Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-09-26
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWkERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.

Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great SunfOwer State-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.
Leavenworth complains of scarcity
of houses for rent.
Mcpherson pays $40 each per yea,
for its arch street lights.
Ecstatic item from the Emporia Re.
publican: THE Spooners are coming. >
Russian thistles are thick along the
Union Pacific railroad between Yves
kan and Sharon Springs, Wallace
county.
The tobacco harvest is on in the vi.
cinity of Lane, Franklin county. Con
siderable quantities are raised in that
locality.
There were forty-three cars of hay
sent out from Mayetta, jackson coun-
w. last week, and seventy four loads
In the month of August.
The state fair people advertise that
John r. Gentry, 2:O3A, and Joe Patch
en-, 2:O4, will be on the Wichita track
at the fall race meeting
Twenty hands are employed bottle
ing the Waconda Springs water, near
Cawker City. Ten thousand bottles
are shipped each week.
The Phillips county bank of Phil
| llpsbur has bought a car load of
seed wheat and will let it cut to farm
ers who have nothing for seed Oh easy
terms.
man in Beloit is feeding 300 head
OF hogs on ground wheat made into a
thick mush and Am. White near YES
per- i'll Lincoln county, is feeding 200
head of cattle with wheat.
The Lawrence canning factory is
putting up tomatoes by the car load
and would do stili larger business
II enough women could be employed
to do the work
The Princeton. Franklin county
band played for the Ottawa Fourth of
july ceie bration but was not paid ac-
cording to agreement. Now suit has
been brought to collect the stipulated
price and the suit is on trial at Otta.
wa.
The Pullman car porters of Kansas
City and vicinity held picnic in Bis
mark grove at Lawrence Sunday
There were about 200 present, and
aside from the usual numbe of knock
downs the affair was pleasant one
THE contest between. Joseph Bleak
lev and Inhyl L. fTov,Ic,.
legally elected treasurer of Leaven-
worth county was again on trial last
week. However the decision goes the
case will be carried to the supreme
court.
TIE instructions of Judge Caldwell
to the authorities of the Santa Fe
that all employees must be paid by the
18th of the month have not been car
r1ed out at this end of the line. The
boys are quite disgruntled with the
action of the company in the matter
of wages.-Salina Republican.
About fifty Swedes from Mcpherson
and Saline counties have bought land
in southeastern Texas, and will re-
move to their new homes next month.
About twelve car loads of goods will
be shipped on the 9th and about ten
on the 25th, and there will be about
an average of four passengers to each
car load.
The Medicine Lodge sugar works
have made more than 100000 pounds
o. sugar already this season. The
cane coming in now is vastly better
in quality than it was two or three
weeks ago. The average sucrose con-
tent is nearly 10 per cent. Sixty-fve
men are employed in the works.
Two farmers named Frank Willis
and Thomns Kirkham engaged in a
fight at a dance near Bean Lake,
| Atchlson county, with results that
may be fatal. Willis cut Klrkham in
the arm and side and made a cash
from the temple to the mouth. Kirk
ham got rock and beat Willis over
the head until it took the doctors over
an hour to bring him back to his
senses.
j. L. Heath, the old time stock feed.
er OF Peabody, says that his expert
iment of feeding wheat to cat
tie has been very successful, as he had
put on ninety pounds of flesh to the
steer in the past thirty days-weighed
in and weighed out" Mr.. Heath feeds
crushed wheat dry mixed with bran.
but no corn. 1t is evident that Mr..
Heath has not gone back on corn alto
gether, however, for he has just pur-
chased 10000 bushels of that grain at
50 cents bushel
People who live in the vicinity of
jamestown need have no care for dry
weather-they can all plant alfalfa
and be happy. James Burton was in
the city the other day and said he had
raised S110 worth of seed, that the
straw from the seed has more than
paid all the expenses of the crop and
that at present the alfalfa on the sew
en- acres is very large and promises
another large crop OF see and hay
j. +. Fitzgerald. he said, has no acres
In alfalfa and has harvested $1,000
worth of seed from it this season.
Concordia Empire.
John Root held down slug one" in
the Atchison Champion office when
John Martin took charge of the
paper before the war, and he is still
holding il down.
A New Jersey paper calls attention
to sunfiower nine and a half feet
high and containing thirty flowers. 1t
! wonders IT there is a larger one in the
world Bill Reed, who lives on South
Fifth stree in this city. has sun
flower in his yard which is sixteen
feet four inches high and at ono time
contained is5 flowers 1t contains
over 400 now .-atehison Globe.