Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-08-15

married meantime and raised fam
lilies.
Twenty county normal institutes
are being held this month with exam
nations on the 27th and 2Sth.
Kansas, with free school on every
hill and in every valley. also boasts of
fifty-nine colleges. universities and
academies.
The sixteenth annual reunion of the
Sixth Kansas Cavalry Veteran Asso-
citation will be held in Galena, August
%, "a, and %.
Recent statistics show that Hiawatha
has 100 marriageable girls and only
ten unmarried men who are able TO
support wife.
A man in Belleville, who was a wit
MESS in n whiskey case. testified that
the object of the Republican party in
Kansas was the suppression of the Ii
quor traffic.
Kansas has prison farm of 700
acres which is worked by convicts. The
wheat crop this year is ,532 bushels, the
oats, 1000 and the estimated yield of
corn is 10000 bushels. Cabbage, on
ions and other vegetables arc raised.
Ka2sas people represent as nearly
as il is possible the best Amcricanism.
Ninety-four per cent. of the citizens of
Kansas, according to statistics, are of
American birth and blood. aud the
state has only IA per cent. of Hit
eracy.
Anna l.. Diggs, state librarian, has
taken all the thunder ONT of her enc
mics guns by declaring flat footed and
on tip toe that she would not accept
II re-apEointmenG if she could get it,
and the charge that her presence at
FL. Scott was for profit rather than
glory falls to the ground harmless.
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Nojor John Brown of Topeka. and
Rev. w. L. Vernon, chancellor of Quin-
dare university. of Kansas City, both
colored. Will debate. the former for
the Democrats and the latter for the
Republicans at Garfield Ffark, To-
peka, August 16.
Twenty-ihree sacks OF pup docs" :"
over two tons. under Congressman
Feeders frank. were received at Log
an in one day. \ cursory examinat
zion of the stuff failed to reveal a
single copy of the Kansas representa-
tNe's first and last and only speech.
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Asbury Underwood, Cherokee In
dian, has in his possession three
NNr1bi oh of l.
liam Penn gave the Indians in part
payment for the state of Pennsyluan
ia. They are handed down from one
generation of the Cherokees TO enOth-
e1, and are beyond price.
William McLelh.Md escaped from
the Kansas state pendtentdary eleven
years ago. while serving 4 five year
sentence for larceny. last week he
appeared AT the penitenIiary and ex
pressed TO the warden his desire to
return and fill out his term. He was
given q cell and put to work. Efforts
Will be made tn have him pardoned.
This paper is glad to have chance
10 stand by Mr.. Bryan, whom republi-
ccau papers cal the dictator of the
democratic party. \ dfctator who
"! ,s his little hy being consistent and
siAndng unwavel4ngly for the prime
pies 10 which he has stood pledged 10
the people for wears is "A safe tnani. 1t
is unfortunate qhaa their tribe IS not
more numerous. Smith County Jour.
nal.
The eourt ~ Mcrherson, Kansas,
| granted Mrs Rocsner alimony from
her divorced husband. but She refused
to lake ti. saying that as she hadn't
helped ~ make the money she Ifad no
right 10 ii- However, 1t was iusisteti
10y her attorney hat tho alimony al
| lowance should s@and, and the court
declined 10 rcsetnd Us nr,lrr. Judge
Simpson is quoted as saying,th that IL is
one of the ssrangest cases that ever
came to his notice.
Kamsas IS known as prohibition
state and it is the proud boast of the
prohibition orators that ct is the one
state i'm the Unson where the opeul
saloon does not exist. In the face OF
this are the cold. ugly figures of the
! government internal revenue Office
which show a total of 2,727 retail
liquor licenses ISSUED yin the last fiscal
wear. Of 1.572 licenses issued for
Kansas. oklahoma and the Indian
Territory last month. four fifths were
10 dealers in Kansas.
"KANSAS CAN AND OUGHT"
The kansas Insurance Department
and all loyal people of the state
! should do all they can to build up
home insurance. companies" Such is
! The common sense view of the state