Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-07-04

/ EAdcIIy O,OOO people nave been
buried in Mt MGncie cemetery al
Leavenworth.
Clayton L. Bowles. of Valley Falls,
Nan, has been appointed messenger
at the war department.
Oswego is TO have new laundry
Just as white shirts are TO be superse-
ded by the neglige.
The funston element of the Ncosho
county democracy controlled the coun
ty convention at Erie last week.
Mr.. James Topher was recently
married in western Rocks county.
/ Probably the first born will be twins.
Barber county ground squirrel
has developed an abnormal appetite
isfy.
Abe Coles clothing store at Newton
was closed by the sheriff under six
chattel mortgages aggregatins So,ooS.'
/ 6s last week.
Evangelist Updike is gathering the
sinners into the fold at Newton at the
/ rate of half Il dozen day in spite OF
the hot weather.
The Fort Scott Paper campany ad.
vertises that it will give s., 900 for a
gas well on its premises that
will run its boiler plant.
/ One of the attractions of the Pitts
burg Fourth of July celebration will
be a public wedding. The ceremony
Will be performed in the s.rcct.
A Lawrence woman went to call on
an old acquaintance the other day and
| learned for the first time that she died
four months ago The caller has been
In town all the time.-Gazette.
A government architect is working
on plans for public building at Sa-
lima and the possibility is growing
that an appropriation for such Il build
lug may be made by the present con-
! gress.
The scheme to have a fair at Bis
! marck grove, Lawrence, next fall has
| tizzled out. Two thousand dollars
was needed to pull the thing through
and only fourth of that amount was
raised.
Thh financial troubles caused by the
failure of the bank at Enterprise are
| disappearing since it has been an
! nounced that the bank will pay out in
| full with prospect of its resuming
| business.
! Coal has been found on G.. w. Coles
farm near Horton. This reminds us
! that coal was found on Ben Sprague's S
farm near liiawatha more than fifteen
! years ago and Ben nearly went broke
trying to mine it.-Ili2watha News
The "white cap" affair in Chase
! county was not so bad as first reported.
| Blelman and his wife were not Seri-
! ouSiy hurt, and the men under arrest
are out on their own recognizance
/ They are all prominent and respected
| farmers.
Joseph G. Baker, received notice the
last of the week that he would have
! to furnish new evidence or be dropped
! from the pension rolls, said evidence
to be furnished within thirty days
/ from the receipt Of notice. Stafford
/ Republican.
IN excursion will be run from Cen
| tral and Eastern Kansas points to Gar
! den City some time next month tor the
! purpose of giving large number of
/ interested farmers an opportunity to
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Arkansas valley.
A new telephone exchange is being
| organized in Salina. The Harrison
automatic system will be put in. 1t
| is the intention, If sufficient number
of subscribers can be obtained, to ex-
| tend the service to all the surround
ing villages in the county.
Harper is so alive to the advantages
of a higo school that it has offered the
county commissioners the use of IL
bnilding free for all time if they will
establish and maintain county high
school in that city. a petition to that
effect is being circulated in the coun-
try.
There is a GOODNESS between General
Sanders and the commonwealers that
he formerly commanded. The rank
and file do believe that Sanders
| has not treated them right and
they have utterly repudiated his lead
crship-or will as soon as they get out
of jail.
Ed Little is to bc one of the grooms-
men at n swell Kansas City wedding
on-the bride and groom being
wealthy people whom he met in
Egypt Eds friends continue to won.
der when they will have the pleasure
of being present ut his wedding. Abb
lene Reflector
The proprietor OF an Abilene hotel
keeps pile of wood on hand to keep
tramps from begging a meal from
him. When one of the idle gentry ap
pears he points to the wood pile and
informs him that it requires an Eour'g
work on that pile to secure meal al
that house if he has no cash.
The Barton County Irrigation and
Farmers institute has been organized
by the election of W. w. Sowarts.
NJ. Il. Fits, secretary: w. Il. Cornell.
treasurer. Steps will be taken at
at once to interest every man in the
county in the work of organization.
Prof. L. Haworth and some of the
natural history students of Kansas
University will begin this week geo.
detic survey of different parts of Kan
saS. This is preliminary to the geo.
logical survey it is proposed to make
under Prof. Haworth's direction and
is following the first steps taken last
year in this same line.-Lawrence
OOuIudt.
An irrigation convention was held
OF Ulysses, Grant county, Saturday.
The principal address was delivered
by Judge Emery of Lawrence.
The criminal case brought in Linn
county against Zalmoud Kincaid.
charged with dishonesty as cashier Of
the defunct kincaid bank at Mound
City has been sent to bourbon county
by Judge West on change of venue.
The petition for a change of venue
was warmly opposed by the prosecu-
ton. kincaid is charged with having
received deposits after he knew the
bank was inSolvent
Gamblers with the Howe & Cushing
circus played Mankato people for
suckers to the tune of $500 the other
day. The shell game was the princi-
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