Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-28

ID in size.
A two-foot vein of coal has been
discovered at Dodge City.
Major Cole, the noted evangelist be-
gan series of meeting at Wichita
last week.
The state fish commissioner has
been planting carp and lass J in the
streams of southwestern Kansas dur
ing the past week.
The Marion creamery is paying 95
cents hundred pounds for milk. This
is equivalent to about twenty-five cents
a pound for butter.
III. o. Lyster, OF Sedan, Chautauqua
county, has purchased 300 and 4-year
old steers, which he will winter on
corn stalks and feed for the Kansas
City market in the spring.
Frederick Holzworth, one of the
countys early settlers, and janitor OF
the court house at Abilene for years
died last.week of pneumonia and was
buried with Odd Fellows honors.
Hays City for November % and "a was
Postponed two weeks, or until and Z
on account of the irrlga ton conven-
tion at Hutchinson on the dates first
named.
WA. Wilson, of Atwood, Rawlins
county, finished threshing a 5SO-bush-
ell crop of alfalfa seed the other day.
The seed is worth $3.50 bushel and
will probably sell for $500 before
spring.
Times are good in Wilson county
this fall. We do not remember a year
when there was so little complaint as
there is now-and we have been here
since the year one.--Neodesha Regis
ter.
Work on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas branch from Parsons to the
coal fields of Cherokee county will be
begun in few days and it is said the
sixteen miles will be completed inside
of 100 days.
I At Pittsburg the jury in the case OF
the State VS.. Charles Lee, for the kill
| ing of William Chapman, after being
out twenty-five hours failed to agree,
eleven being for conviction and one
for acquittal.
Otte Greet, a prominent business
man of Pittsburg, and Miss Isabelle
Maxwell, daughter of County Treas.
urer Maxwell, were married last
Thursday. Both parties are leading
society members
The Traveller says that young
man In Arkansas City shocked the ma
tives by appearing on the streets Sat
urday noon in the garb of Adam min
Us the zig leaf. He was stark mad as
well as stark naked.
o The Hutchinson Commercial club
has iss ued invitations TO an informal
reception at the club rooms after the
irrigation convention Friday evening
to meet President and Mrs Cannon OF
the Mormon church of Salt Lake CITY,
Near Leavenworth, John Quinn, a
! sa DON keeper while out rabbit hunt.
ing was instantly killed. He crawled
through barbed wire fence and in
attempting to pull his gun through
after him the weapon was discharged
heavy load of shot penetrating hi.
| bowels.
Pearly Byrd, colored bootblack o.
Leavenworth, has fallen heir to an es
tate in the state of Tennessee. As
nearly as can be ascertained the little
fortune comprises $500 in cash besides
some valuable real estate. Pearly
said he came to Leavenworth f:om
the south with his mother twelve
years ago, being years old at the
time. In 1885 his mother died.
An old resident of Parsons, Isaac
! Wilmer, is under arrest, charged with
criminal assault on an s-year-old girl.
The fine stud of standard bred horses
on the Toler farm at Wichita is to be
permanently dispersed by public sale
next month.
The Stevens County Sentinel. Popu-
list has joined the silent majority, the
Office having been sold to C. NJ. Davis,
editor of the Hermes. Republican.
This is a strong Popu lst county, and
the Sentinel has been doing the coun-
ty printing for two years past. and
stood a good chance for continuing.
but the p-oprietors concluded it was
better to sell while they could.
| As result of charivari the othe,
night at Wellington John McCook is
dead and Claude Walton is seriously
if not fatally wounded. Richard
Webster was married in the that city
last week and in the evening a crowC
Of boys and young men went to hi.
residence to charivari HIM and hi.
BRIDE, when Webster fred into tn,
crowd with a 32-calibre revolver will
the above result. Webster is mem
Der of the Salvation army and is half
witted. He was arrested.
A Coffeyville physician claims Il
have ushered forty babies into tn,
world during the last six months. De
ponent saith not the number he hal
nshered out.
A dam scheme-irrigating dam-i
on the tapis at Arkansas City. It i.
proposed to dam the Arkansas, builc
a storage basin and sell water for irri
eating purposes.
President A. z. Taylor of the State
Normal school at Emporia, is the az
thor of work on Civil Government
of Kansas" which has just been is
sued from Boston publishing house
Frank Leggett of cawker City, was
elected trustee of Cawker township
for the twenty-irst time. 1t is not
hard for a man of that name to get
there.
DIR. McKinz:e, who has been in jaI
at Wichita for some weeks on charge
of being responsible for the death Of
an infant from exposure, has been re
Ieased on 81, 500 bail.
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