Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-10-17
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWkERS ARE
80 DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Part. of
the Great sunfower State-A Gen.
eral Summary of Kansas New.


the Great sunnower State-A Gen
eral Summary of Kansas New.
The Spoonors played at Hutchinson
last week.
A bicycle meet is scheduled for For
Scott this week.
1.-The DEVILS Auction" was PLAYED
at Emporia last week.
Carrie Chapman Gait" is the way
She registers at the hotels.
Another case of smallpox was dis
covered at Leavenworth Tuesday.
Atchlson is Dragging about fifteer
pound baby that was born there las
week.
The Parsons city council has passed
an ordinance prohibiting the sale Of
cigarettes.
Abilene's Lanier circle has .sixty-siS
members, They are wrestling with
ethics and psychology this fall.
1t has been spelled "Acers, acres, =
"Akers" and "Akres," and now the
Holton Record puts it "Aekers."
A firm of Chicago capitalists have
come into possession of the Manhat.
tan electric plant and John E. Hes
sin has been made the local manager.
Two youths of II and 20, respective
ly, were sent to the penitentiary this
week from Mitchell county for hog
stealing.
United States district court will be
convened in Leavenworth this week.
Judge c. 6. Foster will probably pre-
side.
Fire at Augusta, Butler county,
Tuesday morning caused loss of So,
600 that was only half covered by in
surance.
DIR. Charles Mitchell, the noted Kan
sas City Divine, lectured at Hutchin-
son Monday night on ''How Eli Gets
There"
The Garden City fair last week was
SO pronounced a success that some-
thing on a more elaborate plan will be
attempted next year.
The Wilson Dry Goods company of
Wichita has gone into the hands of a
receiver. Indiscreet purchases are as
signed as the cause of the failure.
Hutchinson is discussing the ques-
ton of buying the city water works
and electric light plant from the pres
ent owners. The price asked is $780,
600.
Colonel Hawkins of the twentieth
infantry is the new commandant a.
Fort Leavenworth in the place of Col
onel Townsend. transferred to Fort
Niobrara.
Wasn't it an Atchison paper that re-
marked that Topeka people are great
on loving and getting tired of it? The
district court in Atchison granted five
divorces Tuesday.
The Salina committee winch is en-
deavoring to secure the donation of
100 lots as bonus to an electric rail
way company is having better success
lately and the promise now is that the
scheme will &C through.
The Emporia lodge of Odd Fellows
will pay the De Bossiere Orphans
home assessment in order to clear it
to representation at the grand lodge
meeting at Wichita this month, but
the payment will be made under pro-
test.
Twenty-Five men, women and child
rem were baptised in the Solomon
river at Beloit last Sunday. They had
been ready for the ceremony for some
time, but were obliged to wait until
the fall rains raised the river.
Flour item from the Atchison Cham
plon: The Cincinnati flour inspector
is grading Kansas -four the same as
flour, the premium -four
of the world. This rmakes Kansas
flour equal to any flour in the world,
not excepting the flour of Hungary.
At meeting of the Lawrence city
council Monday night, some of the
strongly advocated licensing
the liquor traffic in that city. The ar
gument used was the old one that
liquor is sold anyway and that the
city might as well derive some benefit
in the way of revenue.
Wednesday night while night,police-
to arrest a man by the name
IF Bengston, he was resisted. Beings
ton started to run and Daniels shot at
him twice, the first shot taking effect,
hitting him in the shoulder sand pass
ing through the lungs. He ran about
three blocks and fell. The officers
had been watching him for some time
The Missouri Pacific shops have just
wooden model of the rear
end of locomotive and the front end
of the tank or tender, showing the
of the two when in work
ing order. 1t was constructed for evil
1ence in law suit in Woodson coun-
tv in which an ex-employe of the COM
pany sues for damages sustained by
having his foot crushed between the
CNO SCCJlOno. IL was SCLU u i dGeS
Center Wednesday.-Fort Scott Trib-
nne.
The jamestown Kansan is not dead
after all. 1t has been purchased by
Two women, Mrs. Mary L. Burton and
Mrs. Ida E. Ausdell, who will make a
20 of it. Mrs. Burton has had long
experience in publishing a country
weekly and knows how.
One hundred and thirty children
will take part in the production of
lolanthe under Miss Georgia Browns
direction at Lawrence this month.
The regular semi-occasional change
n the management of the Wellington
Mail took place last week. w. E. Nor
lis is the new editor and proprietor.
Alma has doctor by the name of
Gathers whose daughter married a
nan by the name of Garner. It looks
Is if these two families united ought