Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-23


eraI Summary of Kansas Now.
a telephone exchange is being put
in at Independence.
The Labette county dairymen have
organized county dairy association.
The population of Minneapolis has
decreased from !. .S04 in 1898 to |. .647 in
1894.
The Monitor wants the sale of the
Kansas City Sunday sun stopped in
Fort Scott.
Atchison county has Horse Thief
Protective association with a mem
bership of $50.
Florence BARRIERS have entered into
an agreement. to keep their shops
closed on Sunday.
Eight pupils-two girls and six
boys-will graduate from the Russell
schools next week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Drum of Scott
township. Bourbon county. celebrated
their golden wedding last week.
Osborne citizens have raised sl75
for Fourth of July celebration.
Horse racing will be the principal fea
ture.
Osborne county viii hold an agncul-
tural fair next fall The premium
list is being arranged and will be is
sued in June.
Sixty-three pupils applied for con-
mon school diplomas in Riley county
this spring. OF the siXty-three only
thirty-six passed the required exam::-
nation.
Two of General Sanders men be-
came so obstreperous at Leavenworth
on Monday that Marshal Neeley had
them taken to the county Jail and
locked up.
There are 80 people in Garfield
| township, which was once Garfield
county but was made township and
| attached to Finney county by the last
| legislature.
According to the atfidavits in the
county clerk Office the candidates in
| the late Council Grove city election
were not under Il cent of expense in
/ the campaign.
The stockmen of ClarI, county have
vi l'pI
and benefit. They cali their organi-
zation the Clark County Stockgrow-
| ee~i association.
The total amount of farm products
shipped during 1893 from Kansas City.
| Atchison, Leavenworth and st. Jo-
seph, nearly all of which was raised
in Kansas, was l64. .9i ear loads.
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with the eternal fitness Of things than
that Greeley county should have, as it
| has, Il Horace and Tribune? Or that
Grant county should have Il Ulysses
A man at Nashville. Kingmqn coun-
| ty. found IL $500 diamond stud in the
stockyards there the other day. The
| jewel was lost two years ago by cat
| tie king who was helping unload his
| cattle to take ont Il dead animal.
Roy Doran. the lI-year-old son of
| Joseph Doran. an engine dispatcher of
| Fort Scott. fell under the wheels of
| freight train at Washburn station on
Saturday and had both legs cut off
| close to his body. lie lived only "a few
| hours.
Pretty Prairie. Reno county. bears
the most euphonic name of any town
in the state. while Stolzenbach, Mar
shall county. and Summundnwot
Wyandotte county. are tied on the
point of possessing the least euphonic
| name.
A pcddIer was arrested at Delphos
the other day charged with stealing
so fro:n IL Mrs kohble. The next
day Mrs kohble discovered her mon
| cy and the peddier was released after
being well paid for bis time and all
| the expenses he had incurred III the
ease.
Kiowa Review: Jacob Achenbach
has go acres of fine wheat on his farm
| west of the city. which will make an
excellent yield if weather conditions
| are favorable from now on. With the
complete drouth last year Mr.. Achen-
| bach raised fourteen bushels per acre
on the same land.
Alton Empire: Will Brown was out
northeast of town yesterday looking
up wheat prospects, and feels greatly
| encouraged over what he saw, as the
| crop in that section of the country is
| in excellent condition. Fields that
last fall were thought to be about
worthless are now standing six or
| elgit lnches hlgn.
OF the fifty nine teachers who took
| the teachers examination last Satur-
| day almost half failed to- secure GER
| tificates. Only one first grade was
.granted. The most of the failures
| were made on arithmetic The high
est grade received by any applicant in
| that branch was 90 per -McPher-
son Republican.
| c. +. Drake, the we'll known bank
| er of Ft. Scott, who has fostered the
sugar works of that city, declares that
sugar cane is the best crop grown in
the state. lie says fhe demand for
sorghum molasses is increasing every
| year and the prices are continually
going up If the crop were raised for
| syrup alone. he says it would paw bet
ter than any other cror, as drought
does not affect the yield. Aside from
Fits value for molasses the seed is be-
coming an article of trade. and the
stalk, after the juice is pressed out. is
sold to paper mills.
There are three creameries in sue
cessful operation in Jefferson county
and fourth at Oskaloosa, will be
ready for business soon.
1t seems that the regular train OF
gamblers and confidence men who
were with Sells & Rentfrow's circus
last season have started with them
again this year. At Emporia large
| number of men lost sums ranging
from $40 to So. Those that com
planned TO the police recovered por-
tion of their money. Even the men in
charge OF the reserved seat sales tried
to swindle several parties and narrow
Iy escaped arrest.
During the last four weeks q. H..
Southwicl< & Co. have shipped from
Downs ten ear loads of eggs. The
firm is now erecting in that town a
storage house with "A capacity for
handling and storing ten ear loads OF
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