Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-30
SUNFLOWERS.
Grown In the Different Coun>
ties Of Kansas.

now They PrOgressuin the Winter a
Their Prosperity and Governmeu
BY the People.
| Wichita and neighboring towns sen
over $4,000 pounds of flour to Mantan
zaS.
The Northwest Kansas NJ. E. Con
ference will hold its next annual ses
sion at Downs.
kingman has contributed 20, 900 lbs
OF flour and 5000 pounds of other pro
visions to the starving Cubans.
J. E. Lambert and County Commis
sioner Leland were registered at tn,
Normandie in Washington, Saturday
Harry county Mennonites and Rus
slams are taking out nonresident pa
pers to prevent a call to arms In case
of war.
Hon. Jerry Simpson has accepted
the urgent ca1lof the New York Single
Tax Club to address that organization
on April 13.
Geo. 7. Nicholson has been named
as the successor of w. F. White, to be
general passenger traffic manager OF
the Ssnta Fe system.
The senate has confirmed as post.
masters, T. A. Sawhil1, at Concordia,
r. ]. Cornwall, at St. John and S, H.
Knapp, at ely de.
w. A. Smith, district deputy for
Kansas, has instituted a lodge of Elks
at Wichita. Forty-eight candidates
received the degrees.
Case Broderiek was largely in the
majority at the Jefferson county con-
gressional convention and our Charlie
appears to be in the soup.
A large cattle deal has been made
by B. F. Tatum of Kinsley with New
Mexico and Arizona parties. The
deal numbers from 10000 to Il, 900 cat.
tie, which will be shipped to Kinsley
and sold in small punches to cattle
buyers over the state.
Two stores at Vermillion and one at
Blue Rapids were broken into a few
nights ago. At Vermi1lion goods
valued at $500 were taken. The rob-
bers, three IN number, were arrested
near Corning and some of the stock
recovered. Two of the men were rid
ing horses stolen from Crab Orchard,
Neb.
James Nel1in, farmer living ten
miles east of Newton, suffered a loss
by fire amounting to nearly $4,000.
Seven head of horses, a large barn,
threshing machine, several hundred
bushels of wheat, corn and oats, wap-
ons, farm implements, sheds, ETC.,
were completely lost.
Salina citizens showed their SYM
pathy for starving people by raising
over $500 for the Cubans. In answer
to call for a public meeting for the
benefit of the Cubans about $50 busi-
ness men assembled at the opera
house, a larger number being kept
away by the storm. E. w. Ober acted
as chairman and Chas. McAdams, Sec
retary.
The sheriff of Montgomery county,
Kansas, was on his way to the pen,-
tentiary with three prisoners when
two of them slipped the handouts and
escaped from the train while the sher.
iff, deputy and the other prisoners
were asleep. A passenger in the
coach saw the men escape and woke
the deputy, who left the train in pur.
suit. One of the men was going up
for murder and the other for robbery.
They have not been captured as yet.
The Republican city convention
of Salina has nominated the
following city ticket: City clerk
H. B. Thomas; street commits
sioner, ]. w. Upton; marshal, D. A.
Dryer; counci1men-First ward, ]. N.
Wilkerson; Second ward, J. J. Ather-
ton; Third ward, D. w. Morris; Fourth
ward, David Stone; board of educa-
tion-First ward, r. S. Lawrence
Second ward, Fred Bowers; Third
ward, Mat. Brown; Fourth ward, c.
F. Ireland.
The school house of distric No. 90 OF
Reno county was entirely destroyed
by fire Friday night. 1t was supposed
it was set on fire by couple of boys
by the name of Campbell in the neigh.
borhood and who had spent scme time
in the state reform school at Topeka
They lately returned to the di,tric,
and for while were speaceable stu
dents but for some infraction of the
rules they were suspended Monday
and it is supposed out of revenge they
fired the building.
Chancellor F. H. Snow announced
that at a meeting of students held ir
the opera house and addressed by W
J. Bryan that Mr.. Bryan had mad.
Kansas university present of $3.50
the interest of which is to be use.
YEARLY. as a Drize for an esszv sf,h,,,;t