Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-09

The Santa Fe pays the City of Cha
nute Sl,s0O year for water service.
Manhattan prisoners are credited
with only rs cents day on the rock
pile.
1t is stated that the Prosser branch
of the Central branch will be extend
ed to the Black Hills country.
An Industrial council has been es-
tablished at Kansas City, Kan, with
eight unions and 1000 members
The receiver of the Bank of Green's
; burg at Kiowa is disbursing a dividend
of Is per cent to the depositors.
The College of Emporia defeated
the State Normal at a game of base
ball on Saturday by score of Il to .
Rainmakers are at work in Wichita.
/ They claim the credit for producing
the slight shower that fell Sunday
n iyy.sskt,
In Washington county los pupils in
the common schools were examined
for graduation and ninety of them
passed.
The Atchison physician who was
tc look after the smallpox cases gets
$40 day
The amount of fines and costs col
lected In the Fort Scott police court
during April was 35O-S40O less
than usual.
An lola correspondent says that
half the farms near Moran, Elsmore
| and Humboldt have been covered by
oil leases.
The Johnson County Fair associa-
tion has definitely decided to hold It's
second annual fair at O,athe, August
IS, %, 30 an1 81.
Jay" town. j. j. Jordon and James
j. johnson were up in police court on
the same day the first of the week.
, Pete Draper is under arrest at Law
renee charged with assault with in
tent to kill. He got after j. II. Griffith
with knife but did not succeed in do
| ing any damage.
! Ex-senator j. w. Buchan, who for
some days lay critically i'll at his
home in Kansas City, Kan, is well on
his way to recovery. He is able to go
! down to his office.
The beer war in Leavenworth has
been declared off and the foaming
| beverage has gone up to Ss barrel.
+ Beer in Chicago costs 81 barrel and
| in Kansas City So.
| c. B. Jewell, the Rock Island rain
maker who operated in the northwest
ern part of the state last year, claims
TO have sold three county rights for
! the use of his process in Dakota for
! $4,000.
Ellsworth has organized for the base
! ball season of 1894, and is anxious to
arrange dates for games with all or
any clubs in that section of the state.
! Communications may be addressed to
c. j. Evans.
A two-year-old child of Mr.. and Mrs.
| Thomas Newton was burned to death
in Kansas City, Kan, on Sunday. Sew
eral children were playing with
matches in the back yard which was
the cause of the accident.
There is less wicked amusement in
dulged in in Atchison than in anv
town of its size in the country. All
the card parties break up before II,
and the people generally, are in bed in
good time.-Atchison Globe.
The NJ. r & T. will build another
line from Parsons. Chief Engineer
! Wilson began the survey May 1st, of a
line from Parsons to the coal fields of
Crawford county. The big demand
for coal along the system necessitates
the building of this line.
Professor V. T. Kellogg was made
associate professor of entomology at
| 7 al H.
was in Europe. The promotion was
unsought and the beauty of it is that
it secures him 5000 of these large.
round wheels to throw at the birds
every year, whether school keeps OF
not.
Advices from Alaska state that tho
fishing schooner Storm King was driv-
en- ashore at Bartlett bay, Alaska, by
an immense iceberg, and is a total
wreck. The schooner was lying quiet
ly at anchor when the iceberg COLI
ded with her in swift current, throw
ing her against the rocks on shore.
The crew escaped.
Grand Army day at the Chautauqua
Assembly meeting at Forest park, OF
tawa, June 2l, will be honored by a
great many distinguished visitors.
| oONOIhOA AhCAAlhiSy "ilA OO thO vi a Ool
of the day, Prof. c. c. Case of Cleve
land, o., will be the musical director
and Commander-in-chief Adams of
Massachusetts,, Gen. w. p. Campbell
of Wichita, Hon. Geo. r. Peck. Hon.
| Bernard Kelley, Hon. WIN. Warner
and many other noted Grand Army
men will be present. Hon. George L.
Anthony will be chairman of the day.
n, C,1dau af+a-noo,, Taeea COW %
Oscar Meyers of Leavenworth. aged 5
years, fell into the Missouri river and
drowned, right at the place where
Mrs. Mettmans body was found cut to
pieces several years ago. He was in
company with his father fishing. who
leaned against tree and fell asleep.
When he awoke the little boy was
missing, but his hat on the end of
some logs tied to the shore gave un-
mistakable evidence that he had fall
en- into the water where it was about
nine feet deep. A little dog that had
been with the Myers child was run
ming along the shore making a great
racket when the father awoke Dill
gent search for the body was made,
but no trace of it could be found
A Bourbon county farmer lost twen-
ty-seven head of hogs Saturday
through their eating quantities of
green cockleburr plants.
Mr.. Russell Walker, agent for the
Troy Oil company returned here iron
Chanute last night. He informed re
porter to-day that the company had
secured all the oil and gas leases pos
sible in the belt of their proposed op-
eratIons in Southeast Kansas, and
that the work has been suspended. He
has no definite knowledge of when the
company will commence drilling: they
may commence in three weeks and
may not commence until late in the
summer.-Fort Scott Tribune
An Osawatomie woman has brought
] snif against the CITY because a harm