Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-03-18
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.

proving the roadbed.
Among the things taken by a bur
glar at Clay Center was "a blue feath-
er fam" That was cool.
AS soon as an Atchison couple be-
come engaged they quit buying seats
IN the parquet and patronize the gal
lery.
Three Topeka women have dis
charged their ''help7 with the purpose
of saving up money enough to buy a
bicycle.
That old theatrical "Ten nights in
e Bar-room'' has come to Kansas, but
II got here too late. The bar-rooms
are all closed.
Colonel George R. Fultz, of Sumner
county, after a residence of twenty
three years in Kansas has gone to
Cripple Creek.
w. c. Gum, Fort Scott hustler, is
bringing Iowa families into Bourbon
county. He located eighteen families
there last Sunday
Horton will have to get along with
200 tons of ice this season. and as the
joints have been closed, it is believed
that nobody will suffer.
Out in Mcpherson county it is re-
garded as sure sign of gagement
when young couple cease taking bug
gy rides on Sunday and go to church
| instead.
Close observation reveals that as a
terror-creator the loss of the county
printing is getting farther and farth-
er away from the Kansas editor every
year.
Judge Hazen doesn't like the new
courthouse at Topeka. He says it is a
magnificent building for show and has
some fine halls, but that is not what is
required.
In an Atchison schoolroom of TWEEN
seven boys under years of age the
! clothes of every mothers son of then
was found to be shy from one to a
dozen buttons. This illustrates the
! firm hold whist has taken on tina
town.
| An Ell Paso man who held stakes fo
a couple of sports who bet on The
! prize fight ran away with the money
and came to KaLsas. But Kansas il
not refuge for scamp of that kind
when man came with a requisition
! the fugitive was turned over to hin
very promptly.
! : Mineral water, which, it is claimed
IS equal to that found at EXcelsio
/ Springs, Mo, has been struck at Pete
| Becker's place, just west of Atchison
The water was struck at a depth o
500 feet, and is almost an artesiai
well, coming up within a few feet o
the surface of the ground
At Pittsburg Superintendent Bar
rett has secured the right of way 70
! the extension of the electric lines, from
the county commissions. The surve,
as now made begins at Frontenac an,
rups to shaft 81, thence to Litchfeld
Midway, Cornell Yale and Minde1
/ Missouri, giving to the line the larg
est mileage of any electric road in tnt
state. President Simons, who is nov
in New York, writes that he will
reach Pittsburg in a short time, an'
work will begin at once upon his arri
val.
In Harper county the acreage &
oats this spring is unusually large, ant
the conditions at seeding time are YER
! favorable. 1t has been several year
since the farmers have had goo
crop of oats, and they seem to thinl
this will be the successful year. Whea
is daily gaining in vigor, and is j,
! splendid condition, but the crop j
never sure until it is in the bin. Ih
preparations are being made for anoth
er large acreage of corn, Indian an
Kaffir, and some of the farmers vii
commence listing the first of mex
month.
A female fortune teller gathered II
every loose dollar in Marysville tn
other day.
The old soldiers in the nations
home there want the next G. A. r. CT
campment held at Leavenworth. Their
are ., 500 of them, and if genuine so
dier sentiment prevails in locating tn
meeting Leavenworth will be selected
Besides, Leavenworth is hospitabl,
and knows how to entertain visitors
Major B. W. Stout of Wilson count
once took the longest uninterrupte
horseback ride on record. At til
close of the war he was stationed at
post on the Gulf of Mexico, and, upo
receiving his discharge, rode to h
home in Wisconsin. The trip wa
made on single horse, which stoc
the trip remarkably well.
The Manhattan Nationalist CO.
tanned a unique advertisement la
week. A wall paper dealer had 81
inch square sample of his best gilt p
per pasted in the center of his al
nouncement. 1t must have taken il
finite labor to paste the sample
each of the Nationalists large clrc
lation of papers, but the advertis
ment was worth it.
The university faculty has expell,
Charles /. Lucas, colored law studen
convicted of stealing university la
books. Lucas will fight both cou
and faculty action.
r. c. Ladd, who came here from Ca
ifornia about three years ago, W
found dead near his house two mil
southeast of this city this mornin
Though man of means. he lived alol
and 1t is not yet known what caus,
his death. He was about 60 years O
and seemed in the best of health. Ye
terday he was in town attending
business.
1t cost a Kansas postmaster s.
''cuss' the administration at Was
ington through the postoffice depa1
ment.
Sixty people from Kentucky, pass
through st. Louis, Tuesday night ,
their way to Kansas. They were
locate in Franklin county
Judge Vandiver has new lecture
Mexico He describes the country
1t IS seen with a calm, unpreiu die,
and unpuluuad eve