Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-07-10
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell.
LERS IN THE SUNFLoWER.
The Weeks Review OF Perso nal ana
General News Condensed to Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience of
Hurried Readers.

paragraphs Tor the convenience OF
Hurried Readers.
Mrs. Lease has been at her homo in
Wichita for several days and has been
earning to ride u bicycle. She saws
, he will adopt the Syrian costume; she
'ays there is only one article of wear
ng apparel uglier than 'sbloomers, :"
md that is the present style of cos
tune worn by the men.
S. B. Bell, o Stockton liveryman, 81
FEARS OF age, took his first ride, except
few miles 26 years ago. on railway
train, last Sunday. He took advan-
tage OF the excursion rates to visit O
sister in Missouri whom he has not
seen for 40 years. He will also visit
his father, who lives in Illinois at the
ago of 1o4.
Col. j. 81. Fitzpatrick, q leading law
yer OF Leavenworth, left for Europe
Sunday. The colored people of Leav-
enworth requested Col Fitzpatrick to
make thorough investigation of the
arrest, Imprisonment and conviction
of John L. Waller, cxConsul to NADIA
gascar, and he readily asCented. Wal
Ter formerly lived IN Leavenworth.
At Strong City Saturday night, a
young colored man who lives in EN-
poria, Jack, Armstead, was sand
bagged and seriously injured. He was
with his brother and another man,
and he was hit in the back of the
head as he passed dark alley, then
the assaulters turned and ran down
the alley. He was taken home and
may recover.
Friday at noon 25 prisoners were re-
leased from the United States mill
tary prison at Fort Leavenworth, and
Saturday at noon the remaining 40
were turned out. leaving that institu-
ton without a prisoner for the first
time in "a years. The Leavenworth
prison was transferred Monday from
the War department to the depart
ment of Justice.
At its meeting Tuesday the State
board of irrigation let the contract for
Pumping Station No. 13 to the Frizzell
Hardware company of Larned, for a
sum between $500 and $780, This well
is to be located in Ford county, and
will very likely be the last one the
board will establish before fail, or at
least until some determination is made
regarding the cost Of running the
wells.
Wednesday morning, John A. Smith,
Of Leavenworth, killed his father, Mi
chael Smith. with pitchforl1. There
had been trouble in the family for
some time, especially between father
and son, and that morning the faith
or was digging potatoes In his sons
garden. The young man ordered him
to stop, and he refused. when the son
struck him twice with the pitchfork.
DE died ut 8 o'clock in the evening.
Kansas horses are distinguishing
themselves at the big races in the
East AT the Minneapolis races on
July 3, The Corporal, belonging to j.
B. Chandler. of Wichita, won the
purse of $1,000, winning in the free
for-all trot in three straight heats. At
st. Joseph in one of the fastest trots
OF the season on July 4, Ashland
Wilkes Maid, belonging TO Cash Hen
derson, Wichita, won fourth money.
There is story in Explorer Henry
Stanley's latest book which is located
In Leayenworth in the early DAYS
when "Wild Bill" wns well known
throughout that section. The writer
allows Hicl1ok, one of General Han
cocks express riders on the plains, to
tell tho story of how he killed his first
white man. In relating the story
Hickok said he had killed considera-
bly, over hundred, and when asked
if he killed them without cause or
provocation, he replied: mo, by heav-
en-, never killed one man without
good cause. was % years old when
killed the first white man; and if
ever a man deserved killing, he did.
He was gambler and counterfeitcr."
Clyde Jenkins, young man whose
home is in Wichita, was ran over and
killed by Frisco train near Chanute,
Tuesday. He was on his way home
from Texas.
John Eeech, who, few years ago
was prosperous and prominent farm
er of Sumner county, and well known
in both Summer and Sedgwick cour-
ties, committed suicide in Kansas CITY
Thursday. He leaves his family In
destitute circumstances
The State board of irrigation viii
formally open for public inspection
and exhibition Pumping Station No. 4,
at Goodland, Sherman county, Kan
1rrly q L..
completed and consists of a 6-inch
tubular we'll, $50 feet deep, fitted with
q cylinder 515x6O inches, operated by n
10-horse power gasoline engine. Tho
reservoir is sOx125 feet. suitable
program will be provided for the en-
tertainment of the visitors, and q big
crowd is expected. Invitations are
extended to tho State officers, United
States senators, members of Congress
d the legisla ture, the press, promi-
nent promoters of irrigation and
all interested persons.
Rcv. Ella Thorp, of Bentley, Scdg-
wick county, ofliciated at the wedding
of L. C. Kennedy and Miss 8. T. Hell
vie few days ago. This is said to be
tue ArsI HiarriaSe ceremony ever per-
formed in Kansas by woman.
Herbert Crawford, aged IL years,
met his des tn by being suffocated in a
bin of corn in the elevator at Patter-
son, near Halstead. He was playing
in the bin with two companions, while
a car was being loaded from the bin
and the suction drew Linn down and
he was suffocated before he could be
released.
The annual school of the officers of
the Kansas State militia will begin at
Fort Leavenworth August 10Th, and
will last week. There will be lee
lures on army tactics and drills.
The colored womcn's Order of the