Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-04-06
SUNFLOWERS.
Grown In the Different Coun>
ties Of Kansas.
The People Shall Continue To Rale
Well and Faithfully Perforned.

gresham Curtis, is dead.
A leakage in the gas mains of To-
peka will cause the tearing up of con-
siderable asphalt pavement.
Wichita Sons of Veterans have tele-
graphed to Washington that they are
ready to form company for the war.
H. B. Peirs, who was appointed su-
perintendent of Haskell Institute at
Lawrence, has assumed charge of the
school.
Hon. r. h. Semple was in Ottawa
Friday and Saturday attending the
funeral of his brother who died recent
ly at Seattle.
The Belle Springs Creamery com.
pany of Dickinson county and the
the Oakwood Creamery company have
united with headquarters in Junction
City.
The State University has sold to
the National Museum of Washington,
ID. c., lot of duplicate fossil reptiles
from western Kansas, which are now
in Snow Hall.
1t is reported that Kansas and Pu-
eblo, Colo, parties have purchased
10000 head, about one million dollars
worth of cattle from the Van Horn
and Eddy ranges in Texas.
Benjamin w. Reynolds, brake
man on the Midland railroad, was
caught and crushed under the cars
while making coupling in the yards
at Wichita.
Andrew F. Ross of Clearwater, who
was found near Crawford's opera
house in Wichita in an unconcious
condition, died Friday night from the
effects of his injuries.
The Beatrice Creamery company of
Lincoln, Neb., has established cream
cries at Atwood and Herndon, Kas.'
and at Danbury, Neb., a few miles
from the Kansas line.
No clew has yet been found az to
who robbed the postoffice at -Gfen
Elder, although several arrests have
been made. The safe was blown to
pieces and money and stamps stolen
to the amount of about $500.
A general rain fell over Dickinson
county and the fields are in magnifi-
cent condition for the spring crops. A
large amount of oats is already in the
ground and preparations for corn
planting are well advanced.
Investigation of many of the fields
of oats in Dickinson county shows
that the recent freeze has injured the
sprouted grain and a large portion of
this crop will have to be replanted.
Farmers are not at all doubtful of the
wheat which they consider promises a
full crop. Corn planting has begun.
j. w. Rush's fifty thousand dollar
damage suit against ex-Judge Van
diver, S. r. Peters, A. E. Austin, w.
H. Vernon and Fred Dumont Smith
for conspiracy and false imprisonment
was decide against him Friday in the
district court, Judge Andrews instruc-
ting the jury to return a verdict of ac-
quitta1.
A conflict between two rival literary
societies of the High school of Fort
Scott called out the police, the fire.
men and the schools faculty. One So
ciety unfurled its co1ors from the flag
staff on the school. The other tore
them down and put up its own emblem.
II then took possession of the building
and was attacked by the opposing So
ciety. Before the aggressive society
had gained the roof of the school build
ing by means of scaling ladders there
was a crowd of spectators and some of
the nervous ones had turned in a cali
for the police and fire department.
| S. r. Washer has been selected an
secretary of the John A. Martin mon
ument committee, and DIR. G. II. T.
Johnson treasurer; E. W. Howe was
named as chairman in the resolution
adopted lately by John A. Martin post.
Mr.. Washer was selected as secretary
because of his familiarity with the
matter in hand, he having had large
experience in selecting monuments to
mark the section of Kansas regiments
on southern battle fields. Those who
have subscribed to the fund and who
have not paid, should send the amount
to DIR. Johnson as soon az convenient.
! One Sedgwiek county man has gone
to war. Frank Hornecker, who lives
seven miles west of Wichita, went to
town to get bicycle and other per-
sonai property belonging to his son
Ed who left the property there and
went to Brooklyn, N. Y, where he
has the promise of position in the
United States navy. Young Horn
ecker went to town in the afternoon
on his bicycle. There was letter in
Office from the naval authorities Al
the Brooklyn yards promising him .
place. He had some money with him,
: but he had brought none of his clothes.
) He wrote his father card stating
that he would leave IA few hours for
r Brooklyn. He left ON the Santa Fs
ats:2o.