Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-02-21
KANSAS MATTERS.
Condensed News from All Parts of
the Great Sunfiower Statc--A Gcn-
eral Summary of Kansas New.


the Great Sunfower State-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.
Girard schools have an enrolment |
of 73s.
Two Fort Leavenworth soldiers de- |
serted Friday night.
The Lawrence high school has an
enrolment of 400 this year.
Lectures on the Bible have been in
augurated at the state university.
The Kansas State Medical associa-
tion will meet in Atchison in May.
The Kansas Oratorical Association
elected officers yesterday at Lawrence.
A Sedan cattle-fecder had four big
steers stolen from his feed lot last
week.
The Fort Riley Keeley League now
boasts of sixty members and is still
growing.
A Sons of Veterans camp is to be or
gan!zed at Bird City, Cheyenne
county.
The Cowley County Fair Association
will give $4,000 in purses for races at
their fair this year.
The next meeting of the North Gen.
trail Kansas Editorial association will
be held at Copcordia.
Judge Murphy of Junction City will
endeavor to succeed Judge Foster, in
case of his retirement.
A new company has been formed in
Topeka to supply the demand for
cheaper telephone service.
A series of revival services held in
Wellington recently resulted in the
conversion of 104 persons.
Topeka Knights of Pythias will eel
citrate the thirtieth anniversary of
that order on the 10th inst.
The Kirwin and Oberlin land offi9es
will be consolidated next month and
moved to Colby, in Thomas county.
w. H. Nelson has returned to Smith
Center from Pond Creek, o. T., and
has resumed charge of the Pioneer.
TheAlton Empire says that more
cattle are being fed in Osborne county
this winter than for some years past.
There will be county convention
of the women suffragists of Douglas
county held at Lawrence early in
May.
The water works company of Law
renee has secured a judgement against
the city for $4,000, for back hydrant
rental.
The 18th annual Sunday School con-
vention for Washington county will
| be held at Washington, March IL
| and 13.
C. III. j. Taylor would not be averse
to representing this government of
| Hayti, and Senator Martin thinks he
| can land him there.
Lawrence young People according
to the World, are guilty of an exibi-
ton of bad taste by doing their court
ing in the lobby of the postoflice.
Osawatomie's only joint has been
| closed by the authorities, who an
| nounce positively that this and all
similar institutions will stay closed.
| college is in New York to make an
effort to dispose of bonds to wipe out
the floating Indebtedness of that in
| stitution.
The entire volunteer fire depaI t.
ment at Newton has resigned. The ac-
tion was prompted by the refusal of
| the powers that he to accede to some
| of their positive demands.
Within few weeks three new rail
roads have been chartered, each of
| which is to run through Arkansas
| City, and the people of that town be-
| gin to think they are strictly in it.
The city council of Cherokee through
| the marshal read the riot act to the
| joints on Monday night. Charles Sa-
voy was ordered to close up and leave
town within three days, and Francis
| Byrnes was ordered to close his place
| and quit his unlawful traffic.
G. H. Notice plead guilty to petit
| larceny at Lawre nee Thursday and was
| sentenced to thirty days in jail. His
| offense was stealing a team of horses
from Lawrence liveryman last spring
and driving it to Topeka, where he
borrowed SO on the stolen property
and skipped out.
There was a lively time at La Cygne
one day last week. q young married
woman left her husband short time
ago and went to La Cygne to live. The
husband followed her, and on the day
in question attempted to carry her
away by force. Two other women
| came to the rescue with broomstick
and drove the would-be kIdnapper
over into Missouri.
The Emporia Kennel club will be
represented at the spring meeting of
the Altcor Coursing club of Colorado,
to be held at Goodland from the 10Th
to the Goth of February, just In,
Lady Lyon and King Crow, full broth
ers of Scavenger, the winner of the
/ Great Bend derby, have been entered
and will uphold the Emporia standard
t-Emporia Republican.
Albert Griffin, of prohibition, and
later of fat railroad fame, delivered
three temperance lectures at Over
brook, Usage county, the other night
with the result that 200 signatures Il
total abstinence pledge were Sc
cureu. Afterwards comilittee wit.
ed on the only joint keeper in town
and notified him to shut up. In repl,
he asked them to put up 81, 900 in pay
ment for his business-ands so the mat
ter hangs.
A fock of 1900 sheep belonging Il
McFadden & Curry of Saline county
is on the way to Ogden, Riley county
where they will be fattened for mar
ket. McFadden & Curry have main
tanned flock of sheep In Salin
county for thirteen years.
Friday is the day set by the window
glass factories of Pittsburg, Pa. for
| general suspension of work. As sew
eral of the larger concerns refused I,
lenter into the agreement. it is gener
ally understood there will be no con
i certed action. However. a numbes o
: factories have closed down, and other
| will follow their example in shor
time.