Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-16
SUNFLOWERS.
Grown In the Different coun>
ties Of Kansas.

Grown In the Different Coun>
ties Of Kansas.
How They Pregress.in the winter Of
Their Prosperity and Gevernment
ny the People.
Emporia has started off Klondike
party composed of six men.
The gypsum mines at Blue Rapids
are now producing a thousand tons a
month.
Emporia has ladies' baud that is
composed of eleven instruments and
eleven of the prettiest young ladies of
the citv
E nporia is getting after her joint
lists. At this term of couct one con-
victiou has been obtained and one fell
low plead guilty.
Topeka's Carnival of Nations for
charity's sake, was quite a hit for the
Capital City and raised a nice sum of
cash for the Orphans Home.
Colonel Fred Funston has returned
to his home in Lawrence and Martin
dale of the Jeffersonian suggests that
all rise and sing "Hai1 to the Chief"
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal
recently revoked the license of bank
at Westmoreland for its officers refus-
ing to comply with the state banking
law.
The Missouri Pacific is enlarging its
depot at Jewell City as an evidence of
its good feeling toward that city for
the excellent business it furnished it
last year.
The Buttermaker's Convention in
Topeka on the 21st inst, gives promise
to being big thing. The secretary
of the association is now advertising
for rooms for the visitors, having fill
ed everything in sight.
A. B. Hulit, the Kansas man who
has succeeded in coloniziug tract of
land in Mexico with Choctaw Indians,
a transaction involving some s. ,000. 900
was married in Sedalia, Mo-, recently,
and an exchange says is now at work
on another colonization scheme.
A Topeka hotel man was recently
horse-whipped by colored chamber
maid whom he had discharged and
then assailed her character. Pigg
runs the St. Nicholes hotel and has
been arrested on several occasions for
selling liquor.
1t was Kansas school marin who
first introduced the daily papers into
the school room. 1t was Miss Grace
L. Snyder, of Clyde, over 13 years ago,
and she is now living to see her idea
adopted by the better schools of the
universe. Score another for Kansas.
Hunnewe1l is to have a new church
the first one in the history of the town,
the first load of stone having been
hauled on Thursday. This church is
the result of meeting which has been
in progress there for the passed five or
six weeks under the leadership of El-
der Newly.
The funeral of the late Governor
Osborne was one of the most import
ant ceremonies that has taken place
in Kansas since that of the late Sena-
tor Plumb. All of the ex.Governors
of the state that are still living were
present, with the exception of two.
Ex-Governor st. John acted as one of
the pail bearers, and Governors Nor
ri1l, Leedy, Click and Lewelling as
honary pail bearers.
In giving list of the creameries of
Kansas with their daily output, the
secretary of the National Buttermak-
er's association mentions all the dinky
little concerns in the state, but neg
lects to mention the Jensen company
at Beloit, one of the foremost of the
state. Their output in the summer
time amounts to 5000 pounds daily.
and at present they are not turning
out less than a ton day. Besides
the main plant at Beloit they have
seven sub stations, and the concern In
one of the big enterprises of the north
west.
The following is a fairly correct list
OF those who have, up to date, been
considered as congressional possibiii-
ties in the Sixth district: A. II. Ellis.
Mitchell county; W. A. Reeder.
Phillips county; J. c. Postlethwaite,
Jewell; A. F. Ham, Rocks; L. G. Par
ker, Decatur; DIR. Hudson, Osborne;
John r. Hamilton, Norton; DIR. siaeie.
smith; 81. L. Pestana, Russell, and IA.
G. Mead, Mitchell. The two latter.
however, both say that there is moth
ing in it, so far as they are concerned
Mumps" Is now agitating the mind
of Superintendent Stryker, for within
the past week he has received dozen
letters, more or less, from school
teachers in different parts of the state
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