Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-15

ganization at Lawrence.
The ministers of Parsons have form
ed IA Pastors alliance.
There are 2.s26 children of school
age in Emporia-1O5 more than a yea,
ago.
There will be several political
days at the Lawrence fair in Septem-
Der.
\ petition is being circulated asking
for the empanelling of a Grand jury
at Emporia.
Eve is the name of new postoffice
that has just been esta blished in Bour.
bon county.
a lodge of the Women's Relief
Corps will be organized at Sharon
Springs shortly.
A twenty-five pound turtle was cap.
tured in Mulberry Creek, Salina coun
ty, a few days ago.
There will be reunion of the 18th
wa, August II and IS.
Moran, Allen county, has organized
ii Gas, Fuel and Prospecting company
with d capital stock of $4,000.
The Lawrence canning factory has
just received three car loads of cans
to be filled with corn and tomatoes.
The State University Library at
Lawrence will be moved into the new
100000 Spooner building next week.
The Fort Scott sugar works began
receiving sugar cane Wednesday. Only
molasses will be made for a week or
ten days.
The new catalogue of Lane Univer-
sity at Lecompton shows that the en-.
rollmen: in that institution last year
was 2O4.
The paper mill at Lawrence has
shut down because its ware houses
will hold no mere of the mauufactur.
ed product.
Concorda officials are after the Gran
shooters. Seven rollers of the bones
were rounded up this week and fined
s. and costs each.
The Lawrence oil well near Neode.
sha is yielding thirty barrels of petro
leum per day. 1t is the second best
well in the district.
The failure of crops in Summed
county will probably result in Wei
lington's reconsidering the resolution
to build a new city hall this season.
A Newton man proposes to put in
Touring mill of l25 barrels daily ca
pacity at Wichita. The only bonus
that he asks is 20, 900 bushels of wheat.
The Northwest Kansas Medical as.
ISOLATION met in Ellis Wednesday, The
attendance was not large, but several
interesting and valuable papers were
read.
The state missionary board of the
Christian church of Kansas, with sew.
enteen evangelists in the field, reports
in the past ten months of the mission
airy year an addition to the church of
5000 members.
The Central Baptist association Of
Kansas, composed of thirtv-six color.
ed Baptist churches in the state, will.
hold its annual meeting in Kansas:
City, Kansas, beginning next Thurs.
day and continuing till Sunday.
Nearly everyone spells it Kearney
when referring to one of the best OF
the Seventh district counties. The
correct spelling is Kearny. The sec.
ond 'e' was knocked out by legisla-
ture enactment few years ago.
1t is proposed to arrange for an ex.
cursion of Wallace county farmers to
go to Garden City, Rocky Ford and
other southwestern irrigation centers
to inspect ssystems, methods and re-
suits of irrigating. The Sherman
county people, who have just returned
from such "trip, were very much
pleased with what they saw.
Conrad Hoffman, a Russian living
near Walker, Russell county, was
working with a threshing machine
crew last week. He attempted to
slide from "a grain sack to the feed
board of the machine, but slipped, in.
stead, into the cylinder. Both of his
limbs were horribly mangled and
were soon after amputatcd. The in.
Jured man died few hours later.
James Headly, living in the Sappa
country, went TO Norton the other dav
and drew 500 from the bank. That
night he slept with his trousers, con.
taing the money, under his pillow.
During the night some one broke the
window with club, grabbed the
trousers and skipped out. The trous-
crs were found the next morning but
the cash and the thief were gone.
Atchison is paying per cent inter
est on nearly soc, 200 worth OF munic-
ipal bonds
The street car lines in Kansas CITY.
Kan, refused the other dav to carry
letter carriers free. Arrangements
have now been made whereby they
are TO receive S72O year tor the serv-
Ice.
Daisy Harris beat Doe Brown at the
swell colored cake walk at Leave1i-
worth Wednesday night Brow n
thought he wasn't beaten fairly and
has challenged Harris to walk again
for $50 side.
The collection of coins at the State
bank, over 1000 in number, is proba
bly, the best numismatic collection in
the state.-Salina Republican.
There are many try-veekiies in
Kansas, but only one tri-wcekly. This
Is the Ottawa Bulletin, published
tuesdays, Thursdays and SATURDAYS,
The Dold Packing Company IA,
Wichita cannot get cattle and hog,
enough to keep its plant in operation
Charley Harbaugh, editor of the
Erie Republican-Record, has been Ill
for eight months. most of the time IN
bed.