Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-27
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWkERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great sunfiower State-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.

eral Summary of Kansas New.
The Winfield Chautauqua assembly
opened Tuesday night.
Concordia population according to
the assessor is 3,043.
Hail worked injury to small areas of
Nemaha county crops last week.
There are nearly 300 students enroll
ed in the summer school at the State
Normal at Emporia.
The heavy rain of last week dio
some am ge to Chase county crops. /
particularly to small grain.
Cuba. Republic county, will have
new bank soon. 1t VIII oe established
by S. L. Powell of the Bank of Water
Vile.
The Lawrence police court did a
thriving business on Monday. Nearly
$50 was assessed in fines, mostly
against common drunks.
The annual convention of the Wo-
mems Foreign Missionary Society OF
Kansas City district was in session last
week at Kansas City, Kansas.
Prof. Hickey, who is in charge of
the Abilene chinch bug infection uis-
tribution station, has already sent out
500 packages of diseased bugs.
There were seventy-six old soldiers,
fifty preachers and forty women
among the delegates to the prohibition
convention at Emporia last week
Frank Holsinger, candidate for con-
gressman-at-large on the prohibition
ticket, is market gardener and fruit
grower at Rosedalc, near Kansas City.
The Concordia Empire is "a pears
old. 1t was started at Clyde as the
Republican Valley Empire, and was
hrst printed in one-room log cabin.
A new G. A. r. post was mustered
in at Wichita Wednesday night. 1t
will be known as General E9gleston
post and started with sixtyfour mem
bers
The FIST car of new wheat of the
season was inspected by the official
state grain inspector at Kansas City,
Kansas, on Monday. 1t was from Ok
lahoma.
Nearly 200 packages of chinch bug
Infection were sent out from the Law
renee station last Friday. The aver
age number of packages sent out daily
eX leeds 100.
Miss Stella Hafer of Fort Scott has
| just carried off the gold medal and the
highest honors in the pupils contest
in the American Conservatory of Mu-
| sic at Chicago.
| Frank b. Flrestone and Miss Rose
Hotton were married the other day.
The story of their courtship would un-
doubtedly be story of warm love and
burning kisses.
Two old soldiers who have been
with Sanders Coxey army at Leaven-
worth have been discharged from Gus
tody in order that they may enter the
Soldiers home.
The Ersham machine works will not
be removed from Enterprise to Kansas
City as was decided upon some weeks
| ago, but will continue operations as
for several years past.
Edwin Bradley, of Muncie, Wyan-
dotte county, was bitten by rattle
snake last Sunday. The poison has
taken such strong hold npon him that
it is not thought he can live.
The Leavenworth Stock and Breed
ers' association will hold its annual
meeting this year from August - to
| to %. Ten thousand dollars in stakes
and purses are offered. Entries close
July g.
The first newspaper published in
! Morris county was established in 1859
! by Sam Wood. 1t was called the Kan
sas Press and was published at Coun-
Gil Grove in building that is still
standing.
Two old offenders against the pro-
hibitory law at independence had a
| falling out and each made complaint
against the other. One was convicted
on fur counts and sentenced to a fine
of S4OO and four months in Jail. The
other got off with 500 and thirty days
in Jail.
A new camp of Sons OF Veterans
was mustered in at Madison, Lyon
county, Saturday night. 1t is known
as the Pap Thomas camp and starts
out with a membership of forty three.
The Kansas Breeze makes note OF
some changes that have been made in
the names of Kansas counties. Nor
Jackson county was Calhoun: Finney
was Sequoyah; WabauLsee was Rich
ardson; Cherokee was McGee and Ly
ons was Brechinridge.
State Commissioner Wampler is il
Kansas City, Kan. preparing to take
action against the Kaw river fisher
men who are violating the law by TAX
ing fish in nets. There are numbe
of fishermen who have as many as fift,
nets in the river all the time, and tn
, commissioner proposes TO put sto
to it.
There is a great howl about har
times. but there are few men out O
employment who really want to ge
work. Fifteen men were wanted a
the riprapping above East AtchinsoE
Two men started out at noon. and a
3 o'clock had found only few WIZ
wanted employment, though tn
wages offered were S1.25 per day.
e few colored men went to work, bu
grew tired in short time and qui
saying they did not want to work.
: The Emporia canning factory pay
e Is cents per bushel for picking peas
|, A Wichita rainmaker has discovere
that large bodies of iron ore exert
great attraction on clouds, aud su,
e gests as a means of inviting precipit;
i ton that every town of any size bu
/ quantities of iron ore and build in
meDse cairns which shall serve as
! sort of lure. He says: Get iron OF
Il (you cannot get too much) and build
g cairn in or near the center of ever
township in the eounty-and the:
e many cairns would work on the cloud
e like the old darkies' coon trap an
catch 'em comm or gwine'."
!, Last week was commencement wee
l. al the State Agricultural college &
d Manhattan and the State Normal q
d Emporia. Commencement exercise
o proper were held at the Agricultur;
s college on Wednesday and at the No
d NAL oD Thursday.