Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-10-16
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell.
LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review of Personal and Gen.
eraI News Condensed to Paragraph.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.


The Million clubs train will leave
Topeka October 21st.
Lady Salisbury has habit of turn
ing away her when shaking hands
with stranger.
The city council at Lawrence re-
sommends that the citizens of that town
discontinue the ''delectable habit of
kissing, until the diptheria scare is
over.
Following the recent corn festival,
Atchison began to get ready for Christ
mas. Atchison has been ready for
Thanksgiving ever since the Fourth of
July.
A Topeka man recently submitted
to a surgical operation that deprived
him of thirty-three inches of intestine.
Only a Topeka man could stand such
a loss
W. D. Halfhill. TO rmer attorney of
Cowley county, but now serving time
in the Kansas penitentiary, peels po-
tatoes on week days and sings in the
choir on Sunday.
An Atchison couple, who were mar
ried year ago, have had their names
in the papers of two cities every day
since. The AtchIson idea of being in
social swim is to advertise.
The supreme court says c. w. Oliver,
who removed the bolts and fish plates
from the Santa Fe railroad in Harvey
county during the A. r. U. strike,
must be punished. He was sentenced
to the state prison for four years.
Eugene Ware. S. j. Crawford, Archie
Williams and Joe Waters will write
tn e editorial matter, one issue apiece
for the Topeka Mail. That means
shotguns and other trouble for the
management every day for the sue
ceeding year.
The output of the Galena mines
last week was S35,O65 and of Joplin,
Mo-, S16,052, little less than half
Galena's output. Yet, Joplin claims
to be the richest lead and zinc mining
town in the world. She does it by
stealing the credit from a Kansas
town which is three miles from the
line.
Topeka at last has ordered new
bridge over the Kaw, but it does not
follow necessarily that it will be built.
Atchison ordered a new court house in
1887, and not a step has yet been Ia
ken to build it. The grave yard will
gain many new inhabitants before
either enterprise will be put under
way.
The Troy Chief spoke of Jug Nc
Chesney last week, whereupon the
Minneapolis Messenger asks, ''Who is
jug McChesney?" The question takes
the Chiefs breath away, McChesney is
so well known. McChesney has still
another title given by the Big Four,
who used to get up the Atchison Cham
pion in its better days. 1t is Sir Ches.
ney McPot.
The coming boss of the woman move
ment in Kansas is Grace Snyder OF
Beloit. She is woman of ideas and
knows how to express them. She
reasons like lawyer and could put
| the average woman agitator to sleeI
in joint debate. The only trouble is
| that she is so much smarter than the
other women that they all would hate
her If she should crowd to the front
Ii A. Tice, division trainnaster Of
the Santa Fe at Topeka, was once {
struggling young lawyer in Dakota
He was a friend of G.. Il. Peek, brother
of the Santa Fee solicitor, who owned {
large ranch in Dakota. When frozer
out up North Mr.. Tice came to Kansa.
and struck General Solicitor Peck fo1
a job. He got a clerical position ant
has worked himself up to his presen
| position. He is favorite with tn,
boys under his supervision.
The diptheria epidemic at Lawrenc,
is about over. Occasionally case i:
reported, but the number is on the de
crease. There have been seven death.
and in all about twenty-five cases
The quarantine has been raised from
sixteen places. The public schools
We're opened Monday morning.
The remains of Frank Mettriclz, fol
many years a resident of Kickapoo Is
land. north of Leavenworth. wer,
found in lot of driftwood this morn
ing. He is supposed to have beer
drowned in the river Saturday, whil
returning from from Weston, Mo
There is degree of mystery, however
surrounding his death, and the coro
ner will hold an inquest and will maxi
a searching inquiry.
Internal Revenue Collector R. b
Morris has decided that the Keele,
institute at the Soldiers home is no
liable to the tax imposed upon person
or corporations dispensing liquors fo
pay. The question came up on de
mand for the tax, believing that TIN
} institute was private concern, con
Quoted separately from the home
This, however, proved not to be tn
case, and Governor Smith has beel
sustained in his view of the case.
Fit. Scott authorities arrested
white man for blgamy and learne
that two of his accomplices in Grim
were colored women.
There is no patent on Sol Miller
way of folding paper for the mai
1t is good thing. Push it along.
The Shawnee county horticulture
society has decided to render all tn
assistance possible in ma king a success
of the Million Clubs showing of Kar
sas' phenomenal crop yield.
Charles Hayfield of Horton, harvesf