Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-11
SUNFLOWE RS.
Grown In the Different Coun,
ties Of Kansas.
The People Shall Continue To Rule
In Kansas .as a Reward for Work
Well and Faithfully Performed.


Major Tom Anderson, of Topeka,
proposes to get up a demonstration in
honor of the volunteer citizen soldiers.
Later-The time has been fixed, May
10.
Attorney General Boyle holds that
this section can only be applied to per-
sons who have made practice of I'll
ing such declarations from year to
year.
Col. H. M. Greene, of Lawrence, is
the third candidate in the race for the
Populist nomination for congress in
the Second district.
The Progressive Mennonnites, a
body of dissenters from the Mennon-
mite church, dedicated a new church
recently, nine miles south of Sterling.
w. A. Eaton, ex-postmaster of King
man, has left that town for Ration, N.
NJ, taking with him his old printing
plant, and will commence the pub1ica-
ton of a paper in his new home.
Last Saturday night the heaviest
rain for many years fell at Emporia.
Between sunset and sunrise two and a
half inches fell, as measured by the
government gauge at the State Nor
NAL school.
Governor Leedy has announced the
appointment of the Hon. w. d. Street,
of Oberlin, Decatur county, to be a
member of the State Board of Chari-
ties, to succeed w. L. Brown who re-
signed to go to the war.
There are five Republican candidates
for congress in the Second district, as
follows: E. c. Gates, Fort Scott; J..
p. Harris, Ottawa; w. ]. Buchan,
Kansas City; Ed r. Smith, Mound
City; ]. D. Bowersock, Lawrence.
The Shawnee Populist Convention,
last Saturday, divided. A ma ority of
the delegates were anti-Leedy men,
and the friends of the administration
retired. Later they published a call
for another convention to be held a
week later.
d. M. Ferry, the big seed dealer of
Detroit, Mich, has entered into a con-
tract with number of Kearney coun-
ty farmers living along the Arkansas
river to put in about 400 acres of vege-
table seeds for seed purposes. By the
terms of the contract the farmers will
receive a certain percent of the seeds
secured in the venture.
The employees of the Missouri Pa
cific shops at Fort Scott have
been notified by Supt. Webb that
any employee who desires to enlist in
the army for the war against Spain,
will be furnished with leave of abb
sence during the term of enlistment
with the understanding that his posi-
ton will be temporarily filled and
held open for him during such term.
w. w. Thomas, an attache of the
American legation at Stockholm, has
just given to Bethany college at
Lindsborg $1,000 for the purpose of |
founding two scholarships of 81 900 |
each. The principal is to remain in
tact, but each year the interest is to |
be given in prizes to the students of |
the college who deliver the best origi-
nal orations in the Swedish and Amer
lean languages, respectively.
AT the annual debate between the
middle and senior academic classes of |
Baldwin, last week, w. Rulison and |
f. L. Geyer represented the middle
academies on the affirmative; J. H. |
Irby and d. c. Kendall for the seniors,
on the negative. Question: ere |
solved, That the time has come when |
protection should be abandoned by the
United States" Decision in favor of |
negative.
The Sisters of Charity at Mount ST. |
Mary's, Leavenworth, have organized |
class to study nursing according to
modern methods. They propose to
study the theoretical work here and
will start hearing lectures at once.
After thorough course of reading
and practical and demonstrations they
will study the actual bedside work at
their hospitals.
The cost of rations at Camp Leedy
for each man per day will be 10 cents,
or about 5000 per day for the three
regiments of volunteers. Two Topeka
houses-William Green & Sons and
the Chas. Wolff Packing company
have secured the contracts for furnish
ing the Kansas volunteers with pro-
visions. 1t is expected that all the
companies will be recruited and in
camp by the 9Th inst.
George w. Few, wagonmaster at
Leavenworth is directed by the war
department to go to Tampa, Fla, at
once, to take charge of government
transport trains in the Cuban cam
paign. Few was corral and wagon
master at Leavenworth for years, and
had charge of number of wagons
crossing the plains during the Indian
wars. He is to go over to Cuba with
the first troops and will have charge