Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-09-11
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
II was Kansas man who caught
Fraker
Topeka had duck race, labor day
for the entertainment of the small boy.
A jointist at Weir City was fined
$1,000 and sentenced to 4sO days in
jail.
Abilene will soon want another
grand jury; the last one only cost her
$1,000.
A Butler county contractor, will
ship $4,000 feet of Walnut timber to
Russia.
AS usual, Kansas leads. The largest
apple orchard. 1887 acres, is located at
Paramount
Atchison claims girl who wears a
No. % shoe. That is pretty fair I'M
derstanding.
Rains are reported to have fallen all
over Kansas. In some places it was
needed very badly.
The Carbonate branch" is lost in
the weeds and farmers are cultivating
the right-of-way.
Lawrence has a citize named Hen
ry Clay-but he doesn't claim to be
to be Kentuckian,
Fine Seeding peaches sell in Cha
mute for twenty cents a bushel. There
are no middle men in. Chanute
Every health resort has some draw
back or other. Mountain fever occa-
slonally takes hold in Garden City.
The Short Creek mines last week
yielded LILO tons of zinc ore and $40. 600
pounds of lead ore. Total value, S3s. 900.
5. n. Shinn of Osburne county went
to school to George Taylor, the Mis-
souri, murderer, and lived to tell the
tale.
A eolored man driving young bull
hitched to a road cart, attracted more
attention than anybody in Topeka,
labor day.
Colonel Ed Brown is interested in a
new telephone company, which will
connect all the towns of Eastern Kan
sas with Kansas City.
Boston robbed the Kansas Sir
Knights of So 900 for rooms for head
quarter for four days. That was the
way Boston took to make them astute.
Mr.. Lawrence of Galena, is prospect
ing for lead and zinc in Chautauuua
equity. lie has shaft down thirty five
feet and claims to have found Shines. -
AS he says he is an "old CRANKY miner
and carries matches in his hat band, it
is probable that he knows what he is
talking about
During the severe thunderstorm
Wednesday night, lightning struck
and badly damaged the new school
house at Cherokee. A big hole was
torn in the roof and the structure is
otherwise damaged The building was
built to replace one burned last winter.
This is the fifth time the Inflated
building has caught fire.
There has been plenty of rain oil
years stock water is plenty. Thresh-
ing and blowing is delayed by wet
weather. 1t has been fine growing
week in the middle division and nearly
all the counties report good progress.
including those which have been suf-
fering from dry weather, while plow-
ing for wheat is being vigorously
pushed.
There is no use trying to outdo Kan
sas. An article recounting how man
who was divorced in Dakota was re-
married in just eight hours, brought
out the facts about man securing a
divorce at Fort Scott, before Judge
French, at IL o'clock in the morning
and was remarked before two that af-
ternoon. Dakota will have to do with
out the belt, as well as others in
which Kansas may take any interest.
Miss Mana Medill of Leavenworth.
commenced suit Thursday to break
the will of her father, James Medill.
who died last July leaving an estate
of 100000 The will was probated at
the time by Sherman Medill, a son,
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claims that her father was unduly in
fiuenced in making the will, which
Disseminated against her, and she
asks for one-third of the property.
The annual convention of the prison
congress will meet in Denver the 18th
instant. The men who will represent
Kansas, by appointment of Governor
Morrill,, are: j. b. Lynch, warden of
the state penitentiary; J. c. o. Morse,
warden of the reformatory at Hutch
inson; Superintendent c. E. Faulkner,
of the Soldiers Orphans home, at
Atchison; Hon. w. C. Jones, of lola.
and Hon. John d. Milliken, of McPher-
son.
President Jamison, of the Kansas
realestate association, says that there
is now no doubt but that a Kansas
million club will be organized in Sep
TENDER, the object being to secure one
million more people to settle in Kan
sas
Atchison is getting up a big corn
carnival. Old Dame Nature is in the
corn carnival business this year and
Atchison will not stand much show.
Kansas always raises a good wheat
crop after good corn crop and next
year we will raise 10000, 1000 bushels
of wheat
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