Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-10-03
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWkERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts of
the Great Sunf1ower State-A Gen.
eral Summary of Kansas New.

A 16-year-old girl in Leavenworth is
suing for a divorce.
A man named Pants lives at Russell
Springs in Logan county.
A colored man who was los years
old died at Newton Tuesday,
The Southeastern Kansas Baptist
association is in session at Erie.
camp of Sons of Veterans has
teen organized at Partridge, Reno
county.
The Commercial club of Hutchinson
is already arranging for next years
musical jubilee.
General Manager Clark of the Mis-
souri, Pacific has promised Wichita a
new depot soon.
The Lanler circle of Abilene will
study ethics and psychology during
the coming year.
The most recently revised story as
to the Wichita National Bank is that
it will resume business soon.
Hiawatha has a roaring well. The
World thinks that may mean that the
vicinity is undertake with gas.
Wichita and Hutchinson men met on
the diamond at Wichita Saturday.
The Wichita team won, IL to IL.
The marshals and chiefs of police of
Kansas will meet in Wichita next
week. 1t is expected that 100 will be
on hand.
Evelyn Baldwin, an Usage, Labette
county, boy, was one of the Peary ex-
ploring party. He will return to his
home in few days.
Fire at LeavenwortE Monday night
practically destroyed the three-story
residence of Mr.. Levi Wilson. The
loss was $4,000 or 81, 900.
LAWS Havermale is Offering his OILS
burg Newsletter for sale. Havermale
has business interests.
Dodge City was treated to touch
of estheticism Tuesday night. Lady
Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wildes
much talked of play, was produced
there.
An Ottawa man was brought back
from Missouri, at an expense of $50,
to be tried for stealing a gun. He
was convicted, but the judge let him
off with S. fine.
Reddy Brennan, pugilist who has
fought in several Kansas towns, is run-
ming joint in Kansas City, Kansas
Just at present he is in Jail for illegaI
liquor selling.
Prof. Frank Smith of Bethany Col
lege delivered an able lecture at the
Swedish Lutheran Church at Linds-
borg Sunday evening on the subject.
''Why do we Educator"
f. NJ Williams of Clinton, Mo-, who
was on his way to White City,
was knocked down and robbed of $50
In the Rock Island yards at Hutchin-
son while waiting for his train.
The Peabody creamery is reaching
out so far into It's territory for milk
that it has been found necessary to
establish skimming station to save
the hauling of milk to long distance
Mr.. James Bethel received notice
from the Hon. Hoke Smith last week
that his name had been dropped from
the pension roll. He was receiving SIS
per month.-Winfield Courier.
Chief of Police Quarrels, of Kansas
City, Kan, found a gambling house
Monday after many weary months of
search and had it pulled. 1t is said
that the proprietor was not in the ad-
ministration police board gambling
com bine.
During the past two years there
have been nearly as many divorces in
Saline county as there have been mar
riages.
Rev. E. E. Tarbill, the Methodist
minister of Abilene, preached a strong
sermon against the theater last Sun
day. He said that, as rule, all the
atrical performances are immoral in
their tendency and said that no con-
slstent Christian can be a theater
goer.
The Wellhouse orchards at Fair
mount. in Leavenworth county, will
yield $4,000 bushels of apples this year.
There are 500 acres in trees, confined
principally to four varieties, which
Mr.. Wellhouse claims are particularly
adapted to Kansas soil. 1t will re-
quire $4,000 to gather the crop and
get it ready for the market.
A four foot vein of coal has been dis
covered at Independence at depth of
IT'S feet. The gas company has struck
this vein of coal in other wei west of
this one but it was only about foot
thick. With this coal was very
strong flow of gas, SO strong that. the
coal vein cannot be worked until after
the gas has been exhausted.
The Hays City Sentinel says of the
story about Wild Bill riding into John
a. Anderson's church at junction City
and compelling that gentleman to
dance in the pulpit: The story has
two elements of impossibility. In the
first place Wild Bill wouldn't do such
thing, and in the next the man was
never born who could make John A.
Anderson dance.
The prohibition1sts of Lincoln coun-
ty met the other day and visited the
county committee with authority to
make up ticket from the nominees
Of the other parties.
The canning factory is doing rush
ing business this week, working full
force of hands day and part of the
hight. Last Tuesday sixty-three wag-
On loads, aggregating about 1000
bushels of tomatoes were taken in.
At one time in the evening the street