Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-10-24
Cherryvale's daily paper is dead.

| "Overmire."
The Baptist State Convention is in
session at Winfield.
1.-THE DEVILS Auction" was played
at Emporia last week.
The privilege of selling cigarettes in
Cawker City costs 500 year.
A man out in Lane county raised
$50 bushels of apples this year.
Dandy O. will go againstuhis record
of 2:12 at the Russell race meeting
next week.
A Troy, Doniphau county, orchardist
paid out $500 Saturday for picking
apples last week.
More than i6, 600 barrels of apples
have been shipped from Emporia al
ready this season.
The Ellsworth has an alleged artist.
His name is Shock. That is what his
illustrations do.
Last weeks Norton Champion gives
up fourteen and half columns 10 the
Ellen Lunney trials
Nemaha county will vote this fall
on proposition to establish county
high school at Centralia.
Atchison county apple growers are
getting $1.4O bushel for their fruit.
week ago they were getting only
S1.1O.
! shoe factory threatens to come to
Fort Scott unless repulsed by the fail
ure of the people to put up good
bonus.
The Goodland, Sherman county,
cOursing meeting is on this week The
entrance fee for most of the events is
$50.
Atchison claims to have packed and
shipped 1000 barrels of apples last
week. And yet "Kansas is no fruit
state"
The Kansas, State Grange will meet
in annual session at McLouth, Jeffer-
son county, the second Tuesday in
December.
The Olathe Mirror says that as much
wheat will be sown in johnson county
this year as usual in spite of the ex-
tremely low prices.
Sing Lee, an Ottawa washee man,
went to Kansas City Sunday and was
married to Miss Lulu Smith a pretty
white girl.
Colonel Hawkins of the twentieth
infantry is the new commandant at
Fort Leavenworth in the place of Col
onel Townsend, transferred to Fort
Niobrara.
Jewell county farmers will hold an
irrigation convention at Jewell City
this week. J. S. Emery, of Lawrence,
and E. r. Moses, of Great Bend, will
be the principal speakers.
Captain John Seaton of the Atchi-
son purchased 100 tickets for the mat
inee performance of Uncle Toms Cab
in Saturday afternoon and gave them
to children at the Orphans home
The 5-year-old son of W. F. Hill. a
compositor in the World Office at
Hutchinson, was kicked in the head
by a horse Saturday evening and seri-
ously if not fatally injured.
A Fort Scott man is rafting off a
dog that must be very valuable. He
is selling numbers from to 700. and
if he disposes of them all will receive
81, 453, so for the canine.
Strikes do not always fall Coopers
at Kansas City, Kan, who had been
getting 6 cents piece for making ap-
pie barrels, struck for cents, and af-
ter being out a week gained their
point. ~-s s-e p.
In the damage suit of Mrs. Sutton
of Neosho Rapids, against the Santa
Fe, tried in the district court, the jury
found for the plaintiff. and assessed
the damages at $1o. The suit was for
1000.
Last Spring Mrs. Julia Cudue OF
Horton, married a half-breed Indian.
Now she is suing for a divorce, alleg-
ing that her husband fails to support
her, and that his disposition is not al
together lovely.
1.-Two young men were declared in
sane by the probate judge of Pratt
county last week. Both loved young
women who didn't love them and
there didn't seem to be anything for
them to do but go crazy.
The owners of the Fifth Avenue
hotel at Arkansas City are preparing
to dispose of it by los. Eighty thous-
and tickets will be sold at a dollar
each. The winning number will be
the same as the winning number in
the Mexican National lottery for Dec
ember.
s. c. Davidson has purchased eigh-
teen head of horses with which he
will start Saturday for Glasgow, Scot
land. They are all fine horses and
have been raised in this county. 1t is
the 6rst load of horses that has ever
been shipped from this county to a
foreign market.-Emporia Republican.
A lot OF young men are invited out
to japanese Tea" party this wee k
and they are in peck of trouble over
their proper costumes. They don't
know whether to wear their hair high
and eyes on the bias, or don a coat of
J mail, Calling gun, or a torpedo tube
or two. Lincoln Republican.
Thomas county win vote on a propo-
sltion at the regular election to bond
the county for S., 600 for the purchase
OF seed wheat for destitute farmers
The Pratt County Soldiers and Sail.
ors' Veteran association is making ex-
tensive arrangements for their reun-
J ion and campfire at Pratt the 10 and 90.
Several pear trees are in bloom the
second time in the city 1T is no nov
city; they do the same thing each year.
Early cherries and apples sometimes
bloom twice year in Kansas. Some
} trees bear two crops --Leavenworth
/ Times.