Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-16
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.
Condensed News from All Part. or
the Great Sunflower State-A Gem
eraI Summary of kansas New.

Galena is flooded with spurious
nlckles.
Fort Scott has $4,000 in the city
treasury.
Since May l there has been a IL
cense of S400 year against Beloit Gig
arctic dealers.
There are 1s2 Congregational Sun
day schools in the state, with MEM
bcrship of 1852.
The Abilene city council is consid-
erlng the matter of imposing an an
nual tax of S50C on the venders of hop
tea.
| An -Atchinson man is SUING the wa
ter company for $40. 900 for the drown
ing of his son In the company's reser-
voir last summer.
Fears are entertained that the work
on the Topeka dam will be still fur
ther delayed through sympathy for
the striking longshoremen III Chicago.
Suit has been brought at Emporia
against Calvin Hood and the estate of
ex-senator Plumb for S45, 900. The
litigation grew out OF an old cattle
deal.
Coroner Leonard of Douglas county
was appointed on January 12, and
since that time has been called upon
to preside over juries in the case Of
eight deaths.
Judge Hazen has overruled mo-
ton for a new trial in the Odd Eel
lows Orphans home case, which he
decided last week in favor of the
grand lodge.
The Eldridge livery barn in Law
renee valued at $4,000, burned at /
o'clock Monday morning. The fire
was of incendiary' origin. All the
stock was saved
Topeka is mourning the loss of an
African prince, '.Oskazuma," who
joined the Sells & Rentfrow circus to
do war whocp and carry palan-
quin in the grand entree.
According to the latest reports Kan
sas has greater per cent of her school
population enrolled on the school
books than has any other state in the
Union, the per cent being S7.06
The total amount of farm products
shipped during 1893 from Kansas City.
'Atchison, Leavenworth and St. Jo-
seph, nearly all of which was raised
in Kansas, was 1874, 794 car loads.
| DIR. Quayle of Baker university de-
| livered his lecture "'Lincoln. the
First American, at Holton Saturday
night, and on Sunday night preached
in the Methodist church at the same
place.
The Sterling salt works have re-
sumed operations after an idleness of
two months. They will in all proba
bility be run night and day for some
time to come. Employment is thus
given to twenty-five men.
One of the prisoners confined in the
county Jail at Marion endeavore1 10
gain his release by hanging himself
the other day, but much to his disgust,
he was discovered and cut down.
Peabody Graphic.
Tom Beaver and Jim Mccoy have
| signed articles to fight to finish
somewhere between Atchison and
Kansas City on May 20, for purse of
$3.50. Both men are middleweights
Queensbury rules.
6 The Patriot says that the Atchison
smallpox scare is subsiding. ONLY
three cases were reported on Monday
| and these were all in families some
member in each of which had previ-
ously been afflicted. There have been
about eighteen cases in all.
The new militia company which has
just been mustered into the Kansas
National Guard started out with fifty
mem bers and has already been re-
| cruited to sixty Seventy three is the
limit. Charley Harbaugh of the Re-
publican-Record is captain.
A peddler was arrested at Delphos
the other day charged with stealing
SEQ from a Mrs. kohble. The next
day Mrs. kohble discovered her mon
ey and the peddler was released after
being well paid for his time and all
the expenses he had incurred In the
case.
; There is neighborhood unpleasant
ness on North Second street One
man discovered that his neigh bor's
barn was two inches on his lot, and
made him move the barn which fell to
pieces. The owner of the barn found
one of his neighbor's chickens on his
lot yesterday and wrung its head off
-Atchison Globe.
H. A. Brant, well known Colby
lawyer, skipped out the other day
leaving various creditors in the lurch
to the aggregate amount of 5000.
The decampment did not come in the
nature of surprise, for it was well
known that he was involved in num-
ber of transactions that made him
amenable to the law.
The season is said by experienced
| farmers to be ut least month ad-
| vanced over last year. "Wheat," " said
farmer to-day, lis as large and
thrifty as it was May 6, a year ago,
and with the glorious rains the indi-
cations are for the best crop ever seen
in central Kansas in a decade. As for
corn, any amount of it is being plant
ed. The ground is in splendid con9-
ton and every available acre is being
put into that op."-Abilene Refiec-
tor.
The postal facilities of Oberlin are
| to be increased by the erection of
new building for the postofficc.
1t is wonderful the change that has
| taken place in the small grain within
the past two weeks. A number of the
fields of volunteer wheat in this sec
tion of the country have been and are
now being put into corn: but the vol
unteer crop was never depended upon
for very much, so the condition of this
portion of the crop has but a small
effect upon the whole. The recent ex
cellent rains have placed the crop in a
healthy, hearty. growing condition
| and all that is needed now is q resona
bly, favorable season the balance of
the time.-Smith CoGn nty Journal.
VIM. Smith, a farmer, who lives
! several miles north of AtchIson in
Doniphan county, has lost forty head
of horses, cattle and hogs lately from
some mysterious cause which he
| thinks is poison administered by an