Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-03-11
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell.
IeHS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
MSSEs Review of Personal ana a..
~AA News Condensed TO ParaEraphs
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Oats are being sown in Souther
Kansas.


The Standard Oil company is nut
ting up 200 dcric<s on their ..oilvn
property IN Wilson county.
A license To sell cigarettes in pitt
Durg costs $500 and but one dealer
there has had the courage TO try it.
Ont in kingman county recently a
girl hred shotgun into the air in or
der 10 frighten dog. She killed the
dog.
Ewing Herbert is still working ON
that Florida trip, and at the same
time he insists that his circulation is
increasing.
bishop Vincent will deliver the bae-
calaureate sermon ut the commence
ment exercises of the State university
this year.
Quite number of Russians and Aus
trians from Russell and Barton coun-
ties are renting land in the southern
part vi Rush county and will engage
In farming there this summer.
hBertha Hurst, n poor glrl who was
deserted by her parents when a baby
and who has since gone wrong, has
been arrested in Ness county and will
be sent to the Beloit school.
A Harper county paper on the last
day OF February withdrew its propo-
sition tG take corn on subscription at
twenty-five cents. This is bad sign
for the corn market in that section.
A Sumner county farmer drove into
town the other day with load of
corn before daylight. He probably
wanted to get it sold before the rail
roads showed up the corn rate a lit tie
higher.
T.. Il. Houghton, who recently went
from Cowley county to Cripple Creek,
writes back to friends that he rents
his lot which cost him $500, for SIS
per month. That is fair interest on
the investment.
The recent visit of several hundred
editorial missionaries to Leavenworth
seems to have borne fruit already in
that sinful community. 1t is officially
announced that there is to be no more
Sunday theatricals.
Six young ladies contested at the
high school in Ottawa Tuesday night.
Miss Lotto Chamberlain won first place
and will represent the ottawa high
school in the state contest to be held
in that city April 4th.
Anderson Gray, the man who hyp-
Noticed another man into the commits
sion of murder in Sumner county, has
an easy job in the penitentiary. he
begins to show sign of age, but is
still hopeful of release.
Mrs. Mabel Jenness Venter is teach
ing the Lawrence ladies how to be
beautiful. We understood from the
journal that the ladies of Lawrence
could not possibly be more beautiful
and now let the Journal explain.
]. II. Love, Elmer Hoffman and
George Elliott of Galena have gone to
far-off Alaska in search of gold. There
is no gold in Galena, but there is what
may be sold for gold-lead and zinc in
Rbundance-and that's the place to go
and dig.
A Coffeyville man, suspecting that
someone was peeping through the
keyhole of his Office door, investigated
with syringe full OF pepper sauce
and went home to find that his wife
had been cutting wood and chip had
hit her in the eye.
The average number of bushels of
wheat per acre raised in Cowlcy coun-
ty the past five years is thirteen and
one-half bushels. This puts Cowley
in the lead of wheat growing counties
Sumner county raised more wheat but
she had ia almost twice as many
acres.
A Sumner county expression is that
"prices are no higher than a cats
back unhumped.
Some Galena young men began a
prospect and they named 1t "Mae "
But, although they dug deep into the
ground and drifted in many directions,
their labor was dead loss. Then
they took down "Mae" and put up
"Mary" and the next day they cut
into big run of ore.
The League of American Wheelman
in Kansas is preparing a book, descrip-
tive of the roads in each county of the
state. Each county is taken up separ-
ately and tn, best road between the
prime pal towns in that county is
marked out and described. 1t will be
a great convenience to persons driving
or ''scorching" over the state.
number of leading business men
of Abilene have organized n company
- r r.. alt
and the city council will be asked to
pass an ordinance giving a franchise.
The company intends to use the new
illuminant, acetylcne gas. The right
to manufacture and sell this illumi-
nant in Kansas was recently bought
by Topeka man.
Beloit has made arrangements to
take care of 1000 old soldiers during
the encampment. That's not counting
Phil Kelley. If he attends he will
have to take a tent with him.
Near Kirwin the gold fever is raging
and the people are greatly excited,
over what looks like gold find. Some
excellent samples of carbonates
have been taken from the hills of
Deer creek, two miles from the city.
Good lead samples have also been
found on the Solomon, in Bow creek
township, two miles west. Specimens
PCf both have sent to the assayer.
N TOpekans have left their dam site
again and are now agitating hole in
pthe ground to see IL there is any coal
under them.
by this time next week the Noble
county gold boom will have thrown
the Washington county, Kansas, gold
boom into the deep shade.
Down in Harper county the turning
point in '-hoss trade" now is, who
shall have the halter? Every other
point is easily disposed of.
Jonathan Scott, a blind and crippled
ald coldfar ~ Tahatfa fo,.ukxr hoe