Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWkERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great SunfiOwer State-A Gen.
eral Summary of Kansas New.

! Good coal costs 81 ton in Parsons,
delivered.
| Great Bend will celebrate extensive
" on the Fouth.
! The young ladies of Mcpherson have
Social Purity society.
J The best winter wheat has been SELL
ing for AZ cents at Junction City.
The sub-stations for the propagation
of infected chlnch bugs are proving of
! great value to the farmers of the
! state.
The new postmaster of Mcpherson
/ is an entomologist, and has taken
charge of chinch bug station for the
county.
The average daily attendance at the
Parsons schools for the term closed
last week was 1889 out of an enroll
ment of LASS.
Hunnewell has had two elections of
city officers this year, the first election
being held under the old law, and was,
therefore illegal.
A year has been added to the course
of the Salina public schools. There
are now twelve grades, of which four
are included in the high school.
Thirteen prisoners are at present
| confined in the Crawford county Jail
at Girard. Three are held for murder,
two for rape and four for robbery. Ten
Of the thirteen are under &c years of
| age.
The commencement of the South
west M. E. College was held in the
Grand Opera House Wednesday night
in Winfield, The class exercises were
listened too by large and appreciat-
i've audience.
The District Camp Meeting Associa-
ton of the Dodge City district will
conduct series of camp meetings at
Garden City, beginning June p to July
l, inclusive, with Rev. q. L. Miller,
| evangelist, in charge.
An ordinance imposing a penalty of
| from $40 to 500 fine and thirty DAYS
in Jail for selling cigars. cigarettes, CT.
| garette paper or tobacco to any boy
under II was passed by the Fort Scott
city council last week.
A great row is on at Atchinsoa over
the method of handling smallpox cases
and the papers are half filled with
examinations and excuses. And while
the doctors are scrapping the disease
is gradually dying out.
The county commissioners have de-
cided to locate q cbinch bug expert
ment station at Mankato for Jewell
county. 1t will be placed in charge of
a competent liam at a stipulated sal
airy to be paid by Jewell county.
The man Justice who figured SO
prominently in the Hitchcock reform
school investigation, is engaged in an
other petty row, this time at Olathe his
old home. Two law suits are on the
tapis and lively times are promised.
The Walnut and Arkansas rivers
have been out of banks the past week
and considerable damage done to the
crops in the low bottoms. Ell Dorado
and Wichita suffered considerably by
the high water filling cellars and I'M
der mining buildings.
Mrs Edith Morford who went into a
semi-conscious state last Thursday
evening as the result of overwork and
too close study of Christian science, re-
gained her senses Sunday morning.
There was much fear for a time that
she would never recover from her
trance.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elias wood of Newton,
awoke Sunday morning feeling very
queer and they arose and investigated.
They then discovered that the house
had been struck by lightning and that
they had been knocked insensible. 1t
is beloved that they had been insensi-
! bic for almost two hours.
Geo. w. Berry, of Berrytown, the
Kansas vice president of the American
Berkshire association, announces that
ten volumes of the Record, worth $50,
will be given to Kansas breeders who
exhibit at the leading fair in Kansas
this year, either at Topeka or Wichita
whichever pretends to hold a State
fair.
The annual Sunday school conven-
ton of the Churches of Kansas was in
session in Kansas City, Kansas, We'd
nesday and Thursday of last week.
More than $50 delegates were present.
Next years convention will be held
the first week in June at Beloit.
Probably the biggest land deal and
the most successful from every stand
point was made by Oberlin National
bank at Oberlin last week. The bank
had in eight land buyers from Illinois
and sold to seven outof the eight, and
to one man 500 acres. The total sales
amounted to something over 1900
! acres.
Prof. j. A. Whitman, on entomolo-
gist of considerable note, has been in
Lawrence this week receiving instruc
ton in the chinch bug laboratory pre-
| l. "A
ton distributing station at Lyndon
Usage county. Prof, Whitman was
sent to Lawrence by the Usage coun
! ty commissioners.
Representative Davis has introduced
a bill instructing the secretary OF wal
to give Junction City the trianglal
piece of ground forming part of the
TT. Riley reservation north of the Re-
publican river bridge. The tract o.
land contains about 400 acres and is
not used for military reservation
The city wants it for a park.
There was enough dog tax collected
in Lawrence this month to pay its
"pauper bills" for twenty-three
months if the said bills were no larger
than they were for the month of May.
Five tramps robbed the farm house
of James Trimble near Stella, Neb.
Wednesday night and were caught Al
Hiawatha Thursday night and the
property recovered. They refused tc
return to Nebraska without reuuisi
ton and were held until the proper
papers could be made out. Enough
property was taken to make a case
of larceny and the entire lot are good
for term in the penitentiary.
Chancellor Snow of the State Uni
versity and party not yet decided
upon will leave the first of july fcl
New Mexico on an all summers bug
hunting tour. The chancellor viii
continue his lectures throughout the
state in the meantime.
A final settlement of the defunct
| Cuba State Banks affairs was held be