Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-22

Every district but two, in Douglass
county, has hired its teacher for next
year.
Leavenworth packers are paying
from IS cents to dollar bushel for
apples.
Hot as Hades' is the head the At
Gibson Patriot puts over its weather
report.
One day will be ''free day for all
children under Is years old at the
Seneca fair.
The local club at Leavenworth lost
money on the recent wheelman's meet
in that city.
The new cavalry company at Law.
renee was mustered in last week,
There are forty members.
Bert Harrison, the fifteen-year-old
son of Mrs Louisa Harrison, was
drowned in the Missouri river at At
Gibson Thursday afternoon while
bathing.
A. NJ. ,Iunod, prominent grain
merchant of Larned, accidently shot
himself one day last week Death was
instantaneous. An entire charge O.
bird shot entered his left breast
A Jewell county farmer. who pre-
dicted the corn failure of 1894, and
prepared for it by accommodating 4,5oO
bushels of old corn, saying that there
will be good corn crops for the next
five years, and that 1895 will be the
best of all.
The proprietors of the Planters
house at Leavenworth recently offer.
ed small cash prize for the best new
name for that hostelric. More than
1900 suggestions have already been
received and contest does not close
for few days yet.
Baldwin people held big reception
Monday evening on the Baker Univer-
sity capums as a complimentary fare
well to DIR. Quayle. who will move his
family to Kansas City and take up his
new work as pastor of the Indepen-
dence avenue NJ. T.. church.
ID. j. Hanna, the wheat king OF
Graham county, has unlimited conf
dence in that county. He has a large
number of teams at work in different
places preparing the ground for this
falls work. He will SOW as much
wheat, If not more, than in IS9
Charley GriswOid, well-known
farmer near Watson. harvested TWEEN
ty acres Of oats that averaged fifty
bushels To the acre. ;. johnson
just over the line in Douglas county
averaged forty-two bushels Tor i,
acres North Topeka Mail
The kouns Manufacturing company
is a new institution which proposes tc
manufacture windmill>, towers aud
trOughs in Saiina. For time the
castings will be made in Leavenworth.
but it is expected that II foundry will
be put in at Salina before long.
The Pullman car portera of Kansas
City. and other colored people of that
city. Lawrence, Topeka and inter
vening towns. held Il mammoth picnic
at Bismarck Grove Friday. The picnic
was the annual one for the Pullman
porters and very large crowd was in
attendance.
J. II. Strawn and J. V. Copus thresh-
ed their eighty acre field of flax tins
week. The average number of bush.
els per acre was fifteen, the largest
yield of any piece of flax threshcd
here fer some time. Who says j,
doesn't pay TO raise flax seed as wei
as any other kind of seed -Holtou
Signal
j.. +. Wright, prominent citizer
and eXBanker of Douglass, Butler
county, committed suicide sometime
Saturday by hanging. He has been
deranged some time and attempted
self destruction about year ago by
shooting himself in the head. He was
one of the pioneers of Butler county
and was very wealthy.
The Kansas synod of the Evangelical
German Southern church convened il
annual session at Leavenworth Fri
day. At the opening there were over
100 ministers present from variou.
places in Kansas and Oklahoma. Th,
opening session was addressed by
II. c. Schwan, an eloquent divine from
Cincinnati, o. The afternoon session
was mainly devoted to the work of or
ganization and the discussion of mis-
sions. 1t was decided to push the
church throughout Kansas the com
ing year, during which time many
new churches are to be built
). +. French, merchant and promi
nent secret order mem bcr. of McLouth
was fatally stabbed Wednesday b,
Logan Hickerson. They met at tt,
postoffice and after exchanging e1m,
hot words, Hickerson drew his knit,
and commenced slashing French BE
fore he could be taken off Hickersor
cut French several times on the lef
arm, once right above the heart anC
twice about the head After being
cut, French started for doctors of
fee, but on taking few steps fel
and lay insensible. Friends took hin
to his home, where physicians exam
ined his wounds and pronounced then
fatal. During the excitment over re
moving French Hickerson went to hi.
home, changed his clothes, mounted
horse filed. The sheriff and city
marshal organized posse and ar,
now in pursuit of Hickerson.
Pete Parsons beat the threshins
record in this section last week on tn.
farm of Jim Quinn. by threshing !. 49,
bushels of wheat in five and a hal
hours. Globe
The Manhattan hotel at Wichita ha.
changed hands, Fred Mencourt retir
ing from the hotel business. and b. /.
Eaton, proprietor of the Metropolt
taking his place.
Colman's Rural World, published al
st. Louis says: Kansas must have g