Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-01
NUMBER IL.
There is 'sClara Schurnann" muul
cal club at Earnsd.

In franklin county.
A. C. Whitsman is again in charge
of the La Crosse Clarion.
There will be Salvation army pio-
mic in Kerr's park, Kansas City. Kan,
August 1927.
No. wheat is worth only 80 cents
at Parsons; less, according to the Sun,
than ever before.
The State Horticultural Society will
hold Its regular annual meeting at Ft.
Scott in December.
Seven colored boys were arrested
at Atchison Thursday for stealing
wheat from box cars.
A 2-year-old colt trotted an eighth
in "a seconds at Fort Scott Wednes-
day. This is 2:o2 gait.
Chris Beougher, Cove county man,
will put out between 500 and 1000
acres of wheat next fs1.
Street fakirs cannot get license in
Mcpherson. The city dads think they
are too expensive luxury.
Eta Baker, a pretty Eldorado girl
of 81, is under arrest at Wichita
charged with incest with her brother.
E. c. Mossman. a druggist of Ray
mond, Rice County, committed sui
eide by taking morphine one day last
week.
August Jaedicke, jr. is only % years
old, but he has been cashier of the
State Bank of Hanover, Washington
county, for six years. =.
The Rock Island shops at Horton re-
sumed work Thursday morning. The
hours have been increased from forty
to fifty-four per week.
A hail storm in Cowley county, not
far from Arkansas City, damaged corn
seriously over small area Tuesday.
Some stock was injured.
On July the commissioners of
Greedy county, allowed and ordered
drawn 81, ,667 in warrants to pay the
several parties of that county for
scalps upon which was bounty.
Thirteen first grade teachers certi-
ficates were issued as the result of the
last examination in Pratt county.
Twenty seven second grade certificates
were issued and thirty five third
grade.
Dickinson county is represented on
both sides of the strike. John NJ.
! Egan president of the board OF rail-
way managers, is an old schoolmate
of Father J. F. Leary of Chapman
Abilene Reflector.
The Russian thistle is gaining
strong foothold in Rawlins county.
Near Atwood is an eighty acre field
that is completely covered with the
pest The farmers in the vicinity
are combining to eradicate the weed
A Fruit Growers association has
been organized at Wichita for mutual
protection and advantage in market
ing fruit. 1t will be the aim to so DIS
tribute shipments as to guard against
flooding any one market and running
prices down.
Colburn Brothers of the Queen Bee
mills bought about 1000 bushels of
old wheaC Monday at 40 cents per bu.
shell This wheat came from near
Mcpherson and has been held since
last August for better price.-Mc-
Pherson Republican.
Several Memphis railroad employ
es were let out at Fort Scott this week.
a. r. U. men say the cause was that
the discharged employees sympathized
with the strikers; the railroad officials
say that the men were let out for di-
rect violation of rules.
/ The most fortunate com mbination of
/ unfortunate circumstances ever heard
Of exists at Atchison, whore two resi-
dents have each lost ieg. one does
,ith out his right leg while the other
/ gets along without his left foot. Both
wearing the same size shoes, they each
are Quilted in footwear by the pur-
chase of one pair Of shoes.
| Sheriff Moses of Montgomery coun-
tv, went over into Missouri one day
| this week to recover stolen team.
| He found the team but there was a
dispute over $50 dollar reward that
had been offered, which ended with
Sheriff Moses under arrest for drawing
revolver. Moses was released on
$500 bond but will have to go back in
August and stand trial. The horse
thief got away.
The wild man of the woods" who
has been terrorizing the people in the
vicinity of Atchison for some time has
been captured by the sheriff. The
sheriff says he roared like lion when
he found he was in the tolls. Charles
B. Wagner is the wild mans name,
and he has many times forced money
from people by the use of loaded,
cooked revolver. He is undoubtedly
either wild mad man or a man seek
ing refuge from crime.
II. b. Calef of Arkansas City has i'm
vented and made application for a
patent upon a device for the safe
transmission of important letters and
valuable packages through the mails.
He claims that it is an efficient safe
guard against thefts or the unlawful
tampering of dishonest postal en-
ployes with letters and valuables
while in transit. and if adopted by the
government will almost entirely su.
persede the present cumbersome sys-
tenn of registering letters.
Bert Hoffman of Dickinson county
has been unconscious for four days
from injuries received in a runaway,
The old settlers picnic of the pio-
neers of Harvey county will be held
at Halstead, Thursday, August 8.
The citizens of Halstead are preparing
TO entertain the large crowd in a style
| BETTING the occasion.
The missouri Valley Veterinary as
socia ton was organized at Leaven-
worth Friday night DR. Stewart OF
Kansas City. Kan, is president and
DIR. s.. L. Hunter of Leavenworth sec
| retary and treasurer.