Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-04-25
KANSAS MATTERS.
condensed News from All Parts Of
the Great Sun6ower Statc-A Gem
eraI Summary of Kansas New.

Some Neosho county farmers are
done planting corn.
Enporia has a new athletic club
with membership of fifty.
Atchison's fire department costs ST.
l4O per year to maintain.
There are upwards of thirty-five
daily papers published in Kansas.
Florence has four orchestras and al
most an epidemic of insomnia.
Revival meetings at Lawrence are
attracting attendance Of 1000 nightly.
A man was at Chanute on Monday
looking up location for a nitro-glyc-
crime factory.
The youngest member Of the senior
CLASS this year at the State University
is 10 years old.
The company putting in the Leav-
enworth electric railway system paid
out Sl25, 900 during March.
Finney county farmers are sewing
alfalfa seed and planting Kaffir corn,
Jeruselem corn and cane.
1t is reported that Guffey & Galley,
the gas and oil prospectors, will begin
drilling shortly near LaCygne, Lynn
county.
Over one thousand voices have al
ready been entered for the contest at
the musical jubilee at Hutchinson
next month
The contract for building the much
talked-of Wichita auditorium has been
let, and work on its construction has
been started.
The United States land Office at Wa
keeney had the lightest run of busi-
ness during January and February of
any period since 1875.
"Razzle Dazzle" horse well known
to Parsons sportsmen and belonging
to Nj. ID. Proctor of Chetopa, was sold
the other day for 81, 500.
The State University Glee and Ban
10 clubs have returned from their
spring tour through Southern Kansas
and Oklahoma. The tour has been a
successful one
Barn burners are 'stiil at work in
Salina. A barn belonging to Colonel
Culp was set on fire in four places the
other night, but the flames We're ex-
tlnguished before serious damage was
done.
Lyon county horticulturists an
nounce that the injury to the fruit by
the late freeze was not nearly so Sc
rious as was feared and reported In
fact only few varieties suffered any
damage.
A county seat fight on a mild plan
Is threatened in Usage county. The
burning of the county Jail at Lyndon
has encouraged the people of Usage
City to push the matter of county seat
removal.
Sells & Rentfrow have a force of
men at work billing southern
and central Kansas towns for their
circus, which will start on it's season
tour with a performance at Topeka
On the 2Sth.
On Monday the Santa Fe depart
ment sent Atchison county 81. 500 for
1893 taxes. Wyandotte county was
forwarded 81 1.s15. Cowley county has
received the banner tax income this
year, from the Frisco and Santa Fe,
the sum of S42, 300. The company pays
over $500, 900 taxes for 1898.
The really good looking and highly
accomplished violinist who last winter
posed as star in the University Glee
and Banjo clubs aggregation, under
the name of Herr X. Dome Won Geza,
is now as plain DIR. Geza Dome, giving
performances in the central
part of the state.
The council of the state university
met Wednesday night and reconsid-
cred their decision with regard to
the recent base ball announcement.
They decided that the base ball team
chould play professional teams on
the home grounds, but should not
play away from home.
Lena, the 90 months-old daughter
Of Jens Jensen, living near Pontiac.
seven miles east of Ell Dorado, met
with a terrible death Tuesday eve-
ming. She wandered some distance
from the house where some brush had
been burnt. Her clothes took fire and
She was burned to crisp.
Ellinwood has new bank. The
directors are Charles A. Smith, Ed
ward L. Smith and Matte S. Smith.
A lightning rod swindler is working
Cherokee county farmers. He agrees
with the farmers as to
how many feet Of rod he shall put up
and then has them sign a contract
Ealing for "a cents foot for that that
is put up When the time comes for
putting up the rods the buildings are
half covered at the pleasure of the
lightning rod agent, and the farmer
has to foot the bill.
A committee of one of the G.. A. R.
posts of Atchison waited upon the
board of education the other night
with request that the American flag
be fioated from the top of each school
building during school hours. They
said this plan would have a tendency
to instill into the minds of the child
rem and others patriotism. and was be-
ing adopted in various places. After
some discussion as to the cost of flags.
etc, a resolution was adopted instruct
ing the superintendent to have the
ianitors of the various buildings raise
a flag each morning. The committee
stated that the different G.. A. r. posts
would replace the flags with hew ones
when occasion required it.
Eudora, Douglas county, will hold
another election, as it has been dis
covered that one of the candidates re-
GENTLY voted for is ineligible to hold
office. The election laws require that
the whole ticket be again submitted
TO the people.
The 80, joe" club at Pittsburg has
perfected an organization. 1t is the
intention of the club to at once build
\ club house at Noel, Mo-, on the line
Of the Pittsburg route according to
he plan of genuine Missouri log
cabin, with two rorms 15xI5 in the
lear, with n twelve-foot entry be-
tween them, all the 'other necessary
things to maintain a first-class club
house will be added.
One hundred new students have
been enrolled in the last ten days at
Central college, Great Bend, and the