Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-08-22
KANSAS STATE MATTERS.
WHAT THE JAYHAWKERS ARE
DOING TO-DAY.

Condensed News from All Parts OF
the Great Sunfiowcr State-A Gem
eral Summary of Kansas New.
New corn is being marketed in Ced-
Rrvale.
Council Grove is counting on having
fine new NJ. X. & 7. depot soon.
-Four hundred A. R. U. men at Ar
genuine think they are still striking.
The Arkansas City police force has
been cut down in the interest of econ
omy.
The Tenth district convention of
Y. +. S. c. E. will be held at Marion,
August $3.50.
The old Soldiers of Butler county
formed a reunion association last Sat
urday at FlDorado
There are Col Catholics in Argentine,
more than there are belonging to any
other denomination.
Sam Small lectured at Parsons
Thursday night on the subject, From
Bar-room to Pulpit"
Bill Hackpey is on his way back
from Europe. He is expected in Win
field about September /.
The Kansas Free Thought Union
will hold its fourth nnual convention
at Lawrence, September 6.
1t is currently repor ted that the
Forepaughs circus that Is loing south
eastern towns is rank faN,.
Kansas City, Rnsas, kin, 30, 900
more hogs in July 1894, THAI the
corresponding month last year
The Hutchinson News thinks here
is natural gas in Reno county and
wants company organized to pros
pect for it.
A lecture on the Passions Play" IL
.ustrated with seventy views furnish
Ell the principal excitement IN Abilene
Sunday night.
Sumner county newspaper proprie
tors have entered into an agreement
to publish no legal notices for less
than legal rates
Columbia has Il steam cider mill.
which does custom work for the APP
pie raisers. 1t converts apples into
cider for two cents a gallon.
Joseph Lewis. "a Harper county
farmer, will have 1000 bushels of APP
pies this fall in spite OF the fact that
no considerable rain has fallen since
May O.
carload of corn was shipped to
Marvin, on the Centra Branch Tuesday
night. This is the first time corn has
been shipped west for several wears.
Atchison Globe.
hve'year-old girl of Kansas City.
KAN, has sued the Armour Packing
company $50, 900 damages for injuries
received from hot steam escaping from
a waste pipe
Receiver c. H. Tucker drew the
checks in the $4,000 Crew case, which
has been in the Douglas county courts
for several years, Wednesday. The
receiver was able to pay only 1916 per
cent on the claims.
bevy of Arkansas City girls have a
I. +. &. e.. w. Y. c. club. 1t is an
nounced that the young man who can
guess what those letters stand for can
have his pick of the fair maidens for
his ouly own.
The | uhion Blade, an old soldiers
paper. started by Captain Nicholetts
III Usage, Labette county, several
months ago, has suspended publica-
tion and the captain will seek more
desirable location,
There is an orphans home near
Hiilsboro, Marion county, in which
forty-nine homeless children are be-
ing cared for. The home is being sus.
tanned by the colony of Russian Men
nonites in that vicinity.
a drummer for St Louis silk com
pany lost somewhere between Empor-
ia and Florence a diamond stud so
valuable that he offers $50 reward for
its return. That's what comes of put
ting ones eggs all in one basket.
Mayor Cox of Wichita, has issued a
call for special election to vote on a
proposition to bond the city to raise
funds for prospecting for cPll, oil or
gas. 1t is proposed to issue $40, 900
worth of bonds bearing per cent.
Elder Newby of Garden City, has
just finished a five weeks revival at
Cimarron, Gray county. He made
seventy-eight converts. Mr.. Newby
has been evangelizing only sixteen
l..
Miss Bessie Turner, of Ell Dorado.
has accepted an invitation to become
a member of lady quartet at Denver,
Col, to sing at political meetings dur
ing the campaign in Colorado. She
leaves in a few days. Miss Bessie is
one of the finest alto singers in the
state.
Chautauqua county comes to the
front with two young men who cut
225 shocks of corn, fourteen hills
square in a day. Men that can pc,
form such feats seldom show up till
the corn is all cut. In October there
will be several in every township in
the state.
Hutchinson comes to the front with
seventeen ounce apple that meas
ures fourteen and a half inches in cir
cumference, ''and plenty more just as
good"
The TT. Scott Driving Association
didn't come out far behind on its re-
cent race meeting and will probably
arrange for another meeting next
summer.
Wellington is afflicted with profess
sionaI female tramps. A l7-year old
colored girl who was there last week
wore male attire and rode the bump
ers on freight car like any old bum.
Four boys were wanted as app, en-
ticeS at the Central Branch Shons at