Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-06
HAPPENINGS IN Z ANSAS.
ITEMS or INTEREST IT'D DWELL
LERS IN THE SUM- &c )WER.
The Weeks Review OF Pers onal an d
General News Cond ensed TO Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

Hurried Readers.
1t is said that there are forty tV o
poker rooms in Topeka.
Wichita has appointed her new met
rcpolitan police officers.
The Santa Fe and Frisco both have
a damage suit on their hands in WI CHI
tia.
The Governor has ordered more coal
to be sent to the Western part OF the
state.
There is q new Kansas railroad talk
ed of from Doniphan county to attic
Rock.
Edouri Remenyi, the great violinlst
making the rounds in Kansas this
winter
Farmers in jefferson county are
launng stock water several m lies,
Jays the Independent.
w. T. Borton of Emporia, accid emit
Illv shot himself while carel' .ssly
handling revolver.
The Kansas City, Pittsburg and
Salt railroad held it's annual meeting
md elected officers last week.
Mr.. John Brier was severely cut the
first of the week while trying to eject
4 burglar from his house IN Topeka.
DR.. E. P. Miller, of New York has
such confidence in Kansas that he
will plant large orchard in Sedgwick
county.
j. b. Chandler & Co.. of Nelras ska,
is going to move their stable of forty
horses to Wichita to train on their
track.
The farmers of Kansas are rejoicing
over the fact that the late snow storms
have done great good for the COM
ing crops.
Major Cole. who has been holding
revival meetings in Wichita the past
ten weeks, left for Paola. Kans.. last
Tuesday.
The people of Oswego, Labette
county, have lately discovered that
they have been the victims of u smooth
swindler.
The county attorney Of Mon tgomery
county has within two years collected
over So, 600 from the dives and dens Of
that county.
John Misner and wife of Valley
Center township, Sedgwlck county,
celebrated their fifty-ninth anniver
sary last week.
Leoti Standard: While coming VI
from Lal1in Monday Frank Lane acci
ientally came upon herd of forty
two antelope.
At Randall when they dance thu
people have to pay the fiddler, anC
the fiddler has to pay the town a Ii
cense of s..
The Seneca Courier Democrat say
that the Centralis, Seneca and Pawne
railroad is all wind, and darn poo
wind at that.
The Cherokee smelters shipped thei
first car load of zinc spelter last week
Every department in the works is nov
complete and running.
W. w. Aud, one of the Oldest cit
zens of Atchison died last week age
90 years. He was formerly of the mill
ing firm OF Blair & Aud.
The Minneapolis Messenger want
the social leader of that place t
adopt the fashion of having a specia
'day at home" each week.
The Church of Christ of La Cygn
was dedicated last Sunday. The OF
ganization is but Eve months old, We
it has a membership of 2s0.
The charter of the Prospero Ian
and Cattle Co., has been fled. Its priI
,ipal offices are at Wichita and it ha
n capital stock of S35, 900. It's place c
business is Kiowa and adjoining cour
ties.
Osborne county's poor cost about 81
800 for the last quarter.
There is case in the Sedgwic
county court where two men are a.
cused of stealing cattle 6
Maize, Kansas. selling them at tn
stock yards ut Wichita. Both me
deny the charges.
marion Times: Mr.. J. NJ. Young
Marion, is one of the jurors in til
Hillmon case He will be at least
month older when he is through, an
probably in need of anime dyes to r
store the color to his hair
Conductor E. D. Sill, on a waite
train of the Kansas City, Fort SEQ
and Memphis railroad, fell under I'll
moving train in Olathe while maxim
q switch one day last week and WI
instantly killed. He was about fort
years old and his home was in A
born Park, Ill.
An important compromise was We,
nesday determined upon in the f
nous Black Bob Indian land ca.
at Topeka, both sides agreeing to tt
payment to the Carney heirs of S.:
an acre for 1000 acres in Johnsc
county in the dispute regarding tt
title. This case has been in the Uni
ed States court for twenty years.
Geo. Lell, well known negro cha
acter of Fl. Scott, and Alexander Sc
berry of the Indian Territory, hay
been arrested, charged with burgla
izing freight cars on the Missouri p
cific and Missouri, Kansas and Tex;
tracks They confessed their gui
before the district court. Lell w,
sentenced to five years in the penite
tiary and Seaberry got off with thirt
days.
The Dodge City Globe-Republics
has been leased to s. H. Connawa
and G. P. Markley for one year fro
February.
The twenty-frst District FraterD
Aid association in convention at AT
lene last week, held banquet ar
Albert Lenze of Abilene was chose
delegate to the National Council.
Every conceivable device is beir
adOnted nv the church 0eopla ~ Wiz