Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26
SUNFLOWERS.
Grown In the Different Coun>
ties Of Kansas.
How They Progress fn the Winter of
Their Prosperity and Government
BY the People.

OF the gas plants in that city an6
seems in fair way of getting it.
Assignee John Johntz has closed ul
the affairs of the firm of Lebold
Fisher & Co. of Abilene, which failed
in 1889, and asks the court for dis
charge.
John Sherman was recently con.
victed of grand larceny in the district
court of Shawnee County and sen.
fenced to term in the penitentiary.
Last Saturday two men were on ou1
streets, one with a petition for the
pardon of Marian Asbe1l and the
other with remonstrance against it.
II is our opinion the latter got by far
the more names.-Chetopa Advance.
Two freight trains on the Missouri
Pacific col1ided in front of the depot
at Hope. Two cars were thrown into
the building, and fire started, burn.
ing three cars and the building. Three
trainmen we're hurt, but not seriously.
One engine was wrecked.
c. H. Baumbaugh is in Midland,
Tex, buying more cattle for G.. G.
Gil1et of Woodbine. He has just
bought 5000 year old steers, also
2,SO0 head 1 year old steers, 1,O0C
calves and 1000 yearling heifers.
They will be shipped to Woodbine at
once.
More than 1O,OO0rabbits have offered
up their lives and sca1ps for the
bounty paid by the commissioners of
Sumner county. AL. records were
broken Monday, when 5000 scalps
were presented at the Office of the
county clerk in one hour and fifteen
minutes.
VIM. Longsdon post No. BIS and its
auxiliary corps is the youngest men,
Der of the order in Marshall county.
The corps is especially well drilled, as
at installations Comrade C. Wilson,
commander of post 31S, acting as in
sta1ling officer for the corps, and Com
rade Daniel Smith of post IS, Frank
fort, installing the officers of post 315.
| Thomas Toot1e, of st. Joe, aged rs,
Oldest surviving brother of the famous
trio of mil1ionaires, Milton, John and
Thomas Toot1e, has suffered an attack
of apoplexy. He was seated in the
Tootle-Lemon private bank, when
stricken. His recovery is doubtful.
His nephew, Milton Tootle, Jr., is the
present head of the large estate.
There is great joy among the friends
of Bethany college at Lindsborg, over
the announcement that the committee
appointed to solicit $40, 600 to apply on
the college debt, have secured S14 900,
with fattering propect towards Sc
curing the balance at an early date.
This means a conditional donation
of $4,000 balance on the original
mortgage held qy a Massachusetts
loan company.
A man claiming to be Buell. Clarke,
nephew of w. r. Clarke, the Eaton,
Colo, potato man, in trying to get off
an M. X. & T. train at Skiddy. IL
miles south of Junction City, fell be.
tween the cars and the train was back.
ed over him, crushing his right arm
so 1t was necessary to amputate it al
the shoulder, and cutting off part OF
his left foot. He was stealing a ride
Earl Sample, was arrested on a
warrant from Chase county and taker
to Cottonwood Falls, by Sheriff Nc
Ca1lum. He is charged with assault
upon his cousin, 13 year old daugh
ter of G. w. Sample, who was re
Gently tried in the United States dist
rict court at Topeka for counterfeitinp
or passing counterfeit money, the
jury, however, disagreeing. This as
sault case will be tried in the March
term of the district court of Chase
county.
Dan McCunningham, live stocl
inspector for the Coffeyvil1e district
Monday afternoon received Telegram
from Albert Dean of the Kansas Cit,
stock yards, as follows:
Kansas City, No., Jan. 17.-Dan Nc
Cunningham. Coffeyville, Kan.-Ouar
. rantIne against southern cattle ship
: ped to Kansas points suspended unit
: February 1, 1893. ALBERT DEAN.
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That the cooperative store can b.
made to pay, is shown by the annua
statement of the Alliance Exchang.
, store at Mcpherson. 1t has paid :
dividend ever since it was organizet
in 1890, with capital of $S35. Th,
volume of business in 1897 was S48. 200
Dividend declared 8 per cent. Th,
concern has 217 stockholders. Th,
] value of the stock in the store is 81.
/ 400. It has no liabilities and has 81
: 800 in the bank ready for the stock
4 holders to draw ont as dividends. I,
the last seven years the store has pai,
in dividends S. 200 to the stockholders
This is one of the few co-operativ,
stores in Kansas which has nrove,
saecesafui.