Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28

| Cowley county is to be .sjointless''
by September LIST.
| Henry Wotterson will lecture in
Topeka August 3oth.
Lawrence has s31, 1928. 81 to spend for
the public schools this year.
Hog cholera has broken out in But
Ter county. One farmer has lost forty.
| John j. Ingalls, will speak in Topeka
on Labor day, all reports to the con-
trary Notwithstanding.
| There are sixty counties in Kansas
this year that have feed enough to
feed $4,000 of cattle each.
Jesse Mays, of Lawrence, dropped
dead on the street while laughing at a
funny story told by George Dodson.
A Junction City man advertises, ssI
have wife and four children to sup
port, and will work at anything"
| A severe electrical storm at Law
renee the other evening, scared the
people up considerably-and down to
the cellars.
One hundred and four gallons of
whiskey and fourteen cases of beer
were destroyed in Chautauqua county
few days ago.
| Baxter Springs is going to have the
biggest reunion this year in the histo-
ry OF reunions there. 1t opens the 26th
and continues one week
The semi-annual division of the ac-
cumulated interest on the annual
school fund has been completed.
Cowley county will receive 4,76O.sO.
An organization has been formed at
Topeka for the purpose of thoroughly
advertising Kansas through the East.
1t is a wise scheme and one that will
prove most effective. The best bust
ness men in the state are being inter-
ested and it will prove big boom for
Kansas.
General F. A. Frye, the man who
led one division of Coxey's common
veal army from California, according
i,
lies dead in the morgue at Topeka.
. Leon Butler, who was a member of
Fry's division, visited the morgue to
see the body of an unknown man who
was killed Wednesday by the Rock
Island train. He recognized the dead
man as Frye.
The secretary of state, Thursday,
issued charter to the Vulcanized
Pulp company of Topeka, for fifty
years, with paid up capital stock of
$2,000,000, limited, nonassessable
1.-The directors are Walter Oakley, f. B.
johnson, r. G. Martin, G.. F. Currey
and o. S. Shipley, all of Topeka. One
of the provisions of the charter is that
the Indebtedness of the company shall
not at any time exceed 25 per cent of
the paid up capital stock. The COM
pany will have headquarters in Topeka
while factories will be established all
over the state, for the manufacture of
all kinds of pulp goods under the new
vulcanized royalties.
Broom Corn is getting to be quite a
crop in Kansas. 1t has been discovered
that the soil and climate of central
and western Kansas are well adapted
to its growth, and the returns are
quite profitable. From the assessors
reports we learn the acreage for the
year 1895 is about 134,42S acres, as
against S7,71S acres in 1894. or an in
crease of 55 per cent. The yield of
this years crop will not be less than
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dollars. Cheyenne county leads in
acreage this year, as she did last, with
1920 acres, as against 12,016 in 1894.
One advantage in the broom-corn bus
mess is that there is little danger of
overproduction, as there are few parts
of the country in which broom-corn
grows to its fullest development. The
2 brush produced in western Kansas,
f however, is of the finest quality and
will always find a ready market. The
plant in growth requires less moisture
than most crops and is therefore pecul-
: iarly adapted to those districts where
is not practical.
/ Manhattan people give parties for
4 visiting young ladies out in the woods,
and it is sensible as it can be-
: Cy Leland will send his daughter to
/, Gaylord institute, a famous old school
: at Platte City Mo. Thus are the blue
and the gray getting together. The
young woman's mother was a native
: of Platte county and in her girlhood
: attended the same school. She was
:. the daughter of an ex-Confederate
soldier and, while she lost no respect
for the couse her father fought for
(, after she became Mr.. Leland's wife
: was an active member of the Women's
Relief Corps of the Federal G. A. r.
f County Surveyor Roming of Abilene,
t has on exhibition in his office at the
0 court house sample of Kansas irriga.
n tion-a tomato plant grown by James
: M. Tinker, measuring eight feet in
t height and loaded with fruit and
/ bloom. Undisturbed and exempt from
C frost this plant would have attained a
t height of twelve or fifteen feet ano
: had bearing capacity of nearly one
S bushel of tomatoes of extraordinary
i size and quality. The largest speci
i men pluclxed from the patch in which
n this grew weighed one pound and four
teen ounces.