Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-03-14
KANSAS MATTERS.
Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great Sunflower State-A Gen.
eral Summary of Kansas New.

Great Bend is beginning to talk city
hall.
The Ottawa Ladies' Columbian club
ceased to exist Saturday, having been
merged with the Columbian Literary
society.
Bones are shipped from Oskaloosa to
Kansas City in car load lots. They are
worth from $40 to SIS ton at the lat
ter place.
Col. Mcclure of Junction City offers
to donate five acres of ground toward
the establishment of a county high
school for Geary county.
Osow atomic young men organized
an athletic club recently, and immed-
lately two accident insurance compa-
MES opened agencies there.
A practical miner who has been
prospecting in the vicinity of Argen-
tine for some time claims to have dis
covered good vein of canal coal.
Hector W. Cowan, the st. Jo.
preacher, went to Lawrence Thursday
begin his labors as instructor in
physical culture at the state university.
4 The Lawrence Driving Park associa-
t!on held meeting Saturday, assessed
each share of stock S1O and decided in
favor of trying to hold a fair next
fall.
Jesse Evans, Jr., young stockman
from Texas, shot himself at the Cor
| don hotel in Longton, Elk county,
Tuesday evening. He died in a few
hours.
An eleven-year-old boy named Hugh
Lieurance was instantly killed by the
| accidental discharge of target gun
in his own hands at Neosho Falls the
other day.
In Elk county not more than two
third grade certificates will be issued
| to one person. This is in conformity
with a recent ruling of the board of
examiners.
Haskell institute at Lawrence has
been quarantined since January /, un-
| til last Saturday, on account of
measles. There were over 100 cases o {
| the disease.
Ed Little has lecture that he calls
''Roses of Sharon and Apples of Sod
| om." He will explode it before Dick
inson county, teachers institute on
Saturday.
Chancellor f. H. Snow of the state
university delivered his third univers-
| ity extension lecture on Evolution
at Lawrence Thursday afternoon.
There was large attendance.
The working time in the Missouri
| Pacific shops at Ossawatomie has been
increased from twenty to fifty hours
per week, and every body in town is
rejoicing in consequence.
! John Sizemore, prominent farmer
| living near Wilmot, Cowley county,
committed suicide the other day by
shooting himself with revolver.
Temporary insanity is the cause sug.
| gested.
The idea of municipal retrench-
ment has struck Wichita. Several
offices have been abolished altogether
and the salaries attached to others
materially reduced in the interest OF
economy.
Mrs. Susan OBrien of Kansas City
Kan, was subpoenaed on liquor
case. She failed to appear and was
arrested and fined $40 for contempt
She refused to pay the fine and wa:
sent to jail.
Geo. w. Satterlee's Oldest son, a lac
about II years of age, committed sui
eide the other day at the home of hi:
parents, seven miles south of Moline
by shooting himself. No cause is as
signed for the act.
Oswego has two ladies' clubs which
for unique names cannot be outdone
They are the 80. Q. C."(Queer, Quain
Creatures) and 81. j." dumping
Jacks.) Other towns are requested t.
outdo othis.-TimeS-State
Prof. L. L. Blake entertained hi
university extension class in Law
renee Thursday night with a phono
graph concert from Kansas city, Mo
Music hall was crowded to its utmos
capacity and the experiment was
complete success.
A Florence girl, nothing daunted b,
the unhappy experience of the Tope
ka young lady who tried similar ex
pertinent, attempted to join tn,
BLACK Crook" company when it wen
through town last week. Her parent
discovered her plans in time to frus
trate the scheme.
w. B. Harmer was arrested at Har
per the other day charged with vic
lating the prohibitory law and in de
fault of bail was taken to Jail at An
thony. He promises to make SOM
startling disclosures concerning Ger
tain city officials when his trial i
called.
At Clements, Marion county, a mai
named Studebaker made arrange
ments with another party for tn,
keeping of horse. Studebaker failed
to pay the agreed amount for tn,
keeping of the horse, and was refuse,
possession of the animal. One nigh
he went to the stable and took tn,
horse and was promptly jailed TO
theft.
William Curry has filed suit in th
Crawford county district court agains
James II. Bell, the st. Louis & Sal
Francisco Railway Co and the Wells
Fargo Express Co., for S., 600 for falls,
Imprisonment. Curry Is one of the
suspects arrested for completely in tn
Mound Valley train robbery last fall
and laid in the county Jail for severa
} months, but was released after tn
Chadburn confession.
A government detective is at Osa
watomie looking into the manufac
ture of the counterfeit coin that j
circulating freely in that vicinity
Two men held up and robbed tn
postoffice of Avilla, Comanchescounty
the other day, securing over $500.
reward of SIS has been offered by tn
sheriff for the capture of the robbers
Wichita seems to be determined L
have big auditorium. The work q
soliciting subscriptions is beIn,
pushed and the prospects for uItimat
success grow more fiattering day b
day.
I. F. Dunaway, for eight years di
vision superintendent of the Nilsson,