Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-02

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Scarlet fever is prevalent in Hutch
inson, and some children have beer
refused admission to the schools.
There is a we'll defined effort on foo,
among the friends of the late Captain
Henry Booth, to have his daughter,
Miss Lola, appointed post-mistress
at Larned, the Office her father would
have been appointed to had he lived
until April.
The disciplinary committee of the
Kansas university faculty has sent
out notices to $50 students who have
been negligent in complying with the
rules of the institution. The commit.
tee will act on the cases if the students
do not report promptly.
Situated three miles west and four
miles north of Lebanon, at the head of
Oak creek is 800 acre farm on which
are about 80 large walnut trees. A
Chicago firm has bought the trees,
paying $40 log and the owner will
be able to sell $2,7OO worth of these
logs.
Clay Center is to have a new jail.
1t will probably be built some 80 or 40
feet to the southeast of the center of
the court house square, and will con-
sist of residence for the jailer and
his family as well as cells for the pris-
oners. The whole will be under one
roof.
Wednesday afternoon just after the
Santa Fe pulled in to Sedan, the grass
in the cemetery caught fire and
burned everything in its path-trees,
shrubbery, flowers, and smoking the
tombstones. In fact burned nearly
everything in it's path, leaving things
in a pitiful condition.
Citizens continue to appear at Hia-
watha who were worked by a bold
fakir last week. He sold them Chinese
lily seeds. getting a good stiff price
for them, and representing that they
would produce plant that would bios
som every three months. The local
Chi ese laund, yman informed them
that they had been worked.
Geo. ]. Barker has re-opened his law
office in Lawrence. Mr.. Barker Is a
member of the legislature and Mrs.
Barker is member of the Board of
Education of Lawrence. On their re-
cent removal to Kansas City they
were threatened with dismissal from
both positions, but Kansas office has
it's attractions.
James Bennett, who came to Law
renee in 1856, and who served in Com
pany D of the first Kansas infantry,
was found dead in his bed Thursday.
He was stone mason by trade and
had lived in Lawrence since he first
came to Kansas. The funeral took
place Friday morning at g O'Clock at
the Catholic church.
A majority of the people have never
heard that the making of maple sugar
is one of the industries of Kansas.
Marion Smith, farmer living in
Miami county, has about 200 trees
tapped at his farm, and is making
sugar and syrup of very fine equality.
Gas has been found near Mr.. Smiths
farm, and next season he intends to
boil his sap with gas and tap over 500
trees.
State Bank Commissioner Breideu
thai lately has been compelled to send
out some notices which read like this:
"You are hereby notified and required
to reduce the total investments of
your bank, to an amount not exceed
ing four times its capital and surplus
actually paid in, as provided by sec
ton II of chapter ~ of the laws of
Kansas of 1897, within 90 days from,
the date hereof"
The city council of Hutchinson has
decided, so far as that body is con-
cerned, to have nothing whatever to
do with the proposed suit in the fed
era1 court to close the irrigation canals
in western Kansas and eastern Colora-
do. A representative attended the
water convention held at Wichita
last week and maoe report to the
city council. The Hutchinson council
passed resolutions deprecating the
action taken at the Wichita conven.
ton, and expressing its belief that the
waters of the Arkansas river can be
put to no better use than in making
fertile the lands of the western arid
regions. The council takes the stand
that Hutchinson is especially inter-
ested in the development of western
Kansas, and that amy attempt to in
terfere with the irrig alton privileges
would be working against the eity's
own interests.
The latent spirit of hostility be-
tween Hutchinson and Wichita has
broken out IN q new place. SATURDAY. )
a convention was held at Wichita, and
decided to take legal steps to prevent
the irrigation bitches on the upper Ar
kansas river from taking ali the waite,
from the stream. to the damage of thu
farmers along the river in southerl
Kansas. A representative of Hutch
inson attended the convention, aud OF