Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-09-26

Inc Arkansas river Is up-some-
thing very unusual for this time of
year.
The Newton Grand Army Post has
erected fine flag pole in front of its
hall.
1t has been definitely decided to
hold state bicycle meet at Salina
Sept. &c.
Leavenworth's poor commissioner
is already receiving many appeals for
assistance.
An Atchison commission merchant
has shipped 11s car loads of produce
! so far this season.
/ Talbot, the man that killed Mike
| Meagher IN Caldwell thirteen years
ago is in custody.
| The Douglass county g. A. X. reun-
ion will be held in Lawrence the 18th
of next month.
Abilene schools opened Monday
with 9O7 pupils enrollcd-the largest
in the city's history.
The editor of the Frankfort Bee has
a crab apple tree in his front yard that
is full of bloom.
A Lawrence woman has just insti.
tuted her fourth divorce suit against
the same husband.
n. D. Todd of Atchison has been ap-
pointed recei e, for the big Missouri
river bridge at Atchison.
The Polish Catholics of Leaven-
worth will lay the corner stone for a
big cathedral next Sunday.
Dickinson county old settler will
have a reunion and basket picnic at
Abilene, October 10.
A New Mexico man will have 100
Angora goats ON exhibition at the
state fair at Wichita.
The first wholesale undertaking es-
tablishment west of the Missouri
river will be established at Hutch.n-
son soon.
4The Norwich. Kingman county, Mill
ing company is shipping coarsely
ground wheat to Iowa for feeding
purposes.
The irrigation fad has struck En-
pOria. The science club there will
discuss various phases of the question
at its September 24 meeting.
Eight feet and eight inches was the
thickness of the gypsum found on
Brown Bros. property. south of the
Central Branch track at Blue Rapids
Lair Dean is officiating as editor of
the Smith County Pioneer while w.
II. Nelson is in Waukomis, O. T..
raightening out the Beacon bank
tangle.
Crit Watkins, professional gam
bier, who was raised in Sedgwick
county and who was well-known in
Wichita, was shot and killed in Dem
yer one dav last week.
The new college of physicians and
surgeons in Kansas City Kansas, open
ed Tuesday. DR.. Quayle will deliver
the formal opening address. DR.. John
w. May is dean of thesfaculty. >
The mother of John R. Gentry,
which holds the worlds stallion pac-
is valued at SIS. She is the property
of II. G.. Toler, of the Toler stock
farm.
A car load of mineral water from
Great Spirit Spring, near Cawke< Cay,
Mitchell county, billed for Buffalo, n.
Y, went east on the General Branch
Thursday. 1t is the first car load
shipment of the water.
The most successful farmer in Fin
ney county is a Boston eyeglass wear
er named j. w. Eichter. who farms
the Worrall ranch with the assistance
press.-Larned Eagle-Optic.
There was death from smallpox at
Leavenworth Thursday morning and
another case was discovered. The au.
thorities were somewhat staggered to
find, as they did, that man with
fully developed case of the disease had
beeen walking about the street.
Talk about self-abnegation: Kan
sas City, Kansas, minister has refused
to accept vacation that had been
rendered to him by his congregation,
and will donate the money that his
vacation would cost him toward the
liquidation of the church debt,
John Elders and Albert Fortman,
two German farmers of Woodson
county. got into a quarrel at the din
ner table at Fortman's Saturday, when
Elders caught up corn knife and
struck Fortman on the right shoulder,
cutting cash about two inches long.
Members of Furtman's family inter
fered, or Elders. who is feeble mind
ed. would have killed Fortman.
A meteorite fell near Hugoton, in
Stevens county, last Monday after
noon, setting the prairie on FIRE and
stampeding a herd of cattle. The
body was about the size of cocoanut
The meteorIte fell from a clear sky.
coming unannouneed. except by a
whistling sound as il shot through the
air 1t was red hot. a cowbo who
secured the meteorite sold it to
school teacher for two dollars.
An Emporia man, Col. Fl. C. Whit
ley. has written a book which he calls
.'In It." In it is story of the war
The schools of Leavenworth will be
opened IN few days. No pupil who
cannot show a vaccination certificate
will be admitted.
The Kansas grand lodge I. o. o. f.
will hold its annual session at Wichita
beginning Oct 0. Salina is after the
session for next year.
Some of the good people of Emporia
are getting after the Republican for
| publishing advertisements of Sunday
excursions and base ball games