Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-31
NUMBER 81.
Hog thieves are operating to some
extent in Elk county,

Hog thieves are operating to some
extent in Elk county.
In a match hunt in Cove county last
week 107 rabbits were slaughtered.
Ellsworth young people are getting
swell, They have organized "Soci-
etc des Lettres."
The Topeka Bicyclist Protective
with membership Of 100
has been organized.
The Union Pacific is reducing the
force at Ellis. Eleven men were laid
off in one day last week.
The Cincinnati Price Current re-
ports 40, 900 bushels of wheat in the
hands of Reno county farmers on Jan,
uary L.
) A Sheridan county man caught an
eagle measuring nearly seven feet
from tip to tip, in a wolf trap last
week.
The Union Pacific railroad Y. NJ. c.
A. of Ellis has a membership of las,
sixty-two of whom died during the
last year.
The graduates of the Holton high
school number 116. OF these eighty
seven were girls and twenty-nine
were boys
The biggest barber pole in she state
is at Lincoln. 1t is a twenty foot sec
ton of a smoke stack, painted red,
white and blue.
The Hays City Sentinel says the test
of young mans popularity with the
Goodland girls is how many jack rab-
bits his hounds have caught
The Sun and Journal of johnson
City, Stanton county, have been pur-
chased by Messrs Riley &c Hamarah,
who will consolidate the two papers
Garden City has a lawsuit involving
some $40, 900 on her hands. The epoint
of dispute is over contract providing
for the setting of large number Of
shade trees.
A Sterling man who has been in the
Rice county Jail for several months
refusing to pay his road tax, has
]; t been released by the county COM
missioners. His tax is not yet paid.
At a special election for mayor of
Pieasanton, Linn county. Mrs. Anna
Austin was chosen by a majority of
eight votes. Three hundred and thir-
ty-eight votes were cast, 123 of them
by women.
) Two Fort Leavenworth lieutenants
have been detailed for special duty as
military iustructors-one at Hillsdale
college Michigan, and the other at
Lake City, Fla, in the State Agricul-
| tural college.
In the German reichsta Monday
| Secretary of the Interior Boettiche
replying to question, declared that
wages generally had an upward tend
cncy and that the condition of the
working people was improving.
The president has signed the bills to
authorize the construction and main
tenance of dam across the Kansas
| river within Shawnee county, Kansas,
and extending the time for the con-
stIuction of the Choctaw railway.
6 A clothing store at Washington was
burglarizcd one night last week and
several suits of clothing taken. Bur-
glars have entered the store on sew
| eral previous occasions but werS.never
| before successful in obtaining any
thing.
l Some months ago the safe of A. p.
| Boswell & Co. of Coffeyville was burg
larizcd and $40. 900 in commercial pa
per taken. A few days ago the stolen
papers were found in an old haystack
and turned over to the rightfui
owners.
At a mass meeting of the Des
/ Moines, Ia, district. ut which 1900
miners were represented, it was deci-
ded not to accept 25 per cent reduc-
ton. Late Monday night the opera
tors refused to compromise, and the
men went out the next morning.
Salina patrons of the Western Union
! protested against the rate of 40 cents
| for ten words to Kansas City and 8
cents for each additional word. Their
| protest resulted in reduction of the
schedule to % cents for ten words and
cents for additional words.
The Associated Charities of Law
renee announce the performance of
THE Old Oaken Bucket" by amateur
| talent as a means of raising relief
funds. The play will be presente /
| February and 2, and will be under
the direction of Miss Georgia Brown.
The Missouri Pacific employees who
tried to move the Chico, Saline county,
ucpOI On d OdDDdLn anu were drrGSIGQ
! for breaking the Sunday law, plead
guilty the 9th day before Gypsum
| City justice and were fined in small
amounts. The company paid the fines
and costs.
While raising an old residence at
| Ottawa recently purchased from the
Y. NJ. G. A, Soma Peterson uneartfIed
complete counterfeiter's outfit. The
mould was for a dollar and dated
1890. The property has been vacant
for some time and there is no clue To
the owner of the outfit.
The Junction City schools were
closed one day last week to visi
schools in neighboring towns. Six o.
the teachers went to Clay Center, two
to visit the Dickinson County higl
school at Chapman, two went to Sa
lima, seven to Abilene, three to EN-
poria and one to Manhattan.
The junction City Republican say
that hardly day passes in that towr
that somebody is not on the street,
peddling a wagon load of fish seemed
and trapped in the rivers and creek,
of Geary county contrary to the fsf
and game laws, which, however, can
not Ue cHlOrccu owing W IuciT ldtiurt
to prescribe penalty.
. George Baily, the Santa Fe's repre-
sentative at Lawrence, lost the Office
cat in car that was sent east. He
sent out tracer for the animal and
every freight for the past week has
unloaded from one to box of cats.
Santa Fe Tom" did not appear, how
ever, until Tuesday morning when he
{ came in evidently on tie pass.
Corager Brothers, dry goods mer'
chants of Portland, Or, assigned Mon
day, with lisbilities of S230, 900 and as
sets exceeding that amount.
The large wagon loads of fish daily
| L.-o,,nrhf fI, hiIena cause the Raaao-