Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-02-26
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell
LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review of Personal and GEN.
eral News Condensed to Paragraphs.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Wheat is fine in Rice county

Wheat is fine in Rice county.
The farmers of the plains region
are sowing oats. The blowing was
done in January.
Drilling crews are arriving in Eas-
tern Kansas daily from the oil fields
| of Pennsylvania.
Horace VI. Horne of Sumner county,
has been appointed head foreman at
the Osawatomie asylum.
Sumner county has a surplus of S1O,-
900 cash on hand, and is in the market
to buy some of its own bonds.
The La Crosse newspapers have
| rival in a local nilliner, who takes
butter and eggs in exchange for head
gear.
The patrons of the IIoxie postoffice
put their spare cash in money orders,
and so make the Office a postal savings
bank.
! A Butler county woman, in antici-
! patton that her COW will go dry has
canned lot of milk for the use of the
! family.
Kan sas lawyers who have located in
Cripple Creek make mining law
speciality. A Kansas man is equal to
any emergency.
The Santa Fe railway system is the
largest in the entire world, the mile
age being 9316 and >, $40 of these miles
are in Kansas.
The league base ball players of Pitts
burg want the Atchison fans to put up
$50 for the privilege of seeing them
play one little game.
You may not get rich in Kansas so
fast as in Cripple Creek, but you will
be great deal richer when you do
get your fortune accumulated
Topeka's amateur ''Mil1ado" per.
formances melted $500 for charity
That's more than the mummies would
have brought had they sold them
In southern Kansas and western
Kansas this winter several men have
been injured by heavy logs. This,
fellow citizens, was once prairie
country.
The Atchison Globe which knows
nothing about Western Kansas says
that the people in that part OF the
state have been living on fresh air and
rabbit tracks this winter.
More money is paid for lodge dues
in Sumner county than for taxes, and
the egg crop sells for more than the
interest money on the farm mortgages
amounts to. There is no kick coming
III that county.
II. :. Hicll of Manhatton, was mem
Der of the Illinois legislature when
Lincoln and Douglas had their cele-
brated contest for United States sena-
tor. IIicll will deliver an address at
Westmorcland February %
j. II. Brown, the new manager of
the Leavenworth opera house, has in
formed the city council that if they
will reduce his license from $f00 to
$50 "a year he would cease to have
Sunday night plays. The matter WAS
taken under advisement by the coun-
ell
A coal carrier at Ottawa has been
economizlng and denying himself
many of the little sweets that 90 to-
ward making life a pleasure, for the
purpose of helping to keep up a fund
to continue the hopeless litiga ton
against the Annel1e Jams estate. He
will sooner have fortune by putting
his spare pennies in his pocket
A Topeka woman sent a handsome
picture of ''Saint Cecilia to her sis
ter in Pennsylvania for a Christmas
present Judge of her surprise to re
ceive on Christmas day from her sister
Il duplicate of the present she had
sent, with an apology that it was a
very poor thing to give, but she sup
posed there was nothing like it ont
here in the west
Marbles and mumble-peg are now
raging at Topeka.
William Heddie committed suicide
in the jail at Norton Tuesday night.
He had been convicted of the murder
of Albert Applegate, and sentenced to
serve a term of fifteen years in the
penitentiary at hard labor.
The people of Rice county are much
favored. There is only one brass bant
p in the county, and that is at Rich
, mond, which is so far from the popu-
lous centers that it disturbs compa r.
:, atively few of the countys inha bitants
;. Sunday night one of the lady mem
bers of the choir at the Presbyterian
church in Abilene sang SOLO He1
= grandfather who is in his 9th wear
e was occupying front seat, and no
:, ticing that no one else of the choir
- and congregation was singing, con
y cluded that his granddaughter wa
II abandoned and forthwith struck il
and sang the solo from start to finisl
with her. 1t so amused the SINCE
that she was scarcely able so sing TO
laughter The good old man after
; ward remarked that it appeared t,
him that the singing at the church al
most wholly depended upon himself
The hen is doing her share of til,
worlds work in Wichita county.
single dealer shipped $3.50 eggs las
week, from one of the smallest town
\ in the eastern part of the county
! Three months ago Edward Davis O
:, Wichita county advertised for wife
4 Alice Meyers of Dickinson county say
i in the advertisement the opportunit
of her life, and she nailed it to tn