Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-09-11
!. D. Coburn, eecrefary Kansas state
$500 Board OF AgricuIture.

There are reports of more or less
hog cholera" In various parts of the
State and 1T is not improbable that
many well-meaning citizens through
ignorance of the law and the ease with
which the disease is spread are unwit-
tingly aiding in the destruction OF
thousand of swine which, with strong
prices, her present shortage and ire
| mendous corn crop Kansas at this time
can lily afford to lose. It is conceded
that the contagion from sscholera" hogs
and their dead carcasses is carried
from place to place by dogs, wolves.
crows, buzzards, running water and
various other agencies, including the
clothing of those who come in contact
with them, and this fact emphasizes
the necessity of promptly isolating all
ing animals and deeply burying OF
burning the dead, even though there
was no law making it mandatory.
Section 1, chapter 157. session laws
OF 1886. makes it the duty of every
person who owns or controls any hog
dead OF any disease to burn or bury it
within "a hours after death and fail
ure to do SO is misdemeanor, subject
to line not exceeding 500. A like
| penalty applies to selling or bartering
any hog which has died of disease
The same punishment is provided toe
for persons depositing any dead hog
IN any river, stream, creek or ravine
Section 1, of chapter 1873 is ignored
by or unknown to many, but is i'm
portant. 1t says:
! Section Amy person being the
owner of any domestic animal or ami
mails, or having the same in charge,
who shall turn out or suffer any such
domestic animal or animals having
any contagious or infectious disease,
knowing the same to be diseased. to
run at large upon any uninclosed land
common or highway, or shall let the
same approach within one hundred
feet of any highway, or shall sell or
dispose of any domestic animal or an
imals, knowing the same to be so dis
eased, without fully disclosing the
fact to the purchaser, shall be deemed
guilty of misdemeanor, and shall be
punished by a fine in any amount not
exceeding five hundred dollars; or i'm
prisonment in the county Jail not more
than six months.
The practices of throwing dead ami
mails into ravines, creeks and rivers
from which freshets may carry them
long distances to spread poison and
pollution, is especially common and
cannot be too severely deprecated.
Burial at once not less than three feet
deep is the safest and most practicable
way to dispose of them.
Willard S. Allen, son of A. F. Allen
of Vinland, was killed Thursday by
falling off haystack.
| A town in Osborne county has been
named after Joe Bristow and its lead
ing citizen is Mr.. Fifer, who flies all
about and keeps the people stirred up.
West Branch creek, a strem that has
had It's own way back as far as the
memory of the oldest inha bitant runs,
has been causing the Rock Island troub-
lie in Waubaunsee county all summer,
and last week it washed out every
thing in thevalley.
The $4,000 damage suit which Ber-
| nard Murray of Colora do brought
against ex-Congre ssman W. A. Harris
of Linwood for alternating the affec-
tions of the formers wife has been
settled by the payment to Mr.. Murray
| OF 81, 900 and the assumption by Harris
OF all attorney fees Mr. Harris was
very attentive to Mrs. Murray and
when hiswife died a year ago, he mar
ried Mrs. Murray, the latter having
| secured a divorce in the meantime.
Some weeks ago the agent of the
Santa Fe at Barnard telegraphed to
Avery Turner, the division superinten-
dent, that it was raining hard and al
ready half dozen bridges had been
washed out He could not stop the
rain, but he thought he must tell his.
grief to somebody. and a great load
was lifted off his mind when dispatch
came from Mr.. Turner saying: "Let
it rain. Every drop means an ear of
corn and the company will be well
able to restore the bridges"
The school book fight in Topeka is
between the George W. Crane company
and the American Book Publishing
company of Chicago
colored boy at Lawrence has been
making considerable money out of a
good-na tured butcher The meat ven
der has chicken pen in the rear of
his business house and the black lad
has been selling the butcher his own
chickens, repeating the operation
many times. Finally the butcher dis
covered the game and had young Sam
DO arrested.
The monthly weather report of
Chancellor Snow of the Kansas uni
versity for August issued September
End says the month has been remark
able for the large amount of rain that
has fallen. The total amount was
1913 inches or over inches above the
average for August for twenty-eight
years. The rainfall for the eight
months of 1892 is over IL inches above
the average for the record kept for
the last twenty -eight years. The
month was also remarkable for its
GOODNESS, the mercury reaching 90 de-
grees on only five days.
Lawrence is top-dressing her mac
adamized streets with Stag from the
Argentine SHELTERS.