Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-05-18
SUNFLOWERS.
Grown In the Different Coun>
ties Of Kansas.

Crown In the Different Coun>
ties Of Kansas.
The People Shall Continue To Rule
I'm Kansas as n Reward for Work
Well and Faithfully Performed.
The Ho1ton volunteer company is
made up of men from Jackson and
Jefferson counties.
The Kansas State Dental Associa-
ton held three days session at the
state capital this week.
AS, fast as Kansas volunteers are
mustered into the service, they will be
ordered to Leavenworth.
Drinking men say that there are
not to exceed half dozen joints in
Topeka. A. month ago there were
thirty.
Farmer A. W. Smith is reported as
saying that Chester Long can not be
elected to Congress from the Seventh
District.
A. B. Whiting and C..B. Merriam of
Topeka were schoo1mates of Commo-
dore Dewey in Vermont, forty-fve
years ago.
Governor Leedy had once about
made up his mind to go into the army,
but he is not convinced what duty re-
quires of him.
Captains C. M. Christie, of the Leroy
company of volunteers, already has
fought for Cuban independence under
General Gomez.
The twenty-ninth annual session of
the Grand Commandery of the Knights
Temp1ars held three days session at
Topeka this week.
The Sheriff of Shawnee county has
been cleaning out Topeka joints. He
gathered in three about three weeks
ago, and last Saturday he made an
other haul.
A Kansas boy named James, is a
musician on one of the ships that were
engaged at Manila. His mother lives
at Galva in Mcpherson County.
The Atchison Globe thinks the Re-
pub1icaus ought to nominate w. ].
Bailey, of Nemaha county as their
candidate for congressman at large.
Hon. David Overmyer will be Colon
Ell of one of the Kansas regiments.
Hon. E. c. Little will be Lieutenant
Colonel, and Major Tom Fitch will be
Major.
Commodore Dewey's victory at
Manila has been celebrated at many
places in the state. At Topeka it was
a monster affair. Over 500 veterans
of the last war marched in the parade.
The Frenchmen they may howl,
And Austria may grow1,
And Germany may scowl,
And see us later.
But we have got the spunk,
And don't intend to funk,
Until we get chunk
Of the Equator.-Ironqui11
Governor Leedy telegraphed author
ity to VIM. F. Sapp, of Galena, and
John Halliday, of Pittsbdrg, to re-
cruit company of fifty men each and
send them to Topeka to hold in readi-
ness to fill vacancies that will occur in
other companies by reason of the rigid
examinations being made. Doctor
Schrimer is appointed a physician to
examine at Galena and DIR. Williams
at Pittsburg. Instructions have been
given to make the examinations rigid.
their ranks will be drawn from as
vacancies occur in the companies now
being recruited.
A large number of the citizens of
Lincoln Center have entered formal
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commissioners against the Union Pac-
ific Railroad company. The COM
plant is based on the alleged INSULT
cient train service on the branch of
that road which extends from Salina
to Oakley by way of Lincoln Center.
The petitioners recite that the county
voted 500, 900 bonds to aid in the con-
struction of the road, and in return
they were to be given both passenger
and freight train service. At the
present time they say a mixed train
service is all they get and that is very
poor. They want the matter adjust
ed.
STATE NORMAL BOY WINS.
President Taylor, of the Kansas
State Normal, has received dispatch
from Normal, ILL.,, announcing that
Allen F. ST. Clair, representing Kan
sas, had won the interstate oratorica1
contest which was held at that place
last night. Within fifteen minutes
after the news were received five hun
dred students had gathered on the