Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-30
There are nearly $40, ,oOO,n the Lyon
county treasury.


county officers will he held July II.
The Troy Oil company has leased up
to date about 100000 acres of South
eastern Kansas land for prospecting.
A Butler county town may properly
be referred to as Dennis, but no town
in the state will o Yn up that its name
is Mud
A st. Paul insurance company oper-
ating in Southwestern Kansas offers
to insure crops against hail for pre-
mium of per cent. The risk limit
per acre is SO.
1t will be twenty-one years ago on
July next that the first sermon was
preached in Barber county. The oc-
casion will be celebrated by big re-
ligious gathering.
Ora Bishop. young man of 20, liv-
ing near Stockton, was struck by
lightning one day last week and in
stantly killed. lie was out IN the
open held at the time.
H. A. Griffith, Joseph Clark and j.
w. irwin left Colby last week for the
British possessions for the purpose ot
looking up n location for colony
: from nOndS county.
| Rev. Thomas d. Wallace. pastor of
! First Presbyterian church of Chicago,
has been secured to deliver the bacca-
laureate sermon at the state universe
! ty at the June commencement.
George Litchfield, an unmarried
man of -, who was not exactly. crazy
and vet mot quite right" committed
suicide by hanging one day last week
near Eureka, Greenwood county.
! \ young man by the name of Henry
Hines was tarred and feathered and
run out of the town of Brocllvile, Sa
! line county, one day last week for be-
! ing too familiar with another mans
wife.
! Out of the eighteen Lawrence mem
berS of Prof. l.. l. Blake'S university
extension class in electricity who took
the examination at the completion Of
! the course, eight successfully passed
1 it.
Sheriff j. A Weatherby. of Hunt
county, Texas, caught Mexican des-
perado named General Mule for whom
he had been hunting for some time, at
La Crosse, Rush county, one day last
week.
Judge Theodosius Botllin, the re-
cord of whose trial for impeachment
three years ago fills two volumes of
TOO pages each, delivered two temper
ance lectures at Mcpherson on Satur-
day and Sunday.
u. +. Smith, the straw berry king of
Lawrence, made his first picking of
berries for sale on Saturday. There
were ripe berries in his field on May
:. much earlier, he says. than for
many years before
On June 4 a special election will be
held in Comanchc county t. vote on
the suspension f the herd law. A ma
/ jOrity of the qualified voters of .e
county petitloned the county commits
siOners to call the election.
The Rock Island road has two rain
makers at work, one at Phillipsburg
and the other at Charming, Tex. The
company also has force of well Dig
gers in the field and is determined to
find moisture either above or below.
1t cost Seneca man s.. 50 because
he allowed goose of his to trespas S
uTon his neighbor's premises and
this although he proved beyond que. .
tion that the goose went visiting for
the express purpose of laying the gold
en- egg.
One result of the recent storm at
Chicago was the destruction of the old
cottonwood tree which stood at Eighth
street and in the shade of which the
terrible Fort Dearborn massacre was
perpetrated by the Indians, August
-, 1880,
An independence. Mo. newspaper
reporter is on his way through Kansas
from Kansas City to Mexico on wa
ger that he could start without cent
and return with a hundred dollars in
his pocket. The traveller spent Mon
day in Ottawa.
Greene Graves is the name of a new
doctor who mas located at Kensington
and advertiSes that he has Just grad
uated from a medical college. 1t is
seldom that "a man is fortunate enough
to start in life with n name that eX-
actly suits the business he is engage
in.-Gaylord Herald.
More than half of the 500 newspa.
per> in the state persist in spelling il
chintz instead of chnch when re err
cncc is made to the festive bugs VIII Oh
too often make life a burden to the
Kansas farmers. There is no aUt Tor
ity or cx use, either recent or remote
for any other spelling than chime
Farmers say that nine out of ten oat
fields in Nemaha county of early
planting, were partially ruined by the
: late cold spell. Many have sown the
} second time. Thomas Gensler has in
} vested in six and IL half bushels To the
acre on his oat tield. A good stand /,
reported on the late seeding. .-Senccs
! Tribune.
lnman Review: Frank Manda, o.
Little Valley township is preparing tC
raise good crops whether it rains ol
! not. He is the owner of half section
of as good land as the son ever showI
on and the Little Arkansas run.
through the middle of the farm. He
has placed pump in the river which
will be run by Il wind mill. The
pump will raise thousand gallons o.
water every minute This year ht
will use his irrigation plant on pota
toes alone. Next year he will en-.
large his facilities and put another
plant on the opposite side of the river
and will thus be enabled to irrigatt
his entire farm. The supply of water
is ineXhaustible.
Manhattan is the latest town tC
boast of mad dog scare. 4 supposed
, " rabid canine ran amuc1 there the
other day biting several other dogs
and the owner. before 1t was killed
Thirty or more dogs have since beer
killed for fear they had been bitten
The Central Branch has cut wage,
of section hands ; cents dav auC
only allows the foreman to work them
II days in month. In addition tC
this large number of hands have
been discharged, and on some parts o
the road every alternate section fore
man has been laid off.-Frankfor
Bee.
Forty-three sections of Comanch,
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