Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-04
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS ARE
DONG TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts OF
craI Summary of Kansas New.

the task Of rearing 700 chickens.
Chinch bug infection stations have
been established this week at Clay
Center and at Ilolton.
Newton is tho latest candidate in
the race after the location of the pro-
posed Masonic home,
Blind Tom, the pianist, advertised
as the original Blind Tom, - is doing
western Kansas towns.
The Carleton company give the
Leavcnworth people a series of sum
mcr opera the last week.
Free Coinage, the noted Kansas pa
Ger owned at Empor1a, will leave for
the Illinois circuit this week.
The Wamcgo Turn Verein laid the
corner stone for Il fine new hall 44x1OO
ieet IN dimensions. the other day.
The travelling men of Concordia and
SIay center will play match game of
DaiI at the latter place on the Fourth.
petition is i'm circulation in Gar
nett asking that steps he taken to
have the city made city of the second
class.
The members of Company II. Kansas
National Guard, of Lawrence are TO
nave brand new tailor made uni
forms.
Inc equal Suffragists propose hold
ing enmeetings in Dickinson county
next month, organizing club at
each.
An attempt will be made to hold
tair at lsismark Grove, Iwrence, next
iaIl. The dates suggested sare Sept.
2I-29.
An Arkansas City man has been in
Jail for Il week for refusing to raw or
work out "a s. road tax. lie says he
VIII never pay.
seventeen johnson county young
people were in attendance at the State
Agricultural college at Manhattan
during the past year.
The smallpox scare at Atchison is
over, and the board of health has is
sued an order permitting the churches
ana schools to open.
The Harrison international Tele
phone company is flirting with the
Lawrence city council in the hope that
u franchise may be secured for putting
IN the automatic system in the histor-
ic city.
ihe proposition of the NJ. *. 4, +. to
iocatc general offices in Parsons for a
bonus of $4,000 is meeting with ap-
proval among the business men. 1t is
llkely that the proposition will be ac-
ccpted and the bonus raised.
Thirteen more oil and gas leases
were recorded at the rcgistcrs's Office
TINS morning, making in all about fifty
recorded In the past two months
Those recorded cover land i'm Mount
fIcasant township.-Oswego News
a. Il. Wilcox, who was arrested at
Arkansas City for completely in the
the performance of an abortion on his
wife, which cost the Iattcr's life. has
been held for murder in the sum of
$4,000.
The county uniformity # text books
question is the principal one that is
NcNing the people of l;cuo county at
present vote on the matter will be
taken at the school meetings July 26.
Uniformity seems likely to win the
day.
Charles II. Osborn, formerly of Coy-
vile, who was prosecuted on the
charge of forgery in the Wilaon county
district court about three years ago.
hut acquitted, was shot and killed at
Goldthwaite, Mills county, Texas on
the 9th instant.
Lightning calculator who claims TO
be son of Gen. Lew Wallace is doing
southern Kansas towns. lie saws his
father objected to the business he is
engaged in, but that he refused to quit
~, ana Tor that reason he and the old
man are not on good terms.
Nearly every town along the main
line of the Santa Fe west of Topella is
entertaining squads of Coxcvitcs who
are endcavoring to make their wav To
the Missouri. Most of these pilgrims
are from Los Angeles, but some of
them made the start from Denver.
One day this week county warrant
for 81 and some cents appeared at
the Barber county trcasurer's Office at
Medicine Lodge for payment. 1t was
ISSUED some eleven years ago to II.
Dwight Thatcher for stationery sup-
plies and indorsed mot paid for want
of funds" by w. II. Rouse, county
treasurer. Mr.. Thatcher died this
"pring and in looking over his old pa
pers the piece of scrip was found.
For several Years we have heard in
an uncertain way of the DAMAGE To
crops from the prevalence OF the Rms
sian thistle in South Dakota, but nm.
I'll recently supposed this part of the
country to be free from it. 1t seems
No be here in force. however. BEING
confined as yet to land contiguous to
the railroad. Up in Nebraska they
are organizing in districts To fight its
encroachments by school districts.
The Commercial Exchange of Leav-
enworth is endeavoring to secure the
location of beet sugar plant at that
point. 1t is said that the soil in the
vicinity of Leavenworth grows beets
that will average L. per cent of sugar.
and that in the limestone ledpes near
the city Is plenty of mineral used in
refining the sugar, obviuting the
trouble and expense of shipping the
mineral from Wisconsin and France.
Judge lnge soil of Cheyenne county
IS nephew of the infdel Bob.
Deputy Sheriff Eyer and Marshal
Potter of Brown county, arrested two
Pottawatomie Indians near the Iowa
reservation for stealing horses from
jackson county farmers.
A fatal stabbing affray occurred nj
n dance Saturday night on Turkey
creek, eight miles north of Sedalia.
Mo. James Murray and Alex Cham
berlain became involved in quarrel
when Chamberlain plunged a knife
into Murray's abdomen, producing a
fatal wound. Chamberlain ESCAPED
arrest
new camp of Sons of Veterans
was mustered in at Madison, LYON
county, Saturday night. II is known
as the Pap Thomas camp aud starts
out with membership of forty-three.
The $500 reward offered for the ar
rest and conviction of the Mucblen.
bacher murderers, was paid and divi-
dcd last week. j. H. McMahan got
Sls5, ID. NJ. Gardner SIPS, Sheriff Pal