Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-09


for eggs in one day last week.
Parsons has city missionary socie
ty whose field is inexhaustlble.
Lansing, the home of the penitenti-
DRY, is to be Incorporated as city of
the fourth-class.
Burlington is not as proud of its
poet as it might be. He is called the
''poet-lariat
The son of Hon. John Ingalls,,
Ralph, is to open law shop in Kan
sas City soon.
Manhattan is destined to be the
seat of the largest agricultural college
in the world.
The people of Sabetha are agitat-
ing the question of water works ant
electric lights.
The up-to-date school boy of En-
poria claims that the capital of South
Dakota is Divorce
Leon Kirkpatrick. while skating at
Winfield last week, broke through the
ice and was drowned.
THE Buds of Promise is club OF
young women at Eldorado who are
only waiting to be asked.
Miss Nellie Cushman who used to
live at Dodge City, is one of the lead
ing mining experts Of Arizona.
Rabbits are being shipped out of
Wichita by the ton. They sell on the
market in that city for 5 cents piece.
Probate Judge-elect d. D. Perry.
well-known in Southern Kansas, died
at his home In Arkansas City, Friday,
Dec. 4th.
Hugh Gilliland, who has served in
the penitentiary for over twenty
years, has been pardoned. His SEN
tence was for life.
Charles G. Black of Kansas City, Mo-,
has been appointed assistant attorney
of the Missouri Pacific railway with
headquarters at Atchison.
Judge West who las been on the
bench for the past FIVE years, declines
denomination for further judi :ial
honors in the Sixth district.
Michael Wander, who came to the
state in 1859. dropped dead while feed
ing stock on his farm in Geary
county on Thursday, Jan 3.
Miss Villa Reed of Ottawa, who Is
will be remembered, was arrested and
out on bond charged with sending inn
proper letters through the mails has
been discharged.
Osa Teresa, Mexican, known to be
desperate character, in the eastern
part of the state, was arrested at
Leavenworth first part of the week,
for brutally assaulting Miss Fannie
Nesbitt of Bonner Springs.
The 14-year-old son of S. r. Gates,
who lives near Pawnee Rock, was try.
ing to drive a shell into breech load
ing shot gun with cold chisel las:
week, when the shell exploded and
drove the chisel through his head.
A St. Louis and San Francisco
freight train was wrecked at Burgess,
last week The engine and nine cars
being derailed. The engineer was
seriously injured and the fireman kill.
ed. The wreck was caused by brol1.
en- rail-
Ewing Herbert has purchased q
Sc, 900 house which Major Morrill, built
for his son-in-law, and will give
Squire Herbert and the best friend
Ewing has on earth little June in
the December of their lives. That
may not be as good as being private
secretary, but it crowds it.
The officials publication of the rail.
way assessments in the state for the
year 1894 shows remarka ole decrease.
The reduction amounts to 81, 900, 600
compared with 1893. OF this decrease
$1,75O, 900 was secured by the Santa
Fe. The Rock Island assessment re-
mains about the same as before
Minneapolis Messenger: The Rock
Island railroad has bored so far
through the earth at Smith Center
that by putting your ear to the hole
you can hear the cannonading in
China: and Billy Nelson, who carried
on Irritation with Jap girl at the
Worlds Fair and LEANED something
of the language, will put his ear to
the hole and write up full account
of the next battle between Japan and
China.
The following bill will be introduce
ed in the legislature at its converting:
'"That the sum of $40, 600 be appropri-
ated out of any fund not otherwise
appropriated for the unexpired bal
ance of the year ending June 80, 1895.
and the sum of S45, 600 for the year
ending June 30, 1896, and S45, OCO for
the year ending June 80. 1897, to be
expended by the State Beard of Agri-
culture in behalf of developing the
irrigation interests of the state by the
collection and dissemination of infor-
nation, and in making our surveys,
practical tests and experiments which
may be judiciously undertaken by said
board, provided that none of said
money shall be expended in the pur-
chase of land"
"Old Hundred" is the new name for
Salinas latest whist club.
The people of Allen and Vicinity are
working hard to secure the formation
of a new county out of parts of Lyon
and Wabaunsee counties.
Lawrence Journal: The only pos
sible argument against Ed. Greer for
State Printer is that his front name is
the same as that of the present incum-
bent.
Anderson Gray, murderer of Thomas
Patton, was given his death sentence
by Judge Burnett at Wellington last
week.