Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-01-06
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO Dwell.
lERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review Of Personal ana oa,.
eral News Condensed to Paragraph.
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

organized an aLhletlc club.
Tom Leftwitch does all the fighting
for Cuba from Larned in the Kansas
City papers at Eve dollars column.
Every egg case you see in express
cars is not full of eggs to the bottom.
Below the top layer are layers of quail
The Santa Fe paid $500, 900 taxes in
Kansas December 21 That ought to
cause somebody to put his thinking
cap on.
The seventh congressional district
furnishes nearly half of the Republi.
can members Of the next Kansas legis-
lature
The Pratt Republican for Christ
mas editorial published the beautiful
chapter from Luke telling of the birth
of Christ
Graut Harrington Of Hiawatha, a
newspaper man has been appointed
secretary of the state senate committee
on railroads.
A unfeeling judge at Salina assessed
a man 50 for Christmas eve jag.
Hasn't a man a right to get gay on
Christmas eve?
During his short receivership of the
Santa Fe it is proba BILE that John Mar
tin managed to get pass until Dec.
81, 1896, at least
The first bills to be introduced in the
legislature this winter will be Bill
Street and Bill Brown, who are run
ming for speaker.
At baby show in Medicine Lodge
the judge gave all the contestants blue
ribbons. Medicine Lodge is the place
statesmen come from.
An Atchison man is envied by all
the other married men in town. He
gave his wife a chatting dish for Christ
mas and she already knows how to run
it.
Some surprise is felt over the state
because Bernard Kelly does not call
on Major Mckinley. Bernard is going
to get on in the third and last call for
supper"
There is going to be big kick
among the PCpulists in western and
southern Kansas against giving the
senatorship to a northwestern Kansas
man again. Nv
The reporter of Kansas newspaper
i'll searching for new words to fit the
old idea of "a dull day found this: ''Su-
preme quietude prevailed upon the
streets"
There is only one river in the world
which has less water in it than the Ar
kansas river This is the South Cana
dian. The sand in the Arkansas is
damp. 1t is powder dry in the Cana
dian.
The following item from the Ton.
ganoxie, Leavenworth county, Mirror,
is referred to those eastern Kansas ed
itors who have been abusing western
Kansas: There is another frightful
| delinquency in the taxes this year,
and the legislature must be called on
to pass either a special or a general
act to compel the payment of taxes.
Taxes are running behind at the rate
of about $40. 900 per year in this coun-
ty, and theIe are number of wealthy
men in Leavenworth city whose back
taxes run into four figures. If no leg
islative relief is given this winter
Leavenworth county will become bad
ly involved before another legislature
meets, and county warrants will sell
at discount.
Coolidge would like a creamery, but
a slximming station will do.
Old General Rice writes a piece in
the old Kansas strain to the Fort Scott
Monitor. Like old Kansans he asked
number of dreadful questions and
then ends the communication with
"God forbid"
In Minneapolis recently long resolu-
ton on the death of a member of a fra
ternal lodge ended with: Resolved,
That a copy of these resolutions be
given to the press and another copy
sent to the deceased.
The New York Sun says the most
violent Populists in Kansas come from
the west part of the state There is
nothing in this. The eastern Kansas
Popolists are just as rabid as those
from the west, if not more violent.
Rev. G. Lowther, presiding elder of
the Winfield district, in his church pa.
per, the Christian Herald, advertises
for "a preacher who can preach like an
angel, raise the dead, call out the stav-
at-homes, stop the mouths of prum-
blers, keep up the finances, have a re-
vival and live on wind"
The Canton Champion thinks that a
streets car line would pay between Can
ton and Lehigh There are joints in
Lehigh.
Frank Greer infers from close read
ing of Grover Cleveland's message
wherein it deals with public land that
he will veto the free homes bill shou d
it reach him.
Dave Martin, of Lane county, west
ern Kansas, has out 265 acres of wheat.
There must be some mistake about
western Kansas being wholly a cattle