Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-07-04

the wheat, the yield is large.
The Atchison census taker found a
family of sixteen children and anoth-
er of fourteen.
In many localities of Kansas the
corn is already as high as a mans
mead and is beginning to tasseI.
Ten insane inmates of the old SOL
5diers' home at Leavenworth have been
transferred to the asylum at Washing
ton.
A Topeka hotel beefsteak. according
to Vic Murdock's observation and
arithmetic, when divided into five parts
is hash.
Kansas greatest wheat yield was in
1892. when it was 72,OOO,OOO bushels.
This year the record of 1892 will be
badly smashed.
Wellington has issued $4,000 worth
bonds for municipal electric light
plant. The three local banks took up
the bonds at per cent. interest.
If Saline county's wheat crop this
year is sold at so cents a bushel it
VIII bring $1,6OO,000, or nearly 500
Tor every man, woman and child in
the county.
The Kansas teachers of the public
shcools number 1879 men and 1929
women, total 10,S0S. The average sal
ary paid to the men is $44.63 a month
and to the women $33.95 a month.
The national Republican convention
will have to resolve in a plank in
their platform that Hanna is opposed
to trusts, and even then no one will
Believe it.-Beloit Call.
All eastern Kansas Will be at
Kansas City July 4, and pretty all of
the short grass country. The Kansas
roads are expecting bigger haul of
humanity that day than they ever en-
ioyed before.
From letter written by secretary
of the board of trade of Chicago: Il
do not know of state in the Union
where as much intelligent investiga-
ton as given to agriculture as in the
state of Kansas
2 1t is claimed that Mrs. Kittie Wat
;. kins of Leavenworth is ia years old
and therefore the oldest citizen of
= Kansas. Mrs. Watkins is an old-time
negro. "Auntie" was born and bred
in old Kentucky.
Speaking of prosperity, have you no.
ticed the Republican papers pointing
with pride" to the closing of the big
steel mill of Chicago, where over three
thousand men were thrown out OF
work?-Mankato Advocate.
The Topeka papers report that thou
sands of men are passing west through
chat CITY to get work i'm our harvest
fields. Why have these men, "who are
willing to work." not secured jobs in
the great prosperity covered states
near McKinley?-PrattC County Union.
If Mckinley is to have credit for the
big crop of straw we have in sight he
ought to be debited with the louise that
is eating the kernel. But no doubt on
is eating the kernel. But no doubt our
Republican friends will charge the
aphis to the Pops and Democrats
Kingman journal.
The whoop and hurrah that Kansas
was suffering for hands to put away
the big wheat crop proved to be the
biggest kind of a fake. Labor Com
missioner johnson opened an employ
ment office in Kansas City but could
find places for only 500 men.
j. Ralph Burton, who started otnom-
mate Mckinley fer reelection and
then shifted onto the proposition to
nominate the candidate for vice presi-
dent at the Philadelphia convention
finally compromised by changing his
clothes twice day during the conven-
ton.
The Methodist minister at junction
City announced to his congregation
that the church was burdened with
debt amounting to $4,150, and it was
his prayer that IT might be lifted. In
less, than thirty-one minutes by the
clock the congregation lifted it and
raised a surplus of $933.95.
- girl writes to friend about her
hero, who is soldier in the Philip
pines. She says: Il got a letter from
-. He is getting along splendid. He
has been assigned TO the guard house
for five days. Says it us pretty hot
place; but then, you know, he never
shrfnks from his duty Ma and 1 are
naturally proud to hear of his promo
tisn."
Capt. Ira J. Lacock, who has prac-
ticed law at the Brown county bar
for forty years, dropped dead while
addressing a meeting at the court
house in Hiawatha one evening this
three times in the legislature in an
early day and was county attorney of
the county for three terms.
Kansas now has state twine plant
which is saving the farmers thousands
of dollars n year. This law is the
embodiment of the idea agitated by
Kansas Popdlists for dozen years.
We nre pleased to see Republicanism
grasp such ideas. Kansas will be eter
nafiy blessed by the rich fruit grown
from the seed sown by Populist re-
formers.-Farmers Vindicator.
Much is made of the recent advance
In wages by Republican papers. Nails
is a case in point. They have advanced
to Athe consumer $1.50 per keg. OF
this the laborer who makes them gets
two cents, and the trust capital that
contributes literally to Republican
campaign funds, gets $1.4S,all of which
the farmer, the home owner and build
er, Ha%s:-Wellington Voice.
William NJ. Lane of company E, 2oth
Kansas wanted to wed Miss Caroline
Manson of Burlingame but thelbride's
parents objected so the young couple
decided to elope. Miss Manson went
20 T..lr, 18Th her ernnlover Mr. Wolfe