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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-30
AN OREGON BELLE.
Although Young, Clever and Rich, She II
Not I'm the Matrimonial Market

Although Young, Clever and Rich, She IL
Not I'm the Matrimonial Market
On lmnaha creek, about forty miles from
the frontier town of La Grange in Eastern
Oregon, lives handsome girl Just out of
her teens, who is fast winning fame and
fortune. She is Imnaha Williams, daugh-
terof white man and Indian woman, for
merly member OF Chief Joseph's band.
The father died four years ago, leaving a
large ranch and some 5000 cattle and
horses to her care. Since then she has in
creased her herds by over 200 head, and
has also sold over $4,000 worth of stock
I. G. Henderson, Of La Grange, talked to
San Francisco reporter about the girl re-
Gently, saying:
What Miss Williams has ACCOMPLISHED
astonlshes every body in Eastern Oregon
and there is great deal said about her
successes. The Imnaha creek ranch is
more than twenty miles from any road,
and to get to it one must make his way over
trail across spur Of the Blue mountains.
There is no sign Of any habitation any,
where, and it is not until you have Travelled
more than q dozen miles and reached
the crest Of the mountains that you
como in sight of smiling val
vey, ten miles long and seven or
eight wide. 1t is here that this young
girl has her small principality. She owns
all the water rights and all the land by
first location, and here she is fast getting
rich. Travelling on down the grade, you
catch sight Of neat log house, Just on the
edge OF the stream. Around it are some
pretty patches Of flowers and garden, and
just back OF the house, about I'VE hundred
yards away, is large corral Every thing
is in perfect order.
The girls mother is in i'll health and is
seldom seen. Two Germans employed by
Miss Imnaha take care Of the stock, but she
is her own superintendent and takes the
whole management Of the ranch upon her
self. She rides like q Tartar chief, and
there are few Of the masculine sex who
knows more about stock than she does. She
was educated at the convent in Portland,
and 1t Is estimated that she Is worth about
500 1000.
When she took hold of the ranch Il was
not worth $4,000 but the rise in real estate
throughout the eastern part Of the State
and her management have quadrupled the
value Of the property.
Already she is the queen of Oregon
stock growers, and has many suitors, but to
all she declares that she does not care to
marry. She, however, enjoys their society,
and at all the entertainments at La Grange
she Is the reigning attraction.
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TIE LEM wire nail works, nelleville, III.
have ordered twelve moro machines. and
these viii soon be put in alongside the
twenty now running. Il is said that the
capital stock Of the concern Is about TO be
increased TO $4,000
In some parts Of Germany the average
salary earned by men working on machine
made shoes 10 about $3.50 week For the
same class of work Austrian operatives
get "a 30 to $3.50, English operatives IS. 76
to IS 40, and Massachusetts, operatives So
weekly.
LABOR statistics collected in Connecticut
show that long hours, slow payments and
child labor go together. In the counties in
the State where the largest proportion Of
the laborers are children, the hours are
longest and the hands are paid once a
month.
Nor every worker in the woods knows
that much Of the so-called ivory now in use
is nothing more or less than common
potato. Tho process by which the tuber is
converted into "ivOry" is q simple one
Sound potatoes are washed in diluted sui
phuric acid, boiled in the same solution,
and then slowly dried, when they resemble
ivory so much that only the initiated can
detect the deception.
THE number Of full-grown men cut of
employment in Georgia Is Incredible.
Eleven stalwart citizens of Atlanta were
recently seen loaing about the stores,
whiting, whistlIng, and otherwise spend
ing time, while inside neighboring factory
their children, all under ten, were workin Q
twelve TO twenty-four hours a day. When
asked what their fathers did toward earn
ing living those children answered: He
brings our dinners to US" That was
actually all their able-bodled fathers had
N do
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-30
THE TOILET OF DEATH.
Preparing French Criminals for the Fa
of the GuiIlOtine's Knife.

