Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-25
Abilene pays $4,000 year for s4s
city water.

small boys this summer, -
The people of Perry. Ok. have voted
S25, 900 for school buildings.
Joe Bristow holds that artificial
rain-making is a work of super-irriga-
ton.
A Telephone line is to be built from
Arkansas City to Kildare and Black
well, Ok.
The Santa Fe depot was burned
Tuesday night at Caldwell. A fire.
cracker did it.
a single grim at Garden City sold
forty three wind mills this season, fof
use in irrigating.
They have run out of weather at
Sterling and the station there has
been discontinued.
OF liz persons attending the Saline
county teachers institute ffty-one
have never taught
Shawnee ounty is disposing of her
court house bonds TO the state school
fund commissioners.
The Kansas mutual Life Insurance
company has been licensed TO do busi-
ness in Massachusetts.
Walter Davis. son of Congress man
John Davis. of Kansas, is practicing
law in Washington city
An effort is being made to recruit
the Wichita battery of the First Light
Artillery up to its full quota.
A special election has been ca lied in
Harper county to determine as to the
esta blishment OF a county high school
The Standard insists in apparent
good faith that the mercury stood at
Ill in the shade at Lcoti one day last
week
The Planters house at Leavenworth
has been sold to syndicate which
will expend $50, 900 in repairs and inn
provements
An effort is being made to have the
government take hold of the Peabodv
milk station-the only one in the
United States
Governor Lewelling has been invit-
ed to deliver the Populist day address
at the Chautauqua assembly, August
Is, at Salem, Neb.
Texas cattle are coming into the
Kansas city, Kan, stockyards freely.
More than l25 carloads of them were
received on Tuesday.
squaw at The union depot at Atch-
ison the other morning chewed tobac-
co and had to have spittoon brought
in the ladies waiting room
There have already been fifty appli-
cations for admission to st. Johns
Military school at Salina-more than
in any previous year at this time.
A 1:-year-old Hutchinson boy who
was climbing fire escape in search of
birds nests fell to the ground and
broke both arms and wrists in Sc veral
places.
General Superintendent A. j. Hit,
of the Rock Island, was school
teacher at Omaha twenty-three years
ago. and quit teaching to accept po-
sition as brakeman.
The electric light plant at Newton
ran out of coal the other day and for
time a shut down was threatened. A
small amount was procured, no wever,
and it is hoped that it may last as long
as the strike.
Late Saturday night the Missouri
Pacific switch engine while backing
down the tracks at Leavenworth, ran
over the body of a man lying PROSTATE
on the track and cut it completely in
two. There was nothing to reveal his
identity. His horse, saddled and bri-
died, stood SO near him by the track
that that the engine almost struck its
head.
1t was a novel thing that caused the
marked waning of the popularity of
the Evangelical church at New ton.
The pews were repalnted last fall and
the preparation that was put on never
thoroughly dried. Pew occup ants
were never sure after that of rising
with their Sabbath habilments intact
and so they attended other churches.
The church officials have put up with
this state of affairs as long as possible
and are now busily engaged in burn
ing and scrapiDg the defective paint
from the pews.
Chanute citizens want the county
commissioners to offer rewar1 of S25t
for the arrest and conviction of the
party or parties that set the NJ. f.
church on fire in that city the other
day. The city council of Chaunte has
offered reward of $3.50 for the arrest
and conviction of said parties, and the
good people of Chanute are very de-
sirous that the county commissioners
offer like reward. that believing
$500 reward will enlist the services of
n first-class detective and result in the
arrest of the guilty parties.
Floyd Swartz was arrested in Kan.
sas City Friday for stealing fifteen
bushels of clover seed from J. h. Palm.
err. Miami county farmer. Swarta
sold the clover seed, using the pro-
ceeds to indulge in wild spree. He
was arrested by Policeman Manly, land
Police Judge Jones sent him out II
the workhouse for drunkenness and
disornerly conduct. Friday Deputy
Sheriff Hamlin found him breaking
auth orities took him to Miami county
to answer the charge of stealing farm
er Palmer's clover seed.
The old settlers picnic of the pio
necrs of Harvey county will be helc
at Halstead. Thursday, August 0
The citizens of Halstead are preparing
to entertain the laig, crowd in style
BETTING the casion.
r. A. Kendig. ex-cashier of the dc.
funct bank of 0berlin. Kan, has beer
sentenced to three years in prison fol
receiving deposits when the bank wai
insolvent.
Mrs. Florence Morton of Topeka
Kan, horsewhirped her husband and
Herman Crow on street for loafins
bout town.