Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-08-08
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Judge Elhs came IN from Ashlan,
Friday, having left pro tenn judge oil
the bench in the person of Mr.. james
of st. Joseph, No. For some reason
the attorneys were not satisfied 10 trl
their cases before Mr.. James and Judg,
Ellis Will have to go back to finisl
the term of court.
We are not at liberty TO give the par
ticulars, but a system of guarding
property against incendiarism, now II
vogue in this city, will likely be the
means of capturing the individual who
has made three attempts TO burn this
town. "Shoot first and explain after.
ward" is the understanding.
An effort is being made to have a
creditable display of Barber county pro-
ducts at the Cincinnati exposition, pro-
vided space can be secured. Farmers
having extra good samples of corn, oats,
wheat, millet, alfalfa, sorghum, rye,
vegetables and fruit, should notify the
county clerk, w. T. Rouse. at once.
Monday night quite a hail storm Wis
itedthls county northwest of here, along
Elm creek and on the north end of
Mingona township. Many window
lights were broken out including those
in the school house of district No. 60.
n very heavy rain fell that will do much
good in Mingona and Elm Mills town.
ship.
l.. +. Pearson was at Kansas City
and Topeka last week and came home
Sunday. He reports that Barber coun-
ty crops are in as good shape as any
that he noticed while away. 1t is a
fact that whenever one of our citizens
goes away from home on business or
pleasure, that he returns satisfied with
Barber county.
a good citizen of this place came
near getting into trouble last week by
getting into the wrong bed one night.
His wife had changed beds with the
hired girl without modifying her hus-
band and as he came in late, when the
folks were all asleep, the error was not
discovered until daylight and then there
were a whole lot of explanations in
order. Jim thinks that he is a greatly
wronged individual.
At Wellington, the employees of the
Panhandle extension of the A. L. & S.
Fe railroad last Thursday presented to
w. G. Nixon, train-master, a handsome
One-hundred- dollar solid silver water
service. The affair was worked I'D by
Conductor Phillips, formerly of this
city. Frank Beers was over and was
one of the committee that waited on
Mr.. Nixon, who is one of the most pop
ular railroad officials in the southwest.
KiOwa Journal: There has always
been a pleasant rivalry exhibited at
this point in the matter of loading stock
trains, but Mr.. Ball has always been
the victor. Yesterday morning he out
did any of his former exploits in load
ing and surprised everybody. In exact
ly twenty eight minutes he loaded a
train of eighteen cars of cattle, which
is two minutes quicker than the same
number of cars were ever loaded at
either of the stock yards In Kiowa.''
Kiowa was visited by a very hard
rain accompanied by wind and hail last
Friday afternoon. Lightning struck
nine different buildings and the wind
unroofed or damaged dozen other, and
blew down two or three. The Camp
bell block was unroofed and considera-
BILE damage was done by the rain. The
hardest rain that had visited that town
in two years, fell at Kiowa and though
it came too late to do the corn crop any
good, it had the effect of reviving the
pastures and gardens.
Judge Loren Edwards was billed to
speak to the Logan republican club last
Friday evening, but the audience was
so small that the judge declined to talk.
However, those present were not dis
appointed for G.. NJ. Martin, a recent
convert to the republican belief, was
called for and he proceeded to make a
very red-hOt republican argument, and
no doubt he might have continued for
an hour or more but for the fact that
the officers of the club had the lights
extinguished in the most interesting
part of the Grafton. An effort will be
made TO have Mr.. Martin appoint a
time when he can again address the
Logan club.
a gentleman who has lived on Elm
creek for ten years and who is careful
observer, gave 1t as his opinion this
week that if the water ditch were COM
pleted now and every drop of water in
Elm creek were turned into it, that it
would take thirty days for it to reach
the west end of the ditch. His idea is
that the loss by absorption and evapora-
tlOn and the amount that would be re-
ouired I'm al the immense lakes along
the ditch would take IN the entire sup
ply. And yet there are people VIZ" are
even now advocating bonds for sys-
tenn of pipes through the city. Some
people do not appear To think that this
city and county have load of debt
that they are staggering under.
The losses at Kiowa on account of
the storm last Friday were as follows,
as ascertained by Sheriff Stevens who
was down there Monday: ID. T. Flynn,
Kiowa hotel, by lightning, 500. Mrs.
III. Il. Taylor, 500. VIM. Davis, two
story house. 25xs0, total loss. Love-
joy building 500. J. III. Concannon.
store building. 2Ox5O, total loss. J. IL.
Creighton, store building, 25xlOO, total
loss by wind. a. j. CrewdsOn, livery
stable. partial loss by lightning. w. S.
Clendenning. coal Office and sheds.
The White Elephant Building was
struck by lightning. Wilson & Baum