Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-18
Abilene pays $4,000 a year for it,

Arkansas City TO Kildare and Black.
well, Ok.
single grm at Garden City sold
forty-three wind mills this season, for
use in irrigating.
OF 1l2 persons attending the Saline
county teachers institute fifty-one
have never taught.
An effort is being made t. recruit
the Wichita battery of the lrst Light
Artillery up to its full quota
\ special election has been called in
Harper county to determine as to the
esta blishment of a county high school
The Standard insists in apparent
good faith that the mercury stood at
Ill in the shade at Leoti one day last
week
The Planters house at Leavenworth
has been sold to "a syndicate which
will eXpend $50.cO0 in repairs and inn
provemcntS-
The rainfall at Wichita for June
has already exceeded in amount the
rainfall of any month since the record
has been kept.
The recent storm entirely dcs.' owed
the school building at Cedar Point,
Chase county, and badly damaged Il
number Of residences.
Texas cattle are coming into the
Kansas city, Kan, stockyards freely.
More than l35 carloads of them were
received on Tuesday.
A squaw at the union depot at Atch.
ison the other morning chewed tobac-
co and had to have a spittoon brought
in the ladies waiting room.
There have already been fifty appii
cations for adm lsSion to st. Johns
Military school at Salina more than
in any previous year at this time.
A 12-year-old Hutchinson boy VINO
was climbing IA fire escape i'll search of
birds nests fell to the ground and
broke both arms and wrists in several
places.
The Hutchinson Commercial club
has decided upon holding another
musical jubilee next year. The plan
is to have more contests and bigger
prize this year.
L. c. Henry, once a Dickinson coun,,
ty wheat king, was in Cove county
last week trying to organize a colony
to settle on irrigated lands in the San
Louis Valley, Colorado.
A Pittsburg man of 80 was married
to little girl of IA at Girard one day
last week. On the day after the wed
ding he deserted his bride and before
night was arrested for forgery.
There will be great colored camp
meeting at Kerr's park in Kansas City,
Kansas, during July. Negro preach
ers from all over Kansas and Missouri
will be present, and it is believed that
large crowds can be attr acted.
The electric light plant at Newton
ran out of coal the other day and for a
time shut down was threatened. A
small amount was procured, however,
and it is hoped that it may last as long
as the strike.
A mass meeting was held at Argen-
tine Sunday evening for the pun pose of
devising means Tor keeping tramps and
thugs out of the city during the con-
tinuance of the strike. City officials,
citizans and strikers were present.
In the absence of a properly signed
bond fof $500 James Goodwin is board
ing with Jailor Hopkins at Garden City.
He has wife, but loved more promis-
cuously than was profitable. His vic
tim is Mary Hart and she was under
Is.
Fred Burtis, Waterville boy, has
written "a song which has proven Il
great success and is having wide sale.
1t is called "Whose Baby am I?' Mr..
Burtis has another song in the hands
of the publishers and expects soon to
have it on the market.
VIM. Smith VIM. Camden and Frank
Patton were arrested at Burlingamc a
few days ago charged with stealing
lot of saddles and harness. Smith is
about 80 years old and the others only
l6 and Is. Patton has been discharg.
ed and the others bound over to the
district court for trial.
G. A. Dusenbury has five corn listers
running behind his header. This is an
experiment, yet Mr.. Duseubury ex-
poets to get feed at least out of the
venture, besides putting his ground in
shape for winter wheat. If we have
favorable weather it would not be
surprising If he raised good corn from
it, as almost anything is possible in
Kansas. .-Clafiin Leader
The Lake View members and others
interested in the matter will be given
Il hearing or July 3rd. when the coun-
ty com Iissioners will consider the
matter of draining the lake. The
county officials are being urged by
one of the heavy land owners interest
ed to push the matter of the drainage,
as his farm is much of it lying under
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Gazette.
Last Saturday evening son of j. Il.
Humphrey of Pratt was thrown from
pony he was riding and his foot
catching in the stirrup held him to the
frightened pony as it dashed around
: the prairie the boys head hanging
down nearly TO but not striking the
ground. While in that position he
was kicked viciously a number of times
by the pony, stripping the boys scalp
off in number of places and his ear
| nearly out. When the pony was final
" stopped and the boy released he was
| thought TO be dead. being unconscious
and his head one mass of blood and
bruises. Fortunately tue skull was
not fractured and it is thought he will
recover,
Two Abilene jointists were fined
500 each and sentenced to sixty DAYS
| in Jail this week, and two others got
Sl00 each and thirty days in Jail.
| Chanute citizens want the county
commissioners to offer reward of $3.50
! for the arrest and conviction of the
party or parties that set the NJ. f.
| church on fire in that city the other
| day. The city council of Chaunte has
! offered reward of $3.50 for the arrest
and conviction of said parties, and the
| good people of Chanute are very de-
| sirous that the county commissioners
offer like reward, that believing Il
| $500 reward will enlist the services of
a first-class detective and result in the
/ arrest of the guilty parties.
/ 4 company composed mostly of Kan