Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-09-04

graphs for the Convenience of Hurried
Readers.
Ottawa has base ball team called
Colts" When they are beaten they
kick
A Kansas City firm is shipping black
walnut logs from Manhattan to
France.
Geo. w. Martin wants to know if
the new woman will be satisfied with
an old hat.
Summer county is lid to be infected
with species of tobacco worm and
lawn tennis.
Frost is predicted, right here in
Kansas, between the first and tenth
of September.
Two deaf mutes were married at
Burlington the other day. 1t was a
quiet wedding"
Two thousand people witnessed the
arrival of the first gang of prisoners
at the state reforma tory Thursday.
A Lawrence colored boy accomplish
ed the Davy Crockett trick of SELF NO
the same chickens twice to the same
man.
According to the Globe, business has
SO far improved in Atchison that one
one young man treated nine girls to
ice cream.
A Topeka woman is troubled so
much with a wandering mind that she
sometimes fear it will be arrested for
vagrancy.
Glen Miller of Troy, Kansas uni
versity graduate, is the Republican
nominee for senator in the Salt Lake
district, Utah
When a Marion man heard some one
talk of Kansas on Wheels" he asked
who the people were who were going
to stand on their heads.
Abilene has had great trouble in
naming her school buildings and
throughout the whole discussion
"Rooky" wasn't even suggested.
A Judge up at Atchison a few DAYS
ago decided that professional fiddler
has no visible means of support and
proceeded to fine poor old fellow for
vagrancy.
Franklin county has citizen named
Surplus. He could get good job at
Washington to just stay around the
treasury building and make hims elf
comfortable.
1t is expected that Ex-Governor Og-
lesby, of Illinois will attend the South
western Soldiers association which
convenes in Cowley county the first
week in October.
A. j. Lusll, the bank embezzler who
was arrested several days ago on the
the Pacific coast arrived in Topeka.
Monday in charge of Marshal Nady,
of Portland, Oregon.
Ed Greer says Cowley county far
mer who was lost in his own corn field
shouted until he was hoarse, thinking
that his distress surely ought to be
heard by so many ears.
Rocks county has made success of
potato raising this year. 1t was done
by irrigation. When that system is
well established, western Kansas will
yield like the valley of the Nile.
Thursday was Col. D. R. Anthony's
seventy-frst birthday and the employ
es OF the Times made him present of
a fine Office chair. The colonel intends
to live 20 years to enjoy the magnif-
cent gift of his appreciative and appre-
ciated coworkers.
Science has demonstrated that the
wasp is capable of pulling many times
it's own weight, but Col. LOOMS of
Cowley county swears its pulling pow
ers are as nothing compared to its mo-
tive power when it backs up against
you and pushes.
The Methodist camp meeting is in
progress at Bonner Springs and con-
tinues until September End.
Kansas never appeared to better
advantage than she does right now.
The great fields of corn and the green
pastures clear to the western border,
many tourists who are now crossing
the state in both directions When
compared with the states further east
the sunfiower realm gets high mark
and when viewed after passing through
the sage brush plains of the states
west of us it is as near paradise as
most people expect to see on earth.
Sheriff Anderson of Saline county
Saturday delivered Swedish farmer
named Hill, to the authorities at the
Insane Asylum at Topeka, after most
terrific encounter. Hill, who is a giant,
Jarked from underneath his coat big
dirk knife and plunged it at Anderson
with all his might. The sheriff
lodged the blow and jumped from the
street car on which the two were rid
ing. The maniac followed Anderson
and terrific struggle ensued. The
asylum officers rushed to the Sheriffs
rescue in time to prevent Hill from
thrusting his dirk into the Sheriff's
breast.
Strong City has minister BY the
name of Apollonaris. And yet that's
the name of the kind of water that is
the fayorite drink ION the side after
taking whislzey. One or the other
ought to petition the legislature to
change their name.
There is woman in Hiawathawho
sings Rocked in the Cradle of the