Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-06
NUMBER 3.
Newton has a free public library
which Is maintained through a small
municipal tax.

The Abilene waterworlSs have gone
into the hands of a receiver for the
second time in five years
The discovered shortage in the ac-
counts of ex-County Treasurer Krause
of Barton county, is increasing. It
now amounts to IS, 3s2.
The Sterling Bulletin was 1000
weeks old last week and Editor Junkin
celebrated thefevent by purchasing
new home for his paper.
The Security bank of Eskridge has
bought out the Farmers and Traders
bank of the same place. The Security
bank is the oldest in the county.
The school board of Wellington has
decided to economic by reducing the
number of theachers from twenty
eight TO II and by cut of 10 per cent
in salaries.
Butler county has more corn plant
ed, a better stand, cleaner of weeds,
evener and better in every way than
1T has been in n years, says the EI
Dorado Republican.
The county commissioners of Dick
inson county have established chinch
bug infection station at Abilene, and
have hired Prof. Hickey to run it for
three months at salary of S1OO per
month.
Yorktown is the name of a new Lin
coin county burg that has just been
laid out north of Allameade 1t isun-
derstood that the postoffice at Allie
meade and Bsyne will be consolidated
at Yorktown.
The Walnut Eagle is the newest
journal in the state. 1t is two-col-
umn folio, with pages about six inch
es by nine, and is published by Lewis
Martin. formerly proprietor of the
Walnut Journal.
General Sanders has been at Leaven-
worth Tor the past two weeks, and vet
the newspapers of that town have not
discovered how to spell his name.
They persist in Introducing a u that
does not belong there.
Wellington's finances seem to be in
good shape. All scrip is cashed at
once, bonds not due for nearly three
years yet are being taken up to save
interest and work on a new SO, 900 city
hall, for which cash is to be paid, will
be commenced shortly.
A six-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred NJ. Fein, living near Halstead
was killed by horse one day last
week. The little fellow was attempt
ing to stop several horses in a lane
and so badly injured about the head
that he lived but few hours,
Cowley county was visited by heavy
rains Tuesday. Crops are looking toll
erably well. Wheat is short but the
heads are we'll filed. The late frost
did more damage to the potato crop
than any thing else. One party hav-
ing 80 acres of potatoes will not even
get his seed back. As,
There is a man, owner of a good
farm and home in Franklin county,
who has been sent to the insane asy-
lum and furloughed back and forth
fourteen times and is to day in the
enjoyment of his faculties. He is sub
ject to fits of mental alteration, and
is often extremely violent.
Norton county contracted recently
for some steel Jail cells. They were
delivered last week accompanied by a
full grown bluff in the guise of an
offer of S. for each hole that could he
drilled through them. A local black
smith went to work and would have
made sand selves of them before night
if he had not been called off The cells
were not accepted.
Tho Pan-Ameriean Tropical Fruit
aud Coffee company, which was organ
lied in junction City some months
ago. has just been chartered under
the Nebraska state laws with CAPT.
tai of 81, 500, ,0OC. The new officers are:
c. b. Maxwell of Topeka, president
and general manager; +. J. Murphy of
Abilene, vice president and assistant
general manager; w. L. CowelI of
Clyde, treasurer: J. J. Meade of June
ton City, secretary. The three states
of Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois will
be worked by field officer from Lin
coin, Neb., and Kansas, Missouri and
Colorado from Junction City. The
company has deed for 1000 acres of
valuable land on Lake Isabella. Qua
ternala, As soon as the rainy season
is over, which will be in October, the
work of clearing large tract will be
begun. BY January of 1895 it is esti-
mated the available sock will be dis.
posed of.
) A. Il. Wilcox and DIR. r. NJ. Young
were arrested at Arkansas City Satur-
day, charged with producing an abor-
tion on the person of the wife of
Wilcox, causing her death. They were
thrown into Jail at Winfield until
Monday when they were admitted to
bail in the sum of of 81 200 each.
We have interviewed quite a mum
ber of farmers within the last two
weeks upon the condition of corn,
wheat, and crops in general, and it
has been the uniform answer that the
prospects were very promising, in fact
never better. We have had good
growing showers when needed, and
another thing that serves to material
ly increase confidence iG the extreme
early season. Corn is at least a month
further advanced than at the same
time last year. This means that un-
der favora BILE conditions it will be a
month nearer maturity when the in
variable dry weather sets in, and that
means good deal. Wheat is now
coming out in head nicely and we will
have an early harvest. Merchants re-
port trade better than there is rea-
SON for it. With something in sight
the farmers can afford to let go of a
dollar now and then, where heretofore
| he was compelled to play safe. not
knowing but things might take an
| even more serious turn. Look out for
| better times. The worst is ovcr.-In-
dependence Tribune.
All efforts looking toward the build
ing of big hall at Phillipsburg to ac-
commodate the Sixth district congress
sionaI convention which met there
proved fruitless and the convention
| was held in the court house.
j. V. Hamilton will ship next week
nine car loads of squared walnut saw
| logs from this station, five from Gree
lev, one from Mount Ida They go to
New York firm and may eventually
land in Europe. lie shipped seven
cars some months ago from this coun-
ty, which brings his total shipment up
to TWENTY-FIVE cars.-Garnett Repub-
lican Plaindealer.
An 'Atchison grain merchant WHO
fa, cd afDhfnan and nrr0ht fr.