Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-12-19
The AbiIeuc Gazette has quito.
DETROIT,
DENVER.


taken OF by Frisco train at Wichita
Thursday night.
Mrs. John Jacob -Astor has donated
$1,000 for the completion of the Epis
cOpal church of Wichita
In the southern tier of counties
farmers are ploughing and wipeins
sweat from their brow in midwinter
A buffalo was killed at Fullerton.
ranch in Kiowa county on Tuesda1
and shipped to a retailer in Wichita.
The Columbia Coal and Mining Co..
with a capital of $4,000. has been
chartered and organized at Chctopa.
Normal Students. Taken In" is Il
sigh which appears before an honest
Emporia mans dwelling, says the Ga
Zette. IT -
A revenue collector IS following an
ice cold trail in Southeastern Kansas
for men with incomes over $4,000
year. -,-----------.-
Wheat Thieves are thick IN Lincoln
county. The farmers. have. organized
with view of-mowing some of them
down.
The Missouri & Kansas Telephone
company has made a proposition 10
Kansas City, Kansas, to put in an cx-
change. II5T
The Sixth annual meeting of the
Farmers Alliance of Kansas, met in
Topeka Monday. An organization
was effected.
The Abilene Gazette, which V. P.
Wilson, old Kansas newspaper man
took hold of few monthsago,is dead.
1t didn't pay.
The Sedgwick county Sunday School
closed a most successful meeting in
Wichita on Thursday, electing officers
for the ensuing year.
Governor Lewelling has ordered an
extra election to fill the legislature va
cancy caused by the death OF Major
Lawrence at Wichita last wees.
The rate for farm insurance has
been raised from 50 to 90 cents per
each 500. This was done by the Kan.
sas rating aud inspection bureau.
Persons Independent: A Fort
Scott man ekes out a mise, bic exist.
ehce by selling buttermillS on the
streets, when the saloons are all open.
Miss Lulu Carey. daughter Of John
i. Carey, the hotei man of Wichita,
was married on Wednesday evening
to Mr.. M. s. Dowden, Jr. of Kansas
City.
o. b. Haynes, a we'll known horse
dealer throughout the state wasTre:
lieved of 200 by foot-pads in the
railroad yards at Topeka Wednesday,
night.
The Wellington Mail stole march
on the moon, and changed hands
while that luminary was not suspect
ing it. The Mail is now several
phases ahead.
There is said to be postmaster in
Labette county who SO hates to
be bothered by people asking for,
their mail that he sends it back
where it came from.
| The Atehison Champion says Cen
trail Branch editor is forced by hard
| times to eat only two meals a day
now. 1t won't be long before he will
be fighting with the mice for the
paste.
The jury in the celebrated Ander-
son Gray case at Wellington Oh
Thursday returned verdict of muir
der in the first degree. Gray insti-
gated Tom Mcdonald in killing Tom
Patton near Conway Springs last May.
The following officers for the Horti-
culture association have been elected
for one year: President, Judge f.
! Wellhouse of Fairmount; secretary,
Senator Taylor of Wyandotte. Win
field has been selected as the next
place of meeting.
1.-THE first snow of the season is re.
ported from Cheyenne county.
VIM. Rutle6gc, one armed switch
man narrowly escaped lynching at
Argentine on Wednesday fer an at,
tempted rape upon Bessie Graves.
nine year old.
Il call is out for the Kansas Editor
ial Association. 1t will be held al
Topeka on January 81, % and % AT
which time the Legislature will be in
session and double interest manifest
ed. The membership of the Kansas
association is quite large and its per.
sonel contains some of the brightest
lights in newspaperdum to be found
anywhere, who make tia peiat-to en-.
bellish the session with gems ofspark-
ling wit. Many subjects of vital il.
ttrest to every newspaper man in the
state will come up for discussion al
this meeting, among them suggestions
for badge emblematic of the craft.
and Col. d. r. Anthony's report with
recommendations relative to lcpa,
publications, etc. After adjournment
a trip TO Lawrence and seourtesics il
way OF entertainment by the CONNER.
cial Club of that city and the faculty.
of the State University will close tho
festivities.
The Sharon Springs Times saw.
that very little wheat is being sowr
in Wallace county, because tof the in.
ability OF the farmers to bny seed.
Tic Iloisington National Coursino
club will hold coursing meet on
the Cheyenne bottoms near uoisinr.
ton, December &c. More than th;rt;
dogs have already been entered.
Chief of Police Anderson and, once,
Bebee of Lawrc' &C have resigned.
Officer Sam Jone, has been made
chief to succeed 4 d~rson The cause
of the change wa The lae:; Of har.
meny in the force.