Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-02-21
NUMBER 40.

It is reported that there are 500
members of the A. p. A. in Anderson
county.
The fire department of Newton got
mad at the city fathers and resigned
in body.
There is bonded indebtedness of
over 500, 600 against the Leavenworth
public schools.
A soldier had his collar bone broken
at Ft. Leavenworth playing foot ball
one day last week.
Mumps have a firm grip upon a
large number of State Normal stu-
dents at Emporia.
| The Brewers Journal is authority
| for the statement that only 2,677 bar
rels of beer were sold in Kansas last
year.
| There were but twenty three ar
rests made in Goodland during 1893.
OF these only three were for intoxi-
cation.
| AS result of revival meetings in
Dickinson county about 500 persons
have been converted since last Sep
! tember.
A car load of choice horses and Shet-
land ponies was shipped from Els
worth direct to North Adams, Mass,
the other day.
Phillipsburg is likely to be selected
as the place for holding the coming
Sixth district Republican COMPRESSION
al convention.
A trife more than one per cent of
all the hogs marketed at Kan as City,
Kan, stockyards are docked by the
official inspector.
Lawrence wants the state encamp-
ment of the G.. A. r. for 1895. Several
hundred dollars have been subscribed
toward securing it.
The Missouri Pacific yards at Leav-
enworth are blocked, and considerable
grain billed to that place is being
stored at Atchison.
| Three veterans have been discharged
from the Leavenworth Soldiers Home
for refusing to work out sentences inn
posed for being drunk.
There will be state band tourna-
ment held in Ellsworth May %, 90 and
30. Over 700 band members are al
ready pledged to attend.
Wichita has been selected as the
Southern Kansas and Oklahoma dis
tributing point for the Cali, ,ornia Or,
ange Growers exchange.
Professor Dyche has lately received
the skins of five antelopes from the
west and is at work mounting them
for the university museum.
Only 59s persons out of a voting
population of 500 registered at Good
land, and thus established their right
to vote at the coming election.
: There are 333 members belonging to
the Kansas City, Kan, live stock ex-
change, thirty-three of the number
having Joined during the past year.
The Sons of Veterans camp at EN-
poria has organized military compa-
ny of twenty-five members which will
attend the q. A. r. encampment at
Newton.
, The Norton city council is consider
ing the proposition of compelling the
butchers to shut up shop and to pre-
hibit the running of ice wagons on
Sunday.
Five thousand Kansas farmers have
: received benefits from Professor
SHOWS chinch bug medicine, and the
years savings for the state has been
estimated at 100000.
Chicken and poultry thieves have be-
come SO bold in Hutchinson that it has
been found necessary to give many
citizens authority to carry revolvers
and act as police officers.
J A would be hold-up tackled the
wrong man at independence the OF her
day. He made the. customary demand
for cash or gore and was promptly
shot through the body for his trouble.
superintendent McCasey, who will
take charge 'of the insane asylum at
Topeka March 1, has served notice TO
several employees that he will need
their services no longer, including
five ladies.
Mrs. Jacob Shuman of Cove town
J ship, Pratt county, was accidently
shot in the leg the other day. Her
husband was shooting at a mark
when she came suddenly In range and
caught a bullet in the thigh.
A car load of steers from Mississippi
was on the Kansas City, Kan, stock
market Saturday, They were cotton
| seed fed, and were shipped to Kansas
, City instead of Chicago because the
, former is the better market.
The sheriff of Cloud county is after
the joint keepers, and has made sew
eral arrest, declaring that he intends
to keep the oath that he took on as
suming the Office in regard to the en-
forcement of laws. He warns jointists
, to look out.
{ Louis Baptiste, the st, Louis wrest-
, Ter, in a Friday night match at Atchi-
, son, threw M. Muldoon twice in three
times, and was declared the winner of
the 500 stake and gate receipts. The
e same men will wrestle Greco- Roma n
1 style next Thursday.
The various railroad companies
whose tracks jeopardized by the
i washing away of the river bank at
Atchison will join forces and proceed
to protect their property, hoping that
in due time congress will reimburse
. them as it did once before.
: 5 A new prisoner at the Atchison city
: prison submitted to trial by "kanga-
/. roo court" all right until 1t came to
v administering the prescribed punish
: ment. Then he sailed in and cleaned
+ out the whole outft-judges, jurors,
witnesses, bailiffs and all.
o A raid on a social poker game in
Newton the other day resulted in the
> ENHANCEMENT of number of promi-
. nent citizens in the tolls of the law.
l. Forty-three veterans have just
e been discharged from the Soldiers
Home at Leavenworth, being able
now to support themselves.
Chairman Cummings of the house
a committee on naval affairs, has re-
ported for the committee adversely
. the resolution introduced by Repre-
sentative Holman, of Indiana, asking
E that an investigation be made of the
: granting of premiums to the construc-
. tors of naval vessels for the increased
speed.
In order to create a demand for his