Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-07-30


four weeks. The teachers IN attend
ance are INVITED to call at the INDEX
Office at any time during their stay and
make themselves at home.
The wives of Charlie Henton and VIM.
Lee, of Sharon each presented their
husbands with child, the latter last
Saturday and the former last Sunday.
These young people were married here
last fail, and they appear to be close
calculators.
The preliminary examination of Gid
con II. and VIM. NJ. Thompson and
AlOnZo Nelson, charged with knowing
something of the disappearance Of J. Il.
MeQuinn, adjourned last week was coI.-
tinued Wednesday and is still in pro-
gress. at this writing. This has been a
tedious case and general satisfaction
will occur when it is finished. No one
appears to know what the outcome will
be, as yet.
1t is about time now for the croakers
TO come in and declare that the crops
are being ruined with SO much rain;
that the unthreShed wheat is sprouting;
that the corn is full of smut; that the
grass is growing too rank and that the
fall wheat ground cannot be prepared.
Well, we have had enough rain, and
that is certain.
General Superintendent Barnes and
Asst. General Manager Goddard, of tie
Southern Kansas road came in yester-
day afternoon en special, making a
tour of inspection of the road. They
expressed themselves as gratified at tie
magnificent crop prospects IN Barber
county, and stated that over the entire
route they had Travelled, from Lawrence
to Medicine Lodge, they had not seen
as good prospects as in Barber county.
When Lem. Depew made his escape
from the calaboOse Wednesday morn
ing, it appears that he struck out for
the southwest, for at sun-up he was at
Frank Rogers, OIL Mule creek. Rogers
went to Bill Deans and got Depew's
gun for him, and that evening, when
the officers went to Rogers house, they
claim that they saw Depew running
away through a corn field. Sheriff
Nelson with a posse is out in that
country hunting for Depew and the
probability is that he will be captured.
He will have TO answer to two charges
of killing cattle, one for breaking Jail
and one for arson> Lemuel is good for
Ton or fiftapn vaorS DaDitapt;orx I;fo Sc
he is ever caught.
AT the instigatIon of his wife, a COM
mission lundtico inquirendo yesterday
examined into the mental condition of
Samuel heterogeneous, a resident of
HaZeltOn. this county, and decided
that he was incapable of transacting
business. 1t appears that lately Mr..
heterogeneous has been making such
foolish trades that the attention of his
neighbOrs was attracted. An instance
is given: lie owned 5000 bushels of old
corn, for which he had been offered 23
cents a buShel, cash. A man came
along from Harper county, and bought
the lot for Is cents per bushel, on time.
Other trades equally as foolish had been
made by him, and when questioned af-
terward, lie would remember nothing
of the transaction. y guardian VIII
be appointed by the probate judge.
The Kids Of Pleasure went out to
Judge Hardy's last night to have their
weekly meeting. The bus driver for
got to go after them until 1 O'Clock this
morning and it was raining so hard
that the crowd could not walk home.
and SO they were in nice predicament.
1t Is understood there are about twen-
ty couples Of very mad PARENTS this
morning and the probability is that the
X. of Z. VIII not meet again soon. One
mother expressed herself freely to tie
INDEX This morning when she wanted
us TO give EN- fits. " Said she: "The
idea OF lot Of mere children going
out in the country and staying until
O'Clock in the morning, and ii raining.
too, aud laundering! Every last one
of them should have been in their trul
die beds at shutdown! Only last week
they came near disgracing every church
i'll The town by turning the sociable in
to a dance, and nobody knows what
they may do next Why they are
worse than the Young Peoples League
and that was worse than anything in
my day :" 1t does look like the X. of
Z. will have to go.
Last Saturday morning, after the
bountIful rain, colored man and broth
er was passing the Office. and this was
the song he was singing:
Oh, dc rain hab fc!l wild or halleujah SCUM,
An dc glad con IFS its head,
An my foot sinks inter de 'ioycin' groun',
Ez walks DER de ingion bed.
Dc watermelon vine, since he comm o. de
shower,
Is or humpn o itse'f right erlong-
Peers like it grows crbout er foot cherry hour
Jis' lissun at de jaybird's song.
Dc trifiiu' ole raskil, he is mighty happy now,
Since de water is CT runnin i'm dc brunch;
Hes stealth o de sheIlcd con way from Tildy's
COW
Thinks hisse'f dc boss o. dis ole ranch.
oh, good Lawd. yer didn't let us die
Un'er er hot an blastin sky;
An oh, yas, good Lawd, yer hab 'lcabed
our pain
BY sendin' us down er shower o. rain
| An we praisc Mars Jesus
An we praise Mars Paul,
! We praise Mars Aaron,
An we praise Mars Saul.
Attempted Suicide.
At Aetna, Barber county, last Sun
day evening at O'Clock, Mrs. NJ. E.
Chappell, milliner and dress-maker,
attempted to take her life by aid of a
4-calibre revolver. The shot took eff