Preparing French Criminals for tho Fall
of the GuiIlotine's Knife.
Toward four or five o'clock, when every
thing is ready outside, the warden of the
prison, accompanied by several officials,
goes to the condemned mans cell, and
shaking him by the shoulder announces
that his demand for pardon has been re-
Jected, writes Paris correspondent. AS
soon as the prisoner has dressed himself he
is, if he so desires, left alone with the chap
lair for few moments; afterward he is
led to the toilet room. First, his shirt col
lar is cut away sufficiently to allow the gull
lotine knife to fall upon his bare neck; then
he is fastened with cord starting from
the shoulders and connecting with another
cord that binds the two wrists; third cord
goes from the wrist to tho knees, where it
is joined 70 another cord already passed
around tho legs.
Thus strapped, the culprit Is obliged to
march as straight a. an l, with his head
thrown back. When the preparations are
ended the procession starts for the guillo-
tine, the prisoner being supported by two
of the he9dsman's aids and accompanied by
the executioner, the chaplain and the other
officials. The huge prison doors are thrown
open and the first object the condemned
man sees is the black trapeziform knife,
which, contrary to the general impression,
is not concealed from his gaze. The
distance from the door to the guillotine is
scarcely twenty steps, and a. soon as the
criminal reaches the swinging board the
chaplain quits him, the executioner seizes
him and pushes him on the bGscXlc. Panl
Pan click and thud; the fall Of the
knife, the heavy sound Of the head falling
into the bran box. The movements are al
most simultaneous The knife falls. The
criminal disappears.
As soon as the ceremony is over the body
Is placed in q wagon and conveyed to Ivey
Cemetery, where it Is buried in the turnip
field. When the parents reclaim the body
and 1t is inferred in another part Of the
cemetery no name is ever put on the head
stone, in order not to excite public curios-
ity. When the body is not reclaimed the
project Of police authorizes the faculty
Of medicine to take it. Strictly speaking,
the corpse ought not to be delivered to the
faculty until after twenty-four hours, this
delay being accorded to the family to make
its demand, but the custom is to give up the
body Immediately after q simulated burial
when the authorities are certain that it will
not be reclaimed.
During the whole Of this lugubrious cere-
mony the chief executioner never touches
the victim. The toilet and all the operations
that require contact with his person are
performed by the aids.
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mo. 10O6. First Publication Jan. 9. 1881
SHEEIFFs SALE.

STATE OF KANSAS,
BARBER COUNTY. s.
In the District Court of Barber County in r,.S-
State of Kansas.
j. I. and J. F. Hopper, Plaintiffs
David Irons. Eliza Irons Hadlock &
reeves, and LamOreauX x HoOle,
Defendants.
DY virtue of an order of sale dated the 4th a.,
Oof January, 1882 issued out of the Distks.s.
Court of Barber county, Kansas, to me dirts,.
ed and returnabie to said court in favor 20
said plaintiffs and against said defendants.
george w. Stevens, Sheriff of Barber countx'
Kansas, have levied upon as the property ~
erty to-wit: -
The southeast quarter "a of section sevenf-,
township thirty Zone cd range fifteen Q5l w(st
IN Barber county. state of Kansas, and will M,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1889,
between the hours of nine o'clock i'm the To-.
noon and five O'Clock in the afternoon of sssid
day, at the front doGr of the court house. i'm
the city OF Medicine Lodge. Barber countI.
Kansas. offer for sale at public auction to liz
hlS nest bidder for cash in hand, all the right
title, interest. claim and estate whatsoever ~
sald defendants in said described property. r.
satisfy Judgment obtained against said De-
PENDANTS and in favor of said plaintiffs In ha
above court TOR the sum of One Hundred anI
Ninety-nne and 50-l00 dollars t$199 500 With ~;
terest on said judgment AT the rate Of IA DIR
cent. per annum from the. date thereof and for>
the costs of suit and for the costs OF this sale
Given under my hand at my Office in the civ
OF Medicine Lodge, this, the 4th day Of jain.
airy, A, ID. 1883.
GEO. W. STEVENS, =
1881 Sheriff of Barber County. Ka1sli
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ROAD NOTICE.
ro Whom it Mav Connern

