Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-06-01
Grown in the Different Coun>
ties Of Kansas.
The People shall Continue To Rule
Well and Faithfully Performed.


Destructive storms and floods re-
ported from all parts of the state
lately.
Sumner county's wheat acreage is
thirty per cent larger this year than
it was last.
Bethany College, at Lindsborg, re-
ports the last school year the best in
its history.
portion of married men among the
volunteers is very small.
The State University Students have
organized volunteer company to be
ready for the second call.
Jerry Simpson was nominated by
reclamation, and the convention in
dorsed the state administration.
A new company of volunteers is
drilling at Holton so as to be ready
for duty when the next call for troops
is issued.
The Topeka Capital asks that the
chief officer of the police force in that
city be removed, charging generally
that he is unfit to hold such a posi-
ton.
1t is reported by G. a. h. people
that their membership has been in
creasing in Kansas faster since the
war began than for long time be-
fore.
Rev. M. Lucas and a neighbor-
farmers in Atchison county, while
digging a cellar struck an iron chest,
which, on opening, was found to con-
tain seven hundred SO gold coins.
Some men willing that other peo-
pie should bear part of the burdens of
Improbable ventures, are trying to
interest the commissioners of Shawnee
County in a resurrection the the State
Fair Association.
Coal oil Inspector Wharton's last re-
port shows that his collections for
April amounted to 81 ,O91 and his ex-
penses were $347.77, leaving balance
due the state $733.23, which has been
properly turned over.
Attorney General Boyle is about to
institute proceedings to compel the
railroad companies doing business in
this state to submit the State Railroad
assessors returns of their rolling stock
and its value verified by affidavit
The Ellsworth Land and Cattle
Company is providing its own pro.
vender. The superintendent reports
that he has planted 800 acres of corn
and 400 acres of Kaffir corn and sor.
ghum this spring, and has 41O acres
of wheat in excellent condition.
a Hutchinson man named Boyd, a
butcher, was found brutally murdered
in ditch back of his shop. He was
known to have some money about
him, but his pockets had been drawn
and the money taken. His head was
beaten and throat cut. No clue to the
murderer at present writing.
Some of the Populists in the Fourth
Congressional district are reported
dissatisfied with the nomination of a
Democrat III. S. Martin) candidate for
Congress by the Populist convention
at Emporia, and another convention
is proposed by the late chairman of
the District Committee, Mr.. Fowler.
A Labette county farmer lost a good
work horse by lightning last week.
The Oswego Independent says the
lightning struck the wire fence about
hundred yards south of the house,
and for distance of twenty rods the
wire was cut in pieces from one to
four inches in length, and in many
places was entirely melted away and
no traces could be found.
DIR. Charles S. Morton, physician
of Columbus, Ohio, being unfortunate
IN business, came to Fort Scott, Kan
sas, to dispose of some boom property
he had at that place. Finding it
worthless, he dreaded to return to his
home, was too proud to ask for help
and was found few days ago IN a
demented condition, dying from star
yation.
Yesterday contracts were to be let
for furnishing stationery for the use
of the State House officials. The arti-
cles to be furnished consist of 10 72s
lead pencils of the best quality, COG
pounds of blank paper, 912 quarts OF
ink, 1920 pens, IA, 400 anti nervous
pen holders, $40 inkstands, 672 fine
knives, 169 pairs of scissors, 432 quarts
of mucilage and 144 paper weights.
James Conway, convicted of burg.
larly and grand larceny at Atchison
and serving his six-year sentence, has
been pardoned by the Governor as a
reward for a meritorious and brave
act on recommendation of the Warden
of the penitentiary. 1t appears that
the elevator in the coal shaft caught
about 200 feet above the bottom and
Conway voluntarily climbed up that
distance, loosened the machinery and
put things In working order.