Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-12-08

Wood s. Vincent have added a full
line of gents furnishing goods to their
stock. "A
Hog wire cattle wire. horse wire-ey-
cry kind OF plain or barbed wire at
Morris Bros. 81
For Rent-A house with four rooms,
in the north end of town; SO month;
inquire at this office. 20
Great reduction in the prices of mems
Overcoats. Do not fail to see our stock
and prices, at Harrington & Smiths. p
Vim. IIookstra, aged 26 years, died at
the residence of his mother in Sun City.
on the 9th ult., after an illness of long
duration.
STABLE FOR RENT:-A good stable,
with loft, granary and close carriage
house and room for three horses. In
quire at this office.
A whole car load of stoves received
by Morris Bros. this week. Inclnded
the lot are the celebrated Garland
stoves, the best in the world. 2l
DIR. G. w. Aver was prosecuted be-
fore Justice Macdonald, Monday, for
the alleged cutting of timber from land
owned by Mr.. Burlington, south of here.
He was acquitted.
Edna Earl, aged years, months
and Is days, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Parsons, died at their home at
Eldred, Barber county, Nov Is. They
have the sympathy of their many friends
in this county.
1t is understood that the Masonic fra
ternity will have a grand time in this
city, December 9TH. At that time
Delta lodge and the Eastern Star will
join together and have public install
lation of officers. \ supper and other
festivities will likely follow.
Mr.. S. Palmer is meeting with even
greater success than lie anticipated in
organizing his singing class, and as
soon as the prOtracted meeting at the
Presbyterian church is ended, the first
meeting will be held-probably to-mor-
row evening. Those desiring to take
part in the class should be ready to
take the first lesson.
A subscription paperwas circulated at
Lake City and this place Monday and
yesterday to raise fund to send the
widow of James Burk and her children
to their friends in Illinois. John Roll
er was instrumental in raising quite a
nice sum in the good cause in Lake
City and Uncle Billy Mills circulated
the document here. Burk was the man
who died from the effects of broken
arm at the Mills ranch on the 18th ult.
District court is in session at King
man this week, and several Barber
county cases will come up for trial, no.
tably the case against Dave Black,
charged with killing a soldier at New
Kiowa; the case against Riley Griffin,
charged with robbery: the case of Riley
Griffin against Eli Smith and others,
wherein he charges defendants with
maltreating him while endeavoring to
extOrt a confession from him; the case
of John w. Cook against the David
Stith estate, involving the settlement
OF their partnership business; the cases
against Geppert x Stone, arising out of
the Am. Allen assignment. Chester /.
Long, f. Sample and others of the Med
icine Lodge attorneys started to King
man yesterday.
Kingman Courier: Ed. Sample, of
Medicine Lodge, who represents Bar
Der county as attorney in number of
cases to be tried in this city at the
next term of court, was in Kingman
Wednesday. Ed. is a well posted law
yer, writer of rare merit, fine public
speaker and better than all, he is not
pulled up about it. About two years
ago, he had divorce case in the dis
trict court of Barber county. His
client was very worthy lady of that
city. The night before the day on
which the case was to have been called
for trial, one of the most destructive
floods that ever visited the west, swept
oyer portion Of the town Of Medicine
Lodge, and among some fifteen or
twenty others, Mr.. Samples client was
drowned. The journal entry, prepared
by Mr.. Sample, dismissing the case,
was beautiful and pathetic. 1t was
one of the neatest articles of the kind
ever written. If the records of Barber
county should be preserved and opened
to the inspection of the next genera
ton, lovers of the beautiful, in prose
and verse, will peruse that journal en-
try, and wonder how literary gem of
such rare merit ever found its way into
a musty law record, buried among a
heap Of prosy legal phrase.