Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-09-01
NUMBER II.
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
County High School Law Attacked.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
County High School Law Attacked.
jeff Hudson, of
has been employed to fight
le erection of a new high school
Independence, under the special act
the last legislature. The law will
, attacked on the grounds that a
'ecial law to accomplish what is pro-
ded for by general law is uncousti-
ItionaL Mr.. Hudson will also attack
lie validity of the general law, which
lthorizes county high schools after
lie people have so voted.
Kingman Has Troubles of Her Own.
Kingman is now in the throes of a
lloon war over the burning of joint
In by Mike Brennan, who has spent
alf his time in Jail since the prohib-
ory law was enacted, Is years ago,
nd has cost the county at least 81 600
year. The temperance people are
lamed for the destruction of Mixes
lloon, and liquor men have threaten
rethren churches.
Fifteen-to- One Compromise.
In 1870 Baxter Springs voted Sl50, 900
l bonds to build the Missouri River,
ort Scott & Gulf railroad. The road
as never built, the bonds were re-
udiated and suit was begun for the
A compromise was recently
fected by which the town gets back
be $50, 600 in bonds, and in lieu there
T gives S10,O in 2O-year refunding
onds.
His Wheat Paid Five Mortgages.
David Herst, Sumner county farm
r, had five quarter sections of land,
IL heavily mortgaged. Suit was
rought to foreclose and the cases
Tere set for the September term of
ourt, but Herst sold his big wheat
rop for $1,000 more than enough to
ay all the mortgages, and he will
eep his farms.
Kansas Is All Right.
At 81 per bushel for her mammoth
yheat crop Kansas will this year have
money to burn" instead of 81, 600, 900
bushels of last years corn crop left
'ver. Potatoes are yielding about 25
ushels to the acre, which will make n
rop of $4,000, 900, and potatoes are not
drug on the market right now.
Hard on Teachers just Beginning.
There is complaint because school
eachers fiirt with positions-secure
me and get better if possible. One
,oard has required the teacher hired
o give bond for her appearance, and
mother made the teacher hired give a
500 bond that she would not desert the
chool to get married.
Bondsmen in Trouble.
j. r. Weakley, whose shortage as
reasurer of Cherry township, Mont
,omery county, is S3,045, has left the
His three bondsmen refused
% pay the shortage and they were
placed in Jail until they gave bond in
louble the amount of the shortage.
Cora Is q Sure Enough Bandit.
Cora Hubbard, the 1s-year-old girl
arrested at Weir City for helping rob
he bank at Pineville, Mo-, is said to
lave been a member of the Dalton
rang of outlaws and dressed herself as
/ cowboy. She takes delight in re-
her notorious escapades.
Mr. Cheney's Profits In Wheat.
f. p. Cheney, of Boston, a leading
in the Santa Fe railroad,
invested SS, 600 last fall in seed wheat,
which was sown along the Santa Fe in
and Mr.. Cheney will realize a
profit of $50, 900 from the crop.
Only One Murder Case.
There are $50 cases docketed for trial
1t the next term of the Shawnee coun-
" district court, and only one murder
case among them. This is a good
showing for a county having $4,000
Minor State News.
Emporia is dry" for the first time in
many years.
w. ]. Bryan will speak at the Wich-
ia fair October 1.
Cholera has exterminated several
lroves of hogs in Rice county.
All the joints in Newton were raided
the other day, and the city will be
dry"
w. J. Bryan will speak at Burlin-
game September 8. Gov. Leedy will
him.
Kansas will this season contribute 75
car loads of fruit to sooth the internal
man of the east.
A Nemaha county farmer has apples
in his cave as sound as ever and they
are two years old
The Santa Fe railroad will double
track its line from Emporia to Newton,
a distance of "a miles.
Congressman Case Broderick, of the
First district, is mentioned for governor
ON the republican ticket
Marve Tomblin. of Goodland, has
experimental with a vine
less potato and has enough seed to
plant a patch next season.
The managers of the Huntington
hotel in Fort Scott were arrested for
selling liquor, on complaint of Miss
Dora Judd, an employe of the hotel.
Miss Kate Adams, of Toptka, who
was stenographer in Gov. MorrilPs
office. is now doing missionary work
among the poor people at Pittsburg.
Chairman Love, of the democratic
state committee, in a recent interview
said his party would not fuse with
9opulists next year unless given places
IN the state ticket.
Business men and others will have
20 have their envelope advertising
printed by home printers hereafter.
The government will only furnish
stamped envelopes.
Congressman Curtis. after his defeat