Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-10-05

Hives should be within half a mile
of the orchard or small fruit patch:
State News.
Emporia will have hot time on
the night of Oct. 4th. Louis c. Boyle
and John Atwood will speak there.
There are no orators more brilliant
in Kansas.-K. @. Times.
The last Populist Legislature cost
the state 1874 81 per day less on its
own expense than the republican leg
islature which preceded it.
In view of the fact that the en-
rollment at the State Agricultural
College is greater this year than in
any previous year in the history of
the institution the republican papers
are saying nothing about the ruin
wrought at that institution when it
was reorganized little over a year
ago.
The present state officers are ar
ranging to put in an electric light
plant at the State house. After this
plant is completed and Is in opera
ton, the expense of lightning the
building will be scarcely one half as
much as ii has been in the past. 1t
is even estimated that it will save
its cost to the state every year.
For the past two years republi-
can plpers have persistently charg-
ed that the Agricultural College
was rum ed by reason of the reorgan-
ization made by the Populists.
The general government seems to
pay little attention to the testimony
of these newspapers as it has in
creased the allowance for the ex-
pertinent station to an amount high
er than was ever given before.
State Bank Commissioners John W.
Breidenthsl has issued the advance
sheets OF his annual report, which
show tnat the majority of state and
private banks in Kansas are carrying
surplus exceeding so per cent Of
their capital. The law requires ten
per cent of net earnings to be carrisd
to the surplus account until the sur
rlus exceeds so per cent OF the capi-
tai. The Commissioners says that few
banks coLfine themselves to one
tenth but during the past year
majority have exceeded this by large
amounts. The report will show that
Kansas banks are in better condition
than ever before.-Peoples Voice.
ENGINEER Mike Scan an of the Han
nibal e. st Joseph freight train gave
the crew a fast ride on the 21st.
When they left Brookfieid early in the
morning he seemed alright but before
they reached Cameron be had become
mentally deranged. He pulled the
throttle wide oyen and ran that way
down grade where it is the practice to
use no steam and use the breaks in
stead. An enormous speed was
reached and when Cameron was
reached he was taken from the cab
against his protests. He has been a
fireman on the road for nine years
aud was given charge of an engine
about six months ago.
A Topeka republican who attended
both the populist and republican
state conventions says that he will
this year vote the populist ticket, and
that he will do go because the work
of the Hutchinson convention con-
vinced him that the republican party
was being controlled by q few leaders
end fxars, and that he never attend
ed state convention where 80 many
Of The delegates participated so freely
IN It's work IS was the case at the
Populist state convention. He be-
:ieves that it Is q safe proposition for
the people of Kansas to support that
party which is nearest to the people
rather than that which is controlled
by few bosses.