Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-10-10

5Corn is selling for SIS cents in Smith
county.
A 16-year-old girl in Leavenworth is
suing for divorce.
A man named Pants lives at Russell
Springs in Logan county.
A colored man who was los years
old died at Newton Tuesday,
The Southeastern Kansas Baptist
association is in session at Erie
A camp of Sons of Veterans has
been organized at Partridge, Reno
county.
The Commercial club of Hutchinson
is already arranging for next years
musical jubilee.
General Manager Clark of the Mis-
souri, Pacific has promised Wichita a
new depot soon.
The Lanler circle of Abilene will
study ethics and psychology during
the coming year.
The most recently revised story as
to the Wichita National Bank is that
it will resume business soon. a.
Hiawatha has roaring we'll The
World thinks that may mean that the
vicinity is undertake with gas.
Wichita and Hutchinson men met on
the diamond at Wichita Saturday
The Wichita team won, IL to il.
The marshals and chiefs of police of
Kansas will meet in Wichita next
week. 1t is expected that 100 will be
on hand.
Evelyn Baldwin, an Usage, Labette
county, boy, was one of the Peary ex-
ploring party. He will return to his
home in few days.
Fire at Leavenwortk Monday night
practically destroyed the three-story
residence of Mr.. Levi Wilson. The
loss was $4,000 or 81 1000.
LAWS Havermale is Offering his OILS
burg Newsletter for sale. Havermale
will go to California, where he already
has business interests.
Dodge City was treated to a touch
of @stheticism Tuesday night. Lady
Windermere's Fan, Oscar Wilde's
much talked of play, was produced
there.
An Ottawa man was brought back
from Missouri, at an expense of $50,
to be tried for stealing a gun. He
was convicted, but the judge let him
off with S. fine.
Reddy Brennan, a pugilist who has
fought in several Kansas towns, is run
ming joint in Kansas City, Kansas.
Just at present he is in Jail for illegal
liquor selling.
Prof. Frank Smith of Bethany Col
lege delivered an able lecture at the
Swedish Lutheran Church at Linds-
borg Sunday evening on the subject,
"Why do we Educate?"
F.M. Williams of Clinton, Mo-, who
was on his way to White City,
was knocked down and robbed of 500
In the Rock Island yards at Hutchin-
son while waiting for his train.
The Peabody creamery is reaching
out so far into It's territory for milk
| that it has been found necessary to
establish skimming station to save
the hauling of milk to long a distance.
Mr.. James Bethel received notice
from the Hon. Hoke Smith last week
that his name had been dropped from
the pension roll. He was receiving SIS
per month.-Winfield Courier.
Chief of Police Quarrels, of Kansas
City, Kan, found a gambling house
Monday after many weary months OF
search and had it pulled. 1t is said
that the proprietor was not in the ad-
ministration police board gambling
combine.
During the past two years there
have been nearly as many divorces in
Saline county as there have been mar.
riages.
Rev. E. E. Tarbill, the Methodist
minister of Abilene, preached a strong
sermon against the theater last Sun
atrical performance are immoral in
their tendency ana said that no con.
sIstent Christian can be a theateI
| goer.
The Wellhouse orchards at Fair
mount. in Leavenworth county, will
| yield $4,000 bushels of apples this year
There are 500 acres in trees, confined
principally to four varieties, which
Mr.. Wellhouse claims are particularly
adapted to Kansas soil. 1t will re
J quire $4,000 to gather the crop and
get it ready for the market
four foot vein of coal has been dis
covered at Independence at depth Of
I rs feet. The gas company has strucl
this vein of coal in other vel west Of
this one but it was only about foot
thick. With this coal was a very
strong flow of gas, so strong that the
coal vein cannot be worked until after
the gas has been exhausted.
The Hays City Sentinel saws OF tn,
story about Wild Bill riding into Johr
A. Anderson's church at junction CITY
and compelling that gentleman Il
dance in the pulpit: The story hal
two elements of impossibility. In tn,
first place Wild Bill wouldn't do sucl
a thing, and in the next the man wa.
never born who could make John A
Anderson dance.
The prohibitionlsts of Lincoln coun
ty met the other day and visited tn,
county committee with authority t,
make mp ticket from the nominees
Of ths ether parties