Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-03-01

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The business portion Of Honeywell
was destroyed by fire recently.
The Twenty-third Kansas (colored)
are to be brought back from Cuba.
1t is reported that the recent cold
weather has killed many of the bees.
The creditors of the Emporia
national bank have been declared 20
per cent dividend.
A bright well printed Cawker
Ledger comes to us from Cawker City.
1T isEabIy edited by G.. L. Hudkins.
The housefpassed bill fixing the
legal weight ofa bale of hay, also a
. bill appointing live stock brand in
fspector.
The binding twine bill has passed
both houses. This bill provides for
locating binding twine plant at the
penitentiary.
The bill to make Feb. ~, Llncoln's s
birthday, legal holiday was killed
in the house.
Twenty-six head of the Gillett cat
tie broke through the ice on the Cot
tonwood river in Chase county and
were drowned.
The State Normal school gets an
appropriation of 800. 900, which is less
than one-third of the amount given
the State University.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal
has revoked the authority of the Leon
exchange bank because of its refusal
to submit to the examination.
Thomas o Neil, St. Joseph butch
er, was stabbed to death by his two
brothers, Feb. 20. The plea is self
defense.
The senate decided that the amend.
ment to the prohibitcry law should
not send man convicted of liquor
selling for the third time, to the peni-
tentiary.
Insurance Commissioner McNall on
Tuesday last collected $25 900 under
the 2 per cent tax law. The total re-
ceived is now in the neighborhood of
$4,000.
The Lanyon zinc gas smelters at
lola were sold this week to the Kan
sas branch of the Standard Oil Co. for
$1,000, 900. These are the largest
natural gas smelters in the world.
The senate passed bill detaching
Labette and Montgomery counties
from the Eleventh judicial district
making of them a new district which
will be designated as the Fourteenth.
Senator SUPPER has proposed that
the convicts at the state penitentiary
be provided with necessary facilities,
and required to make sufficient flu rni-
ture to supply all of the state institu-
| tons.
q. Kuhn and son of the Marion
Times are the new editors and pro-
prietors of the Atchison Champion.
They will champion the Democratic
cause and deserve the patronageof the
Democratic readers of dailies. Best
wishes.
The Missouri Pacific has closed the
deal whereby they come into full pos
session of the Central Branch line
west of Waterville. The next step
will be the building of the line from
Lenora to Denver.
The house committee has recon-
mended for passage bill changing
the time of commencement of terms for
county superintendent from the second
Monday in January to the second
Monday in May. This to prevent the
change from coming in of the middle
of the school term.
A young lady of Hutchison' was in
quandry as to which of two young
men to accept and concluded to get
them into fistic encounter and then
take the better man. She succeeded
in bringing about fight in which
one got his schull..fractured and the
other was placed under arrest. Now
the girl herself is arrested as an ac-
cessory.
According to the Marysville Ad-
uocate, truthful journal, hole was
cut thru eighteen inch ice up. in that
country the other day for the purpose
of baptising seven converts who froze
to the ice when they were taken out of
the water. The man who has deter
mined to postpone taking bath until
spring is here for keeps can't under
stand or Appreciate the feeling which
prompts persons to take step like
this.-Ex.
| ONE week icicles!
Next bicycles!