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

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Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.
Glen Elder wants the Mitchell coun-
ty schoo'.
Fort Scott is in the midst of street
paving agitation.
Emporia's anti-cigarette or6inace is
now in full force.
Hon. J. w. Bailey will open a bank
at Bailey vile, about January Is.
A Concordia woman of SO led her
ifth chubby to the alter last week
Fort Scott thinks she has fire bugs.
She is now seeking a chance to fire
them.
The Union Pacific railroad pays
s23, COO taxes each year in Logan
county.
Four hundred and fifty tramps
found shelter in the Parsons calaboose
Ill last month.
The house that the late P. g. Plumb
quilt on his claim near Emporia in
1854 is still standing.
Four men charged with burglary
and grand larceny broke jail at Olathe
IN Thursday night.
Riley county insists on being credit
I'd with having no candidate for Unit.
I'd States OSenator.
90 Oh h,,t Il
we're burned at Coffeyvilie on Thurs
lay, among them the Masonic block.
Loss, $lO5, 900; insurance, Sl05, O0O
Emporia Gazette: The State Teach
.rs association is in session at Topeka
and will doubtless ask the railroad
commissioners for better switching
facilities.
Sumner, a once famous town of 2. 900
people and the home of Hon. John J..
ingalls, in early days has forfeited its
,harter and will be cultivated as a
farm next summer.
Jack rabbits, which city people eat
for ''prairie hares'' only bring the
Kansas boy with the Il. i. rifle a
nickle piece. An alfalfa fed jack
rabbit is pretty nearly as good as
wheat fed spare ribs.
Governor Lewelling was required to
pay railroad fare from Wichita to To-
pelxa on Jan. end. This is the first IN
stance the governor of Kansas, or any
other elected official, ever paid rail
road fare within the State.
There really ought to be something
done about this. The Hiawatha
World says that the Rev. J. b. Rich
ardson has been preaching for fifteen
years and has not yet received pair
of embroidered slippers or dressing
gown.
Fl. G.. Stewart wanted at Senaca for
embezzlement nine years ago, was ar
rested by G. A. Lyman, sheriff Of
Nemaha county, at Chandler, Ok.
Stewart is a lawyer and tried every
technicality of the oklahoma laws to
prevent his return.
b. PaXson, missing for twelve
years, returned to his home in La
Cygne on Saturday to find his wife e
married. Paxson was at one time a
prosperous business man, but hit Oil
the head caused insanity. tie left
home and was given up for dead.
Representatives were in Topeka Jan.
3 from Wichita, Atchison, Fort Scott,
Leavenworth and Kansas City, Kan,
to attend a conference with Topeka
officials, to discuss and agree
upon matters of needed legislation af-
fecting the six cities of the first class
in Kansas.
Governor Lewelling called for the
resignation of the Leavenworth DO
lice board to take effect Jan. /, but
instead of resigning, Mrs. Eva Black
man induced her associates to revolt,
and word comes that they will hold
on in defiance of the governor
authority.
A. L. Curtis, colored. was arrested
at the Copeland hotel, Topeka, this
week for pawning a watch which was
identified as the property Of Mrs. A.
d. nelson, who was foully murdered
in that city ten weeks ago.
The internal revenue collectors are
getting in their work. All persons
having an income of 81, 900 per year
will be called upon to pay their re-
spects to the government till and the
following are the number of persons
in the six leading Kansas towns that
have been spotted SO far: Kansas
City, Kan, 225; Wichita, 200; Topeka,
175; Leavenworth, 1875; Atchison, So
Wellington, 10.
All classes of Leovenworth citizens
are becoming interested in the propos-
ed change of the military prison at
Fit. Leavenworth into United States
civil penitentiary. Church people are
very anxious for the change, and the
ministers of Ledvenworth held meet
ing to consider the matter They dis
cussed the question for several hours
and unanimously agreed that the mil
itary prison was a failure as a reform
atory and the morals of the army
would be benefited by abolishing it
as prison for soldiers.
1t is said that nearly every farmer
in Graham county will, this spring,
begin irrigation on small scale, and
will increase as opportunity and the
water supply warrants.
Marlborough, the man who killed
Laird Golfers son in Emporia seven
years ego, and was pardoned out last
summer, died recently in North Caro-
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Peabody Graphic: When Herring
ton man shakes off the mortal coil he
has crossed the uncertain sea of life
and cast anchor on the golden shore. .
And all this in Kansas too