Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-09-04


went to meet a buyer of large western
concern, and in spite of the stron gest
competition Mr.. Olmstead brought
back the order, amounting to over
$4,000, OF shoes and rubber goods
The Des Moines Leader.
The Kansas State fair will be held
at Wichita on October /, 2, 3, 4, S.
Mrs. Lease, it is said, has made the
horrible discovery that she can not
leave foot prints in the sand of time
If she rides bicycle.
Base ball enthusiasm runs SO high at
Manhattan that one of the fans was
Wiling to contribute two cents at the
gate to see the game.
The board of managers of the Hutch
insoD reformatory want $50 car loads
OF stone. There is pointer for Cow
ley county contractors.
The only drawback to a large corn
crop in Kansas is that the rain neces-
sary to make it raises a corresponding
~ large crop of mosquitoes.
Atchison rushes forward franticallv
with the claim that Rowe the Embez-
zler formerly lived in that city. before
any other Kansas town gets cinch.
The Globe advises as a proper course
of conduct at Atchison's corn carnival
to 'oe sober and act drunk" The
cfiobe wants to spoil Atchison peoples
fun.
Judge Violet, the Oklahoma states
man has returned from Honduras and
Is trying to make the boys believe that
1t is not as hot down there as it is up
here
The marshal at Coffeyville made IA
bullseyes out of Is shots at the shoot
ing gallery there. Civil service like
this is apt to cause stagnation in the
outlaw industry.
Cowley county had midnight bu-
rial this week which cast such a wierd.
''scarey" feeling upon the young men
that they have taken to saying good
night at 10 o'clock.
A Lynn county farmer has sold his
entire crop of corn for 25 cents in the
field making $4,000. He would rather
lose little purchance on the price
than have to buy glycerine for his
hands if he husked it.
IL is said that the managers of the
railways that run through Kansas are
having printed placards to hang up in
the cars, as follows; Passengers are
warned against sitting too close to the
windows. as the company will not be
responsible for injuries inflicted by the
ears OF corn that are encroaching upon
the right of way"
State Oil Inspector M. c. Kelly Thurs
day filed a report with Governor of the
operations in his department for the
months of March, April, May, June
and July, but the report is not salts
factory to either the Governor e.,
State Auditor Cole who has refused to-
Tile it. The law requires the oil in
spector to make an annual report but
Governor Morrill, has determined to
have report once a month.
There is great howl made at Atch-
lson because boys go swimming in
ponds around town. The boys are sa-
fer IN the ponds than they would be
In the river, and the women who are
shocked by the boys appearance should
look the other way, instead of sending
for policeman. For our part we ad-
mire swimming boy much better
than one who takes to crocheting.
In the case of Police Officer Gaines.
OF Topeka, who killed man he was
trying to arrest, the coroners Jury
Thursday brought in a verdict that
said Albert Kruger came to his death
by pistol shot fired by Officer Gaines
while in the discharge of his duty as
policeman, and while we cannot iusti-
fly Officer Gaines for the act, the fact
that he was assaulted is an extenua-
ting circumstances in his favor" The
coroner says he is not justified in caus-
ing warrant to be issued for Gaines
arrest
State Treasurer Anterior is proceed
ing to collect the money due the school
funds OF the state from various coun-
ties The whole delinquency amounts
to $l73, 1874 10 in defaulted bonds, S142.
600 of which are the Scott county bonds
uncovered by the late investigation:
1913. 931.31 interest due on the bonds
and 1884, 54s.7s in unpaid taxes by va
rious counties-$551 ,9372s all told.
Treasurer Anterior has certified these
items to Attorney General Dawes
with the request that they be col
lected
Mosley brothers who live on Silver
creek, in Cowley county, have a novel
and economical system of irrigation
by means of which they supply an
abundance of water to sixty acres.
They lift water from the creek with an
endless chain of buckets, driven by an
ordinary thrasher engine. The cost
of the plant, aside from the engine.
which they had and which is useless |
except two or three months in the
year, was S157. With the apparatus.
they get a flow of LOO gallons per
minute, which is sufficient in volume
to admit of direct irrigation although |
reservoirs are used. They have TWEEN |
ty-five acres of potatoes and will put |
out 100000 late cabbage plants.
Leavenworth is roaring because she
only got five of the seventeen guards |
at the United States penitentiary.
Dell Valentine saws he never sees