Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-17

Public meetings are being held in
all parts of Lyon county in the inter
est of the proposed GI,i and Inter
state railroad.
The North Kansas Poultry club has
decide to hold its annual show a
Atchison again next winter. The dates
will be January , to 8.
Petitions arc being circulated in
Usage county asking the governor to
pardon Mrs. Kate Gibson, recently
convicted for violating the prohibitory
law.
John \. Reynolds, who c.ame in
sane short time ago down in Texas,
has been taken to his home in Atchi-
son. His condition is not at all i'm
proved.
A family in Lawrence moves so Of
ten that whenever an express wagon
passes the house the chickens lie down
on their backs and hold up their legs
to be tied.
1t costs footmen cents each to cross
the new Leavenworth bridge. One
horse vehicles are taxed 25 cents and
two-horse vehicles 80 cents for the
same privilege.
A special train of ten car loads of
fat cattle left Dewey's ranch at Maj
haitian last night bound for the Chica-
go market A like shipment was
made week ago.
George Raht, young man about 20
years o d, died few days ago in Wa
baunsee county from internal idjuries
caused by his being thrown upon the
horn of the saddle while riding
Doniphan county has compromised
with the Burlington ro I'd in the settle
ment of the disputed tax question.
The county accepted $4,000 in lieu of
the S11, 12046 assessed against the rail
road company
Seven persons, including two wo-
men, have been arrested at Garnett,
charged with violating the prohibitc-
ry law. Nearly all O; them failed to
give bonds and are now in the county
Jail awaiting trial.
The Newton Republican says that
IN that city tramps are appearing in
greater numbers than ever before in
| the history of the town, and they
stand on the streets and ask pedes-
| trians for money at all hours of the
day and night.
Lawrence officials have adopted the
plan of esta ablishing a rock pile where
! INDECENT persons unable, to get work
may earn something to keep soul and
/ , )dy together. and the city get some
return for the money it will be COM
| pclled TO spend.
| The IIcrington. Dickinson county,
creamery has BEEN sold to Mr.. Blan-
chatt, one of the largest stockholders
! for So, TIA. Mr.. Blanchatt will move
| the buildings and machinery to his
farm just west of IIerington and con-
tinue the business as heretofore
The Usage County Free Press saws:
1t is not generally known that there
are pearls in Marais des Cygnes river
but such i, the fact nevertheless. w.
! w. Jones found two lately. One is col
orless and the other one is pink, and
he values them at about fifteen dollars
apiece.
Prof. Mccoy of jefferson county pro-
poses to make living if rustlin
avais anything in that direction. He
| is proprietor of a herd of high-class
Poland China hogs, runs a photograph
gallery in Valley Falls. conducts a
dancing school in the same town, and
officiates in a church orchestra
DIR. Daniel d Dorchester, superintend-
ent of all the Indian schools in the
! country, has been at Haskell institute
a Lawrence for several days. He re-
ports that during the last four years
the ranking of the school according to
the standard fixed upon has been in
creased from 10 per cent to &C per
! cent.
Mcssrs Taylor & Hartzell, the men
who captured the Mound Valley train
robbers and turned them over to the
authorities of Labette county, are
having trouble in collecting the 81 400
reward offered. Half dozen parties
want division of the reward, and
payment has been deferred waiting
for an agreement as to the most Just
division.
The Office force of the state univers''
ity is rushed at present, getting the
chinch bug reports for 1898 ready for
the state printer. There are to be over
5000 reports and final request to the
farmers to send in their statements is
to be made this week. This will be
the fourth request, as the farmers
have been rather slow to report. The
chinch bug annual will be completed
in about four weeks.
i At Lincoln social event last week
the principal amusement was a SMELL
ing contest. Eight bottles containing
various mixtures from sour mash and
rose water to camphor and sorghum,
were submitted to the guests and
prizes offered for the greatest num-
Der of correct guesses as to the com
osition of the contents. The winner
named correctly the ingredients form
ing five of the mixtures.
The Colby, Thomas county, Tribune
says: Since the commissioners placed
a bounty on rabbit scalps, the people
living ia the western. part of the
county have invented a novel scheme
| whereby the feet-footed jacks are
slaughtered by the wholesale. A piece
of wire eighty rods long, each end OF
! which is fastened TO wagon, is
dragged over the prairie, soaring up
every rabbit in the territory, making
them easy victims for the half dozen
or more marksmen following at reg
uiar intervals behind the wire Judg-
ing from the many scalps brought in
| from that locality it is paying
scheme Independent of the sport con-
nected with it.
AT meeting of the Cleveland ves-
sci owners, it was unanimously re-
solved to raise fund to meet the ex-
pense of agitation in Washington
| against putting iron on the free list.
The citizens in the vicinity of a
place known as ''Six Corners near
| Lawrence, where a joint has lately
fiourished, held an Indignation meet
ing lately and appointed committee
to wait on the proprietor So well did
the committee perform its duty
that the jointist concluded. after lis.
tening to the eloquence of the mem
bers, that some other CLINE was better
for his health, and at once acted upon
the conclusion.