Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-23
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Pop Corn is an Usage county towc
so named because of sud.
den boom that it experienced.


1t must have been sportive turn OF
mind that suggested Elk and Hunts as
names for two Chase county towns.
The Montgomery county Republican
convention for the nomination of
county officers will be held July IA.
The Troy Oil company has leased up
to date about l00.0 acres of South
eastern Kansas land for prospecting.
Kansas has an Alpha in Mcpherson
county, and a Delta in Jewell county,
but nothing nearer Omego than Wa
mego.
> A Butler county town may properly
be referred to as Dennis. but no town
in the state will own up that its name
is Mud
made an export shipment one day last
week of !, 900 barrels of -four to Glas-
COW, Scotland, and another 1000 To
London.
a st. Paul Insurance ce'Gpapy oper
ating in Southwestern Kansas offers
to insure crops against hail for a pre-
MUM of 4 per cent. The risk limit
per acre is SO.
1t will be twenty-oue years ago on
July next that the first sermon was
preached in Barber county. The oc-
casion will be celebrated by big re-
ligious gathering.
Ora Bishop. young man of 20. liv-
ing near Stockton, was struck by
lightning one day last week and in
stantly killed. He was out in the
open tield at the time
The ice factory at independence is
nearing completion and is expected to
be in running order by the last of the
month. 1t will have Il capacity of
twenty-five tons day.
II. A. Griffith, Joseph Clark and j.
w. Irwin left Colby last week for the
British possessions for the purpose ot
looking up n location for colony
from Thomas county.
Rev. Thomas ID. Wallace, pastor of
First Presbyterian church of Chicago,
has been secured to deliver the bacca-
laureate sermon at the state UNIVERSE
ty at the June commencement.
A young man by the name of Henry
Hines was tarred and feathered and
run out of the town of Brockville, Sa-
line county, one day last week for be-
ing too familiar with another mans
wife.
Out of the eighteen Lawrence mem
bers of Prof. l.. |. Blake's university
extension class in electricity who took
the examination at the completion of
the course, eight successfully passed
IT.
Sheriff j. 4 Wcatherby. of Hunt
county, Texas. caught a Mexican des-
perado named General Mule for whom
he had been hunting for some time. at
La Crosse, Rush county. one day last
week.
Judge Theodosius Botliin, the re-
cord of whose trial for impeachment
three years ago fills two volumes OF
700 pages each. delivered two temper
auce lectures at Mcpherson on Satur-
day and Sunday.
B. +. Smith. the straw berry king OF
Lawrence. made his first picking of
berries for sale on Saturday. There
were ripe berries in his field on May
s. much earlier, he says. than for
many years before
On June 4 special election will he
held i'll Comanche county II vote on
the suspension Of the herd law. A ma
jority of the qualified voters of the
county petitloned the county commits
sioners to call the election.
FortytlIree sections of Comanche
county land were declared vacant be-
cause of Noncompliance with land
office regulations last week and are
now open to entry under the home
stead law.
Notwithstanding that Kansas Is ia
pra lrie state it has Mount Zion, i'm
Ellsworth county. a Mount Oliyet. in
Leavenworth. a Mount Hope. in Sedg-
wick, Il Mount Carmel. in Crawford !,
Mount Ayr, in Osborne, a Mount Nebo,
in Pratt and a Mount Pleasant i'm
Atchison.
The Central Branch has cnt wages
of section hands ) cents I'll dav and
only allows the foreman to work them
II days in a month. In addition to
this large number of hands have
been discharged. and on some parts OF
the road every alternate section fore
man has been laid off-Frankfort
Bee.
George Litchfield, an unmarried
man of 30. who was not exactly crazy
suicide by hanging one day last week
near Eureka, Greenwood county.
Mr.. +. A. Barnett of Cleveland was
IN Kansas City. Kan. last week trying
to make an arrangement for purchas-
ing the bonds that are to be issued By
that city during the coming year. He
made an offer and said that his house
considered the paper of the city worth
- I'll L
it at good figures. lie also said the
prospects for the west are growing
brighter and that western risks would
soon be as good as ever.
The people of Wichita charge that
the water company at Newton il
about to steal the Little Arkansas
river, and threaten to petition the SUI
preme court for an injunc Ion. The
Little Arkansas is one OF the clearest
and purest bodies of wafer in the
state. being fed entirely by springs,
and Wichita is very proud of 1t. The
Newton water company proposes to
tap the stream at IIalstead with a -
inch main. twelve mics tong. utilizing
large quantity Of the sparkling bey-
erage for the comfort and benefit OF
the people of Newton ana of the Santa
Fe railroad.
Manhattan il the latest town to-
boast of a mad dog scare. A supposed
ly rabid canine ran amuck there tho
other day biting several other dogs.
I and the owner. before il was killed.
| Thirty or more dogs have since been
killed for fear they had been bitten.
Westphalia Times: We have recent
| " interviewed many of our farmers
! and they are unanimous in saving
that corn has never come up better
than IL has this spring. Many say
that not one hill is missing. Such re-
ports are encouraging. and il nothing
happens we are going to be in the
push this year.
A big irrigation convention will be