Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-11
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWkeRS ARE
DOING TODAY
the Great Sunfiower Statc-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.

eral Summary of Kansas New.
The mercury ran up to % at Abilene
last week
Seven hundred pies arc baked every
Saturday at the Soldiers Homo.
On July 1st the thermometer regis
tered l16 in the shade at Winfield
new G.. A, r. rost has been mus
tered in at Kanorado, Sherman county,
There are ten stations in Ottawa
county for the distribution of chinch
bug infection.
The commissioners of Cowley coun-
ty are talking of gettingssne the rain
makers to make Il rain fc.a Saem.
The average velocity of the wind at
Dodge City during the past seventeen
years has been twelve miles an hour.
The Canadian thistle, a terrible pest
to eastern farmers, is spreading rapid
ly in Kansas. 1t is found now as far
west as Beloit.
An Ellsworth man has just returned
from Texas, where he bought 1000
head of 2-vear old heifcrs. which he
VIII ICED next winter.
The FL Dorado Republican says
there is young lady 20 years old re-
siding in Butler county, who has new
er ridden on the railroad ears.
The Washington Register wants the
thirty-tive judicial districts of Kansas
cut down to twenty, and the salary of
judges raised from s.. 800 to $4,000
A special pension agent has been in
Mcpherson operating for several days
with the result that several old sol
diers have already been notified of re-
ductions in their pensions.
1t IS understood that Downs will
not celebrate her birthday on June -
this year. This will be the first time
that town has failed to celebrate since
it organized in 1879.
the executive committee of .the q
a. r. reunion for the Fourth district
met in Council Grove the other day
and set the date for the fall reunion
from September 4th to eth.
Alfred Miner, the young man who
so mysteriOusly disappeared at Soda
lila. Mo. few days ago, has returned
to his home in Oberlin. He has mere
ly been searching for work.
government architect is working
on plans for public building at Sa-
lima and the possibility is growing
that an appropriation for such build
ing may be made by the present con-
gress.
The harvesting of wheat has been in
earnest. The header is used mostly
this season on account of the shortness
of the straw. The yield of wheat will
be more satisfactory than a majority
of the people think.-Newton Repub-
lican.
Frank OBrien, son of John O'Brien
of Halstead, was drowned while swim
ing in the Little Arkansas river in the
grove at Halstead the other day. He,
with number of other boys, was bath
ing in the river. when Frank. who was
only II years of age, got beyond his
depth and sank,
A channel has been made IN the lake
at Lakeview by removing the moss
from the center of the lake. The re-
cent rains have filled the lake, but the
club members are talking of putting
Il dam across the lake to prevent the
possibility of its becoming dry.-Law-
renee Journal.
Judge Martin at Newton has grant
ed new trial in the breach OF prom
ise case, n former trial of which gave
Miss Lillian WolfcrsbeTgcr Of Phila-
delphia verdict against Dr. Geo. a.
Mac Elrce for ST, 727. The Judge says
the damages awarded are too great
and has set the verdict aside.
Prof. SHOWS chinch bug eXtcrmna-
tor has been thoroughly tested at the
state experiment station a Manhattan
this spring without the slightest indi-
cations of any good results Foreman
Burtis says that even with the most
careful adherence to instructions it
has proved fat failure.
The offices of the Adams and Amerl.
can express companies at IT. Scott
have been consolidated, and all of the
business of both companies will be at
tended to hereafter by one agent.
Such combinations between these two
companies are common in the East but
there is no other in Kansas.
The Camp Meeting to be held by the
Methodist people at the Chautau1ua
grounds at Winfield Aug. 23rd to Sept.
3rd, promises to be an occasion of
great interest. Tents for rent, and
good boarding at reasonable rates can
be had on the groun Is. For informa-
ton, address with stamp Rev. a. Il.
Bruner, Winfield, Kansas
} The Chautauqua meeting which has
just closed at Winfield has been a
financial success The association has
elected NJ. Il. Kerr of Winfield. and T.
i 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 a president, secre-
tary, and treasurer.
A fellow who had been fined $500 in
the Fort Scott police court and lacked
the wherewithal to liquidate played
the court for a sucker by informing it
that he had been examined by doctors
who informed him that he was liza bic
to drop dead any moment. AS the
judge did not want to run any risk of
having him die on the city's hands he
gave him time to leave the city.
Stanley & Hume of Wichita. attor
neys for the receiver of the Whitaker
packing house cases, were allowed a
SiO;OoN AcO Dg VIC Ncui AoSe week IOF
theta services. This is supposed to be
the biggest fee ever paid to law firm
in Sedgwick county for single case.
Saturday is cleaning up day at tie
Soldiers Home. Every department is
aiven thorough cleaning. and every
member is at work doing something,
either scrubbing. washing windows,
airing blankets, fixing up other ward
robes or backing each others shoes
all getting ready for Sunday morning
Inspection.
The proprietor of the woodland joint
located just across the Marais des
Cygnes from the Chautauqua Assem-
bly, grounds at Ottawa. was arrested
and 6ned $50 the other day for illegal
ly dispensing liquors.