Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-29
Corn is worth 50 cents a bushel at

A Wichita firm shipped more than
700 barrels of apples last week and
have orders for five cars to go this
week.
The Emporia canning factory is do
ing a rushing business 1t put up
1000 cans of tomatoes last Saturday,
and has put up $4,000 cans of apples.
The Canton, Mcpherson county
creamery, during the last six mont hs
handled 266, ,911 pounds of milk. The
average price per hundred was 6s
cents
B. il. Wilson seems to be the wheat
king of Saline county. lie has 3,OsO
bushels, averaging about 81 bushels
10 the acre, with weight of sixty-twc
pounds to the bushel
Mr. Remsburg raised $50 worth Of
blue grass seed from seven and one.
half acres of ground. Countinz .the
grazing in the spring and the value OF
the straw, the crop was worth to him
considerably over S1OO.-Iola Register
For seventeen years." we heard a
farmers wife say Thursday: Il have
worried because part of the crop is
short, but notice that we have never
known want, and that each veal
brings us in better circumstances than
the year before it.
Garrison Bros, Have just finished
cutting 2,70O acres of prairie hay at
Hepler, Crawford county, and expect
to have over two hundred cars for
shipment. They are building an ad
ditlon of 40X10O feet to their already
large barn at Hepler and employ about
| fifty men.
/ n trio of tramps tried to revenge
themselves on farmer who had driv.
en- them out of his vineyard near New.
ton by setting fire to Stubble field
with the evident intention of burning
a lot of stacked wheat The fire was
] discovered in season and extinguished
before 1T had done any damage and
the tramps were landed in the Gala.
booSe.
The Miss Mary Martin who recent
ly entered st. Mary's to become a nup
Is not the daughter of Senator John
Martin but Judge w. W. Martin, rep
resentative of the state OF Kansas in
its claims against the government and
now a resident in Washington. The
confusion arose from the fact that
Judge Martin was state senator at
one time.
+ The long drouth has been broken al
/ Garnctt by soaking rain which will
greatly help the latest corn, make fine
tall pastures and puts the ground in
cNccllcht condition for fall wheat
Anderson county will have an abun.
dance of corn and a large surplus tc
sell and plenty of roughness to fee0
all the stock through the winter. II
is safe to say that the entire crop OF
I 1894 in this county is worth more
money than any crop for the past five
years.
News of a sad accident comes from
/ Homewood, ten miles southwest OF
here. On Monday night John Morgan
was awakened by IA noise near his
window. He seized his gun and look
ed out the window. Seeing what nc
supposed to be IA neighbor's dog, he
fired. On going to the ward he was
Mortified to find that he had shot his
l0-year-old son. 1t is supposed that
the child was walking in his sleep
1t is probable that the injuries will
prove fatal.
Newt. Guyman shot and probably
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brother-ln- law, one mile north of Os.
wego, at seven o'clock Wednesday
night with a shotgun. The difficulty
arose over razor. Stories are
conflicting, some claiming Carey was
advancing upon Guyman with the
razor, while others claim he was not.
Guyman has been partially insane for
four or five years and was once sent
to the asylum. No arrests have vet
been made, but Sheriff Bennett and
posse are in pursuit. 90
Much interest is being felt by set
tiers in the Commanche country over
the reported action of the Kiowa and
Commanche Indians going on the war
path. There seems to be i'll FEELING
among them and the cattlemen, the
former claiming that the latter owe
them about $50, 900 for the lease of
their land for grazing purposes. while
the cattlemeu refuse to make settle
ment for same. 1t is thought the
next step will be for the Indians tc
pounce upon the men in charge of the
cattle and massacre may result.
Baker university is to have a foot
ball team this year after all. The
sport stirred up so much trouble last
year that the board passed resolution.
against it. A few who were much in.
terested and who had determined tc
go to other schools if foot ball were
barred at Baker have looked into the
matter and found that the action of
the board was only advisory Advis
ory resolutions don't go with foot bal
enthusiasts and so team will he or
ganized game has been scheduled
at Denver with the Denver Athleti,
ub and at Baldwin with Doane col
lege of Nebraska.
Rev. w. 5. Beasley is in Abilene
preparing for ten days camp meet.
ing to commence September -. He
has tent 55x95 feet which he will
pitch In Abilene on the above date.
Fred Duffy, about Is years o,d. went
to the bottom of a well on the farm OF
Zoe Chambers near Olathc Thursday
afternoon and died at once from the
effect of foul air
a tt. Scott woman is suing jointists
Tor $4,000 for making a drunkard of
her husband, who is in the soldiers
nome at Leavenworth. The husband
a witness against his wife
The fourteen waits who were
brought to Girard last week by the
Childrens Aid Society of New yorl.