Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-09-19
KANSAS NEWS TN BRIEF.

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Kansas is effective from smallpox to lu-
macy.
One of Abraham Lincoln's million
or so of bodyguards is visiting at Leav-
enworth
A Hutchinson man has invented a
tune TO go with the title Handy Man.
dy Brown"
The Salina Union has made itself
the official organ of the shirt waist
men in Kansas.
Ed Howe: "When a man picks UP q
paby all the women scream: Put your
hand on its back"
Both sides in Kansas are now busy
proving that the speakers on the other
'ide are meeting frosts.
The score of the marriage and birth
potices in Lyons last week was five to
six in favor of the latter.
Ex-Governor Lewelling left his fam
lily several valuable pieces of real es-
tate and 200 in life insurance.
The fifty-sixers of Kansas held a
meeting at Lawrence and organized a
society of the Kansans whe were here
in 1856.
The marshal of Hiawatha has done
his work so well that the buns seldom
get out of their sleepers when going
through his territory.
Governor Altgeld once lived in Kan
sas and tramped from Ottawa to To-
peka, he says in his bare feet They
have all tried Kansas.
Mrs. Josephine Simmons of juno
tion City has been adiudged insane.
Her delusion is that innumerable X
rays are piercing her. person.
Emporfa counts that day lost when
she doesn't convict one of her citizens
of insanity. There have been eight
cases in the probate court there within
the past seven days.
Recently a veteran died at Arkensas
City after waiting years for pension
The day after he died, word was re-
ceived that his pension had been al.
lowed.
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Vic Murdock has discovered that
Chick Munk-a-Munk was the first Bel.
gian hair raiser in Kansas. He scalped
a native of Belgium in the early SOS
near where the town of Wichita now
stands.
At Leavenworth the Prohibition cru
sade is against the grocery with the
oRf That SnOh thin O
existed in Kansas will surprise most
KanSans.
lola discovers that the smelters and
cement plant distribute nearly $4,000
on the 5th and Goth of each month,
wen makes quite a showing an a
year.
Last week the Arkansas City Trav-
eler advertised that a resident OF that
place had lost his speech. Within two
days after the loss the man had his
speech again. The moral to advertise
is plain.
DR.. Ed Maltins of Abilene, who took
a load of mules to South Africa, says
the mules get sick on the wayover, the
same as anybody else. and didn't kick
half so much.
Frank Montgomery. who writes the
Kansas notes in the Kansas City Jour
nal, it is reported, will quit the news
paper business and go back to farm
ing There is a whole lot more money
in farming than in the newspaper bus.
ness.
Louis Hills, Highland boy, pried ur
q sidewalk to get a rabbit and the
props let the walk down on his head
holding him there. He wig-wagged the
distress signal with his feet for fifteen
minutes before he was discovered and
rescued.
The Populist candidate for county
superintendent in Kingman is maid
Her opponents charged that she is toe
young. To this the Kingman journal
indignantly responded that she is
Older than her Republican rival AND
now the question is,w mademoiselle
the candidate, accept this defense as 6
favor2
In 1867 band of foreigners were
pvertaken and scalped in Kansas by the
Indians while crossing the prairies
Chief Munk-aMunk bent over his vic
tim and asked: "Where you from?'
"From Belgium" answered the man
The Indian then scaped him. Thi:
was the beginning of the Belgian hail
business In Kansas
D. w. Little, assistant state super
intendent. has completed the tabula
stloa of statistics of interest concern
ing the teachers institutes held in
Kansas this year. In the state the to
1tal attendance was 8.114. The tota
expenses amount to S3,792.os. an aver
age of 331.29 per county. There were
361 instructors engaged in the worl
land 165 evening lectures were deliv
cred during the total of 2.121 days
which the institutes were in session.
Aaron Everett OF Atchison says h,
killed mountain sheep while II " s
oming: 1t is a sure thing that u,
brought home a sLcSp's mead. He doe
not claim efther elk, bear, or deer, hu
says he killed a good many antelope
Mountain sheep are harder to kill thar