Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-08


They are holding parlor suffrage
meetings every week in Leavenworth
Forty-six young people were gradu-
lted from the commO on schools OF
Hingman county last week.
Missouri wheat is being marketed
in Leavenworth at the rate of about
5000 bushels day. 1t is worth &C
cents there.
And still the Kansas City market is
kept supplied with fish from the Kaw
river in Kansas taken by seines con-
trary To- law.
There is an onion farm near Law
:ence on which 100 gatherers are at
present employed. They are paid %
,ents bushel.
a Leavenworth dealer has display
If poker chips in his window, and over
chem the sign: Chips that pass II
The night 80 cents"
An irrigation meeting will be held
at Oberlin next Saturday. 1t is eX
oected that county irrigation asso
cation will be formed.
AS the result of the teachers exam
nation at FL Dorado, Butler county,
III certificates were issued, and sew
enty-five applicants failed to pass.
Miss Josephine Moon. an Emporis
teacher has been elected to the chair
IF elOcutiOn and oratory in the La
bette county high school at Altamont
Kingman county is more deeply in
debt by $50, 900 than it was in 1891.
That was when the populists assum-
I'd control of the county government
Chanute's big race meeting will be
gin next Tuesday. The first day
program includes yearling trot, 9
$40 trot and pacing race for 3.year.
olds.
The Gospel Union Bible school, which
has been in progress at Bismarck
Grove this week, has noe been a howl
ing success. The attendance has been
distressingiy light.
\ Kansas City. Kansas joint keeper
has been arrested charged on fifty
,eperatc counts with the illegal sale
of liquor and has been held for trial
IN the sum of $4,000.
John Watts. receiver of the Harper
National Bank, is paying final divi-
| lend of nearly II per cent to deposi-
tors. This makes 90 per cent that de-
pOsitors have recovered.
Robert Harte committed suicide the
other day at his farm near Newton in
fit of dependency. Foreclosure
proceedings had been instituted, by
which ne would lose his home.
Cards are out for the wedding of DIR.
William Richards and Miss Alicia Rob
erts. both of Emporia. DR.. Richards
prominent veterinary surgeon,
and Miss Roberts is one of Emporia' s
most charming and popular young la
| dies.
! A Wichita man offered a reward for
the recovery of the body of his drown,
ed son and refused to pay it when il
! had been earned. The fellow who
earned the reward sued for it and on
Thursday got judgment for the
amount,
| 1t paid DIR. Troughton to be special
city physician during Atchison's small
pox scare. He got SIS a day for his
services, and now that he has been
discharged, is selling a ''rich and
racy" report of the epidemic at 2;
cents copy.
No new men going into the emyloy
of the Santa Fee at this point have
| been compelled to sign contracts
which stlpulate that they must re
nounce all labor organizations. New
men are employed just as they always
were, without any restrictions in thai
line.-Emporia Gazette.
A terrible accident was narrowly
averted on the Kansas Central Satur
day evening. The burning of a seven
! ty-five foot span bridge about one
mile from Leavenworth was seen il
time. Before the evening train reach
ed the bridge, as it was coming around
a sharp curve, it was signalled, which
saved many passengers from a horri
BILE accident. The train YVES delayed
about one hour.
The great ambition of men of gen
ius on the Central Branch seems to b,
to invent a weed cutter,an every sum
mer from one to half dozen patent.
are applied for covering such a ma
chine. The weeds on the Contra
Branch are supposed to be worse thar
anywhere else on earth, but the inven
tors seem determined to triumph. Thu
weed cutters are for use only along
the railroad tracks, where the weeds
grow over the rails and cause tn,
wheels OF the locomotive to slide
costs the Missouri Pacific a forum,
every summer to have the weeds Gu
along the Central Branch. Heretofor,
all patent weed cutters have beer
failures. Globe.
Atchison is paying per cent inter
est on nearly soc, 900 worth of munic
ipal bonds.
The Atchison Y. NJ. C. A. ran ;
stand at the grocers' picnic the othe
day and cleared SO.
Garden City has woman's suffrap,
club which holds weelsl meetings and
is organizing county clubs
Parsons darkey, who is a Qrea
weather prophet said the other night
II done put baccy stems in de fish las
night and dey sizzled and fried like d,
end of fab crackah. Suah sine sab
gwine to have storm TO very long.
Fish are being taken out of the Kav
at Kansas City, Kansas, by the thous
and, with seine, in spite of laws I,
the contrary and a state fish commits
sioner to enforce them. There are a