Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-11-07
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.

Ottawa is afflicted with firebugs.
Fort Scott is overrun with tramps.
Champion Corbett is playing Kan
Bas this week.
The Kelley club at Fort Riley is to
be reorganized.
Mr.. Leg of Wichita boasts that he
has never been pulled.
The degree of Pocahontas has 1872
members at Emporia.
Adam Masters of Norton county, has
horse 80 years old.
Emporia's paper mill scheme seems
to have fallen through.
There were thirty-six deaths in
Leavenworth last month.
The registration in Atchison was
just trifle under 5000.
A German fair at Wichita last week
cleared more than $500.
Lawrence painters of pictures are
preparing for an art exhibit.
Sam Vandivert of Edwards county
has seeded 1,2oO acres of wheat this
fall.
5There will be big wolf drive in the
sand hills north of Hutchinson next
Thursday.
A very fresh young man who lives at
Mcpherson is burdened with the name
of Salthouse.
1t is said that Goodland sports lost
$500 on the result of the recent cours-
ing meet at that place.
Mrs Ollie I. Royce. wife of the edi-
tor of the Phillipsburg Dispatch, is
making suffrage speeches.
1t costs so cents to see Eunice Good
rich at Garden City. In most towns
she is thirty cent attraction.
Corn Is only SO cents a bushel in
Cherokee county. Cherokee is one of
the counties which raised big crop.
San 8-year-old girl at Wichita ate a
few castor beans and for several days
her life was despared of. Even now
she is not out of danger.
ID. w. Bever, of Cedarvale, Chautau-
qua county, has field of Kaffir corn
which he declares will yield a $50
bushels of seed to the acre.
The manufacture of sugar at the
Medicine Lodge factory has ended for
this year. Molasses will be made I'M
ca the cane is all worked up.
: "a 80 l..
school have organized an athletic as
Eociation and engaged an instructor.
Both boys and girls belong.
The Atwood Citizen, which has been
running series of articles on immor-
tality, announces that no more articles
will appear until after election
A Dago with a bear played a two
days engagement at Garden City last
week and took rs cents out of town.
Now Dago and bear are headed for
Topeka.
! 1t is reported that the fishing in the
streams in southeastern Kansas is much
better this fall than it has been for
years before, all owing to the enforce
ment of the law against seiners and
dynamiters.
A train of fourteen prairie schooners,
containing as many Russian families
from Rush county, has started over
land for the famous San Lonis valley
in Colorado. where TIE proprietors will
try fruit-growing.
/ Mrs. Hank Heiserman of Riverside,
| Sedgwick county, has sued for a di-
| vorce from her husband, whereat the
latter has gone into the loft of sta
BILE and announces his intentions of re-
naming there without food or drink
until his wife relents and consents to
! take him back,
A ghost sensation held the boards
/ at Halstead last week. 1t is said that
r. woman seven feet tall, with her
I hands folded on her breast, had been
/ seen walking the streets of the town,
and the people are greatly worked up
over it. The city fathers need to
raise the joint license.
James Bess, an old soldier, who was
I a member company c, 101st Ind. Vol.
/ Inf, and who lives at Hutchinson, has
received notice that his pension of SIG
! has been cut to $40 month. He has
! received $40 a month since the date of
his discharge in 1865. He fought at
Stone River, Chickamagua, Kenesaw
! Mountain, Peach Tree Creek and mum
/ Der of other places.
! A Pittsburg merchant put $25 in a
locked box, gave key to every pur-
I chaser of dollars worth of goods,
and offered the $50 TO the person
/ whose key would unlock the box con-
tanning it. Dolens of people bought
goods that didn't need, by the load, in
hope of getting the right key. But
one fellow had scheme worth two of
that. Instead of striving for the key
/ to the box he rustled around and
| found key to the outer door, Now
! the box, S25, and all are gone.
Three criers rustled for patronage
for their respective attractions on the
/ streets of Manhattan the other night.
One announced Populist ralley, an
other a gospel meeting and third a
dance in the south part of the city.
CTwelve Abilene ladies have a most
successful magazine exchange in oper-
alton. They raise fund of $50 each
year and subscribe for the leading
magazines and periodicals. Then by
carefully arranged system these are
passed along until each member has
had the benefit of all at a merely nom
! inal cost.
Wheat is being marketed in juno
ton City with great freedom lately.
/ The price paid is still AZ cents.
! The Hill City Democrat is a bran
new paper. 1t is the second new pa.
per that Hill City has had since Sep
! tenn er