Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-10-27
ALL OVER KANSAS.
Items Of Prosperity, Under
Populist Rule.
Football Barred, Topeka's WOOIen
MIL, John Doyle Killed, At
Gibson Champisn for Sale,
g. A. r.. Reunion,

AOooS " d PpACS CNCI QdY.
The faculty of Ba5twin University
have decided to bar FToot-ball as one of
the classics.
Mrs. J. H. Todd, ots Topeka. claims
to have had her SIGHT restored by
Christian Science.
The Office of State Grain Inspector
Culver has made a profit to the state
for the month of September of
50, ,O2o.87.
Beloit is soon to have a non "hel1o-
girl" telephone system. What in the
world is "Judge" Ellis going to do be-
tween meals?
Bonner Springs, a small station
twenty miles east of Lawrence on the
q. p, is projecting an electric line to
Kansas City-18 miles.
1t is remarkable how many Kansas
editors are now announcing in their
Add Columns that ga few weeks ago
the editor was taken with a severe
cold"
John Doyle, of Abilene, Kansas,
aged oO, was run over and instantly
killed by Missouri Pacific train near
the town of Dillon, on the morning of
the 21st.
A heavy rain fell at Good1and, Kan
sas, recently, being the heaviest in the
history of the county at this time of
the year, and everything is now in
first class condition.
Recent scientific investigation into
the condition of some fine cattle at the
Manhattan Agricultural College has
discovered undoubted evidence of
hereditary tuberculosis.
The Atchison Champion, having al
ways been printers grave yard, has
at last got the best OF Andy Felt The
Champion is advertised for sale at
what is stated to be "bargain."
The Topeka Capital seems to have
very bad cold over the fact that the
Wew Time, a recently published
Magazine gets at some facts not ex-
actly to the taste of republican crank
ism.
T. E. Stephens, Secretary of the
State Temperance Union, and Miss
Eta May McLin, of Rural Township,
Shelby county, Ill, were married at
the home of the brides parents Thnrs-
day evening, October IA.
Bernard Kelley denies that he has
made an effort to secure the chap
1aincy of the Soldiers home. He is
not even ''in the hands of his friends
but chaplaincy in the regular army
would not have to run after him with
very long pole.
The temperance people of Yelling
ton have formed a permanent organi-
zation, with the following officers:
Rev. E. A. Hoyt, President; W. H.
Schultz, Secretary; Henry Armstrong,
of Rome, Treasurer. The purpose of
the organization is to keep up an in
terest in the temperance question.
A scandal is on tap at Conway
Springs. One Smith ran away with
the servant girl, Travelled around as
long as his money lasted, and th.n re-
turned to the bosom of his family, but
his family very properly said init"
and Smith is now viewing the land
scape through the lens of a barred
window.
If we are to have a statute of some
Kansan in the National Capitol at
Washington, why not take ingalls, for
a subject and save Wichita
Eagle.
Why not take Ed. Little and save
brass?-Topeka Capital.
Why not take the proprietor of the
Capital and save the whole?
The statements of the three Concor-
dia banks published in this issue show
S257, ,717.O7 on deposit, most of that be-
longing to farmers. That is about SIS
per capita for the whole county, and
all the other banks still to hear from.
Empire.
How can that be possible with that
reputation, Socialist" "An-
archy crowd, that was going to ruin
the state, running the state govern
ment?
Topeka is to have Wollen Mill, of
which figures expect numerous great
things; but this mill will have to beat
its record at Independence, Mo, if it
makes a Binghamtou out of Topeka.
1t dragged along at independence for
several years and, when it burned
down year or more ago, one of the
gentlemen connected with it was ar
rested on suspicion of having pur-
posely burned it. on the general theory
that it was more profitable for him to
burn it than run it.