Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-09
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts of
the Great Sunhower State-A Gem
eraI Summary of Kansas New.

There are thirty lawyers in Emporia
Oberlin is to have a new postoffice
building.
The circus license in Ell Dorado is
Sl50 per day.
Osborne and Alton are talking of
connecting those two towns by tele-
phone.
While wheat is constantly gong
down in Chicago, it is getting higher
in Kansas.
Cherokee, Craw ford county. claims
population of /, 1873 against less than
200 year ago.
The Troy Oil company has had reg
istered nearly 200 leases on land IL the
vicinity OF Fort Scott.
A groom of 7s and bride of 81 were
star performers at an Esbor, Jewell
county. wedding last week.
The Rock Island is digging mann
moth well at Lebanon, Smith county.
1t will be thirty-five feet in diameter.
There is no bicycle club in Law
renee. There have been several at
tempts to keep such an organization
alive, but all have finally fizzled.
An Eldorado grocery store is decor
ated by an orange tree, and when it
blooms there will be q wedding in
town to save the orange blossoms.
There will be commencement exer-
cises of the public schools of Lyon
county in Emporia May 16. The
graduating class is large one.
The agents of the Troy Oil company
of Pittsburg have been busily engaged
for ten days securing oil and gas
leases in the vicinity of Erie, Neosho
county.
Miss EttIe Tye, the Parsons school
teacher who disappeared Thursday
night, was found in an orchard Satur-
day suffering from the effects of a
dose of rat poison.
The promised prosecution of gam
blers has begun at Fort Scott. Chas.
Lanham was arrested Friday charged
on four counts with gambling. He
was held in $500 bail.
Owen Williams. a brakeman on a
Santa Fc freight train, was shot in the
leg the other day by tramp whom
he attempted to put off the train. The
tramp was not caught.
There is an old soldier at the Leav-
enworth Soldiers Home who travels
every summer as a clown in Lemen
Bros. circus, returning to the home at
the end of the season each fall.
A Linn county man was appointed
administrator of a Bourbon county es-
tate in 1862, al d has not yet made a
final accounting. A suit praying that
the matter be closed up has just been
filed.
The Fort Scott Oil company have
several men out over the country Sc
curing oil leases on farm lands. The
company will not only operate in Bour-
bon county. but will go into Allen and
Linn counties.
The editor of the Norton Champion
thinks he has discovered a method OF
"squaring the circle" and publishes a
half column demonstration. His
method is simple, and hasty exami
nation fails to locate an error in it.
There were l3l applicants for coun
ty diplomas testifying to their gradu
alton from the common schools OF
Bourbon county this spring. Sixty
three of the number passed the re
quisite examination and will be grad
uated this week
johnson Ek'off of Mcpherson re
Gently obtained verdict against Neis
Rhundberg of the same place for So,
500. The judge thought the damages
found were excessive and rendered
judgement for 81. The plaintiff ac
cepted the judgement.
Rev. Edith Hill, the noted Emporia
evangelist is drawing great crowds al
Pittsburg. Room after room has beer
vacated in favor of larger ones on ac
count of the increasing size of her con.
greg alton, till now she has the largest
in the city. There have been many
conversions.
The Santa Fe employees are cow re
ceiving their March pay.
April 18th the hardware store OF
Mont Won Buskirk, at Kincaid, was
entered by burglars and about 81:
worth of goods taken. The anti-horse
thief association set to work or
the case and as a result the men
were caught at Fort Scott this
week with the stolen goods.
Eureka has had an ordinance since
March 1 prohibiting the sale of cigar
cites within the corporate limits. Or
Monday Henry Moore, agent of the
Southern News Co., sold cigarettes or
the train while it was standing at the
station and was promptly arrested
Moore says he knew nothing of the
ordinance and says he will fight the
case against him..
Four weeks ago Mr.. Riley Funk and
Miss Ada McHenry were married a.
Emporia and Immediately took uI
their residence at the brides home OF
one of the largest ranches in Chase
county. Last Wednesday Funk lef
his wealthy bride, leaving a note stat
ing that he would never come back
The wife is searching energetically
for her worse half and says she cam
conjecture why he should leave her a.
she never did anything to him.
A 7-year-old boy was badly mangleG
by hogs few miles north of Nortor
the otner Day. He was in the feeo
iot and when discovered three ole
sows had him down and were proceed
ng to devour him. The doctor saw,
lie will recover.
The senior editor of this paper i,
till postmaster at st. Marys, Kan.
although his resignation has been il
for almost year. We were painful,
reminded of our incumbency last Sal
urday morning upon receiving a tele
gram with the information that the
postoffice had been burglarized, tn.
safe blown open and about 5000 il
cash and stamps taken.-Counci
Grove Republican.
There are about 200 bicyclists il
Leavenworth, only fifty of whom ar,
members of the L. A. w.
The Missouri river is subsiding a
Atchison but it is still cutting into tn,
bank at serious rate.
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