Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-08-08
KANSAS NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Ten car loads of rock salt are ship
ped daily from the Kingman mines.
"A sow With four pige and a calf"
is advertised for sale In a Garnett
paper.
Mitchell county's wheat crop aggre-
gates just Ia fraction under 1000, 900
bushels
John w. Breidenthal opened the
campaign ait his old home in Labette
county July 2sth.
The Office of secretary of state has
been held continuously for fifteen |
years by newspaper men.
Salina policemen have killed seven |
ty-three dogs since January LIST. Let |
Ghe good work go on.
w. 1. Priest of Denton has purchas.
ed the Whiting Journal. johnson, the !
former editor, goes to Sit Joe.
Stafford county will hold it's first
fair kais Year. 1t has CATTLE and crops
for all the world to inspect.
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W. G.. Smith has sold the Athena
lantern Ito Hagedou IL Parker, who
VIII make it a republican paper.
M. ]. Davis of Chetopa has been
nominated by the fusiondsts of the
2Sth aistrGct for the Legislature.
The republican, convention of the
18th Judicial district. after taking !
1000 ballots, adjourned until August
14th.
Charley Styles, ticket agent of the
Missouri Paoffc ut Ate. fsol~L has
been ON The pay roll of that road for
thirty years.
It is announced that ex-governor
st. John, following the example of
Cen Joe Hudson, viii become a cti-
zen of Missouri.
INVENT y-four old soldiers are en-
ployes of theKansas penft military and
tweiIty-sdX old soldiers are doing
time" in the institution
L. X. Wright is running for the SEN
ate I'm the cath district, and Tom
Morgan is authority for the statement
'thAt right is bound to prevail.
Senator L. p. King, of Cowiey
county announces that he Will enter
the race for United States senator If
the popuNsts secure the legislature.
A Marion county man announces he
is working on a scheme to save ND
the surplus summer heat for use in =
the winter when it lis more needed.
Topeka boasts of a citizen who
fought in the Black Hawk war, the
Mexican war and the civi! war IIeis
% years old and draws $1,000 .en.
sion
Luciem Baker has captured the four ,
republican nominees for the legisla,
ture from Sedgwfck county, but only
one of the four stands any show of an
election.
A Kansas soldier is always to be
found wherever there is fighting.
Charley Fish, Lacrosse boy, was
with the Ninth infantry i'm the battle
of 1ion Tsin.
David Strum, ain Swear old son of |
John Strum, who lives six miles north
of WelCsville, fell from a windmill,
a distance of fifty feet, and was
fatally injured.
People just naturally suppose every
thing grows in prodiga, profusEon in
Kansas Mayor Drew of Topeka has
received a request from a man in Ami
IONA to send him two eagles.
Gen. w, w. Guthrie is making quite
reputation for his Kansas Polled
Herefords. He has just sent three
head to West Virginia and two to
Texsas which disposes of his salable
stock
THE Carlsbad of Kansas is what
Charley Styles of the Missouri Pacific
calls the Wagonda spring, located on
the Central Bramch. 200 miles west of
the Missouri. lit lis a wonderful spring
and said TO possess rare curative
qualities.
The weIM known college ph6lamthro-
psf DID. IL. PeaTSonS OF Chicago, has
Denoted $4,000 to Bethany college,
but there is a string TIED to the dona-
ticm. 1t Is ON condition that 1.-THE citi.
zens of LindsbOrg raise $4,000 more
by June 1, 1901.
A Pratt county man was placed in
jail. He had no appetite and his
health was falling and the sheriff al
lowed him to return home, keeping a
watchful eye ON his movements. The
mans wife has now sued the sheriff
for hts board bill.
At st. Benedict. CROSSROADS post
Office three miles northeast of Seneca,
is Catholic church that cost $50. 900,
and is only eXceiled i'm beauty in this
state by the Catholic churches fun At
Gibson and Leavenworth Its spire
cam be seen for many miles.
c. F Hurrel of Holton has been
nominated by the republicans of the
Atchison and Jackson district for SEN
ator. and instructed TO vote for Luz
Glen Baker for senator. This cooks
his o-ooSe and OWES oDDoSsf tiOn an on