Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-25
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWkER7 ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
the Great sunf1ower State-A Gem
eral Summary Of Kansas New.

at Sterling has been discontinued.
The average salary paid the 1876
teachers of Brown county is S4s a
month.
There will be big ten days camp
meeting at Johnson City, begi nning
July TO-
Threshers in Cowley county say the
wheat is turning ont much better than
was expected.
sThe striking Santa Fc employees at
: e4nporia are getting their pay and
their discharges.
During the recent small pox scare at
Atchison there were sixty-three cases
and twe1ty-six deaths.
The railroad tax assessment III
Douglas county is just completed and
IS nearly $4,000 less than in 1893.
There will be Il big excursion to Ft.
Riley July 10. Special drills will be
given for the edi6cation of visitors
Hope, Dickinson county. is said to
have a female base bail club that
played a game the other day ard won
by 2G to 6.
The enrolment in the Sedgwick
county Normal institute is 26a. more
than at any institute yet held in the
state this season
Emancipation day will be cclcbrat-
ed in Girard on a great scale, L. p.
Campbell. Geo. f. Cole and w c.
Lansdon will be among the half-doz-
en- orators of the day.
A party of boys who were working
in the market gardens near TT. Scott
caught the infection the other day
and struck against decrease of ten
cents day in their wages.
Garden City has furnished great
deal of assistance to the Santa Fc dur
ing the present strike. More than fit-
ty men have gone from there to fill
places deserted by strikers.
Rev. Frank l.. F Ferguson at present
field secretary of the American Educa-
ton society If the Congregational
church, has been called to the princi-
palship of Fairmount institute at Wich-
ita.
Wichita has the oil and gas fever. \
committee has been sent to Neodesha
to inspect the newly developed field in
that vicinity and an effort will be
made to raise money for a prospect
hole. An issue of $4,000 worth of
bonds has been proposed.
A subscription paper is circulating
among Lawrence merchants and busl-
ness men for the purpose of raisin g
funds for the purchase of a job lot of
fossil mammoth teeth and divers 9TH
er tertiary relics from Chas. Stern berg
for the State University.
The Chautauqua meeting which has
just closed at Winfield has been
financial success The association has
elected NJ. Il. Kerr of Winfield, and II.
b. Conway of Arkansas City, as direc-
tors to fill the uneXpired term of b.
W. Trout and Amos Walton. The di-
rectors will meet July 10th. and or
ganize by electing president, secre-
tary, and treasurer.
An Atchison man who has been an
got it out of the neighborhood in q
very ingenious way recently. The
man of the family in which the organ
belonged owed a big grocery account,
which the annoyed nelghbor pur
chased at a big reduction. He sued,
and got judgment, and then levied on
the debtors organ. 1t is now securely
stored in the rear of Justice Talbott's
office.
Zene Spore was dragged by his
team at Newton Tuesday and badly
injured His team had become tang
led up in the harness while fighting
flies and started to run. Mr.. Spore
attempted to stop the animals, but
without success. He was jerked to
the ground and becoming entangled
in the reigns was dragged nearly 4
block through hedge fence and over
the rough ground.
couple of young men from Pierce
Vile, Wallace and Grubb, on their
way from Garden City the other night
were both shot. one on the knee, the
other in the elbow, and claim the
| pistol was accidently discharged.
There seems to be mystery about it,
and some people think they became
involved in quarrel and fought it
out. Dir. Sabine, who dressed the
wounds, says they were serious.
The case of ihe state against 4. W.
/ Little, charged with killing attorney
3. E. Johnson at Kansas City, Kan.
| will not be tried this term of the
district court at Olathe if Judge Bur-
'ris can be prevailed upon to continue
it. The case is set for hearing on July
30, but the attorneys on both sides are
anxious to have it continued until
cold weather. A stipulation has been
entered into to this effect and Attorney
Hale for the state and Attorney Me-
Grew for the defense have gone to
olathe to consult Judge Burris in the
matter.
y painful accident occurred at Kan
opoiis last Monday. George Rathburn
of Reno county and family were visit
ing there. In the evening their little
boy who was playing with a loaded
gun. managed in some way to dis
charge it, the load striking his sister
some three years old. in the leg. below
the knee, cutting il entirely off.
In the absence of a properly signed
bond fof $500 James Goodwin is board
ing with Jailor Hopkins at Garden City.
He has wife. but loved moro promis.
cuously than was profitable. His vic
tim IS Mary Hart and she was under
Is.
The prospect is widening that Lear-
enworth is tohave new college. The
Commercial club is interested in the
matter. The scheme that il is propos.
ed to work is the old one of laying
100 acres out in town lots, selling the
lots and building the college with the
proceeds.
Fred Burtis. Waterville boy, ha,