Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-25
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ties Of Kansas.
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Miss Jean Mcfarland is the new
editor of the Kansas Patron, at Pao1a.
Ex-Lieut. Governor Andy Felt will
deliver the Decoration Day address at
Seneca.
Saliua county farmers are selling
Off their stored wheat to catch the big
prices.
| A Johnson county recruit named
Gilmore Buss, is six feet, two, in his
stocking feet.
Sixteen recruits for the regular
army were sent in one squad from
Leavenworth South.
Sedgwick County Commissioners
have appropriated SOL to be expended
on the county's exhibit at Omaha.
Lieutenant Governor Harvey has
| resigned his position in exchange for
majors commission in the 21st Kan
| sas.'
A young lawyer, Clarence L. Barron,
of Kingman, was admitted to practice
law and the same day he was admit
ted to the army.
Clay County delegates to the Popu-
list state convention are instructed
for Leedy, and the District delegates
are for Vincent.
In the office of livery barn in OF
tawa, man named Hackett, a stran-
ger, was instantly killed by lightning
last Saturday.
Jacob Greenburg, Fort Scott mer-
chant, has been sentenced to two and
half years Imprisonment for receiv-
ing stolen goods.
Mr.. ]. M. Miller, of Council Grove
has been nominated by the Republic
cans as their candidate for congress
in the Fourth district.
| Republicans in Bourbon county are
having trouble with Col. Blue, ex-con-
gressman-at-large. The question at
issue is: who is on top?
Baker University will celebrate the
fortieth anniversary of its birth May
30th to June 1st. An interesting pro-
gram has been announced.
Hon. I. c. Henry who was known
as the Kansas wheat king when he
lived at Abilene, says that he never
saw Kansas wheat look so well as it
does now.
Col. Fred Funston, of the 10th Kan
sas regiment has been ordered to
leave at once for Tampa, Fla, for
] duty as colonel on the personal staff
of Gen. Miles.
A good many of the volunteers that
were rejected at Topeka by the ex-
aiming officers, afterwards managed
to pass muster into the regular army
and have gone south.
Chancellor Snow says that the rain
fall in Kansas for the first four months
of this year exceeds that of the cor
responding period of any year on his
thirty years record.
The Twentieth regiment, Col. Funs-
tons, with Lieut.. Colonel Little in
command, has been ordered to San
Francisco enroute to Dewey's king
dom in the Philippines.
A n1nety-five foot flag pole was
raised by the shopmen at Ossawatomie.
The shop whistle and all the 1ocomo-
tive whistles in the yard greeted the
20-toot flag when it appeared.
The firm of Salisbury & Co., of Ar
kansas City, dealers in shoes, have
closed their doors. Their stock was
turned over to a st. Louis company
that holds mortgages against it.
Harry Cutlery instructs us to mail
his paper to Spanish Greek, Colorado, -
says the Alton Empire. ''May we be
hanged if we do! This IS. anish' bust.
ness must be stopped! Dam Spanish
Creek"
State Grain Inspector Culver has
filed his report for the month of April
with the State Auditor. It shows that
the sum of S2,308.85 was taken in and
S2,661.73 was paid out, leaving a de.
felt of $352.ss.
The first summer meeting of the
State horticultural society for 1895
will be held at Sabetha, Nemaha
county, in four sessions beginning
Wednesday, May Is, and ending on
the afternoon of the 10Th.
The Garnett presbytery of the Uni
ted Presbyterian church, sitting at
Ottawa last week, resolved that the
present war in which our nation is in
volved is not step backward in the
worlds progress toward universal
peace.
Writing about soldiers, here is
good suggestion: "When writing to
the soldier boy, be sure to put his
company and regiment on the enve-
lope. This is just as necessary as the
street and number in addressing any
one in a large city"
James Lewis, editor of the Kins1ev
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