Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-14
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWkERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.

OOitNd 1O.OAIs
Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great sunhower State-A GEN.
eral Summary OF Kansas New.
Usage City coal sells for 81 i. ton at
the mines.
Bill Hackney is going to Cleveland
Ohio. to practice law.
The Atchison Champion calls 1t the
~. NJ. c. A. association.
The average daily attendance of the
Emporia public schools is 1,67s.
The average daily attendance of the
Fort Scott schools is more than 1000.
Twenty-three extra policemen were
on duty in Kansas City, Kansas Tues
day.
: The police court receipts at Atchi.
son during October amounted to
$1,000.
The attendance at the Hutchinson
race meeting last Friday and Satur-
day was light.
The North Kansas Poultry Club will
hold its annual exhibition at Atchison
January LIS.
John N. Ives said at Hutchinson Sun
day that Overmyer would have CO.,
300 in the state Tuesday.
Last Friday there was transacted a
real estate deal north of Topeka, by a
woman, that amounted to s165. 24s 25.
Wichita is happy over another re
port that the big Whitaker packing
olant in that city is to resume opera
tons.
There is an Anfwiedeiseher club at
Winfield. They always serve onions
1t their entertainments in order to
take the taste of that terrible name
out of their mouths.
United States court opened at Fort
scott for weeks session Wednesday
with Judge Foster on the bench.
Judge j. A. Williams, of Arkansas,
will relieve Judge Foster in case the
term lasts more than two weeks.
Several horses which were left tied
in the streets of Junction City the
other night were ridden away by par
ties who had great indisposition to
walk. Some of the horses have come
back and others are still missing.
Many hogs in Miami county are af-
ficted with a strange disease. John
hn d.
lost 10 head since August 1. The
flesh falls from the bones of many of
the affected animals before death.
A novel election guessing contest is
On at Fort Scott. Guessers deposits a
dollar in a box and guess at the plu-
ra.fties. The one coming the nearest
gets so cent, the second % per cent,
the other & per cent goes to charity
Carl Mueller has filed a suit against
the city of Leavenworth for permitting
the electric car line to be operated in
front tof his residence He alleges
that it is nuisance, says that it OBJ
structs the street and demands that it
be removed.
State Fish commissioner j. NJ
Wampler of Brazilton, has about 800
gold fish which he will distribute free
to Kansas applicants as long as they
last. No more than four will be sent
to one person. Each applicant must
send 25 cents to pay for a shipping
pail. zr1a
Thirty-nine Pullman car shop work
ers and families, in all 1876 persons,
arrived in Hiawatha last Monday.
They include some of the best work
men from the great Pullman shops
Work will be rushed on the co-opera-
tive enterprise which uthese people
have come to Hiawatha to engage in.
The house and farm buildings, in
Guiding gram, five horses and imple-
ments of A. M. Engle, a wealthy far
mer, near Abilene, burned last Sun
day night. Part of the household
furniture was saved. The loss was
$1,000; insurance $4,000, The cause is
unexplained.
More than $4,000 barrels of apples
have been shipped from Lawrence this
season. Ten thousand bushels were
worked up by the local evaporator
and $4,000 bushels of wind falls and
culls were worked up into cider.
The evaporation has paid 20 cents a
bushel and the cider mills from 1917
to Is cents.
Chas. Mccoy has been arrested for
assault upon Caroline S. Turner, aged
II years. The warrant was issued
Saturday afternoon and placed in the
hands of the officers, but the defend
ant learning that he was wanted took
his departure for parts unknown, but
his whereabouts were ascertained by
the officers and he was apprehended
and placed in the county Jail.
5A dynamite cartride of the pattern
used by burglars for blowing ope n
safes, was found near the door of the
postoffice Saturday morning at Well
ington, and evidence pointed to an
attempt to enter the building during
the night. Several doubtful charac-
tiers who were hanging around town
have been arrested on suspicion of
having had hand in the attempt to
crack the Office safe.
One OF the State University football
team threatens to resign just because
football interferes with his study.
The State Grain Inspector at Kan
sas CITY, Kan, inspected ZOE car loads
of wheat, 242 of corn, 116 of rye dur
ing October.
The Lawrence police arrested man
last Friday night for being drunk.
The man claimed he was not and
stood trial in the police court The
result was that he was acquitted,
which goes to show that the Lawrence
police do not know drunk man when
they see one.