Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-08

The Atchison Patriot has a new
cad. 1t is worse than the last.
An effort is being made 10 establish
creamery at Delphos, Ottawa coun
Y.
New wheat according to the Dis
'atch, is worth only 80 cents at HOis-
ngton.
In 1892 there were lO4 LAWYERS in
Wichita; now there are only seventy
line.
Considerably lessthan half tn eacre-
lge of Butler county is under cultiva
ion.
The Kansas Normal college at Fort
scott will begin the new years work
september 4.
Wichita has a brand new city di
'ectory which makes a showing Of 80
300 population.
The Indebtedness of Ellis county i.
A5,O00-more than SO, 700 less than il
was year ago.
Another strike meeting was held al
Emporia Saturday night and So rails
I'd to Help Debs.
Rocky Mountain locasts have ap
Peared in Wallace county. They are
"oing no damage as yet.
The Santa Fc shops at ottawa re.
'umed operations to the extent of the
;apacity Monday morning.
Prarie dogs are building villages in
the streets of Wichita. A few days
lgo wolf was shot inside the city
limits.
An examination Of applicants for
state teachers cert ificates will be held
IN Abilene next month. conducted by
superintendent Shirk.
Prof. Dinsmore's efforts at rain
making at Emporia have not been
very brilliantly successful. Rain-mak-
crs, like signs, seem always to fail in
Try weather
John Kane, young man of Is. fell
under the wheels of moving box car
ut BroOkville, Saline county. Sunday
morning and was horribly mangled.
lie died instantly.
n. n. Allen, president of the board
Of trustees of Baker University, has
gone to st. Louis to consult with
bishop Bowman in regard to the sell
ection of successor to DR.. Quayle.
The Fort Scott sugar works will be
GIN this seasons operations next week
10 is said the large crop of cane is very
Juicy, and that the sugar yield this
year will largely exceed last year.
output.
The Sharon Springs Times is advo-
,ating the repeal of the herd law in
Wallace county. 1t says there is moth
ing for cattle to hurt. and he who may
have growing crops can better afford
to fence his crops than his pasture.
Helmet Weber, German farmer liv-
ing near ChadrOn, RawIinS county.
committed suicide by blowing the top
If his head off with a shot gun. The
'ause for the act was that his wife re-
fused to live with him.
Riley Medium, Kansas great PAGER.
owned at Ottawa, is still stepping too
lively time for them down in the old
bay state. He beat the track record
1t Worcester the other day and cap
tured the money in three straight
heats.
The editor of the Western Home
stead wants a geological and hydrolo-
5icaI survey of ev"ry county in West
arn Kansas made at once, and offers
to pay Prof Hays for doing the work
IN all counties that will subscribe for
certain number of copies of his pa
per.
1t is stated that the project of dam
ing the Kaw river at Muncie, Wyan-
Gotte county, for the purpose of sup
plying power and facilitating irriga-
ton will be carried out in the near
future. The gentlemen who original
ID the scheme have at last succeeded
IN interesting party of eastern cap
Italists, who have agreed to furnish
the necessary funds within a few
months
John =. Huffman, a hard working
German farmer, living FIVE miles north.
last of Parsons. has suffered a pecul-
Jar loss. While he and his family were
laying his father, Peter Hoffman, TO
rest at Calvary cemetry, his home took
fire and with it's contents was burned
to the ground. The family returned
home only to find their home a mass
Of smouldering ruins.
Arrangements have nearly been
,ompletedfor the holding of the second
annual Finney county fair, on October
I. and at Garden City. The pre-
MUM list is in the hands of the print
FRS and will be ready for distribution
'oon. The association will purchase a
large tent for the occasion, and every
arrangement for the convenience and
comfort of the exhibitors will be look.
ed after.
Manhattan is not to have a tele-
phone exchange after all The firm
which was 10 have put in one was
scared out because it didn't rain last
week.
Six of the barracks at TT Leaven.
worth are to be remodeled and in
many respects modernized. The work
viii cost nearly $4,000, and is to be
done this summer and fall.
A meeting of Sheridan county farm
srs will be held at Hoxie August 4 r.
discuss ways and means of obtaining
seed wheat. The crop in that county
his year was practically failure.
The Neosho county fair will be held
1t Erie, Septem Der 4, ;. and :.
Miss Anna Cctcctecenqua is very
unfortunate young lady whose name
appears in the Wichita directory.