Joyce
The Mid-Continent Library Genealogy Department, in Independence, MO has a copy of the index through about 1900.
Visit this link and try an email request. You might want to search the card catalog to get the exact book title and Dewy number.
http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/genlh/about/research.htm
Or microfilms are available from the Kansas State Historical Society, and LDS. Look here
http://www.kshs.org/genealogists/localgovt/microfilm/atchison.htm
Dave Goldy
Overland Park, KS