Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-27
NUMBER 6.


ganized at Atwood.
Charles w. Beacon will open q bank
in Watonga this month.
There will be 116 teachers in the
Kansas City, Kans., public schools
next year.
Alfalfa hay of the first cutting sold
In Strong City the first of the week at
$40 ton,
Rev. Updike is holding revival meet
lngs at Hutchinson and has so far Sc
cured seventy-ive or eighty converts
Hon. Henry Watterson, the noted
democratic politician and editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, will speak
at Winfield. June 23.
The total assessed valua tion of real
and personal property in Atchinson
county according to the assessors re-
turns is 81 ,069, 37o, a decrease over 1898
of S216.lse.
Fourteen people-four boys and ten
girls-graduated from the Hutchinson
high school this year. Nearly 2,5O0
people attended the commencement
exercises.
oOOo dihS dIC pOI tCu ali ONCH OhC
state on Saturday and Sunday. Corn
is greatly benefited and with another
good rain in 20 days, it will make q
fair crop.
A joint was closed to-day because the
keeper sold to boys, drunkards and
women. The police gave positive no.
tice that every violator of the regula-
tions will be closed.-Atchinson Globe.
Mrs. James l.. Fisher of Wauneta,
Chautauqau county committed suicide
Friday by hanging herself in an or
chard near the house. Temporary in
sanity was the cause. She leaves a
son and husband.
The graduating exercises of the
Kansas Conservatory of Music at
Leavenworth was held Tuesday night.
| There are only two graduates, Misses
| Pearl Dow and Lorena NJ. Helden,
| both OF Manhattan.
Miss Carrie Mills of Hays township,
Mcpherson county, is probably the
youngest common school graduate In
Kansas. She is but IL years old this
month and has received her county
diploma on good grades.
| The commencement exercises mark
ing the close of the sixteenth year OF
the Kansas Normal at Fort Scott were
held Friday night. There were six
graduates Each received the degree
! of the bachelor of arts.
| A petition Is in circulation in Har.
per county asking the county commits.
sioners to establish county high
school. The city of Harper has agreed
to provide building for school pur'
| poses free of cost to the county.
The handsome Columbian clock de.
signed by the ladies of Riley county
and exhibited in the Kansas building
at the worlds fair. has been donated
to the Agricultural college at Manhat
tan and will be placed in the science
ha |.
A Jest coal shaft will be sunk in the
bottoms at Kansas City. Kansas. sooD
to discover what truth there is in the
| oft-repeated assertion that Il vast coal
field underlies the city. Local capital
lists are the projectorers of the coal
| hole scheme.
A farmer from west of the city saws
that the late rain will be an expensive
one to the wheat raisers of Lyon coun
ty. Many of them were just ready IL
begin the harvest and the fields are
now left very soft so that they cannot
run machines in them.-Emporia Ga
zette.
Clark Smith, farmer near Wood.
stop, Rocks county, committed suicide
the other day by shooting himseli
through the heart. Decoration day he
tried laudanum, but an overdose save6.
him. Financial troubles and hard
times were tho cause lie was mem
ber of the Grand Army and /. o. o. r
The nine Seventh district counties
of Meade, Ford, Kingman. Comanche.
Seward. Clark, Reno, Gray and Sum
mer have lost s,253 persons during the
past year. The greatest decrease ir
population was in Sumner county.
which lost over 100 persons. and the
smallest in Meade, which lost bu,
twenty-three. Scott and Finney, two
other Seventh district counties, have
gained in population during the past
year, the one 81 and the other 165,
J Captain Nathan c. Kirk of Wichita
has just received "A bronze melal oi
honor for bravery and meritorious con
J duct on the field of battle. There ar,
less than 800 of these medals in tn,
, country. A week ago congress voteC
Captain Kirk this honor and sent it OF
to him with a letter of praise. and
review of several of the brave deed
, he performed during the dark days o
the rebellion.
When the Finney county republican
central committee came to canvass tn
returns OF last weeks primaries tn
4 official count showed tie between
= John W. Wilson and James Griggs
: candidate for probate Judge, instea'
: of one majority for Wilson, as at frs
r reported. An agreement was mad
Y for recount, but as there were som
e challenged votes to be determine
p upon. the work was not completed a
the first meeting. An adjournmen
\ was had until later in the week.
# A quartette of ''lightning rod di.
It pensers'' is doing a thriving busines
Il at swindling Labette county farmers
}. They make contracts at apparentl
It nominal rates, pursuade their patron
o to affix their names. and when tn
e work is done they demand paymen
A according to the exact terms of tn
t contract, which calls for severa
t. times the amount the farmers expect
ed to pay.
IS A tramp in box car at Abilen
scared several people out of year
!, growth each the other day. They a.
- said he had the small pox, but he ha
- nothing of the kind.
a. A man by the name of Savary
" prosecuting attorney for Cloud cour
n ty. He is in partnership in the prat
a tice of law with a man named Shaefol
-e Savary as county attorney bring
a criminal proceedings against joiutist
Y for violating the prohibitory law an
,e Savary & Shaefor are engaged for ds
Is Tense The plan works well, bu
ID the Concordia Empire does not seer
to like it.
x Abilene is preparing for . hurra