Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-30

class city by Governor Morrill,.
The Girard World has been re-elect.
ed the official paper of Crawford coun.
ty.
A new coal mine with capacity OF
$50 tons daily has been opened at At
Gibson.
Mr.. R. E. Hall, living at Wellington.
celebrated his s9th anniversary re.
Gently.
Quite a number of Kansas horses
are being shipped to southern water
resorts.
Three hundred and thirty-six rab-
bits were killed in hunt near Ghetto
pa recently.
The county printing of Chase coun-
ty was divided between four Republi-
can papers.
A delegation of Oklahoma senator's
visited the Tope ka body of law-ma :
ers on Saturday.
A church scandal is on in Newton.
Its case of the minister loving not
wisely but too we'll.
Fredonia people skate on pond
lighted by electricity, but some say it
spoils half the fun.
Robbers broke into the Wells, Far
go express Office at Caldwell last Sat
urday and stole $411.O0.
James H. Helms. city marshal of
| ()SSa tnyoin shot on6
killed by safe blowers.
James Saunders, one of the oldest
Odd Fellows in the state, died at his
home IN Merriden last week.
People of Western Kansas are being
supplied with coal from the State
mine at the Lansing prison.
The Santa Fe's new depot at Cald-
well has been finished and occupied
for the first time last Tuesday.
Kansas horses seem to be in demand.
w. E. Campbell of Kiowa has sold the
dam of Symbolier to an eastern man
Winfield had a disastrous confagra-
ton last week, entailing loss of $780,
coo. A half block was swept away.
Joseph w. A. Cook, editor of the
Claflin Leader, and Miss Clara Giles
were married at Clafin Wednesday.
A Miami county farmer who made
an examination of the peach buds
this week asserts that they are still in
| good condition.
Free delivery ceased at Wellington
on January Is and the big girls will
now have an excuse to go down town
in the afternoon.
A negro at Atchison has just been
SENTENCED etc twenty-five years in the
penitentiary for burglary, larceny and
criminal assault.
Cholera is playing sad havoc among
hogs in the eastern part of the state.
One farmer near Garnett lost $50 head
from that disease in less than one
week.
Hoyt last year shipped sos carloads
of hay, 2O5 car loads of stock, 1O1 car
loads of grain, and six other carloads
of freight and hasn't more than one
hundred inhabitants.
The greatest team driving on rec
ord is by man living in Marshall
county, who drove 372 miles in four
days, making rs, 81, 80 and 100 day
The horses ought to let him work
back at the same pace.
The new stove factory at Armour
dale will be in operation by April 1st,
The capacity of the plant will be for
ty steel ranges per day. The ground
space for main building will be 15Ox
300; foundry, 55x12S; mounting room,
55xG0; storage and office room, 55x6O
man at Lawrence who was select
ed by committee to distribute dona-
tiOns to the poor of that city charged
$500 for his services.
Gamblers are on nettles and watch
with bated breath the action to be
pursued in lnforcing the Cubbson bill
should it become law.
The executive committees of the G.
a, K. have arranged to entertain the
visiting delegation to the state in
their encampment at Lawrence, Feb
ruary %, 81 and %, by giving a grand
reception at the Eldredge house and
adjoining hall on Monday evening,
February 25. Buut's full orchestra
will furnish music and Department
Commander Campbell and his staff
will receive the guests.
Donald Bros. coal mining plant, of
Atchison, which has just been COM
| pleted at cost of $50, 600, will be rea-
dy for operation soon. The machines
will mine $50 tons of coal daily, and
in addition to this the regular force of
fifty miners will be retained. The
soapstOne taken from under the coal
makes very fine vitrified brick, and a
company with large capital is being
organized to esta blish vitrified brick
! plant at the mines.
Rev. John Henry Barrows. at one
time county superintendent of schools
n Usage, is now an eminent preacher
n Chicago.
The kind ladies of Caldwell are do
'ng missionary work along the Strip
border by giving clothing, fuel and
provisions to the needy.
whole row of beautiful trees that
have been years in glowing were cut
down at Enterprise the other day.
Westphalia has circulating library
located in a drug store. This is the
kind of reading that makes a full
man.
A Smith county man whose hogs
had the cholera got desperate and fed
them strychnine not caring if they all
died, but just like hogs they ali got
WELL
Every conceivable device is being
adopted by the church people of Wich-
tia to bring sinners to the cross. The
field is large and from all reports the
harvest is bounteous.
Dashing water has made such in