Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-29

Ivy ''''' iOi y" 81 cou III Inllllp:
county.
The old Planters house at Leavcn
worth has been rechristcned 9Th,
Leavcnworth.'
Stockton papers say a great man,
hogs are being shipped there to be fec
on cheap wheat.
The Equal Suffrage club of Hoxie
charges ten cents admission to its
weekly seances.
lTheFSazctte complains that Lawrence
is filling with thugs and buns, most.
ly returning Coxeyites.
Kansas City, Kansas, killed 30, ,OOC
more hogs in July 1891, than in the
corresponding month last year
The loss of population in the Sew.
enth district from March l. 1893 to
March l, 1894, was about $4,000.
Prof. Hunter, of the Atchison coun.
ty high school at Effingham, has lust
returned from trip TO Europe.
span of half-breed Hambletoniap
colts went begging for luyer on the
streets of Ashland last week at ST..
The camp meeting which was adver.
tised to begin at Marion September 4,
has been indefinitely postponed.
The chiuch-bug infection station al
Abilene has shut up shop and Superin-
tendent Hickey is out of a SlOO a
month snap.
Two counterfeiters who have put
good deal of green money into cir.
culation in and around Wichita were
arrested Friday near Mavsville. Their
tools, moulds and "a large quantity OF
counterfeit were also found.
A big irrigation meeting under the
auspices of Ergcnc Tilleaux of the
western Homestead will be held al
Tribune. Greedy county. next Thurs
day Several people from Topeka
will attend and deliver addresses.
Major Frank Barrows, who has foi
many years been secretary of the
national military cemetry at TT. Scott.
mas been transferred to Beaufort.
South Carolina, where he will have
charge of another national cemetry.
Major BarrOws will be succeeded bv
Major &. W. Ford, of beaufort.
water famine is threatened in OF
tawa and heroic measures are being
resortcd to by the water COMPANY.
Many wells throughout the citv. as
well as cisterns, are dry and the reser-
voirs of tho water works arc lower
than ever before. \ heavy force of
workman arc digging canals to con
meet the river with the reservoirs.
lncendairics Sunday morning set
hre to the large barn belonging to f.
II. Nanhasen, who lives in Willow
Springs township, about thirteen
miles southwest of Lawrence. Six
horses were burned to death and a
large amount of grain and a number
Ot farming implements were DESTROY
cd. The loss will reach $4,000. No
insurance.
a young woman from the country
whose name could not be learned,
came in to Wichita Sunday in great
misery. by some means a sand burr
got into her throat and stuck fast
there. II causes her the most intense
pain and may cost her her life, as she
Is already Frustrated with coughing.
and every time she coughs the weed
sticks faster.
The Wichita Eagle is using much
space in trying TO show that a Will
liam Matthewson of Wichita, rather
than William +. Cody, is the rightful
buffalo BILL 1t has stirred up
Cody's camp in New York in great
shape and two or three col
umns of stuff on the side of the con-
troversy or the other are published
every week.
If "a steam thrcsher breaks through
bridge, no damage can he collected
from the county. The law demands
that three-lnch plank be laid across
for the wheels to move on to distrib.
ute the weight which Is seldom COM
piled with. There is also a law to
compel them to shut off steam on the
approach OF horses, which is also dis
regarded. -Atcliison Globe.
The Semi-annual meeting of the
Franklin County Farmers Institute
was held in Forest Park, Ottawa, last
Thursday. There was n good attend
ance of farmers and others. Address.
cs were made by Secretary Il. u. Co.
burn, of the state board of agricul-
ture; eX-Secretary Martin Mohler. Rev.
). W. Stewart, ). II. Cramer. j. II.
MILESTONE, Robert Atkinson and w.
III. Moherman.
Five deaths have occurred AMONG
the Indians on the Kickapoo reserva-
tion during the last two weeks. The
Indians are much excited over these
deaths and the murdered man found
on their reservation lately. They
think the Great Father is angry with
them because they have allowed the
white-faced settler to settle on the re-
serve. They think that the Great
Spirit will now destroy them ALL
The Kansas fair season opened this
week. Moran, Allen county. and
Riley, Riley county, will hold their
annual fairs during the four DAYS be-
ginning Tuesday. Next week
fairs will be held at Clay Center, Gi-
rard and Olathc.
!. w. Blossingame, of Dcnnison,
Texas, was in town Tuesday. Some
time ago he put out 5000 head of cat
tie and when rounded up they were
1000 head short. He is looking for
missing animals or the fellows who
got away with them. Clark County
Journal.
Yates Center is to have a new $500
chemical and water engine.
Junction City uses 300, Ooo gallons of
water per day.
The finest of grapes are selling at
from to , cents pound at lIutchin-
son.
Atchison papers are having a great