Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-03-21


teen-column report of the Shaup-
Webb contest case last week.
The patrons of the Great Bend tele-
phone exchange want the annual rem.
tai reduced from $40 to $24.
The Ellinwood, Barton county,
school board has voluntarily raised
the wages of teachers S5 a month all
around.
The Kearney county irrigating
ditch has been repaired End put In
condition for carrying a good head of
water.
A great many Santa Fe section
hands have been laid off in the south
western counties during the last two
weeks.
The commissioners of Clark county
have brought down many maledict;ons
upon their heads by raising the salary
of the county treasurer.
A Ford county jury was out ninety
SIX hours in criminal case last week
and they didn't agree. Six wanted to
convict and six to acquit.
A Harper county man insists by all
that is holy that he made six porkers
weigh 225 pounds each at six months
old by feeding them on nothing but
ground wheat.
Water has been turned into most of
the Finney county irrigating bitches
and the farmers have been making
good use of it in irrigating their wheat
fields and orchards.
The consolidation of the Garden
City and Lakin land offices will be
effected the latt er part of this month
and the new Dodge City Office will
open up for business April l.
J. NJ. HERES of Hoisington pleaded
guilty to the charge of habitual
drunkenness before the probate judge
of Barton county last week and a
guardian was appointed for him.
The much talked of bridge across
the Kaw river at Turner, Wyandotte
county, will be built at once, a decis.
ion to that effect having been arrived
at by the board of county commission.
ers last week.
Arrangements have been practically
completed for the establishment of a
creamery in or near Lawrence. TIE
separator system will be adopted and
the plant is expected to be in opera
tion before May l.
Kiowa still holds the worlds record
as cattle shipping point, the record
being made in 1886, when $500 cars
were shipped. Amarillo, Texas, holds
second with 1900 cars shipped since
that time.-Kiowa journal.
| While 1898 is known as one of the
bad years in the southwest, there have
been shipped from Finney county 25G
car loads of stock, which has brought
in much money. The alfalfa seed was
also a source of considerable revenue
Eighty thousand bushels of corn is
being held at Shannon by farmers on
speculation. The have been offered
2s cents fyr it. but must have 30 cents
for it in order TO make anything on
the deal.
Foreman, who attempted to cross the
the other morning just in front of
switch engine, slipped, fell, and was
caught by the engine before he could
regain his feet. He lived only an
hour.
WO luuS, eleven ana seventeen
years respectively. narrowly escaped
drowning in Wilson county the other
day. They attempted to ford the Yer.
digris near Benedict and missed the
crossing. The team was drowned and
the boys saved themselves with great
difficulty.
Wichita is just aching to get into To.
pella's shoes as the place for holding the
state fair. AS soon as it was learn ed
that no state fair is likely to be held
at Topeka next fall, the fair associa-
tion met, changed its name from the
Wichita Agricultural and Mechanical
Fair association to the State Fair AS
sociation, and resolved to call the next
fair a '-state" fair.
prominent farmer named Arch
Young, of Logan township, Allen
county, met with fatal accident one
day last week. He was riding horse
and leading two to water, when by
some means he was thrown from the
animal he was riding, and in the fall
he struck the back part of his head on
a stone. His skull was fractured and
he died within few hours.
The men who have been running a
drift" into Capitol for L. d. Var
ick struck seven-fooot vein of gyp-
sum yesterday afternoon, The rock
is of the same excellent quality as
that found in other places around here
and it will probably not be long be-
fore another plaster mill is created to
utilize this Lew bed of gypsum.-Blue
Rapids Times.
The Kansas City, Kan. stockyards
are attracting shipments from all
parts of the west, south, and north.
Some weeks ago a shipment of cattle
from Mississippi was received, and on
Wednesday five car loads of steers
were in from North Dakota. The in
dications are that it will not be long
before Kansas will have a more i'm
portant stock market at it's own Kan
Kansas City than Illinois has at Chi.
cago.
Joseph Goetzel of Cheyenne town.
ship sold his farm of 16O acres to Mr.
Liebel last week for So, 200. Mr.. Goe-
tzel will remove to the Strip, Mr..
Kohler of Logan, who is also going to
Oklahoma, disposed of his eighty acre
farm for 81, 500. Here are two real es-
tate deals the average price being SIG
per acre, which shows the value our
own people place on Barton county
realty, and it is but fair to say that
some of this land is far below the av-
erage in quality of soil.-Great Bend
Register.
The commissioner of the general
Land Office has recently Cancelled en-
tries made upon about $4,000 acres of
preempted land in Ford county be-
cause of defaulted payments. All of
this land is now open to entry in
tracts not exceeding 16O acres at ST %
Four young men were arrested at
Nickerson Monday charged with steal
ing a cow from a poor widow. Their
preliminary hearing resulted in their
being bound over to the district court.
and being unable to furnish bail they
are now sojourning in the county
Jail at Hutchinson
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