Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-14

The Fort Scott police department
collected more than 81, 800 during Oc-
tober.
There are secret societies among the
pupils Of the Leavenworth high
school.
Cord winter apples are worth only
35 cents a bushel in Chautauqua
county,
Hill City, Graham county, with less
than 500 population has five news
papers.
A dozen Neodesha teachers visited
the schools of Independence last Fri
day.
There were seventy-fve conversions
at the recent United Brethren revival
at Beloit.
The Missouri State University and
Ottawa University played a game of
football at Ottawa Saturday.
The Thanksgiving proclamation has
been issued setting aside the Goth
inst. as the day for giving thanks.
The Campbell University has pur-
chased $500 telescope with an object
glass of six inches. 1t is the best in
the state.
The Or umsine family of twenty
persons left Geary county Thursday
for Dallas county, Texas, where they
will settle
The Wamego Trotting association
will hold race meeting November
and continuing for days. Four races
are advertised for each day..
the Ottawa banks have been main
tanning a private Waterman. Now
they have taken out burglary insur-
ance let out their Waterman.
The Kansas Academy of Science will
meet In annual session at the Agricul-
tural college at Manhattan, December
%, q and 80. The program is not yet
announced.
1t is given out cold that the man
who voted in Kansas Tuesday has for
feited all right to any claim that he
may have been holding in the Chero-
kee Strip.
1t reported that the Hammonds are
likely to re-establish their immense
packing plant, which was destroyed
at Omaha last week, in Kansas City,
Kans.
An Abilene pastor preached on 1.-The
! Election of Grace" Sunday and the
Reflector thinks there was a misun.
Outstanding somewhere as Grace is
not on the official BALLOT.
big Mennonite conference will be
held Hillsboro, Marion county, com.
mencing next Wednesday. Promi-
nenU Mennonites from all over Kan.
sas and other states will be present
! More cattle were slaughtered by the
1 Kansas City, Kansas, slaughter houses
during October than during any pre-
vious October. Nearly twice as many
hogs were killed as during October
last year.
1t turns out that Mr. Struble, the
assistant State superintendent, who
went out of his way to defend Pull.
mann at Salina the other day, is not
an applicant for pass, but holder
of Pullman pass No, L. I4l0.
NJ. II. Burt broke the worlds bicycle
record for half-mile standing start
unpaced, at Wichita Thursday, max
| ing the half in 1:Ol. He also set the
state record for quarter-mile flying
start unPc:ced at 81 seconds.
Chancellor Shows report shows that
the month just past was the warmest
October since 1885, and one of the four
warmest Octobers on the record. The
first killing frost occurred on
the 3oth, ten days later than the aver
| age.
An Atchlson man paid to employees
last week eighteen checks in various
amounts. Eight of the checks were
cashed in saloons, three at meat mar
kets, one at drug store, three at
grocery and one was deposited at a
| bank.
! No more cane will be received by
the Fort Scott sugar works, which
leaves large portion of it in farmers
hands to be worked up by individual
molasses mills. More cane was work.
ed up this year than ever before.
Hal Reid. young farmer living
near Nun sie Wyandotte county killed
an American eagle that measured six
and half from tip to tip, Wednesday
afternoon. 1t was shot from an oak
tree, where i was being fought by a
flock of crows.
Tho i,1,-xy in hA - IN
of Edward Eagan, who was killed at
Kansas City. Kansas, a few days ago
by Sergeant Louis Hampton, a neph-
ew o: Governor LewelIing, has render.
ed verdict to the effect that the kill
ing was felonious.
The Schwarzchild & Sulzberger
packing plant at Kansas City. Kan, is
to he Increased in extent until its ca
pacity will be 1000 cattle per day. At
present it is killing but AGO. This
company is the one that iuaugurated
last spring the practice of exporting
carcasses direct from Kansas CITY to
Europe. 1t kill high grade cattle al.
most exclusively.
There will be a meeting of the
Southwestern Kansas Bee Keepers as
sociation at the home of Thomas M.
| Willett, seven miles northeast of
Bronson, Bourbon county, Saturday,
November 10. A large attendance is
expected.
The Oxford club at Atchison is pre-
pairing to put on a minstrel show that
will cost $3.50. An offer Of $500 has
been offered for the gross receipts
An Abilene girl will join A. j. Nath-
ans party of Union Gospel missionaries
who are to go to Morocco, Africa,
soon TO save the heatqens.