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


Baxter Springs and Galena are now
connected with telephone.
Frances Murphy, the great temper
Ince orator, is coming to Kansas for
ten or twenty meetings.
A. A. Brown, of Olaf he, has a conch
shell that has been in the Brown fam
lily for 300 years. 1t is a perpetual
roarer'.
Preparations for the ~'fall festivities
at Topeka are being pushed. Three
new ''social clubs" were chartered
there last week.
NJ. j. Kirk has just published geo.
logical salt survey of the central and
west ern portions of Kansas for the
Ltate university.
The first estimate for the Kansas
wheat crop, this year, is out and is a
paralyzer. The number of bushels is
placed at 100, 900, 900.
1t is said that the time will come
when western Kansas will be as ia
nous for its alfalfa as Kentucky is
now for its blue grass.
Sol Miller wants to know what has
become Of the old-fa shioned woman
who made one chicken do for a
large family by cooking dumplings
with it.
Marshall, the Topeka bandmaster,
has written a march entitled 1.-The
State Journal The State Journal
says the music improves upon ac-
quaintance.
At Halstead the other night tramp
was sleeping in freight car. The
wind picked it up and tum bled it over.
The tramp never awaken ed until noon
the next day. He was tired.
Il know what twins is" said little
Quenemo girl to her mother. ''Twins
is two babies, born at once. Three ba-
bies is triplets, four ba bies is quadru-
peds and five babies is centipedes.
The Kansas editors who got up too
late in the morning the day the Santa
Fe railroad was sold, may now have a
chance to buy the Northern Pacific
under foreclosure mortgage of $12,-
! SOC, 600
The Latter Day Saints will hold
convention in Atchison June 10, 20 and
21. Among the notables expected is
Joseph Smith, son of the original
prophet of the mormons, who was
killed by mob at Carthage, Illinois,
in 1S47.
John d. Knox of Topeka, who dur
ing the boom was a bigger man than
old Mulyane, is now giving fifteen
cent lectures in Kansas. Kansas is
state of changes. Ingalls, who crowd
ed the Senate, now charges fifty cents.
It's all very strange.
A little less than two years ago a
certain marriagea BILE widow in Ottawa,
went to one of the banks one day and
made deposit. While in there one of
the mischievous clerks wrote her name
on crisp, new $40 bill. A few days
ago this lady received letter from a
railroad ticket agent in some town in
Texas wanting to correspond with her
with matrimonial intentions.
The prohibitory act provides a sal
airy of SIS per annum for every 1000
inhabitants, to be paid to probate
judges for services rendered under
| such act No services of that charac-
ter are rendered by the probate judge
of jackson county, there being no
liquor permits taken out by druggists
there, but the county commissioners
pay 500 quarter, just the same, and
the Signal, very properly, is making a
fuss about it.
There is fight on against Super
intendent Glotfelter of the Atchison
schools. He gave good satisfaction,
and was one of the best superintend-
cts the city ever had; but the old SOL
diers of the G. A. r. are opposing him
because he refuses to consume the
time of the schools with a flag drill
that the soldiers had arranged, under
the pretense of teaching patriotism
The soldiers are getting cid but they
should not get cranky. Patriotism is
a good thing, but it is not taught by
paradcs and drills. The old soldiers
who went into the war were patriotic,
but we venture to say that it was not
taught them at school by drills and pa
rades. They got plenty of that in the
army, but they were patriots before
that. Some of the boys would be pat
riots If they were raised in a coal
mine; and some could not be made so.
if you were to drill and shoot it into
them every day. Flag drills, to take
up time that should be devoted to
studies, will not accomplish it. You
may water and hoe around brick bat
every day of your life, and you can't
make it grow into gooseberry bush.
Judge Steve Osborns son Roy won a
cash prize of $15 at the annual spring
oratorical contest of the state univer-
| sity. The Judge has done better than
that in his time but not with his
mouth.
A new species of caterpillar has made
| its anDearance in the Orcha ride in Tvor