Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-12-04
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell.
LERS IN THE SUNF9LOWER.
Chs Weeks Review of PsrSonal and Gen.
Oral Nows Condsnssd to Paragraphs.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Harvey county's corn crop foots up
1000, 900 bushels
1.-The Kansas coal mine is now living
in weight for us.
Grandma" Palmer died at Oberlin
last week, aged SO.
Goodland will substitute wind for
steam at the city water works plant.
Mulvane with its new cement facto-
~ ought to be well ''sot" in its ways.
Jewell county raises million bush
els of corn, and calls it crop failure.
Cy Leland has gone to Atlanta with
a shipment of three car loads of horses.
Two cents bushel is the common
price for husl1ing Kansas corn this
fall.
The city of Pittsburg is putting in
forty acre park just south of the town
site.
Coffeyville is experiencing a relig-
ious revival as well as natural gas
boom.
Chanute people enjoyed an amateur
rendition of the Pirates of Penzance,
or say they did.
The output of plaster of the three
plants in Blue Rapids will be about six
ty-five car loads week.
The pugilist, Peter Maher, has cous-
in in Atchison, Will Bowen. This is
glory enough for Atchison.
The Santa Fe has sent many extra
men to the Panhandle eXtention to
take care of the rush of cattle
After h. L. wins the Thanksgiving
game from Missouri she won't care
much about Nebraska's protest.
Some of the Greek letter society girls
at X. L. who want to get their hands
white are giving taffy pull parties.
The corn crop of Kansasis estimated
to yield on an average of "a bushels per
acre, which is much less than estimated
A man living in the western part of
the state has raised 1900 bushels of
large white onions by irrigation. He
is Grating them and shipping to Cana
da.
K. Q. student, wearing dinky red
cap on the back of his head, was ac-
costed by small boy thus: ''Say, mis-
ter, amt We afraid you'll be shot for a
woodpecker?"
NJ. NJ. Shipe, who took hold of Abil-
enc when it was a settlement of cow
boys and converted it into the beautiful
little city it now is, now lives in Aus
tin, Texas, and is a candidate for
mayor.
A negro man and white girl ran
away together from Warsaw, Mo, and
came to Lawrence where they were
arrested. The story seems to be pref
ty highly colored, though the officers
say it is not.
Mrs. Teagarden, wife of one of the
commissioners of Sherman county.
says that Schlatter relieved her of a
malady that had baffied the physicians
Thirteen other persons of Goodland
give similar testimony.
Judge William P Hadden, aged rs,
one of the Oldest residents of Kansas.
was found dead just east of Summer
field Friday night. His wagon had
turned over on him. He was the first
probate Judge of Marshal county.
The new engineering building at the
State University will be dedicated this
week. Kansas University is the only
institution in the west where electric
| al engineering, the greatest of all
sciences, can be thoroughly studied.
The Rev. j. +. Pickett has resigned
the pastorate of the Christian church
! at Manhattan, after three years SER
vice, and will leave December LIST fol.
| Boulder, Col, where he has accepted
the pastorate of the Christian church
of that city.
ottawa grocerymen now entertain
their customers and friends with a
genuine concert, followed with an
elaborate lunch. Then church fol-
lows up with a big dinner, served in
the night time, accompanied by a
grand ball in the opera house
Jerome Muir and Miss Angie Plain
eloped Thursday night to Paola, where
marriage license was secured. From
there they went to Mount Vernon,
Texas. The parents of the bride OBJ
jected because the groom was a Prot
estart and the bride Catholic.
About twenty civilized Indians pass
ed through Sunny Slope, Sumner
county Friday night bound for Rush
Springs, /. r. They were Arizona
Apaches and had been attending
school at Carlisle, Pa. A couple OF
nephews of the famous Geronimo were
in the lot.
Will Chilcott, 80 years of age, a
brother of r. NJ. Chilcott of the Wa
mego Times, died in Wamego last
week. He had come from Grand
Forks, N. D., on Monday of the same
week to visit his brother, who was
absent at Atlanta, and only arrived
home in time to attend the funeral.
Captain l. G. NICK ibben, who. in
1862. rode away from Quin daro at the
head of his company in the Sixth cav.
airy, has come back to Wyandotte
county to live.
Carnivals are becoming as common
as corn in a Kansas crib. But the
onion carnival-that is new kind but
a good one and Hiawatha is going t.
have one.
Edward Mahan, CO years old, was
found dead in his coal house by his
wife Friday, sitting in a natural