Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-03-28
KANSAS MATTERS.
condensed News from All Parts of
the Great Sunfiower State-A Gen.
eraI Summary OF Kansas New.


eral Summary of Kansas New.
Corn planting is well under way in
several southeastern counties.
Girard man has been appointed
postmaster at Brazilton, Crawford
county.
Many schools of Marshal county
nave closed owing to the prevalence
of scarlet fever.
The Highland university building at
Hiawatha was slightly damaged by
IRE last Wednesday.
The Ware library at Fort Scott, ac-
cordlng to the legend over the door, is
permanently closed"
A surveyor has a new map of Leav-
cnworth county completed the first
ore made in twenty-five years.
The 1894 session of the Winfield
Chautauqua assembly will be held at
island Park, beginning June 80.
The Junior order L. A. NJ. of Law
renee is fourishing. Ten new mem
bers were initiated the other nipht.
Three Indian bucks are now in the
Brown county Jail charged with
crimlnally assaulting a squaw, while
drunk
Three hundred car loads of ice have
already been shipped from Lawrence
this season and the shipment still con-
tinues.
One of the State University students
X tn \
January, is street car conductor in
nansas City now.
Two car loads of horses were
shipped from Manhattan to Connecti.
cut one day last week, and one car
load to West Virginia.
A colored soldier was seriously in.
1ured at Leavenworth Thursday night
in saloon row. 1t took a good deal
Of sewing to patch him up
Thirty charter members have been
secured for new camp of Sons of
Veterans that will be instituted at
Chapman, Dickinson county, shortly.
The treasurer of the A. o. L. w.
lodge of Kansas City, Kan, who sud
denly disappeared. has been found
more than $500 short in his accounts.
There is talk of rebuilding the Han
over mill, destroyed by fire some time
ago inside the city limits and convey
ing power to 1T by means of cleo
tricity.
Martin Mohler addressed large
and enthusiastic meeting of farmers
at Abilene Friday. and the temporary
organization of an institute was
effected.
The y. NJ. c. A., of Atchison. has
the promise of several $40 subscrip-
tions TO pay off its debt, and the pros.
pect is that the needed amount will
be raised very soon.
The ice factory scheme on which In
dependence citizens have been bank
ing for some time has fizzled out, only
to De replaced b. another which prom
ises to be ''suIe GO
The price of mining has been cut
down 10 ST. per ton. This Is fifteen
cents below the summer price, and
thirty five cents below the winter
price.-Osage City Free Press.
A fellow tried to commit suicide by
court room Saturday, and was pre-
vented only after hard fight. As it
was, he succeeded in swallowing some
of the poison, and had to be pumped
out.
The Concordia Empire is objecting
because the cost of keeping Cloud
county's poor during the past three
months has been more than twice as
great as in the neighboring county
The quarterly bill foots up to over
81, 900.
Wagner Bros, whose feed lots are
of Durlingame, Usage
have now on hand $40 feeders.
and are buying more. They believe
there is money in buying on the pres
mt low market and feeding out for
ale later on.
Clyde MattoS, in the penitent:ary at
Lansing. is the recipient of dozens
and dozens of letters, although
he has been confined where he is now
for less than week. Warden Chase |
says that most of the letters are from
precious few of whom bear !
good regulations.
Thee S q man in Atchlson who |
: III not correctly estimate distances |
account of certain nerves of his !
eyes being affected. He can see man
approaching but cannot tell whether
ne is two feet or a block away. it !
happens that he reaches /
'ut his hands to shake hands with an
who is hundred yards F,
Globe.
John II. Crider. an attorney for
CLANCY Leslie filed suit in the dis
trict court Thursday asking 500
damages from the Missouri Pacific
railway company. Mr.. Leslie claims
that he was a passenger on that road
asst January, 'and that by reason of
the train not stopping, in attempting
to get off at Redfeld, he was thrown
down and one of his arms seriously in
lured.-Fort Scott Tribune
James ii. Morgan of this CITY re-
.eived Sunday morning the compli-
nents of Commissioner Locnren in the
way of notice that his pension had
been cut down from twelve to six dol
ars month Mr.. Morgan is 20 years
bid, almost totally deaf, seriously
afflicted with catarrh and rheumatism
and without property or means OF sup
port other than MS pension, and such
assistance as his son is able to render
him from time to time. The old man
IS broken hearted over the matter. He
will make an effort for reinstatement.
Horton Headlight.
Only / 400 men and 100 women have
in Leavenworth up to date.
Fire destroyed the livery stable of
Walker brothers at Minneapolis Fri
lay morning. Ten head of horses
we're burned. A strong wind was
blowing from the west, and a breed
ng barn adjoining, owned by Henry
Morgan, and occupied by Jonas Davis
with his valuable jacks and six stall
ons, caught from the livery barn and
burned with all its contents. The
,otal loss is about six thousand dol
ars with little or no insurance. No
.lue to the origin of the fire has been
discovered.