Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-31
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items of Interest Condensed for Hurried
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Readers.
A Girard firm received an order on
Friday for sixty carloads of hay to go
to France.
1t is rumored that the Missouri Pa
cific railroad shops at Atchison will
be rebuilt.
The quarantine of southern cate
viii go into effect at the Kansas City,
Kan, stock yards on February Is.
Prairie hay is worth $40 per ton;
corn 35 cents per bushel in Chatauqua
county. Demand for feeding keeps !
prices up.
The Morganville, Clay county, roller
mill was so rushed with WORT that it /
ran 564 actual working hours during |
December.
Since May /, 1898, 427 car loads of
hay, grain, and stock have been |
shipped from the station of Mayetta, |
Jackson county.
An intimate friend of Attorney Gen.
eral Olney in Bosto1 says the rumored
resignation of Mr.. Olney VIII become
a fact very soon.
Five Ft. Riley soldiers have been
granted months furlough to enable
them to go to Leavenworth and take
the Kelley cure.
A planned lecture course at Win
chester, jefferson county, has been
given up because of the impossibility
of securing speakers.
EX-State Superintendent George w.
Winnans, now of Oklahoma, will con-
duct the Wyandottc County Normal
institute next summer.
John r. Skinner and Thomas Mosier
were both seriously injured by run
away team near Cleveland, o. t.. Fri
| day. Skinner will die.
A Lawrence man who was seriously
| injured on n Santa Fe bridge two
years ago has commenced suit against
the company for S25,50O.
In some grades of the public schools
at Leavenworth the old time readers
have been dispensed with and secular
papers substituted for them.
At an auction sale of notes and ac-
counts due defunct Abilene invest
ment company, on Monday, S145, 900
wCrth face value, brought $500.
The Gypsum, Salina county, cream
cry has been equipped with some new
machinery and will soon resume oper-
ations, to the great satisfaction of its
old patrons.
Work on the new Science Hall at the
Agricultural college at Manhattan is
progressing rapidly. Another month
of good weather will find the stone
work completed.
The Department of Colorado fur
nished twelve prisoners for the Leav-
cnworth military prison last Monday.
This addition increases the total num-
Der of prisoners to 5s5.
Mayor Cravens of Salina, who went
TO Washington to look mp the matter
OF Salinas public building, reports
beginning of the work.
Atchison county has declined TO
compromise with the Burlington road
in the matter of the tax assessment,
and will use every possible means to
compel the payment in full
II. p. Cowlick threshed his alfalfa
seed crop last week, taken from five
acres of ground, and the sresult was 3S
bushels of seed, SAYS the Garden City
Imprint. This at S4.75 bushel, the
present price, would bring the snug
sum of S1s0.5O.
August Fisher has been arrested at
Valley Falls and taken to Nemeha
county, where he is charged with
stealing hogs. The authorities of Ne
meha county are on track of other
members of the gang of stock thieves
that have been operating there for
several months.
Some one with superheated imagi
nation has started the story that the
alligator in the East lake aC Emporia
has broken all the ice and spoiled all
the good skating. If the author were
Brazilian war correspondent he
probably would have the Nictheroy
icebound in the Amazon.
Abilene Reflector: Up in Thomas
county 20, 600 ra abbits have been killed
in two months. The hunters hitch
teams to each end of an eighty-rod
piece of wire and drag il over the
prairie soaring up the jacks and cot
ton tails, which are easily shot by the
squad of sharpshooters following the
wire.
The Plebean, a new monthly maga-
zine. has been launched upon the sea
where so many such ventures are rap
idly appearing these days. 1t is pub
lished in Burlingamc in the office of
the Chronicle, and the first number
contains articles from the pens of Cor
gressmen Curtis, Laura NJ. Johns and
A. W. Lawrence.
The flow of wit at recent banquet
in Washington was stopped by one
round pugilistic encounter between a
Republican and Populist editor pres.
ent. The epithets they had been
hurting at each other were not tangi
BILE enough to suit their excited imag
nations, SO they concluded to use
something harder.
Harry w. Davis, son of J. II. Davi.
of Emporia, well known Throughout
the state. has been missing for som,
time and the state department a
Washington has been asked for assis
tance in finding him. The last lette
received from the young man wa
mailed at Capetown, and the consul a
that point will be directed to mak
inquiry into the matter.
Sterling, Rice county. is soon to hav
another bank.
The winter term of Ottawa universi
ty opened with thirty new students
The total re .istration for the yea
will show gain of fifty students owe
the attendance of last year.
Two hundred and five car loads o
export steers were shipped from tn,
Kansas City, Kan, stockyards to tn,
seaboard last week. This is the larg
est weeks businesss on record.
The gamblers under arrest at Kan
sas City. Kan, for conducting lotter,
} scheIls have been discharged for lacl
of evidence to convict. The county
attorney will at once begin prosecu
tions in another court.
Sam Brown, a disreputable For