Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-10-31
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWkERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
the Great Sunfiower State-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.

eral Summary of Kansas New.
aoil has been struck at Caney, Mont
gomery county.
The Ottawa Republican has been en-
iarged by a column
The University extension class at
Lawrence numbers 125.
A new packing house has begun op
.rations at Kansas City, Kan.s
1t costs colo-ed gemmen 81. 90 apiece
In the way of police court fines to
shoot craps in Atchison.
Wright Lane of Lawrence got off on
The wrong road and was arrested Mon
day for selling liquor
A general court martial has been
set for Ft. Leavenworth to try such
cases as may come before it.
independence begins to think that
It has dead cinch on the location of
an off-shoot of the Fort Scott sugar
works.
At Atchison they have bad boys
who tear pickets from fences, and
pile them around telegraph poles and
set them afire.
Pittsburg is the latest town to try
20 work up a mutual telephone scheme.
Fort Scott has her system well under
way.
Two Fort Riley soldiers, members
Of the Seventh cavalry, the famous
custer regiment, have just returned
from six-months' tour with Buffalo
Bill
Addition proof that it'doesn't pay to
raise wheat in Kansas: A Gray
county man named Winters raised
thiry bushels out of his neighbours bin
and was in jail inside of twenty-four
hours
The much advertised wolf hunt that
soOk place near Williamsburg last Sat-
lrday was hardly a bowling success,
for nary wolf was captured. Five
hundred men and boys participated in
The hunt.
Nearly every day train load Of
cattle pass through here for Kansas
City. The cattle buyers seem to be
doing big business in and through
the western part of the state.-Rus-
sci Journal.
DIR. A. X. Mann, of Toronto, Wood
son county, took enough of corrosive
sublimate the other day by mistake to
Kill dozen men. but the immediate
boiling of the whites of big setting
Of eggs saved his life,
Chief of Police Quarrels of Kansas
City, Kansas, has made himself verv
unpopular with his subordinates by
forbidding the playing of checkers at
the police stations. There's no fun in
being policeman there any more.
The COTS Advance says that never
before in that part of Nemaha county
has there been such a demand as now
for farm lands, and further says that
prices on farm property have gone up
from IL to - per cent during the past
year.
"A Junction City woman subscribed
$1,000 toward building the Metho-
dist church at that place. There was
some disagreement as to the payment
and the church authorities have
brought suit to collect the amount OF
the subscription.
1t doesn't cost soldier his life in
these piping days of peace if he goes
to sleep on his post. but for little
snooze of two minutes the other day,
Private Huyck of Fort Riley, was sem
fenced to three months in the guard
house and forfeit $50 of his pay.
At the Goodland coursing meeting
last week Glenlyon won the Kenmore
club stakes, Fear took the Kenmore
derby and Rhaon Dhu captured the
consolation stake. The entrance fee
to the 6rst two events was $50 and
some of the best dogs in America were
entered.
Twelve Abilene ladies have a most
successful magazine exchange in oper-
alton. They raise a fund of $50 each
year and subscribe for the leading
magazines and periodicals. Then by
carefully arranged system these are
passed along until each member has
aad the benefit of all at mere ly nom
nal cost.
Alonzo Banks, an old and highly re
spected citizen of Trego county, was
killed in runaway near WaKeeney
the other day. His team ran away,
the tongue broke and ran into the
ground and Mr.. Banks was thrown
nigh into the air. He landed fiat on
his back, receiving internal injuries,
from VIII ich he died in few hours.
A Pittsburg merchant put S25 in a
locked box, gave key to every pur-
chaser of dollars worth of goods,
and offered the So to the person
whose key would unlock the box con-
tanning it. Dolens of people bought
goods that didn't need, by the load, in
hope of getting the right key. But
one fellow had scheme worth two of
that. Instead of striving for the key
to the box he rustled around and
found key to the outer door. Now
the box, S25, and all are gone.
There was a man in the city Thnrs-
day morning with a shot gun, the bar
rel of which was seven feet long. 1t
is claimed to be the one that Colonel
David Crockett used in picking the
coons out of the tops Of tall sycamore
trees--Atchison Champion.
3The recently suspended bank at
Jenning, Decatur county, has paid its
depositors in full and will soon re-
sumo business.
An explosion in the power house
stopped the Leavenworth electric car
system Thursday night and left the
eitv in total darkness.