Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-22
HAPPENINGS In KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell.
LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review of Personal and Gen
0ral News Condensed to Paragraphs.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Coffeyville has just shot another !
gushing gas well.
Cloud county people are complain
ing of dry weather.
1t only costs $500 year to belong to
Topeka's Swell club.
Kansas stands third in the column
in railroad mileage.
One of the commissioners in Ness
county is named Sidebottom.
The newspaper war at Pleasanton
has reached the ''black-hearted puppy"
stage.
The late ]. C. Kyle of Topeka left
S25, 200 to Christ's hospital in that
city.
O'Keene over in Blaine county wants
good -four mill, and they ought to
have it.
Lawrence has ''Wild Charlie" club
organized especially for the purpose
OF taking care of the hard cider output.
An Atchison billiard hall pays $50 a
month for lunch alone. People who
drink billiards must have bite with
it.
Cashier Colean will be tried at Fort
Scott February 3. L. G. Boyle, who
ordinarily is a mascot, will defend
him.
Miss Belle Bennett, formerly of To-
peka, who has for some time been
missionary in Africa, is dead from
fever.
Pleasanton woman has contracted
to pay $125 for room in Kansas City
where she will set up square meals for
fifteen cents.
William A. Wagner, who has been
appointed postmaster at Sabetha, is an
old soldier and has been unfortunate
in business lately.
A woman broke into Abilene selling
patent button fastener for men last
week, and stories are coming out that
cause storm of Indignation among
the usually amiable wives of the town.
1t is impossible to keep good man
down. John Preston Campbell, crowd
ed out of all other classes, breaks into
print as the owner of thirty-dollar
inlaid chessboard. In reserve ne has
proposition.
| On the oath of December Hattie Nc
Cumber, a young girl of West Plains,
went to Liberal, where she married
Lee Wilson. On the 3Oth she thought
better of it and left her new husband,
it is supposed, to a former steady.
G. P. Carlson, the new Greeley coun-
ty man, who has located on Wilson
creek in Weskan township, is the ad-
vance guard of a number of Greeley
county people who are going to locate
on the low lands in Wallace county,
and go into the irrigation and stock
raising business.
The Atchison Globe confesses that
Atchison county has had some inter
esting ups and downs. In 1860 it was
fourth in population in Kansas; In
1870 1t was third; 1875, second, being
exceeded only Leavenworth; in 1880,
third; 1885, eight; 1886, twelfth, and
1895, ninth. But there must be com
fort to the old citizens of the county
in the reflection that the county has
given to public life more big men than
any other county in the state.
"Here comes the Dalton gang" OBJ
served w. w. Guthrie as Cy Leland
John Schllling, Phil Kelly and some
more of the lambs entered the din
ing room at the Copeland the other
day When Leland heard of it after
ward, he said: ''About once in eigh
teen years Guthrie gets off good
thing. In 1878 he said, in speaking Of
the same gang" ''These damned
postmasters are to congressman wha
the yellow dog is to a movers wagon.
Atchlson Globe: A certain girl il
Atchison has at last got nibble; tn,
nibbler earns good salary, and il
even inclined to be good looking
There is nothing the matter with hin
except that he has the consumption.
The home of E. M. Sheldon of Otta
wa was entered by burglars Monday
night and $3.50 worth of silverwar
was stolen. Some silverware wa
found hidden in corn shuck near tn
town, but it was evidently the pro
ceeds of some other robbery, and ha
not yet been claimed.
tJim Arterbridge of Topeka opened
snap on the Sante Fa's coal last week
and until the police closed him out he
did land Office business. His schem,
was to sell coal for cash below tn
market price, and direct the buyer t
''any of those cars on the track there
and help himself. In defense of him
self before the police court he made
great argument, saying: 81 told then
where to go and get the coal, and the
went after it. If should tell you t.
go rob store and you did so, could
be held responsible?" But it did nc
strike the court exactly in that ligh
and Jim is in Jail.
Topeka physicians declare there is
young negro living in that city who's
body is covered with skin exactl
like that of an alligator.
d. W. Wilder will leave Hiawath
and Kansas about April 1 and becom
a resident of Kansas City, Mo-, wher
he has been publishing the Insurane
Magazine since 1888.
The Rock Island depot at Ath
burned recently, consuming a lars
: portion of the household effects of Il
faithful agent. The depot has bee
rebuilt, and the company has MAJ
the agent a present of $3.50 to reir