Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-05-15

has burned down.
The Kansas Pharmaceutical asso-
citation meets in Leavenworth on May
2l, 90 and %.
Col c. d. Perry of Clark county. has
some hundreds of acres under a sys-
tenn of irrigatlng canals. He has
good prospect for 80 or 40 bushels of
wheat TO the acre.
S. S. King of Kansas City, Kas., who
made a reputation with his little work
entitled 'Bondhoiders and Bread
winners" is preparing another work
on silver.
Western Kansas hotel has thu no.
tice conspicuously posted: persons
desiring bath will please notify the
landlord an hour beforehand, SO that
he can have the creek damned up"
The Topeka postoffice is the third
best paying Office in the United State,
in proportion to the business done.
The two which are better are Spring
field. Ohio, and Worcester, Mass.
Mayor Carney. of Topeka, has sign
ed a city ordinance which is a copy
of the Murray liquor law, with sew
eral additions and notifications, MAX
ing probably the most stringent pro-
hibitory law in existence One of the
strong features is that possession of
government liquor license, except by
druggist, is prima facie evidence of
violation of the ordinance. The pen
atty is fixed at from $50 to S1OO fine
and thirty to ninety days in Jail, or
both.
The first debate between represent
atives of Kansas University and Ne
brasla University took place at Law
renee last week, Kansas winning on a
very small margin. The Kansas par
Elephants were Il. j. Madden, ]. E.
Little and T. NJ. Brady, while Nebras-
ka was represented by E. B. Sherman,
A. j. Weaver and E. McNeal. Each
speaker on each side was given fifteen
minutes to express his views and then
ten minutes rebuttal speech was
made by each side. For Kansas this
was made by T. j. Madden and for
Nebraska by A. j. Weaver. The
judges for the debate were President
John w. Cook of the Illinois State
Normal school at Normal, Ill Princi-
pal John T. Buchanan of the Kansas
City high school.
crop report bulletin just issued
by Secretary L. D. Coburn of the Kan
sas State Board of Agriculture shows
the amount of winter wheat sown last
fall to be 4,065, 1877 acres, or about IL
per cent. less than that sown the pre-
ceding year. By unfavorable weather
conditions sc per cent. of this, or
2, 154, 900 acres, have been rendered
practically worthless, and at least AZ
per cent, of it will be planted in other
crops, especially corn and the sorg-
hums-largely for forage and grain.
Chinch bugs are reported in many
counties in the eastern third of the
State, and Kansas expects little from
her wheat crop of 1895. The acreage
of spring wheat is put at 1872, $50, or 20
per cent. less than one year Ego, and
the present average condition is given
as 20 per cent. The area devoted to
corn is put down as from Is to 90 per
cent. more than in 1894, approximate
ing an increase of one and quarter
million acres, or q total of 1855, 900
acres An increase of fully IL per
cent, or 1870 acres over last year,
were sown in oats, or u total of l, $685.
900 acres. The condition as compared
with full average is SO per cent. The
estimate put TO rye for 1895 is 166, $40
acres, an increase of 81 per cent. A
reported increase of 25 per cent. is no.
ticea BILE in sorghum planting over last
year, while grasses are more forward
in ali sections. Good prospects for all
kinds of fruit
new Touring mill, with a capacity
of $50 barrels a day, is being built at
Neodesha.
Tie cyclone which visited Haltead
was SO effective IN its destroying of
property that the following call for
aid has been made public: The cy-
clone of May l, which swept across the
West part of our Q1arvey) county
from the Southwest to the Northeast
for distance of eighteen miles, COW
cring space of about a one quarter
mile in width, completely destroying
everything in its path in which TWEEN
the entire household effects were to-
tally destroyed and in most cases the
stock machinery and crops were swept
from the face of the earth. Seven
people are known to have lost their
lives and others are badly injured and
may yet die. We appeal TO you for
/ immediate aid. About twenty fami-
lies are destitute and must be provid-
ed for. Please send contributions to
j. II. McNair, city treasurer. A mass
meeting of citizens authorized the
mayor and council to distribute the
aid and appointed the undersigned
committee to issue this appeal: Rev.
]. d. Woods, pastor NJ. E. church, Z
j. Bookwalter, c. j. Gram, j. II. Nc
Nair.
Prof. Charles G. Dunlap, holding the
chair of English Literature at the
Lawrance University, accompanied by
his wife, will sail for Europe on June
Is He has obtained a leave of absence
for one year. A substitute will be
furnished by Prof. Dunlap.
Professor L. L. Dyche of Lawrence,
the naturalist of the coast artic expe-
dition, which ended so disastriously
last summer, will sail for Greenland
May Is, in the schooner Golden Hope,
Captain Harvey Gadour, to make col
lections of fauna. He will be picked
up about Oct. IL, by the same vessel.
The 10y ear-old daughter of August
Anderson, living at Smolan. met-with
a frighful accident. She was riding on
the horsepower of grain elevator
when her foot was caught in the ma
chinery, drawing her into the wheels.
The bones of both legs were broken
and the flesh mangled in frightful
manner.
Independence pleasure steamboat