Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-05-14

OAO SO"ClACdSlcIns hdnSaS gas DelU is
to be located at Independence 1t
will be cooperative concern. The
workmen own one-fourth of the
100000 capital stock. The factory
will cost about $4,000 and will be i'm
operation by October. The pay roll
is guaranteed to be 100000 year for
five years. A 35-acre tract will be
occupied by this plant and the homes
of the workmen.
Only IS Votes Against II.
Andrew Carnegie offered to give
Hutchinson $4,000 for a library
building if the city would raise 1900
a year to support the library. A
special election was held to vote a
levy of sufficient amount to meet
the requirements of Carnegie. There
were So votes against the PROPOSE
ton, leaving majority of 500. The
library will be built this summer.
On Three Counts.
At Galena a deserted wife has ap-
piled to the authorities for aid. She
is 16 years old and has two children.
having welded when she was IS
years of age. Her husband left her
so cents when he moved on. He
ought to be tried for child desertion
on three counts.-Iola Register.
Overmeyer for PRESIDENT
David Overmyer will be pushed by
Kansas democrats for the presiden-
tial nomination in 1904. He may re-
governor at Wichita on the 21st. A
conference of leaders at Topeka
planned systematic campaign.
Here is the Latest
A dispatch from Hutchinson said:
There is something going on in the
big Seventh" in which Gov. Stanley
and Representative Long are con-
cerned. The plan, in short, is to
make Long senator and Stanley
member of the house.
About Evenly Divided.
From the tone of the resolutions
adopted by the democratic county
conventions held so far, it is shown
that sentiment as to the postpone
ing tEe democratic state convention
until the date of the populist state
convention is about evenly divided.
Gold in the ShnIe, He Says.
DR.. Ernest Fahrig, chief of iabora-
tories of the commercial museums
of Philadelphia, says gold, silver and
other metals exist in the Trego and
Ellis county shale and that it can be
recovered at a reasonable profit.
Smallpox I'm Kansas Reform School.
An epidemic of smallpox developed
in the state reform school at Topeka.
There are 1856 inmates, and it is said
that all of them have been exposed
to the disease.
Sixteen Went Wrong.
The records in the United States
district attorneys office show that
wrong since 1897. There are about
1000 postmasters in the state.
Talk of New santa Fe Train.
The Santa Fe may put on a new
day train between lola and Kansas
City, Mo. 1t will leave lola at 7:55 a.
M, reaching Kansas City at 11:o5 8.
m. Returning it will leave at 1920,
arriving at lola at S:37.
Secretary Coburn Says No.
F. D. Coburn, secretary of the
state board of agriculture, says there
is no truth in the statement that he
may become dark horse candidate
for governor. ST will not be used
by any faction" he said.
Topeka Merchants Oppose 1t.
w. E. Winners proposed electric |
line between Kansas City and To- :
peka is meeting with opposition in ,
the capital city.
Should Have Waited a Day.
Despondent over continued drought
+. A. Coatsworth, a farmer near j
Broughton, committed suicide. Next ;
day it rained. {
To Extend This Summer.
The long-talked-of Missouri Pacific
extension from Mcpherson to Mar
luette viii be completed this sum- {
rier. If