To Whom it May Concern:
In pursuance of an order made by the board
of county commissioners of the county of
Barber in the state of kaaGas. in regular SEES
sion OH the 9th day of January, A. ID 1859, no
tice is hereby given that j. b. McGinnis and
thirteen others. householders of said county,
residing IN the vicinity where il is proposed
to lay out and establish the road below men,
toned, have presented to said board their
certain petition, praying the laying out and
establishment of public road in said county
as follows:
Commencing at the northwest corner of
section four, township thirty-four. south of
range eleven, west; thence east on section
line two miles to the north east corner of sec
tiOn three: thence south on section line three
miles to the northwest corner of section
twenty-three: thence east one-fourth mile;
fourth mile; thence south one half mile to
the southwest corner of section twenty-three,
township thirty-four, south of range eleven,
west; thence eaet on section line one-fourth
mile; thence south through section twenty
six on the west quarter line one mile; thence
east on section line between sections thirty
five and twenty six three fourths of mile to
the northeast corner of section thirty five,
township thirty-four, south of range eleven,
west, and that James Hamlin James F. Moore
and Felix Lands, viewers duly appointed, will
meet at commencing point of said proposed
road on the 18th day of February. A. d. 1889,
and proceed to view said road, and to give all
parties hearing.
Witness my hand. and the seal of said coun-
ty, affixed at my Office in said county, this 9Th
day of January, A. ID. 1889.
tL.S.l w T. ROUSE, County Clerk.
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No. 1000. First Published Jan. 9, 1889.
SHERIFF'S SALE.

STATE OF KANSAS, COUNTY OF BARRIER. SIS.
The Western Farm Mortgage Com
pany.
versus
w: A. Clinkscales and Margaret S.
CInkscales, his wife, Mary Swank
and ID. +. SWank, her husband.
pY virtue of an order of sale issued out of the
u Barber District Court sitting in and for aid
Barber county, in the above entitled action and
to me directed, will on
SATURDAY. THE 9Th DAY OF FEBRUARY,
A. ID. lss9, at O'Clock in the afternoon of said
day, at the front door of the courthouse in said
county, o.tcr for sale AT public auction and sell
without appraiselncnt to the highest and best
bidder, for cash in hand to SATISFY said order of
sale. all the right, title and interest whatsoever
OF the above named defendants, and each of
them, and OF ali persons claiming under them
In and to the following described tract, piece
and parcel of land lying and situate in said
county OF Barber, tO-wit:
The west half of the southeast quarter and
the south half Of the southwest quarter OF sec
ton twenty-siX. &c, in township thity-two, 81
south of range fifteen, Is, west OF the sixth, g.
and sixty, 16O acres more or less. together with
all and singular the tenements, heredita.
ments and appurtenances thcreunto belonging
or In any wise appertaining.
Given under my hand at my Office in the city
OF Medicine Lodge, in said comfy, this 18th day
of January. 1889.
GEO. w. STEVENS, Sheriff.
GEO. j. BARKER, Attorney for Plaintiff. 1873
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-30
STRANGE ADVENTURES.
Singular Mishaps Caused by the Loss Of
TraValarss TeAth

Singular Mishaps Caused by the Loss of n
Travellers Teeth.
James Tray, of Allentown, Pa, got on
train at McVeytown to 60 to Lewistown
the other day, says the New York Star.
The car was very warm, and Tray raised
the window at which he was sitting. Soon
afterward he had to sneeze The concus-
sion OF the sneeze hurled his false teeth out
of his mouth. They shot through the open
window and went bounding along on the
ground. Tray had just got the set from
the dentists They cost him twenty-five
dollars He got out at the next station, Eve
miles from where the teeth had escaped
from him, and walked back 70 regain them
He found them. Then he started to walk
the five miles back to get the next train
As he was crossing the railroad bridge
over the Big Run, west-bound freight
came along. He was walking on the track
and stepped over on the beams of the east
bound track AS he did so he glanced back
and saw freight train from the west just
coming on the bridge toward him. There
was no time for him to get across the bridge
before the train would be upon him, and he
did not dare to stand on the narrow space
between the tracks until the two trains
passed. Both locomotives sounded their
danger signals. There was but one thing
to do. Tray seized bridge beam or tie
with his hands and, dropping quickly down,
hung by his fingers until the long train
passed over him. He then dragged himself
back to the track
The engineer of the train was bringing it
to stop, evidently to see what had become
of Tray, but when he reappeared and the
conductor saw he was all right, the signal
was given to go ahead and the train went
on without taking Tray aboard. A mile
further on another East-bound freight
came along. Tray thought it was running
slow enough for him to get on the caboose
When the rear of the train was passing him
he threw his overcoat on the platform of the
caboose and grabbed the rail to swing him
self on. The train was going faster than it
looked and Tray could not get a footing.
He had to let loose of the rail and he was
thrown twenty feet down the bank. The
SKIN was scraped of his face, hands and
legs, and one ankle was dislocated. The
train went on, taking Trays overcoat, a
brand new thirty dollar coat, along with it.
In spite Of his injured ankle and mutt
lated face, hands and legs, Tray managed
to get over the remaining two miles of his
journey, reaching the station just as his
train came in. Without waiting to have
his injuries attended to he boarded the
train. When the conductor came around
Tray remembered that the conductor of the
first train had taken up his ticket for the
entire Journey. He could not induce the
second conductor to pass him either on that
fact or of the story of his many mishaps,
and Tray had to pay his fare over again.
He is now in bed wondering whether it isn't
more than likely that the ceiling will fall
on him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-30

