Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-02-01
State News.

demic.
Governor Stanley has 2000 app,i-
cants from which to pick 600 officers.
Eldorado offers l 600 acres of good
land for new state insane asylum.
A sign of spring has been noted at
Burlington: Small boys and marb es.
Gamblers are protected in Kansas
City, Kans., under license of So, 900
a year.
Waterworks bonds for $40, 00O were
voted at special election at Manka-
to, Jan. 10.
DIR. T. G. Biddle of Emporia is the
new superintendent of the Topeka
insane asylum.
The annual oratori ,al contest of
Kansas colleges will be held at Otta-
wa February "a.
The News notes that there is no
longer any snake bite remedy for sale
III Yates Cen Ter.
ness d couple of years ago. The re-
suit was that his wifes leg was am
putated at the knee.
An Atchison colored man, Baptist,
sixty years old, has just discovered
! that he is healer
John Stanley was killed near Gale
ma last week by a premature explo-
sion of nitro -glycerine.
Kansas papers of the past week
take pride in referring to the pub
lished bank statements.
1t is intimated that there is a pos
sibility that this legislature may pass
the Breidenthal Banking bill.
The K. P's of the First Kansas dis
trict held their third annual conven.
| tion at Leavenworth last week.
A new building and loan associa-
tion has been organized at Salina
with capital stock of $50 ,000.
E. B. Cowgirl, of the Kansas Farm
er, is a candidate for Democratic
member of the Court of Visitation.
The Kansas Stats Temperance
Union will hold it's sixteenth annual
convention in Topeka, Feb. and S.
Fire destroyed the residence owned
by John Knouse and occupied by Mrs.
E. Wilson at Valley Falls last Friday.
Lieutenant Bestes, a colored volun-
teer of Wichi d, is in possession Of
the watch of the Spanish admiral,
Cevera.
Four smelters and an ice plant
were added to lola s industries during
1898; a case of the meeting of ex-
tremes.
Rabbits and wolves are making
trouble in Phillips county, and the
commissioners may put a price on
their scalps.
A Legislative bill has been intro
duced, establishing branch of the
State Normal at Effingham, Atchison
county, Kans.
The year just rolled into the past
was record breaker for weddings in
Jewell county; 181 of them. The
next best year was '97, with 81 less.
One day last week lO7 loads of
wheat were marketed in Russell.
They averaged So bushels to the load,
running the total very close to 5000
bushels.
The Pottawatamie County Attorney
says: THE joints must 60" He be
ing elected on his promises to close
them up, and he says that he intends
to do so.
Christopher Gill, German farmer
living near Pennington, fell from a
load of hay Jan. 10, fracturing his
skull. The chances for his recovery
are slight.
The city of Parsons is in the race
for the new insane asylum. 200 acres
of good farming land within two
miles of the city have been offered as
bonus.
A Natoma man divides time be-
tween barber work and watch repair
ing A number ofyears ago the local
harness maker acted as the village
barber in that town.
Mrs. R. w. Ryan, of Kansss City,
who drew Armour Rose, the first prize
in the convention hall drawing at
Kansas City, was formerly Of Kansas,
of course. Her Old home is at Hoyt.
The lottery scheme for building a
hotel at Ottawa is go. A $40 900
building will be put up and divided
into five shares of $4,000 each. These
will be the capital prizes of the draw
ing.
An Atchison young lady declined
an invitation to become member of
the pleasure party aboard the steam