Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-06
KANSAS STATE MATTERS,
WHAT THE JAYHAWkERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts of
the Great sunfiower State-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.

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| A larger acreage of corn has been
/ planted in Rawllns county this year
than ever before.
| Elias Jordon, colored boy who was
in the fight at Topeka Wednesday af-
ternoon was arrested Lext day bv
Officer Campbell.
I One hundred and five car loads of
grain were inspected bv the otficisl
state grain inspector at Kansas City.
Kan, on Monday, and 143 car loads on
Tuesday.
The Kingnan cheese factory has
been moved to Norwich There was
not enough milk to be had at King
man to make the operation of the fac
tory profitable.
DR.. Eyth's creamery of this city
does S., 900 business per month.
| The business last year amounted to
over S65,OOO Butter is delivered to
some of the state institutions.-Ent
prise Journal.
A company is trying to secure a
franchise in Wichita for the operation
of a telephone exchange under the
Harrison patents. The franchise now
operating in the Peerless Princess eX-
plred two years ago.
The Moore-F Funston case in the
house at Washington has been again
continued-this time until next Tues.
day. NO quorum at the meeting of
the elections committee was the rea-
son for the continuance.
The Rock Island has ordered rain
car at Norton, one at Jennings and one
at GoOdland to operate in unison. G.!
b. Jewell offers to bet several hundred
dollars that they succeed in making it
rain. This at least shows that he has
faith in the rocess.-Goodland Repub-
lie.
At Robinson in Brown county a few
DAYS ago there were fifty-one loads of
corn waiting to be unloaded. This
small town claims that the statistics
of the Rock Island road show that
there is more grain shipped from that
point than ANY other on the road in
the state of Kansas.
A meeting was he'd at Arkansas
City Monday night for the purpose of
considering "a proposition from the di-
rectors of the Oklahoma Central Rail
way company to build line from FL
Paso, Tex, to Parker. Okla. All
that Arkansas City has been asked
to do is to is to subscribe Sc, 600 and
pay for ten miles of the right of way.
| The chinch bug department of tn
state university at Lawrence is re-
ceiving on an average 100 letters a
day concerning methods of inocula-
ton. Professor Lugger, state entom-
ologist, has sent to Professor Snow
for a supply of diseased bugs for the
state university of Minnesota whose
supply did not survive the past win
/ ter.
| The two act labor drama which has
been written by ). 5. King, Populist
! police judge of Kansas City. Kan,
will be produced June s. at either the
auditorium or the Ninth street theatre
in Kansas City, Mo. Judge King will
/ probably take the leading character
in the play. The proceeds of the en-
terprise will be divided between the
trades assemblies of the two Kansas
Citys.
A prisoner in charge of the sheriff
of Elk county escaped from the offic-
er at independence the other day by
| jumping from the train. The sheriff
was on the way to the penitentiary
with the man, but as the train pulled
out of the depot the sheriff unlocked
the shackles of the prisoner to let him
get a drink, but instead of getting a
drink the latter jumped from the
train and escaped in the darkness.
None of the streams in this section
seem to be named appropriately. Ne
deer are ever seen on Deer creek:
nothing but water flows in Whisky
creek; Brewery creek is q holy place
where colored sinners are baptized;
there is nothing white about White
Clay creek; people who live along Su-
gar creek get the ague: more halle
nuts than anything else grow along
Walnut creek: independence creek de-
pends on other creeks for its volume
of water, aud. worse still, the Missouri
river is said to be entirely in Kansas.
-Atchison Globe.
An art league will soon, be formed
at Lawrence. There was an art league
in existence there years ago and S., 900
was subscribed toward building an art
gallery, but the latter project was
abandoned and the league dissolved.
We talked with quite number OF
farmers Saturday, and everyone spoke
! in terms that would seem to indicate
a feeling of satisfaction over TIE
present prospects for crops. The far
mers got their corn planted in due
season. having ample opportunity to
properly prepare the ground, and the
recent rains have pushed the corn rap
idly forward. There is every indica-
ton of a prosperous year. SO far as
crops are concerned, and if the prices
are what they should be this fall,
there will be prosperity in this portion
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Seneca Tribune.
| Four thousand Dunkards were pres
| ent at the national convention which
has just been held in Anderson coun-
| ty, closing last week. The convention
| declared among many other things,
! that no Dunkard shall accept a pen
sion, even if he had been drafted into
military service, or served before be-
coming member of the church, and
was entitled to one for disabilities in
Cured. The conservatives refuse to
participate in the affairs of govern
ment, and will not vote, hold Office.
! take an oath or bear arms.
The Cedarvale Prospecting Land and
Mining company has been organized
at Cedarvale for the purpose of discov-
ering and developing such mineral de-
posits as may exist in that vicinity
The company is already soliciting
leases on land.
) The survivors of sthe QuantreII ra I'd
/ and others interested met at the court
house at Lawrence and effected per-
manent organization called the Law
renee Monument ASSOCIATION, and Sxo-
pointed committee to make grange
ments for the building of monument
to the memory of the victims of the
raid.
Mrs. Kate Gibson, the female joIntist
who has given the people of Usage
county so much trouble in days gone
by, and who evaded prosecution on the
last made charges by escaping on the
plea of illness, is working as domest-
lc in Kansas City at 81 per week.