Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-04-27
Kansas Sunflowers.

+. A. Sawhil1 is the new postmas-
ter at Concordia.
Lee Monroe has been nominated by
Republicans for judge of the 23rd jul
dicia1 district.
A car load of Spaniards passed
through Kansas last week on their
way to join colony in Nevada.
The Atchison Globe says that Jim
Clusham, the Mat Quay" of Atchi-
son. cannot even run his own ward.
The regents of Kansas University
have decided to at once replace the
machinery recently destroyed by fire.
There is a movement on foot in Sa-
line county to erect a suitable monu-
ment to the old soldiers of that county
The Democratic State Central COM
mittee has issued a call for its state
convention to be held in Atchison
June Is.
Caldwell has had a Cuban celebra-
ton. A company was formed with ].
w. Nyee captain, and J. NJ. Bennett
lieutenant.
Salina has commenced a crusade
against wheelmen who have been rid
ing the sidewalks. Six wheelmen
have been arrested recently.
Ex-Sheriff D. S. Lands, of Clay
County has been elected captain of a
company of over so patriots, whose
services have been rendered to the
governor.
Alilene is said to be having a tenn
perance revival. w. L. Woodward of
Columbus, Ohio, recently addressed
an enthusiastic meeting under the
auspices of the State Temperance
Union.
1t is mighty hard to get ahead of To-
peka. A DIR. Moore of Denver an
nounces that his recent location in
that city is for his wife's health and
he doctor, too; and from Denver.
Mrs. Corinne Strang, wife of Judge
]. c. Strang, formerly of the Kansas
supreme court commission, died sud
denly Thursday, aged "a. She form
er1v resided NJ ~Car+bara NJ ..d
married Judge Strang two years ago.
Geo. A. Fowler, president of the
Fowler Packing company of Kansas
City, has presented the state UNIVERSE
ty with his check for $4,000 to be ap-
piled in the reconstruction of the cleo
trio engineering building. This should
and no doubt will be paying adver-
tisement.
Treasurer Hefelbower has filed his
answer in the mandamus proceedings
brought by the commissioner of the
permanent school fund to compel him
to countersign warrants to pay for
$40, 900 in Graham county bonds. The
answer says the commissioners prom
ised to pay 81 cents on the dollar fo1
the bonds, but it is more than they
are worth. Mr.. Hefelbower asks per.
mission to introduce testimony tc
show the value of the bonds.
A fish story comes from Ottawa
which can be vouched for by more
people than ever lived in Franklin
county. The story says that W. H
Hubbard, while angling on the Jucket
place in one of the
Jucket's corn fields-caught fish sc
queer that he was constrained to hunt
up farmer and have his discovery
hauled to town. The creature was
more or less than eight feet long; had
eyes made of double tense microscopes,
through which one could get magni.
fed and full view of one of the most
complex internal makeups imagin-
able; on the left side just in the rear
of the capillary gill coverings, a re-
ceptacle apparently for foreign sub
stances only, contained two small
dogs, Spanish chtld three weeks old,
a cat, and mud covered copy of the
Republican platform of 1896, with
nothing but the pledges preserved.
The creature had tail like the vane
on 10 foot aermotar, and when it
opened its mouth to speak chariots
were to be seen descending from
heaven. However, when the creature
arrived in the town the dog" fish
dealer pronounced it a five pound river
sturgeon, with little old mud on its
tail.