Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-17
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell.
LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER,
The Weeks Review of Personal and Cen .
eral News CONDEMNED to Paragraphs.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The youngest graduate in Kansas
was a girl in Atchison-sevcnteen.
The Dickinson county farmers want
the railroad commissioners to recog-
nize Kaffir corn as marketable prod
net and add it to tie grain schedule of
rates.
wolf came within 300 yards of
Paola one day last week, and n chat
tel mortgage deal er shot it with rifle.
1t is told on good authority that
Kansas suffers more from flood than
from drouth taking run of ten years.
When you see man digging in his
back yard at night he is not hunting
treasure trovc. He is digging cy-
clone cellar and he doesn't want his
neighbors to know it.
Father" William NJ. Conkling died
at Lyons, June .. He was born March
II, 1915 His first vote for President
was cast for William Henry Harrison,
his last one for Benjamin Harrison, in
1894
Item in Il Kansas newspaper: "John
Hicks went into his storm cave with
his family last night" A year ago a
man would have fought the editor for
that squib. Now it is taken as mat
ter of course
woman went into an Atchison
bank Wednesday and said she wanted
to borrow S.. Just for fun the CASH
Ter asked what security she could offer.
vhereupon she produced $40 gold
piece which she said she would leave
at the bank. The security was ample
and she secured the loan.
c. c. Blair of Glen Elder, deputy
clerk of Mitchell county, has invented
a wheat drill, which he will haye pa
tented. The machine is entirely differ
ent from drills now in use. 1t has
two revolving disc instead of the hoe
or shoe. The discs open the ground
always at an even depth and prevents
clogging. The side carriage wheels
are eliminated, and the weight of the
drill rests on the discs.
While some men were digging a
grave at the Indian Hill cemetery at
Chapman Wednesday afternoon, they
unearthed an Indian grave and, found
an old a. flint-locl1 rifle, tomahawk,
bracelets and the bones of a supposed
Indian. Sixty years ago two tribes of
Indians had battle on this hill and
from this event the hill got its name.
The bones were found buried three
feet deep, covered with stones and
with head to the east
The Fort Scott sugar factory is now
in operation, working off about 40, ZOO
pounds of fine sugar from molasses of
last years product left in the tanks.
From decision of the supreme court,
just handed down, the Fort Scott COM
pany will get nearly S., 900 bounty for
the 1894 product, which was in process
Of manufacture when the Wilson bill
repeating the sugar bounty became
effective.
Twelve years ago when the cedar
block pavement craze struck Leaven-
worth, one citizen refused to pay his
81, 500 special tax. He based his refus-
al on the ground that the ordinance
ho. hol -, i
by the acting mayor instead of the
mayor. The city lost its cause in the
district court, and now, after many
years, the supreme court has sustained
the decision. The people who paid
their taxes promptly as good citizens
have no way of recovering the tax
The blocks have worn out and a new
pavement has become necessary. This
proves that 1t is better to kick than to
pay a special tax.
Tweuty-one years ago when Ida May
Griffin, now Mrs. George Hanna of
Jetmore, was Is months old, she was
stolen from her parents at Independ-
ence. The child was taken to Illinois,
where she fell into the hands of a
christian family named Rice, who took
her to Iowa, and seven years later to
Hodgeman county, Kansas, where at
the age of &c she was married to Geo.
Hanna. Meanwhile her father, after
spending a great deal of money in
search of the child, died, and his wild
| ow afterward married a Mr. Williams
at Taylorville ILL.,, where she now
lives. Mrs. Hanna a short time ago
! told her history to the Jetmore paper
and copy of the paper fell into the
hands of her aunt, who forwarded il
| to Mrs. Williams, who with her hus-
J band took the first train for Kansas.
Arriving at Jetmore they were met by
the editor and drove out to the Griffin
| farm.
| Ness county reports an increase OF
population the last year.
/ NJ. ]. Kirk has just published geo
logical salt survey of the central and
western portions of Kansas for the
state university.
New brass bands are being organ.
lied all over the state. The campaign
will require great deal of music ..in
a horn"
The Kansas farmer is watching the
down Urn ri courSa IF the v,,.;oa -f -