Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-02
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS Or INTEREST TO Dwell.
LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review OF Perso nal an d
General News Condensed to Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.

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General News Condensed to Short
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Hurried Readers.
E. r. STAGE and ]. Fl. Tryas, who
robbed the postoffice at Viola, were
arrested at Wichita on Wednesday.
James l.. Dick, ex-county treasurer
of Ellsworth. is short $50, 900 in his
accounts. He has left for parts un-
known.
Harry Johnson, 16 years old, shot
and killed Frank S:alisworth, his
brother-in-law. near Baxter Springs,
recently.
Moore Brothers who came to Wichi-
Ia some time ago are going to erect a
large stove mandatory as their kusi-
ness demands IL
Only one family in .Larned is cared
for by charity. And Larned used to
be in the heart of the burned district.
Kansas is all right.
There were twenty-five names upon
The charity list at Topeka as ''profes-
oAOhoA OCS anu WCIC
listed for Christmas offerings
Ike Johnson. of Lawrence, knocked
8. l., Caldwell, champion middle
weight of Colorado, out in eight
rounds at Lawrence recently.
An extra half ton of coal will be us
ed in keeping warm fire in Kansas
churches where Mr.. Fred Funston lee
lures on the cold nights in Alaska.
waif has been adopted by several
Hiawatha young ladies' Its a boy
and the girls are going to bring him
up to their own notion. Poor fellow.
Thomas Kincade and Walter Kiel,
suspected of completely in the murder
of William Ward, of Williamsport
/ three weeks ago, have been arrested.
A loaded brass shell In the hands of
Charley McNew, IL years old. of Bur
lingame, exploded a few days since
putting out both eyes and horribly
burning and lacerating his face.
You can just bet that the epidemic
of mumps which Is devastating Law
renee won't phase" any of the pros
pective weddings. Lawrence we'd
ders aren't spring chickens
An infant evidently only a few
hours old was found on the sidewalk
in Atchison one day last week The
infant had evidently frozen to death
and was covered with frost. The po-
lice have clue and arrests may fol-
low.
Commercial items from the Larned
Eagle-Optic: Colonel Will Gill was
too late with his fifty rabbits the 9TH
er day. The market was closed and
the Colonel took his rabbits home for
chicken feed. Next year he will have
flock of chickens with fur on.
There is so much salt in the Saline
river that it is doubtful if it may be
used for irrigation and ''kit'' of
mackrel accidently dropped from the
bridge near Lincoln came to life and
are chasing up and down the stream
soaring the daylights out of the little
kitten fish.
Kansas Breeze: The Hoxie Sentinel
tells about catching the girl in the act
of looking through the Old Testament
for passage in Luke. This is not SO
discouraging as it might seem at the
first glance. There is world of COM
fort in the thought that the good book
has reached Hoxie.
The meeting of the County Clerks
association held in Salina on Decem-
Der 20 YVES an important and interest
I -. L ~
Carvin, chairman of the legislative
committee of the association, said his
committee has for years been engaged
in formulating ideas looking to a re-
vision of laws touching on assessment
and taxation and that at the coming
session of the legislature the commit
tee Will be present to urge the pas
sage of laws to remedy the evils now
complained Of
Hon. John J. Ingalls, is to start up
on lecture tour. He goes east.
All classes of Leovenworth citizens
are becoming interested in the propos-
ed change of the military prison at
Ft. Leavenworth into a United States
civil penitentiary. Church people are
very anxious for the change, and the
ministers of Leavenworth held meet
ing to consider the matter. They dis
cussed the question for several hours
and unanimously agreed that the mil
itary prison was failure as reform
atory and the morals of the army
would be benef fitted by abolishing it
as prison for soldiers.
About one hundred local sports as
sembled at Kiowa, Saturday night to
see the young Montana aspirant for
pugilIstic honors and Jim Davis of
Wichita, test the weight of their
blows in the ring. After the usual
quarreling and ringside plays stripped
for action and went at 1t in what was
regarded a fight for blood Davis
showed more science and strength
than Bebb, but the latter fought hard.
Davis knocked Bebbs down by a fear
full blow in the seventh round and he
failed to respond when time was up.
The fight was for the gate receipts.
One of the large barns at the Jewett
stock farm near Cheney, burned to the
ground last week. The loss is 1000,
insured for $4,000. ALI the animals
were saved.
There are now four places. The
Copeland, Charley Gleed's, Santa Fe
and the Breeze Office, where Kansas
statesmen are required by law to reg
Ister in Topeka.
The Allen county murderers Mich
ael McArdle and Hugh and Isaac Gil
liland, now serving sentences, haze
made application to the State Board
of Pardons to be liberated.
Mrs William H. Jones, formerly of
Wichita, later of Cassyille, Mo-, COM
mitted suicide and cut the throats of
her two children. aged six and Eve
years,on last Saturday. Insanity was