Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-17

Eleven of the forty-four old soldiers
who live in Wichita county draw pen
sions.
Meet man with brass band and
milk-wagon," is a southern Kansas
expression.
Judge Hazen, of Topeka, is gaining
an Oklahoma reputation for granting
DEGREES of divorce. Monday he grant
ed three divorces while he rested at
noon.
LATE Smith has bought the Great
Spirit spring near Cawker City. A ho-
tel belongs to the property, and he
extends cordial Invita- ton to all his
old friends to spend 4 few days with
him and try the waters free of charge.
Kansas railroad men say that often
letters of recommendation given them
after being discharged contain wa
termark of crane with it's head off,
which can only be seen when held up
to the light. 1t means that he has
been fired.
The last term of the Shawnee coun-
ty district court sent thirteen con-
victs to the penitentiary. One of the
number, Policeman Gaines, who muir
dered Alfred Cruger last summer, has
applied for pardon, presumably on
the ground that thirteen is an unlucky
number.
One of the leading pillars in one of
Chanute churches went to meeting the
other night and went to sleep. Hewas
called upon to pray and being dutiful-
ly punched by his better halt beloved
out loud enough to be heard by all:
''Goedurn We Betsy, kindle it your
self"
Haskell county has surplus of rat
tie snakes and cyclones this year The
local paper says in many instances a
dozen may be found in a single den.
Whether snakes or cyclones is mat
ter for speculation or conjecture, left
for the reader to determine for him
self
At the last meeting of the school
board at Leavenworth, Prof. James E.
Klock resigned the superintcndency of
the city schools to accept similar
position in the schools at Helena,
Montana. 1t is now in order for
Leavenworth to mourn the loss of
their school Klock
The city of Cimarron, out in the
edge of the sage brush country, has a
municipal debt that is almost $50, 900
greater than the assessed valuation of
the town. If the bondholders can be
coaxed into coming out and taking the
place for the debt, the remaining in
habitants will cheerfully move out
and give possession.
The 5-year-old daughter of NJ. S.
Amos of the Cedar Park house at Man
haitian was drowned in small pool of
water in the rear of the hotel Monday.
The child was playing about the prop
erty and wandered outside the lot,
when in some way she fell into this
pool, which is a hole into which the
city drains water from the streets in
that vicinity
During the time the public schools
of Lawrence were closed on account of
diphtheria, the teachers were allowed
their salaries. This caused much COM
plant from some of the patrons of the
schools and the board of education
concluded to extend the school term
one week without paying the teachers
for the time. They thus invited an
attack from the other side and both
factions are pouring hot shot into them
from every point
Secretary Coburn has just issued his
monthly crop bulletin which has an
encouraging outlook. He reports har-
vesting from 10 to Is days earlier than
usual. The severe deer ease in winter
wheat in counties southwest from
Cheyenne to Sumner is due to high
winds, unusual heat and lack of time
ly rainfall which prevailed to great
er or less extent during the first three
weeks in May. The late cool, cloudy
weather has been against large de-
velopment of rust and generally IA
vorable to wheat. The only material
drawback to corn prospersty general
ly as yet is ascribed to too copious
rains. About the same area of pota-
toes are planted as last year. The
acreage sown in millet and hungarian
is less than last year. Flax shows a
decrease and barley an increase in
acreage. Reports on conditions of
grasses and clovers mostly represent
them as excellent, giving luxuriant
pasturage and promise of great yields
of hay. Much of the alfalfa has made
vigorous growth and the first crop is
in process eff harvesting. Live stock
is invariably reported healthy except
that cholera among hogs to limited
extent is mentioned in twelve coun-
ties.
The attention of Joe Bristow is CALI
ed to the illustrated ad entitled s.His
Lip Gone, now running in some KAN
sas papers.
Coffeyville marketed the first car of
new wheat last year that was sold in
the United States. Her citizens are
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