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

graphs for the Convenience of Hurried
Readers.
1t cost Ottawa s1,1oo to have the
smallpox.
Dickinson, Bourbon and Cloud coun-
ties have lady candidates for Register
of deeds.
Mr.. Mote the Kansas base ball pro-
moter, seems to be hanging on by the
eyebrows.
c. A. Mann and L. G Frisbie, of
Wilder, have shipped 107 cars of pota-
toes this year.
Another oil well was 'sshot" near
Humboldt last week and oil was thrown
into the air 200 feet.
The city schools of Leavenworth
are supplied with the best article of
coal at S1.75 per ton.
Kansas hay brings 81 more per ton
in Kansas City than the hay which is
shipped in from Nebraska.
Step-ladder factories are being built
all over Kansas in order to supply the
demand when corn gathering sets In.
Editor Hogue of the Barnes Chief
says you can lick him once a week,
but you can't dictate to him how to
run the Chief.
President Fairchild of the Agricul-
tural college, who is spending the sum-
mer in England and Scotland, will sail
for home August 81.
"a Black Sheep" is the name of a
play to be given in Atchison and one
might suspect from the title that it
was all home talent.
The summer is now far advanced
and the Burlington boys have had no
chance to spend the money they have
been saving for a circus.
The Kansas statesman who is pos
sessed of a telegraph frank may be de-
tected by the extraordinary length OF
his kilograms of coincidence.
A bloomer girl who started to ride
on her wheel from Topeka to Law
renee was brought into Lawrence as
tenderly as possible in buggy.
A charter has been issued by the Sec
rotary of state to the Mcpherson tele-
phone company. Mcpherson will soon
be right up to the hello scratch.
K. l.. Ward of Chautaqua county
wants it printed in the papers that he
has discovered deadly panacea" for
cabbage worm. 1t is buttermilk
The 6 o'clock dinner has reached
Seneca. The woman who introduced
it got her pointers from Atchison, and
her first attempt was little raw.
The fact that Reno county has set
ting gobbler would have less suggest
iveness in it were it not that the lady
who owns him is president of the
Equal Suffrage club Oh, the new
woman is a-comin'.
Mrs. Robinson has not been in To
pel1a since the impeachment proceed
ings against her husband, Governor
Robinson, a third of century ago.
A great step in a Topeka mans so
cial ambition is to own porcelain
bath tub and to speak of his rousta.
bout as my man. Then he aspires
to become the president of an '.art
club
The Jarboe boys, cattleman of Per
sons, have been summoned before the
United States commissioners of Mont
gomery county to answer to the charge
of importing cattle from the fever
districts.
Mrs. John p ST. John, wife of the
famous Prohibition ex-governor O.
Kansas, is at present and has beer
for some time experimenting the en-
gineering and other work of construct
ing tunnel in gold mine at Cripple
Creek, in which her husband has con
trolling interest.
j. Fred Whiting, who knows enough
to keep out of the wet, has started {
paper called the Umbrella"
Mrs. J. E. Thomas of Atchison, wifi,
of a Rock Island engineer, awolxe abou
1 o'clock Saturday morning and founC
burglar standing by the bed. II,
cursed her and told her to remain
quiet. Instead she pulled pistol from
under the pillow and fred, woundin,
the burglar, who left trail of bloot
in his escape. The burglar fired a
Mrs. Thomas before retreating.
Christopher Winink of Peoria, Ill.
arrived in Leavenworth Monday even
ing and, after consultation witt
prominent attorneys arranged a part
nership with Elisha Sherman, also O
Peoria, Ill, whereby they will cree
and operate in Leavenworth a $4,000
distillery. distillery in prohibition
Kansas will be an innovation, but at
torneys have assured the firm tina
whiskey can be manufactured for med
lclnal, manufacturing and scientifi
purposes and it is on this basis tina
the distillery will be operated. Leav
enworth City has three big coal mine
in its limits and it is this cheap fue
and the unsurpassed corn crop of Kan
sas that has inspired the distillery fir
to action.
A little over year ago, James Am
lex, of Eureka, was convicted of fel
onious assault upon his wife, Mrs
Ella Amick, but was pardoned by tn
| governor. Wednesday he appeared a
the farm and Mrs. Amick shot hin
dead.
| The citizens of Lawrence had
big time, recently. locating the SAINT