Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-21
KANSAS STATE MATTERS,
WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.


Condensed News from All Parts o.
the Great Sunflower State-A Gen.
eral Summary of Kansas New.
The Lebanon Criterion is Is years
old.
Spring wild flowers are in bloom in
Morton county.
The election is all over and every.
BODY is getting down to business
again.
Charles Wilson is shipping Walnut
logs from Franklin county by the car
load.
A chrysanthemum show is on al
wichita under the auspices of the
Florists club.
new national bank will soon be
started in Wichita. 1t is said Mr..
Robinson of Winfield, will be at itt
head
f. NJ. Yost shipped carload of high
grade and standard bred horses from
Fort Scott to Houston, Texas, for
training last week
The Goodlander mills of TT. Scott
work up 1900 bushels of wheat per
day the year round. The product
nearly all goes to Texas
The Kansas City man who recently
bet two pair hard enough In Atchison
to lose several hundred dollars is in
town, looking for justice-Atchison
Globe
5The night the electric street railway
is opened, there should be first-class
variety theatre in Atchison, with
plenty of serio-comic singers -Atchi-
son Globe.
The prisoners in the Atchison police
station struck against work on the
rock pile, and are now confined to
dark cells, with bread and water diet
until they relent.
The Santa Fe snow plows are all
ready for use. The plows have been
given all the necessary repairs and
are now awaiting the fall of snow to
test their powers.
j. w. Neadle, of Havana, Mont
gomery county, who has been in Kan
sas City, Kan, for medical treatment,
started for home Tuesday on wager
that he could ride the distance bv
| Thursday.
Isaac Wood brought in twig from
peach tree, Thursday, loaded with
second crop fruit. fully matured and
ripe. While not as large as the first
crop, the peaches are of fine flavor
and very palatable- Oxford RegisterS
VIM. H. Sheets of Crowford county
is the proprietor of vine that pro-
duced ''some pumpkins" this year.
/ There were nine of them, and they
weighed A, As, A., 43, 35, 3494. "a, 2215
and II pounds respectively. or an ag-
! gregate of 2751z pounds, more than an
! eighth of ton.
Hon. G. D Humphrey, one of the
early Kansas pioneers and a resident
| of Emporia, since 1855, died Monday
night. He came to Kansas and COM
/ manded company of militia during
the great struggle previous to the
war. Since then he has been one of
the most wealthy and influential citi-
zens IN this vicinity.
About three miles west of Wamego
Saturday as Mr.. Cal Fawkes returned
from hauling load of wood, he found
his wife dead in the smoke house.
Foul play was at first suspected, but
coroner's jury found no evidence of
violence and it seems proba BILE that
death was from heart disease. Mrs.
Fawlxes leaves three small children.
The members of the four troops of
the Third cavalry which were trans
ferred from Fort Riley a few week
ago to Fort Ethan, Allen, Vermont,
do not like their new station very well.
They have two and a half hours
mounted drill in the forenoon, an
hour and half of dismounted drill
In the afternoon and dress parade
every night
The Southwestern Kansas Teachers
association will meet in Wichita No
vember 80 and 80. Interesting ses-
sions and large attendance are ex.
pected.
Clinton Osbon, who is charged with
the murder of Lawyer Ham BILE of Hol-
ton, during the summer, was taken to
Lawrence Tuesday night. The pris-
oner was lodged in the Douglass coun-
tip Jail and will be tried at the Feb-u-
airy term of the district court. Osbon
claimed that Handle had ruined his
daughter, who was the lawyers stem
ographer, and shot him on sight. Tn
dersheriff Reasoner accompanied the
prisoner.
An Arab peddler who was robbed on
the highway between Pittsburg and
Kirkwood short time since, has Just
been brought to Pittsburg and placed
in the hospital, with two gun shot
wounds in his breast. one in the i'm
mediate vicinity of his heart. 1t is
thought that he is fatally wounded
and is now in such condition that
he can tell nothing of the shooting, it
is surmised however, that there is
some secret enmity to the man which
has resulted in the shooting
The suit brought by j. A. Smith
against the First National Bank, of
Emporia, w. A. Randolph, T. n.
Sedgwick and Waldo Worster for S5c.-
600 for false imprisonment came up
before Judge Earle in Chase county.
Smith had fled g pauper's affidavit for
costs. Judge Kellogg and Judge
Randolph. attorneys for the defend
ants. took the ground that the law
did not contemplate such case of the
pauper affidavit provision. Judge
Earle locked ~ lie matter the same
way, quashed tie summons and threw
the case our ~ ,3lv