Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-11-27
HAPPENINGS In KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell.
LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review Of Personal and Gen.
sssl views Condensed to Paragraphs,
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Twenty Hill City invalids were
treated by Schlatter
Three awful crimes were the record
for Kansas on Monday.
1t is estimated that 1 900 former To-
peka people live in Chicago.
Leavenworth is in darkness on ac-
count OF scarcity of coal for gas
The demand for wool or mutton has
stimulated the sheep industry in Kan
saS.
F. w. Arnold, an old timer in North
ern Kansas, has bought the Alton EN-
pire.
John ]. ingalls, witnessed his first
game of foot ball last Saturday after
noon.
The smallest wheat patch seeded in
Rush county this fall contains 700
acres
The best man e.ected in Dickinson
county at the recent election was a
woman.
a real sweet X. U. boy is said to
take a powder rag to parties for his
own use.
The change in the weather will ma Ike
1T little chilly for the Lawrence
Fig Leaf club"
A spinster nearly a hundl ed years
old has just died at Ottawa She
couldn't wait any longer
John Speer, who has been neglected
by the papers lately, is getting his
Jim Lane book in type.
Jake Alling' who ran the Thomas
county land boom in an early day, has
struck it rich at Cripple Creek.
According to the Globe the Central
| Branch brought into Atchison the
first solid train of corn in two years.
The Lacrosse Clarion bv C. A. White
man is one of prettiest, neatest and
best printed papers in western Kan
sas.
w. S. 1ohe has lived in Leavenworth
continuously for So years, being neces-
sarlly man of great fortitude and pa
tience.
There is II OF much consolation in
signing petition for a pardon. The
last man pardoned in Douglass county
is in Jail again.
The market price of corn in Norton
| county is IL to u cents a bushel.
That's what it was in 1878, when peo-
| pie used it for fuel
1t is said the city prison at Atchison
needs enlarging. Now, if Atchison
only had saloons there wouldn't be
need of any city prison.
A han dsome young woman cashier
is to be new feature of a La Crosse
store but whether for utility or adver-
tisement deponent saith not.
Some one in Atchison has it in for
kin. He says kin are like flies, the
better the food on the table is the
more of them swarm around it.
! 1t is given out that the men are go
ing to manage church social at Atch-
ison. which leads to the query: Who
will be left to spend the money at it?
1t is said that j. r. Burton's first
name is Joseph. This is probably
mis- take Mr.. Burton may be great
many other things but he is no Joseph.
Hiawatha has an Onion Carnival
as p roposed, the girls there won't be
troubled with Atchison young men
wanting to kiss them as the Leaven-
worth girls were.
Mayor Wharton of Ottawa, didn't
resign to keep from writing a Thanks
| giving proclamation. He still has a
great deal to be thankful for but not
as much as much as he had hoped for
Farmer living at Sunnydale, Will
| liam McCracken, has decided to Cooper
| college one hundred acres of of valua-
BILE land, upon which is thirty acres of
| fruit trees and other valuable improve
| ments.
The town of Bison, in Rush county,
| complains to the railroad commission
ers that the railroad does not furnish
gain cars fast enough. Bison is in
land that i was said raised nothing
this year.
! Potter's clay has been found near
Dresden in Western Kansas. Atchison
matrons will now have to make the
proper explanation when they display
| their Dresden china at fashionable
| functions.
A Goffs man was led to the discovery
OF gold mine in Arizona by dream.
He has not struck it yet, but he is SO
sure of it that he has sold off all his
property in Kansas, and will put the
money in the ground.
Since the removal of the Western
Union clocks one may get all kinds of
time IN the state house. At high noon
the Seth Thomas substitutes start off
together, it being the duty of clerk
In each office to reach up with long
pole and, as Father Hayden's big bell
hard by tolls out the midday hour.
push up or shove back the minute
hand. But in short time the nine
clocks are apart again.
William Scully, Lord ScuIly, who
has recently taken out naturalization
papers in this country owns 5000 acres
IN Marshall county, $4,000 in Marion
and 5000 in Butler.
George w. Jones, who used to stroke
with much pride a great, long, strinpy
beard and bob up biennially as favor
lte SON OF Linn county. is now princi-
al of the Wetmore schools
All Lawrence is aroused over the
charge of 81 admission to the Kansas