Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-16

General News Condensed to Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.
Wichita is trying to get Normal
college supported by the state.
The quail in Riley county are being
KILLED rapidly in spite Of the law
sgainst it.
Manhattan has lost her ice plant
but with the river frozen Eve inches
thick, nobody cares.
Lawrence shows her loyalty to Cor
bett by fergctting what John L. Sui
tivan's middle initial is.
Bishop Hennesey of Wichita, is dan
erously i'll in Chicago, but his physi-
clans say he will recover.
The little children at Cottonwood
Falls are taught that all bad people
90 to Strong City when they die.
A Dickinson county farmer brought
81, 900 in gold into Abilene the other
day and deposited it in the bank.
girl in boys attire has been holding
the position of bell-boy at Hotel Man.
haitian, Wichita, for two months past.
Kansas boasts of baby who was
kissed by the Spanish Princess, Eula-
liza. Her name is Miss Lane of Kiowa.
John Does brother Jim has gone
wrong at Lawrence. There seems to
be bad streak in the Doe family.
Kansas Breeze: Mr.. Prettyman
knows how it seems to become set
by himself since he moved TO Coffey-
vii e.
Edward Clark, prominent ticket
broker and business man of Wichita,
died IN that city OF apoplexy this
week.
A great effort will be made to sup
Dress by legislation all lottery, policy,
crap games and gambling in Kan
SaS.
There are not many people tempted
as the boys of Lincoln were. The
first ice of the season came about two
weeks ago.
1.-THE girl l left behind me- is to
be played at Lawrence, where she has
been played for thirty odd years or
thereabouts.
A Santa Fe train, known as the FL
linwood accommodation, jumped the
track at Derby on Tuesday, derailing
engine and two cars. Passengers un-
injured.
The sheriff of Cowley county took
nine prisoners to the penitentiary last
week. Cowley county will get her
share of the state, no matter how she
has to do it.
Arthur r. Wilcox of Arkansas City
and Marion E. Parsons of Topeka,
were united in marriage at Winfield,
January Z, by II. l.. Alberts, probate
Judge of Cowley county.
Five inmates of the Pittsburg Jail
broke out last week, and after getting
a beautiful load jagiDe, came back
md surrendered at the front door to
The paralyzed jailer.
1t took S429 worth of coal to keep
Sedgwick county's poor warm during
he past three months, and the county
Jail $529 to keep the thieves and bad
men generally from freezing.
County Attorney William Boone
done his own pleading in the disbar-
ment trial against him at Wichita this
week. 1t is said that his oratorical
ability gained him several points.
The band boys of Great Bend have
practiced on their new music book
md pronounce themselves satisfied.
There is a yawning chasm however
between their feeling and that of the
great throbbing heart of the people.
The recent snow was general
through the west and Kansas is pretty
we'll covered with it which will insure
sufficient moisture for large crop
prospect. The smaller streams are
filing up and water will be plentiful.
The police of Wichita are having
trouble with housebreakers. They
seem to be pretty numerous-tbieves
not police.
Secretary L. d. Coburn of the Kan
sas State Board of Ag, iculture submit
led his report at the annual meeting
on Wednesday, January 0. In this re-
port the Secretary outlines the labor
lone in his office ami that of the
Board during the past twelve months.
He also suggests appropriate outlines
for future work. The Kansas State
Board of Agriculture is looked upon
as being the father or guidance of the
farmer generally and it is the aim and
object to induce and bring about re-
suits of benefit to all. The most i'm
portant reports brought out during
the past year was on the Russian
| Thistle" Wheat Feeding to Farm
| Animals and alfalfa Growing" :"
The two latter were especially inter-
esting as Kansas along with other
sections of the United States has real
lzed within the last year the impor-
tance of both when coupled with farm
industries Secretary Coburn suggests
an edition of $4,000 treating on alfal-
ia growing and the feeding of wheat
be issued as soon as practica BILE.