Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-05-08
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS Or INTEREST TO Dwell
LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review of Persona and
General News Condensed to Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

tHiOdQtu IN hduSdS tnlS spring, anu
1000 are under contract to be unload
| I'd at Dodge City alone
| The Topeka waterworlxs company
1as just completed n well forty-eight
'eet in diameter and extending sixteen
feet below the water line of the river.
With capacity of $500, 900 gallons
per day.
Congressman j. P. Dolliner of Iowa,
who recently added additional fame
20 his public career by a ringing speech
before the Repub' lean League Convcn-
.lon held in his state, was a Kansas
Fisitor last week, sojourning in Tope-
| ga.
Sheriff Naylor of Horton, is out S25.
a young boy tramp came through that
own few days ago and went to the
sheriff for aid. He put up a great
'tory, and the sheriff sent him on his
way rejoicing. There is a reward of
s25 offered for the boy.
Conductor French, who was bitten
oy mad dog at Pomona, Franklin
county, last week, went to Strong City
ind had J. G. Winters maidstone ap-
piled to the wound. The stone was
applied three or four times and adher-
ed each time until the poison was en-
tircly extracted.
In Cora township, Smith county, the
farmers have adopted plan for pre-
serving supply of water for dry per-
iods which might be followed profita-
oily in other parts of the state. A
oumber of them have dug ponds which
ire fed by springs aud in this way
they have water in summer and ice in
winter, whether it rains or not
1t is estimated that an apple tree at
i've years old is worth as much as a
low. 1t does not require near so much
and for support and no more water.
What more profitable investment then
IAN the farmers of Kansas make than
TO plant apple trees where it is posi-
Die to obtain water. There is, of
course, one advantage the COW posses
'es; she can be driven to water
While irrigation has made crops a
certainty, as far as moisture is con-
:erned, 1t has not solved the chinch
Dug problem. Prof. Snow of the State
University has discovered that his de-
itroying fungus can be grown on veg.
etaoles as well as on the bugs them
'elves So he has great quantity of
e already prepared. And now, in
'tead OF scattering the diseased bugs
n the held, it is proposed to poison
water with the fungus and spray the
place where the live bugs are gather
ed just as one sprays fruit trees. The
experiments that have been tried thus
.ar in this line are very encouraging.
When the time comes farmers should
;ry it. 1t does not cost anything, and
may save lot of money.
The first Cyclone for 1895 visited
Halstead and vicinity on May 1st, do
ng damage to the amount of over
300, 0oo, besides the following deaths:
Mrs Joseph Wear and baby, Grace
Wear, Herman Wear, William Arm.
strong, Grandma Chaplin, Miss Daisy
Neff- The storm crossed the Santa Fe
'ailroad about three miles West oil
dalstead. The engineer of the West
bound through Pacific express saw the
twisting tornado coming from the
south and stopped his train and back
I'd out. This prompt action prevented
wreck for the train would have GER
:ainly struck the storm had it proceed
ed. The storm lifted about three
miles Northeast of Burton and nc
further damage was done, though
pieces of timber, clothing and Other
signs of the wreck can be traced fo,
thirty miles away.
Assistant State Treasurer Georg.
Seward has figured out the amount o.
appropriations made by the late legis
ature for public buildings and i'm
2rovements during the past two years
The total amount of these appropria
ions is $3.50, 779,75 and only part of i
5 to be expended by the state board
,f public works, the rest is to be con
rolled by the state board of chari tie.
ind the regents of the several institu
ions The amount appropriated foI
;he Atchison Soldiers Orphans hom,
s $91, 500, to be expended by the O.
public works. Beloit Industrial schoo-
'or girls, sewers $4,000, to be expend
ed by the board of public works. To
peka state house completion $50, 90,
appropriation, available now, lew fo
1896 and 1897, estimated at $50. OO
10 be expended by the executive coun
: I'll. Lawrence, plumbing at the stat,
university, $4,000, to be expended b,
ihe regents. Winfield, school for idiot
snd imbecile youth, plumbing ant
ueating, 50, 700, to be expended by tn,
statc board of charities. Ossawatomis
insane asylum, plumbing and heating
s4,629,75; furnishing, 50. 500, to be ex
pended by the state board of charities
b. c. Price and brother of Syracuse
Kansas, have an irrigation pump t,
which is attached a nine horse powe
. engine. With this they are able t,
throw 200. 600 gallons of water an hou
; 1t the expense of one gallon of gaso
/, line.
Mrs Noah Strevel. wife of the youn,
nan on trial at Fl Scott for the mur
: Ter of his father. the recluse ranch
nan, whom he had never seen unit
asst year. appeared on the witnes
stand late Friday afternoon and swor
that her husband had confessed tn
murder to her.
A fellow by the name of Calvin go
; nilariously drunk in Leavenworth las
week, and his true and faithful wifi
went to the saloon from whence b
procured whiskey and completely de
nolished everything in sight, an,
caused the keeper to hide out unit
The Cyclone had died down. Upol
mis- return his place resembled any
thing but an inviting appearance.
Susie T. and Cecil Miller. two OF th
. famous horses for which Kansas i