Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-11-24
SUNFLOWERS.
Picked From the Different
Branches.
Among Other Things am Atchison
Policeman Gets Fined For kissing
Girl-ShOrt Items of Important
News.

depot.
Cy Leland must die. So says D. R.
Anthony.
Senator Baker is said to be opposed
to the annexation of Hawaii.
Senator PETER has sold the Advocate
and has temporarily retired from Jour-
na1ism.
At sale of Poland China swine in
Washington county, sixty-two head
brought $e11.0o.
The attendance at the Emporia State
Normal is unprecedented in the his
tory of that institution.
A Barton County hunter has bagged
white quail. Won't somebody please
report on white black bird?
The quarantine is raised, and there
is reported to be a lively rush of cattle
from the Territory into Kansas.
Charles Payne, a game dealer of
Wichita, is in trouble over the pur-
chase and shipment of live quail.
Newton is to have a new athletic
park including one of the best speed
ing and bicycle racing tracks in the
state.
The state executive council has
again awarded the fiscial agency to
the National Bank of the Republic, of
New York.
c. S. Perkins, apple buyer for cold
storage firm at FIT. Smith, Ark, has
shipped 5000 barrels of apples from
Burlington.
Miss Ida T. Moser and Mr.. Chas. F.
McCarter were married Friday even
ing at the home of the brides parents
in Emporia.
If the Peoples party is as dead in
Kansas as Republican journals say it
is, some body is in a fine business
fighting corpse.
L. G. Stine, chairman of the Demo-
cratic Central Committee of Franklin
county, has purchased the Ottawa
Daily Republican.
The Santa Fe claims to be building
ESQ refrigerator cars at a cost of $780,
600 for the benefit of the creamery
business in Kansas.
The fourth annual exhibition of the
Parsons and Southwestern Poultry as
sociation will be held in Parsons De.
cember to II inclusive.
The Ellis county commissioners
have adopted plans for new $4,000
stone court house to take the place of
the one destroyed by fire.
Emporia Lodge No. So of the Broth.
erhood of Railroad Trainmen, will
give an elaborate ball in their wigwam
Thursday, December 10th.
The Rock Island well at Wellington
is said to have furnished 1900 gal
Ions of water in one day without di
minishing the visible supply.
Woodson county has the smal1est
bonded Indebtedness of any county
in the state, having but $1,000. Shaw
nee has the largest with S666, ,283.
| Two bootleggers in the Larned jai
were caught selling whisky to Jail Wis
itors. We wonder if it was the senti
mental creature with the flowers.
William c. McVay, leading bust
ness man of Sterling, died at Kinks
vile, Missouri, Thursday. The bod,
will be taken to Sterling for burial.
1t is reported that the Republican
State Temperance Union will soon dis
band, as it has practically no activ
membership, and there is no election
in sight.
F. B. Koen, large canal builder, o
the Arkansas Valley, is in New Yorl
to confer with capitalists concerninf
the big irrigation reservoir for West
ern Kan.
Brother John r. Mu1vane has declar
r ed for the government ownership o
the telephone systems of the country
: provided such ownership would be un
successful.
: There is prospect of P1ainville be
coming division point in case the oil
Kansas Central is made to connect wit
!, the Salina and Oakley branch of tn
Kansas Pacific.
A new industry has sprung mp nea
Ottawa. Two farmers have patente
process for taking in escaped cor
victs and turning them over to tn
state for the reward.
In Bourbon county the Republican
: placed a co1ored man on the ticket fc
coroner and he was beaten while a
:. the other candidates were elected. I
: Shawnee county co1ored man was o
!. the ticket for county clerk and he ge
the least ma ajority, with one exception
given any man on the ticket. And "
the co1ored men continue to vote tt
Republican ticket and to accept witt
out question the taffy given the
about the friendship of that party fl
them. AS matter of fact they al
wanted in the Republican party f,