Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-07-26

~ PiA o'Ci Si@o, duu ILey Will no
verage S15. Enumerators are paid a
he rate of 50. so for every 100 name
urned in, or 21 cents each. 1t take
n active man. even in city, to max
p 100 names daily. The districts will
re small, divided SO that an enumera
or will have about 5000 names in all
n the country many townships vii
ot have half that many. The super
lsor will not be confirmed until De
ember, and the enumerators will no
tart to work until next spring.
Furnished Food for Reflection.
The state board of equalization raiset
he personal property valuation o
Vyandotte county SO per cent. abov
he amount fixed by the county assess
RS. Kansas City, Kan, is the seat O
he great packinghouses, and the re
urns made by these concerns to th
SCISSORS is food for reflection. Th
lrmour company reported its persona
valuation at $4,000 and We
eported recently to the United State
overnment that the business done b,
he corporation amounted to owe
4, 900, 900 a month.
Report on Kansas Banks.
John w. Breidenthal, state bank com
Missioner, had reports of the recen
of the 373 state and privat,
anks of Kansas. The deposits wer,
"a, 122, 593, an increase of S1,727 .O3
yer one year ago. The reserve is S11,
92, 435, an increase during the year o
$50, $50. The deposits and the reserv,
re the largest and the borrowed money
he smallest since the department wa
There has been no failur.
ince the Kirby bank at Abilene, Jun,
0, 1898.
Agricultural College Permanent Fund.
VI the $495, 4SS. S5 in bonds held b,
he agricultural college permanent
und, less than $50, 900 are now in de
ault. Of this amount SO, 900 ar,
municipal bonds of Anthony, Kan,
nd 81, 500 are bonds which Prat,
ounty claims are fraudulent and abso
utely refuses to pay. There are abou
10000 in Oklahoma county bonds il
he fund, and last year interest had de
aulted in small portion of them, bu
'klahoma is paying up.
Only Seven Are Left.
Death has claimed another membe,
f the Wyandotte constitutional con
ention-Judge j. c. Burnett, of Law
ence. The Wyandotte constitutions
was composed of 35 mem
ers. All are dead now but seven-Johl
. ingalls,, of Atchison; Judge j. T
'urris, of Olathe; Maj. Ben Simpson
f Paola; Judge Samuel A. Kingman
Topeka; ex-senator E. G. Ross, OF
lew Mexico: Robert C. Foster, of Tex
S, and Samuel d. Houston, of Okla
oma.
1t Is Big Affair.
The Kansas university has faculty
SO members, % professors, 13 asso
late professors and lecturers, besid,
D library, museum, laboratory anG
hop assistants. 1t has 10 buildings
osting $3.50, 900, and another in course
erection, which will swell the cost
} S505, 900. 1t has $4,000 books in the
brary, and scientific apparatus and
luseum collections valued at $3.50. 900.
Successful Ten-Hour Farmer.
John Whitehair has grown rich farm.
lg in Dickinson county. He is the
lther of ten boys, all of whom live al
ONE, and two daughters. No man ol
orse has ever worked on his farm
lore than ten hours in one day. He
pplies this ten-hour rule rigidly, anG
egins and knocks off his work with al
luch regularity as factory. y.-Kansa.
ity Journal.
Most Extraordinary HalIucination.
A poor fellow went insane at Galen.
ne other day with the most extraordi
ary hallucination ever heard of. HI,
Kinks that his head has swelled t.
normous size and that somethin,
eeps it travelling through the air al
reat speed, SO that he has to run al
ne time in order to keep it from part
,g with his body.-Kansas City Jour
al.
In Favor of q Township Building.
The legislature last winter passed a
lw authorizing county commissioners
hen called upon, to make tax levy
,r the erection of township buildings
he voters of Colfax township, Wilson
ounty, recently voted almost unani
Iously in favor of township build
lg, and it will be erected.
Horkman Announced for Once.
David M. Horkman. the private in
lie Twentieth Kansas who lost his
ght eye and the hearing of one ear a,
lie battle of Caloocan, is announced as
candidate for register of deeds in
loud county.
Was an Odd Accident.
A strange mishap happened to the
eadlight on the Union Pacific engine
ear Salina the other night. A bird
ew into the light while the train was
aking good speed, breaking the glass.
Must Not Dicker with Criminais.
Mayor Good1ander. of Fort Scott,
He'd for the passage of an occupa-
on tax ordinance to raise city reve-
nes, which means that he does not
oppose to allow saloons to run. He
US that city officials cannot violate
leir oaths by dickering with criminals
order to raise revenues.
why Was 1t Refused.
Robert E. Crawford, ex-editor of the
ldex at Valley Center, Sedgwicls