Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-22

Kansas has 3s5 mills, employing
Z, 349 men with an annual output of
-four amounting to $50, o0o.oO0
Judge c. w. Smith of the Stockton
district, has appointed his wife to the
position of court stenographer.
Christ's hospital at Topeka will re-
ceive bequest of $500 from the es-
tate of the late J. C. Kyle, of that
city.
La Crosse dealers have bought 1885,
600 bushels of wheat since last August
and paid the farmers of that section
So, 1000 for it.
Atchison still throws shoes and
''sich" over in Topeka's back yard.
Atchison is quiet, sedate, grandmoth-
erly old town.
The senior class of the State Uni
versity have decided to invite Robert
G. Ingersol to address them on next
commencement.
Pat Rydgers, S. L Kendall and J.
w. Maxim, with their families, left
Horton this week for the Horton col
ony camp in Georgia.
An Atchison barber who went to
Cripple Creek to seek his fortune was
one of the few successful ones. He is
now retired capitalist.
A Kansas City man carried war
rant to police headquarters for his own
arrest, thinking it was for the man
who had tried RI 1ialy hin,
The Kansas City World says several
Kansas editors with stacks of old pa
pers for sale are trying to get up
another boom for the hustle.
According to the Ottawa Journal the
new woman" has not yet invaded that
town but some fellows ''old woman"
gets out at a. IN. and splits kindling.
A daughter of George Wilson, living
north of Grainfeld, was thrown from
cart, while returning home from
school Thursday and her arm broken
near the wrist.
The new NJ. e. church at carlton
will be dedicated by Rev. Bernard
Kelly Sunday, February 0. A special
invitation has been issued to old SOL
diers to attend
A little banker sway down in
Maine has gotten hold of three old
Jewell county bonds, of the denomina-
ton of $1,000 each and has brought
suit to collect them.
A man sailing under the name of
&c &c, -.
on Kansas. He sells goods for future
delivery" taking SO cash as "eyi-
dence of good faith" The goods never
come.
A southern Kansas exchange says a
''new woman" issued an ultimatum to
| that she would wear boomers or moth
ing. The old man preferred the
boomers.
Atchison's street car line has been
tied up for a day or two because of a
| broken clutch on the shafting at the
ding through the sticky slush and
abusing the company.
Geo. Jacquemin of Oskaloosa has
burned the bodies of seventy head of
| hogs, victims of cholera, and the re-
naming thirty head were all sick but
one. His neighbors, Will Lacl1ey and
Frank Newell, had also lost heavily
from the same disease.
| The editor of western Kansas pa
per received three pounds of dried ap-
pies on subscription the other day and
before he could get them home the
devil ate nearly all of them. To the
| attending physician he remarked that
| he ''never had suca swell dinner
| before.
John Miller, who was arrested few
weeks ago upon the charge of stealing
| Mr.. William Hoch's harness, at Holton.
but who was discharged at the pre-
liminary examination, brought an
action in the district court last Mon
day against Mr.. Koch, claiming dam
ages, by reason of the wrongful arrest
in the sum of So, las.
Antoine Uhlrich sold his large crop
of Walnut timber from his land above
Wamego to foreign shipper. Three
Mr.. Uhlrich realized $500 for them.
There is one thing that can be sait
about Topeka: Nobody ever get
away with a man there until he il
!, dead.
J A Kansas minister preached for
, congregation for two years and die
not get cent of his salary. He ha
resigned.
The Grand Island railroad compan,
refused to pay their tax assessed a
the city of Hiawatha and now there i
talk of boycott.
A Notawaka man who is buyinl
corn, says his average daily purchas
} is 1000 bushels. That is prett
large supply for SO S nall place.
Bank robbers at Baldwin. Sunda
night blew open the State bank wit
nitro-glycerine, but were frightene
away without securing any booty.
7 People who read the Hiawath
{ World hereafter without paying for
will have to borrow it. Herbert ha
hung out the sign, mo pay, no paper.
!, A Kansas district has a written COZ
p tract with a teacher to teach til
Y school, chop the wood, make the fr'
sweep, and find the matches for S55
month. The teacher is woman.
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