Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-16
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oberlin is to have a new possoiAe.

The privilege of selling hop tea in
Russell costs 500 year.
Scottville is getting loud. A brass
band has been organized there.
There were twenty-four arrests 70,
drunkenness in Atchison last month.
A new trade paper called the Salt
Workers Journal has been esta blished
at Hutchinson.
The United States cruiser Chicago,
Captain Maynes, arrived at Gravesend,
Eng, Thursday. !.
There is an organization of Latter
Day Saints in Finney county. Regu-
lar services are held in Garden City.
Two incendiary blazes in Salina
within few days testify to the fact
that the fire. bugs who have been op-
Grating there for a month have not
left the town. ~
at Salina because one of the BARRIERS
mas broken the agreement signed last
summer to close at a certain hour
each evening.
DIR. Allen Day. famous for his sue
cessful treatment of inebriates, and
who for the past twenty-five years has
been identified with the Washington
ian home at Boston, is dead.
Lawrence has a man who has been
carrying on systematic stealing
of chairs from residence norches. The
chairs were found in his house. He
was arrested and fined $50 and costs.
The joints and gambling dens OF
Dodge City were recently closed by
the city officials upoL the threat of the
county attorney that he would begin
proceedings to oust said officials il
they did not do their duty in the
premises.
Allen Afford, of Beatrice, Neb.,
aged %, was arrested at Atclnison
ON telegram from his home charging
him with forgery. Afford was ac.
companied to Atchison by handsome
young woman who admitted she was
not his wife.
Lawrence boys are making such
nuisances of themselves by jumping
on and off the cars that crusade has
been inaugurated against them. OF
several that were arrested last week,
one was fined $3.50. another SS. SO. and
others were remanded for trial later.
By an explosion of a lamp SUNDAY
night in the home of NJ. w. Thompson
at 1928 North Madison street, North
Topeka. one of his children. Pearl. q
girl of Z. was so badly burned that she
died Monday morning, and a younger
child, aged months, was seriously in
jured.
notwithstanding that Kansas. is
prairie state it has Mount Zion, in
Ellsworth county, Mount Olivet. in
Leavenworth. a Mount Hope. in Sedg-
wick, a Mount Carmel, in Crawford. a
Mount Ayr. in Osborne, Mount Nebo,
in Pratt and Il Mount Pleasant in
AtchiSon.
w. II. Hinson. miner. was killed
in the Central Coal and Coke compa-
ny's shaft No. $. at Weir City Monday
by a mass of rock falling on him from
the roof, which was estimated TO
weigh fifty tons. HIS body was extri-
Gated by blocking up the rock and
mining under it.
The 10-year-old of A. NJ Barnes Of
Lawrence was seriously burned Mon
day morning by his clothing catching
fire from gasoline stove The reser-
voIr was being filled while there was
a fire burning, and the fire. started in
this way. The boys legs were badly
burned, and his condition is consider
ed serious.
A Kickapoo Indian from the Jack.
to-Driuk Water, has married as his
third venture in the matrimonial line,
Mrs. Sarah Waity, a worthy widow
tribe Mrs. Waity acquired all the
rights of full-blooded Indian and
with her three sons came in for a S25,-
900 share of the tribal funds
Abilene has a creamery CONF any
that paid S126, 100 to COS patrons for
milk in the year 1898. The company
h~s branches at Bell Springs, Tai
mage, Dillon and Longford and manu-
factures SO, 600 lbs of butter mcnthly.
Hope, in the same county, has a
creamery that made SO, ,49s pounds OF
butter last year ard pays out about
81, 800 per month for milk to the
ghboring farmers.
w. A. Sweeny was taken from a
Santa Fe freight car in the yards at
Argentine Monday more dead than
alive, having been locked inside for
four days without food or Water. He
had been a waiter in Denver and
started last week for Salina. where
his parents live. He beat his way in
a box car, was locked in and carried
by his destination. lie saws he has
wife at Burlingame.
A new industry has been established
at Abilene in the way of the manufac-
ture of patent sawed barrel hoops for
use in making -four, salt. lime and
stucco barrels and nail kegs. The
hoops will be made of elm timber Sc
cured in Dickinson county. Fifteen
men will Ue regularly employed on
this work alone and the mill mschin
cry has been thoroughly overhsuled
to make ready for the start. About
5000 hoops will be made daily when
fully under way. though the capacity
of the mill is 1000 to 10000 a day.
Heretofore the barrel makers and
users Of Kansas have been buying
hoops from st. Louis and points fur
ther east. Last year Abilene used TO-
900 hoops, Enterprise, 250,0o0, Salina
300. 900, and so all over Kansas.
Police Judge Osborne, of Fort Scott,
has turned in s9Os as the receipts OF
his court for the month of April.
More new ground is being broken
up in Smith county this season than
ever In any one year before. 1t is but
a matter of few years until farmers
will have to look elsewhere than the
common wild grass for feed for their
stock. Already the Importance OF the
idea is forcing itself upon the farmers
and many are. preparing TO meet the
emergency by the use Of alfalfa and
like crops. Hundreds of acres of al
falfa will be planted in Smith county
this season, and if successful the acre
age will increase from now on
Smith County Journal.
There is a movement on foot in Kan