Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-08-10
State News.

Lyon county.
The Salvation army in Kansas City
supplies Ice to the very poor at ten
pounds for one cent.
An Atchison man says he cured him
self of neural gle by holding a kittento
his face three times day.
Senator Harris has returned TO
Kansas and the State committee will
have him speak during the campaign.
% farmers near Clifton tended the |
crop Of a neighbor whose wife re-
qnired his presence at her bedside. |
Two thousand voters of Topeka pc |
titioned the City council to authorize
q vote on city ownership of water |
works.
Receipts of the internal revenue Of
ice at Leavenworth aggregated about
100000 in July-ten times the usu-
al amount.
The average yearly wages OF en-
ployes in Kansas is $4,000, ranging
from SOS. Sc for domestics to 81 100
for engineers.
Dan Anthony, who has been through
more political campaigns than any
Republican in Kansas, warns the lead
ers not to be Over-confident this year.
A thief visited Plainville recently,
took horse from one man, a set of
harness from another, and buggy
from third and then went on his
way rejoicing.
An Atchison school mann says that
the morsels of wit and wisdom gener-
ally quoted from the Globe and espec-
tally those severest upon the fairer
sex are written by woman.
81 school maams of Cowley county
s'belie wing that politics have no part
In education" have petitioned the
voters 10 nominate and elect Miss
Julia b. King superintendent of pub
lie instruction.
f. Z. McClelland, a farmer near
Wichita, was robbed of $1,1OO in cash,
bank check for 81, 500 and $4,000
in notes and mortgages. The thief en-
tered his home in broad day and held
McClellend up.
Attorney General Boyle rules that
when cattle are In transit from one
county to another on March l, the as
SCISSOR of the township in which the
owner lives shall assess them for tax
alton, no matter whether the cattle
have arrived or not.
Forest Park, over in Atchison is sur
rounded by barbed wire torcha il
order to keep cut those who have no
the price. To make it more effective
during an exhibition the other nigh
the wires were charged with electricity
This is going the Spaniards one better
The Republicans are parading L. u
Mathews of Mound City as an ablt
lawyer who has come back to tn,
Grand Old Party. Linn County pop
ulists rate him as "jackleg, polio,
court pettifOgger" who controls bu
one vote.
In 1896 the Republicans warned thu
people that IL they elected Leedy Gov
ernor, capital would be driven out
OF the state. The same Republican
are now telling about the wonderful
prosperity Of Kansas which enable,
its banks to loan money to Pennsyl
vania corporations.
Gov. Leedy has refused to issue .
reqnis;tion for the return of a Hol
county, Nebraska man because it wal
learned that he might be lynched i
he were taken back to his home. H,
was charged with disposing of mort
gagged property.
Kansas old soldiers who have en-
listed In the present war have beer
notified that their pensions have beer
suspended. All of these old soldier
are officers and while their disabilities
for which pensions were granted. still
exist, they are not as a rule of sucl
character to interfere with cficien
service now. An effort was made I,
keep these men out of the service en-
tirely and but for the prompt action o.
Governor Lsedy it would have beer
done.
10 hear republican papers favorine
the annexation of nearly all of the
Old world 1t makes one wonder wha,
they meant about protecting our IA
Dor from the pauper foreign labor O
this same land.-Furmers Advocate
Will Governor" Stanley be any
more successful in closing the joint,
than was Commissioner Stanley un
der Humphrey? The joints anc
dives ran openly in Wichita ant
prospered VIGOROUSLY by his comm
vance,
Oldthe Tribune
The populist state convention
knocked the wind out OF the repub
Hcans so completely that they didn
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