Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-24
KANSAS MATTERS.
Items of Interest Cond ensed for Hurried
Readers.

Nine persons su.cided II Leaven-
worth last year.
The November election ballot sys-
tenn cost Ellis county 1855.
Several Atchison physicians ave
arranged to open and operate a hos
pital
A Girard firm received an order on
Friday for sixty carloads of hay to go
to Franco.
The farmers of Sumner county are
going to sow plenty of alfalfa seed
this year.
Ninety niue car loads of grain were
officially inspected at Kansas City,
Kan, Monday,
The Girard, Crawford county, nurs.
cry will make 200, 600 apple CRAFTS for
spring planting.
The Parsons Fanciers' association
has arranged for show continuing
from February to l..
The First National Bank of Chanute
has just declared its regular semi-an-
nual dividend of per cent.
A coursing meeting is on the tapis
at Hartford, Lyon county. All the
crack Emporia dogs are entered.
Smith county paid a state tax of
amount was little more than $4,000
less.
The date for the local oratorical
contest of the state university has
been changed from February 2 to
January 70.
Seventy-five cases were called IN one
day in the Ellis county district court
recently, and not one among the num-
Der was ready for trial.
? The WelIsville, Franklin county,
creamery is running only four days a
week. About 1000 pounds of milk are
the average daily receipts.
The Kansas Live Stock Protective
Emporia January -, and delegates
are being elected from many counties.
According to the records of the
county health board there were 1s5
births, 175 deaths and 1913 marriages
in Franklin county during the year
1898.
The skaters of Lawrence have been
enjoying season of fine sport on the
kaw lately. AS many as 500 of them
can be seen on the river on a clear
night.
A. G. Eyth, Dickinson county man,
received an award for his exhibit of
butter at the worlds fair. the score of
the Judges being $40 out OF Il possible
400 points.
The net proceeds of the charity ball
given at Parsons recently amounted to
Sl52. S5, and have been turned over to
Mayor Gregory for application to re-
lief work.
meeting of army officers at Fort
Leavenworth was held last Saturday
for the purpose of organizing foot
ball team. Lieutenant Wren was
chosen manager.
The Colby Tribune says that 10000
rabbits have been killed in Thomas
county since the 10th of November. OF
this mum Der 1000 have been shipped
to the Denver market.
The Union Pacific has brought suit
against Wallace county to prevent the
collection of a special tax assessed for
the purpose of raising a fund for the
payment of gopher bounty.
The affairs of the Norton county
State Bank at Norton have been ad-
jdsted and the institution will open
next week with ample funds to carry
on successful banking business.
The people of Osborne county still
pin their faith to the untold value of
the gold mine recently discovered
near Downs. The latest report is that
the dirt runs ten ounces of S14 gold to
the ton.
jeremiah White of Usage City died
Monday morning of old age. Mr..
White was survivor of the Blacls
Hawk war and four years ago was
granted a special pension by congress
for his services in that campaign.
The rock pile at Fort Scott lacked
much of being howling success dur
ing the month of December. Five
yards of macadam were broken at an
expense to the city of little more than
seventeen dollars.
At Madrid on Friday evening, pe-
tard with a lighted fuse, was found on
the staircase of the palace of the Mar
quis d'Olives by a son-in-law of the
He crushed out the fire
fire with his foot. The police are at
work on the case.
William Hildreth of the firm of Abe
Stein & Co., the hide and leather inn
porters of New York, who failed re-
Gently, was arrested on Friday.
charged with grand larceny in having
re-hypothecated the companys goods.
1t is stated that his peculations amount
to SIS, 900. He furnished bail to the
amount of $500
3 Salina Sun: There is a man by the
name of Peterson of Swedish nation
ality, in Walnut township, this coun-
ty, who has been married ten wears.
and twenty-one children have been
born to him-nineteen of them living.
The first birth was single child. and
with the exception of two sets of trim
lets the remainder are twins. Seven
have been boys aud the remainder are
girls. Likely this is the champion
case in Kansas if not in the UniteG
States, 1t is pretty large story. but
is stated by responsible neighbor of
the party.
Green goods men are trying to work
Fort Scott suckers again this winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Hilton, living
near Abilene, celebrated their golden
wedding last Saturday. Golden we'd
dings are not very rare in Kansas, how
ever.
The county commissioners of Chase
comfy have accepted the propositions
of the Santa Fe and Rock Island roads
to pay their taxes on the basis of last
years valuation.
Walter Shirley, son of Judge w. B.
Shirley of Chanute, was badly injured
last Thursday during a game of foot.
ball. He was completely paralyzed
for a time, but is recovering some
what.
The old settler has been unearthed
who declares that the winter is almost
the exact counterpart of the winter at
the beginning of the famous Kansas