Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-05-08
Wamego is in danger of getting q
normal university.

ed oy she state for seed grain was S72,.
4os,22.
Broom corn will be sweeping crop
in Kansas this year. Many acres have
been planted.
Buyers are paying 60 cents per bush
ell for wheat at many of the local
shipping points.
A McPherson county man celebrates
his birthday by running flag up on
his windmill.
Burns has reached that stage of
physical decadence which necessitates
the laying out of cemetery.
George Waller. prominent business
man ane high up in Masonry, commit
red suicide at Olathe Saturday.
The Wichita freight rate case will
be opened by the commissioners in
that city on the 18th of this month.
Up to date Kansas has spent 80, 900
trying to find out what Warden Chase
was doing at the State Penitentiary.
Clay Center has planted so many
trees in tho past that Arbor Day is
now observed by cutting some down.
A Lawrence girl who has just been
married, is going to live on Paradise
creek, but it is doubtful if that will
save her.
The pupils of the Lyons schools had
a field day recently, and one of the
girls got a pink ribbon for the most
graceful skip.
The lat home" club is scheme the
ladies of Cherokee have ''to get away
from the house a few minutes" about
onco q month.
An ice cream dealer at Ottawa is
drawback SO far as is known which
impedes his progress.
A Minneapolis man has q brood Of
thirty incubator chickens, which are
getting to the size where people court
invitions to dinners.
The Lawrence street car track is
useful from the fact that it gives the
carriage makers work by tearing the
wheels of of buggies.
Dodge City takes great pleasure in
welcoming a new family, which in.
cludes a pair of twins, land a good
stock of children besides
An initerant fortune teller failed to
make success in Garden City because
his communion with spirits had been
SO close as to show on his breath.
All cities having fire department ap-
paratus valued at 81, 900 or more will
come in for share of the reciprocal
taxes due Kansas from the New York
companies doing business in this state.
Base Ball is catching on with a vim
in all sections of the State. team
of Indians are in the field from the
lower country and all the college boys
are aching for a date with the red
runners.
There are so many dogs and so many
people who need money in Atchisop
that some persons make it business
to catch cannes at night for the re-
ward which is offered for those whose
tax is paid.
The probate court os Lyons county
has issued "A licences to marry in the
last three months. The tremendous
spring hammock trade at Emporia in.
dicates that these figures will be great.
ly surpassed this fall.
Mr.. Eugene V. Dcbs, the labor lead.
er and president of the American
Railway Union, was to have made q
talk to Topeka audience some time
this month, but letter from him says
it will be impossible to visit the West
until after his trial for conspiracy has
been disposed of in Chicago
A farmer named Wilson near At
wood, Kans., has an irrigation plant
which is supplied from creek which
runs through his farm. The creek
dpes not always have water in it bu
he makes good use of it when it has
| 1t is more reliable than the rainfall
He car get out 300 gallons minute.
On May 1 Chief Justice Albert H
Horton retired from the Suprem,
Court. While it is announced that h,
will become connected with the lepa
department OF the Missouri Pacifi,
Railway Company, with headquarter
at Topeka, it is known that he will b,
an active candidate for the seat Eel,
by William A. PETER in the Unite,
States Senate. Judge Horton ha lon!
coveted this honor and has accepted
denominations to the chief justiceshil
with the hope that the Republican
party would some day reward hin
with the senatorship.
According to the last report of th
insurance commissioner the following
companies have been dropped from
the active list doing business in tn
state: Bankers Life association, ST
Paul, Mimi, Boylston, Boston, Mass.
Guardian Assurance, London, En-
gland, London Guarantee and Acct
dent company, London, England
Minnesota Fire, Minneapolis, MINI.
National Life, Montpelier, VT.
Northwestern Live Stock, Des Moines
Iowa, Oakland Home, Oakland, Cal
Southern, New Orleans, La. Thirty
four insurance companies issued 90,
623 policies in Kansas last year, repre-
senting in money ss62, 216, s7o25.
o. NJ. Chesney of Topeka, is the pat
entee of new and greatly improve
mail pouch Its superior qualitie
over those now in use commend it I.
Uncle Sam, who will be induced t
adopt it to general use.
The happiness of marriage at Be
vue is estimated by the popuiace al
cording to the number of silver an
china weddings present
Two divorce suits are about to rem
the peaceful society OF Delphos an
give housewives an excuse to run owe
and borrow cup of sugar.
Governor Morrill, has made arrang,
ments to pay the Chase investigate