Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-09-07
Stale News
Stale News.
Preparations are being made to re-
ceive troops at Ft. Riley.

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ceive troops at Ft. Riley.
Lawrence is to have an electri,
street car railway. The council grant
ed fanchise for 80 years.
Mrs. j. E. Northington of Empori;
died Aug. 18th from the effects O
poison taken with suicidal intent.
The K. L. football team are Degin
ming to train and viii have gam,
with Nebraska November 5, at Law
renee.
The summer months are light in
the oil business but Oil Inspector
Wharton managed to turn in 1854.
10 just the same.
The Coffeyville Democrat has put
the democrat ticket, which was
nominated at Atchlson at the head
of its editorial columns.
According to his own statement
J. r. Burton will not leave Kansas
until the Republican ticket is elect
ed. If he means it he wont cross
the. boundry line again.
The Santa Fe has reduced the
working days in its Topeka and
other division shops to five week.
No work will be done on SATURDAYS.
Arkansas City has issued sos, 600
bonds to buy water works plant in
accordance with the wishes of the
voters as expressed in a recent elect
ton.
DR.. Duren II. Ward of Hartford,
Conn, has been chosen to the chair
of the history at the Agricultural
college. He is one of the most re-
educators of the East.
The interest on the permanent
school fund for Kansas is 1912, 1868. :
36. The number of school children
in the state is 494 ,973. 43 cents per
capita. The counties get about S.
120 each.
John Seaton, having failed to
secure the Republican nomination
for governor, has accepted a renom-
ination for his old seat in the legis-
lature. Of course he is not an Office
seeker.
The city council of Emporia refus.
ed to approve the Is mill levy of the
school board and it is given as the
opinion of Judge Graves, president OF
the school board that there will be
no city schools in Emporia this year
After having all sorts of trouble
with the local waterworks company,
the city of Arkansas City has decid.
ed to issue bonds and build or buy
a plant of it's own. Municipal
ownership is relied upon to provide
the city with. cheap, efficient and
economical service.
Glasgow, Scotland has built a
very large assembly hall out of the
profits of the operation of the lnuni.
cipal street railway. This has
been done with phenomenally low
fares and merely shows what an ad.
vantage it would be to all cities to
follow the same course.
Senator PETER says that he is not
running for Governor on the Pro.
hibition ticket with any hope OF
election but that bis object is to
scare Stanley and Leedy into en-
forcing the law.
The Kansas City Journal say.
that Populists are failures, charla
tans and financial montebanks. Will
it state the politics of the Kan
sas men who have taken advantage
of the bankruptcy law?
LEAvENwoRTH, Kan.,-While Mis-
Julia Trettin was standing at the
alter to be married to Alexander
Doughty she tainted. The ceremony
was taking place in the German Luth
eran church which was crowded
Miss Trettin was removed to th'
home of her sister and when she hae
fully recovered, two hours latter
was married.
The semi-annual school fund in
terest disbursement amounts II
1912, s6s the apportionment beinl
43 cents for each of the 494, SO
persons of school age. This is on
of the largest disbursements eve
made and is due to the fact that tn
school fund commissioners hav
kept the state funde closely inv est
ed in good paying securities.