Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-01
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All PART. Of
the Great sunfiower State-A Gen.
eral Summary of Kansas New.


Emporia has an E. T. C. club.
Lecompton is to have a creamery.
Girard wants the Santa Fe to build
rnew brick depot.
The Anthony salt works will resume
operations in September.
Lawrence has society called the
Christian Society of Metaphysics.
The News wants mile track and a
racing association at Hutchinson.
movement is on foot among Sa
lima women to otracize female cyclists.
The school population of Hiawatha
is 1,osl-ts%enty five less than year
ago.
An Abilene minister preached the
ether day on dirt, Debt and the
Devil"
Wichita has thirty-one churches
eight colleges and twenty three sa-
looms.
Good horses sold on the streets of
Great Bend one day last week for Sl3
ahead
John Robiuson's circus one of the
oldest on the read, is doing southern
Kansas.
Forepaugh's circus is coming to Kan
sas. 1t is billed at Leavenworth for
July %.
The population of Chase county de-
creased 533 during the year ending
March /, 1894.
Apples are being shipped from
Leavenworth at the rate of twenty
five barrels day.
The Coffey County Fair Association
has levied an assessment tax of 10 per
cent on the stockholders.
The Labor Record, an organ of or
ganized labor, has made its appear
ance III Kansas City, Kan.
Emporia's Fourth of July celebra-
tlon put its perpetrators $3.50 in the
hole. The entire expense was 500.
OF ninety applicants for teachers
certificates at the Wilson county ex-
animation the other day only fourteen
failed
j. NJ, Lands, of the Labette county
Democrat, has decided to abandon
Kansas Journalism and will move his
plant to Gillette, Ark.
There is only one daily paper pub
lished west of the center of the state
That one is the Evening News pub
lished at Great Bend
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ing man, narrowly escaped lynching
Sunday. He is under arrest for Grim
inally assaulting 13- year old girl.
1t is reported that the corn around
Nickerson is in fine condition and
that the general outlook for good
crops is excellent in that part of the
state.
The Wichita local union secured one
of twenty-five medals given by the
international Society of Christ En-
deavors at its recent Cleveland meet
ing for good work done.
Thursday about 100 of the strikers
received their checks for May and
June work and were formally dis
charged from the services of the San
ia Fe.-Emporia Gazette.
The Frankfort Fair ASSOCIATION has
changed the date of it's fair to Septem-
ber 4, 5, 6 and :, so as not to conflict
with the old soldiers reunion at
Marysville. Septem Der Is, 10 and 70
Three Italian highwaymen, named
Pete Daley, Ed. Hayne and Mel Null
len are under arrest at Pittsburg for
holding up another peddler named
Mike Frances, at Chicopee the other
night and robbed him of his wares
party of excursionists lett Logan,
| Phillip county, last Saturday for the
San Luis valley in Colorado, where
they went with the view of seeking
locations. The land that is proposed
to settle on are under irrigation.
Out of ninety-eight applicants for
teachers certificates at the recent ex-
animation in Riley county seventeen
received second grade certificates and
forty-nine received third grade certifi-
Gates. making total of sixty-six who
| passed and thirty-two who failed.
d
daily paper will be issued in Wichita
by number of local printers. 1t will
be published seven days in the week
and will appear in the evening It
will be principally devoted 10 the
gathering and compiling of local news
and all of the work will be done by
union printers.
The first load of Finney county
wheat was delivered to the Garden
City roller mills Tuesday by VIM.
Goddard, five and half miles north
west of the city. The grain was of
good quality, testing fifty-nine and
one-half pounds to the bushel. Mr.
Goddards yield will be in the neigh
borhood of 500 bushels. Forty cents
was the price paid by Mr.. Norton of
the mil company.-Garden City Sen
tinel.
Prof Charles Greedy, a nephew of
the journalist who wanted young men
to ''go west" lectured at Abilene
Thursday night on ''Civics and the
Public Schools"
A city hospital has been established
| in Pittsburg. Drs- Geo. w. Williams,
A. o. Blair, +. o. Sloan, c. A. Fisher
and William Williams are the directors
donate their professional services.
] A revivalist who went to Sol Miller's
town boasting that he would make
! $50 converts or leave town a corpse.
made just three and was glad to get
away alive.
Rocky Mountain locasts have ap
peared in Wallace county. They are
doing no damage as yet.
The Sun is a new pa per, which has
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