Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-05-13

tina Messiah concert.
II. n. Gaines will deliver the mem
orial address at Glasco.
A lot of new books have been added
i to the public library at Halstead.
Thirty-seven thousand acres of wheat
are growing in Wichita county.
Wellington is happy The eader of
the brass band has come back.
Billy Edwards Kansas book will be
issued about the middle of July.
The cruel county printing war is
still being waged in Barber county.
The most terrible form of punish
ment known to children in southern
Kansas is to be whipped with a wet
rope "
According to an exchange the time
will come when every bushel of corn
raised in Kansas will be sold on the
hoof.
One man in Barber county now has
500 acres of corn under cultivation.
And the price in Chicago continues to
go down.
The Lawrence Journal has been Civ
en- the county printing at full legal
| rates. This full legal rate business
| appears to be growing in fashion.
R. W. Turner has quit Cripple Creek
! and returned to Mankato. He got
-
turn into something else, FASTENED
| back to Kansas.
Alonzo Cunningham has sued the
Saota Fe for damages-$15 ,OOO-in the
Cowley county district court. He was
hurt at Shoemaker, New Mexico, last
Christmas day.
Jerry Black has been married q
whole year and he still keeps his
! clothes brushed and his feet well
shod. He also lifts his hat to his wife
when he meets on the street
Last week a horse slipped in the
mud, fell and broke both legs of a
western Kansan: "They hurt terribly,
DOCTOR" he said, "but / amt COM
planning. Thank God for the rain
Leavenworth has broken out with
! the bicycle fever. The Leavenworth
girls enjoy life now that they can
chase out to the fort every few hours
to watch the soldiers breathe and eat.
Richard C. Meade, the Atchison thief,
whose penitentiary sentence has been
affirmed by the supreme court, il I'M
patient to get to work." but cannot
be taken to Lansing until the official
mandate comes from Topeka.
A Topeka justice of the peace has
decided that the services of a "spotter''
in securing evidence against whiskey
sellers have value, and that the Off
Ger employing such person must pay
the bill out of his own pocket A
''spotter's'' chief value is to make fees
for justices of the peace.
Col Moore, in charge of the state
farm in connection with the peniten-
tiary has already put in about thirty
acres Of potatoes and one acre each of
onions and peas. The farm force con-
sists of twenty men and three teams,
and good seasons work has been cut
out for them. The colonel intends to
put in sixty acres of potatoes in all,
besides eight acres of sweet potatoes,
ten acres of cabbage, six acres of sweet
corn, four of onions, two of peas, two
of carrots, eight of tomatoes, one of
parsnips and one of beans. In addition
to ali these there will be thirty acres
of cane for sorghum fifteen for feed
The farm force will also be utilized
during the season in materially in
creasing the fruit plant. There will
be set out 500 young apple trees, 600
! peach trees, 100 cherry trees, fifty pear
trees and 5000 black berry vines
Billy Morgan, who keeps his eye on
the main chance, thus cultivates the
n en- of the "short grass country"
''The inha bitants of the short grass
country are distinguished for their
cordiality, their frankness, their lack
of conventionality, their loyalty to
each other and to the prairies which
they have converted from desert
into a garden spot. The traveller can
tell the difference when he crosses the
line between Barton and Pawnee coun-
ties. After that he is no stranger
No native of the short grass country
ever thinks of riding in car seat by
himself, of estimating the character
of an acquaintance by the cut of his
clothing, and Judging him by that
standard. His religion, his politics or
his previous condition, even his name
in his old home, are not subjects of
criticism or investigation. He is &C
cepted as an honest man, and if he
does not respond in the same spirit
and take his new friends as they are
willing to accept him, he had better
continue his journey or return to the
region where suspicion and distrust
are the necessary guards against de-
ception.''
The Rock Island is shooting heavy
trains up from Texas through Kansas
with two engines Juggling in front.
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