.-Walnut Valley
Times.
; At the Farmers institute held last
month a resolution was adopted unan-
imously declaring it to be the SEN
timent of that meeting that the coun-
ty commissioners would be justified in
sending some one to Lawrence to
earn how to handle Prof. Shows
chinch bug infection and to stablish
a distributing depot at the expense of
the county. Already reports have
reached this office that the chinch
bugs are appearing in great numbers,
and 1t seems certain that thew
will do great damage unless active
measures are taken to destroy them.
lola Register.
An examination of regular army
officers for promotion is on at Fort
Leavenworth. A dozen lieutenants
are among the applicants for better
ment in rank. The examination will
be very exhaustive, CONSUMING three
weeks of time.
The first shipment of southern cat
tie to reach this county arrived last
Sunday. being two train loads of 5as
head consigned to Stowe Brothers.
They came in via the Santa Fe from
Higgins, Tex, .wberc Mr.. Stowe has
purchased 1000 head They will have
to be fed for some time, as there is not
enough pasture yet for their susie
nance.-Alma Enterprise.
The city marshal escorted twenty