Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-03-09

Nearly all the town of Bern was
destroyed by the recent fire ON the
End.
The Populist Central Committee of
the Seventh Congressional district,
meets in Hutchinson on the 10th.
Judge Albert II. Horton is authority
for the suspicion that Topeka may
soon have a new Missouri Pacific de-
pot.
E. B. Goodman. has been appointed
pension examining surgeon at Good
land, Kansas, and William Beaver at
Colby:
Sheriff Zeph Hayes, of Brown county
Kansas, was held up and robbed of a
gold watch and SO in cash, in St. JOS
eph, Friday. He could give no des-
cription of the robbers.
Miss Jennie Brown, of Clay Center,
committed suicide Thursday morning
by drowning herself in the Republican
river. Dependency and temporary
insanity is given as the cause.
Estelle Osbon, who was the cause of
the murder of Charles Hamble, at Hol-
ton in 1893, for which murder Miss
Osbon's father is now serving a term
in the penitentiary, is reported to be
slowly dying in Denver.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Reed of CLAY
Center, have recently celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary. Among
the many beautiful gifts was one of
S3o in gold from admiring friends in
New York. Mr.. Reed is Lightweight
years old and Mrs. Reed seventy-nine.
At meeting of the Live Stock asso-
citation held at Emporia. there were
Ia counties represented-17 counties
are now organized and have joined the
organization. The officers of the asso-
citation were instructed to appoint or
ganizers in each congressional district
to have every county in the state or
ganized and urged to become members
of the state association.
The city prospect well at Yelling
ton, has been abandoned and all that
remains to mark the expenditure of
the funds appropriated for the purpose
of experimenting, is big hole in the
ground near the Rock Island depot
and deluge of wet sand and mud
which has been excavated. The pros
pecting business is at an end. IT is
further stated that the Rock Island
will refuse to longer allow the citizens
to use water from their well.
Rev. DIR. John Fulton, pastor of the
First Baptist church of Abilene, for
two years, died of paralysis, aged 80
years. He has long been prominent
in the Kansas ministry, being pastor
of the Mcpherson Baptist church for
twelve years. He was a graduate OF
Hamilton college and commenced
ministerial work fifty-five years ago,
being continuously in the service all
time. He leaves wife, but his child.
rem are dead.
F. M. Whitlaw, of Abilene, who in
the past has proved irrigation to be a
good thing for vegetable farmers, will
this year go into it more extensively
than ever and of his fine river bottom
farm fully 65 acres will be under irri.
cation. Part of this land will be in
Spanish onions, ten acres. Five acres
will be in watermelons, five in sweet
potatoes, five in late cabbage, 30 In
Irish potatoes, and the remainder in
small truck.
Kansas is soon to have the most ex
tensive apple orchard in the world
That state is rapidly building up a
reputation for her apples. Not long
ago party of distinguished Ameri
cans met Her Majesty Queen Victoriz
at dinner. Some lucious apples were
served with other fruit, and indicat
ing particularly fine apple, the
Queen said: ''If the state of .Kansa.
has nothing more to distinguish hel
save her apples, she deserves world
wide fame. *. c. Packer.
Four Sumner county convicts de
parted Tuesday evening for Lansing
to serve out their respective terms II
the state penitentiary. The convict
who were taken were: Sam Smith
the Sumner county desperate, convict
ed of grand larceny; George G. Cox
the Anson depot burglar; Chas. Mead
one of the men who stole Judge J. W
Chapman's harness and John Jane
Jones, the man who stole wheat of T
NJ. Yates, of Milan Cox was convict
ed of burglary, the other three O
grand larceny. Each was sentence,
to one year in the penitentiary.
Jing0es and Yellow Ours.
BY FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS.