Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
VOL. XIV.
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.

A majority Of the women registered
At Leavenworth are coIored.
Usage coonty bee-keepers will meet
near Burlingame April 12.
The Coyote Coursing club has been
formed at Cottonwood Falls.
A new building and loan association
las been organized in Cottonwood
Falls.
The Odd Fellow lodge of Oskaloosa
has donated 200 volumes to the city IL
brary.
The Register says tho stock for the
Neodesha water works is being rap
idly subscribed.
steer fell down a we'll 60 feet deep
In Grant county last week and was ia
ken out unhurt.
4An Enterprise company has been
formed that will make a business OF
building creamerieS
Emporia men have subscribed al
most enough stock to warrant the for
nation of a new telephone company
there.
Emory T. Fraker has sold the Bird
City News to w. X. Loofborrow of At
wood, who will continue it's publica-
tion.
4An immense prairie fire that lasted
for several days burned over large
amount OF territory in Stevens county
last week.
The Quenemo cob piIe factory's out
put for the month of February was
~ gross and for March it will be
much larger.
Fort Scott has secured FIVE years
lease Of the second floor Of the Boston
store at S4OO year for the use of the
appellate court
After New York waif that had
been taken to raise ran away twice a
Crawford county man refused to take
him back again.
Lyons is talking about dispensing
with the city marshal and leaving the
city's pence in the hands of the sheriff
and two constables.
Some of the best dogs in the state
are entered at the meet of the Coyote
Coursing club, near Cottonwood Falls,
which began Thursday, April 4.
The Western Herald, Hodgeman
county, says that there will no doubt
he n much larger acreage of corn
planted this spring than ever before
In that part of Kansas
Mayor Nathaniel Barnes, of Kansas
City, Kan, president OF the Barnes
Tea, Coffee IS Spice Co., made an as
signment on the Goth. Poor collec.
tions is the cause of the failure.
wichita proposes to have a series oi
running races in connection with hel
so-cnlled state fair next fall. 1t is
proposed to hang up the entire gate
receipts and proceeds for the sale OF
privileges, as purses in the speed ring
Tom Mcclure, the 17-year-old son ot
w. ii. Mcclure, ex-postmaster of lola
went hunting with two of his compan
ions, and in taking a Winchester rifle
from buggy, discharged it, the bal
passing through his body and entering
his stomach.
During a performance at the opera
house at Cherokee Tuesday night BY
local amateurs, Pike Herriott, one Of
the actors in a duel scene in which
small swords were used, accidentally
pierced one arm of his opponent, +, l.
Paul, infiicting painful wound.
agreement with the Werner Bool
company whereby that company will
take up all the arithmetics, geogra
phits and physiologies now used il
the city schools and provide new
books free of cost.
w. Parr, Shawnee county farmer
will provide against possible droutl
this season by putting in an irrigation
plant His farm is about two mile:
southeast of Topeka and he will take
water from the Shunganenga. Hi.
plant will pump 900 gallons a minut,
and he expects to irrigate about forty
acres
William II. Sexton, the Leaven
worth county Jail "trusty," who wa,
arrested few days ago for ASSISTING
the notorious Harry Hoy to escape
has made a confession and was bounC
over to the district court by Justic,
Bond. He says he bought the saw.
and files at a Cherokee street hard
ware store and handed them to Hoy
who cut through the bars of his eel
and got out into the corridor. Sextor
then opened the big door to the corri
dor and let Hoy into the hallway ad
joining the Office. He next unlocked
the door leading into the Jail yard
and assisted Hoy over the fence b,
converting himself temporarily into {
ladder. Sexton says Hoy promised
him a new suit of clothes for his as
sistance.
The ladies of the Y. P. s. c. f. O
First Presbyterian church will publish
the Emporia Gazette the Saturday be
fore Easter.
The discovery of natural gas a
Atchison will be further developec
this summer TO see if a sufficient flow
for practical use can be secured.
To discover the value of TESTIMONY
Editor Scott, of the lola Register, ask
cd 1903 persons which leg of wei
known citizen, who only had one, wa.
gone. Fifty-two said the right leg
and 81 the left, and yet they see HIN
every day.
Usage City and Lyndon are still try
ing to get the county seat away from
Burlingame. Usage City has a re
moval petition of 4. 500 names
VIM. Z. Getchell. who conducts the
Turkish bath department at the
Palmer House in Chicago, has made
proof on tree claim in Wallac,
county.
AS late as Wednesday the odor O
burned meat from the Reid Brothers
fire could be smelled over n great nor