To Whom it May Concern:
In pursuance OF an order made by the board
OF county commissioners of the county of
Barber. in the state of Kansas, in regular ses-
sioH on the 9th day % January, A. D. lSSg mo-
tice is hereby given that James Binning and
fourteen others, householders of said county
residing in the vicinity where It is proposed
TO lay out and establish the road below meu
toned, have presented TO said board their GER
tain petition. praying the laying out and es-
adjustment of a public road in said county
as follows:
Commencing at the centre of section TWEEN
ty three CD, in township thirty-two t32) south
of range thirteen 49,. west of sixth t6l P. Nj.
Thence south on centre line ofssections tweu-
ty-three t23. twenty-six (26l and thirty-five
t35l. two miles to the centre corner of section
thir.y-hve go, township thirty-two t.S2l south
of range thirteen tl3'. west. and that G. L.
Bradley. w. G.. Osborn and Gorge Burgess,
viewers duly appointed, will meet at the COM
mencing point CT said proposed road on tho
Alb day of February. A. d 1883. and proceed
TO view said road aud to gIvo all parties a
hearing.
Witness my hand. and the seal of said coun-
". affixed at my office in said county, this
sth day of January, a. d. 1853.
lL.S.l w. T. ROUSE, County Clerk.
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Calculation and INTERPRETATION,

Two well-dressed men walked down Fifth
avenue the other day, says the New York
Tribune. At Twenty-nInth street one Of
them ran over woman, knocking her
nearly OF the sidewalk. Without sign of
apology he rejoined his companion and con-
tlnued on in the direction of Delmonico g..
"What made you do that!" his friend
asked. Calculation" he replied; "the
same thing that caused the accident a
month or so ago on the elevated road. The
woman was entirely to blame. She was
crossing the sidewalk in front of US. I
calculated that if we both walked steadily
on we would miss each other about two
feet, she passing in front She very fool
ishly stopped in.the middle of the pavement,
and before knew 1T there was collision.
Why did she stop! She saw me coming and
deliberately put herself in my path to force
me to check up and go around on one side
or the other. They all do it."
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ROAD NOTICE.

To Whom it May Concern:
In pursuance of an order made by the board
OF county commissioners of the county of
barber. in the state of Kansas, in regular ses-
sion on the 9th day of January. A. D 1889, no.
uce is hereby given tina: NJ. p Dewitt and
twelve others, householdeTs of said county.
residing in the vicinity where 1t is proposed
to lay out aud establish the road below mem
TONED, have presented to said board their
certain petition. praying the laying out and
establishments of public road in said county
as follows:
Commencing at the south west corner of
section thirty-one, township thirty-two, range
ten; thence running north one mile between
section thiTty-one, township thirty-two. range
ten and section thirty six, township thirty
two, range eleven; each end of the proposed
road intersects with a public road; the width
OF said proposed road to be forty feet and on
the Tweedaie surveys of 1884 and that W .
Murphy, Chas. Roads, and A. Williams view
ers duly appointed. will meet at commencing
point of said proposed road on the Sth day of
February. A ID. 1889. and proceed to view said
road, and to give all parties hearing.
Witness my hand, and the seal of said couu-
~. affixed at my Office In said county this 9Th
day of January, A. d. 1889.
lLS] w. L. ROUSE. County Clerk.
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No. IA. First Published JAM 0. 1883.
SHERIFF'S SALE.

STATE OF KANSAS. COUNTY OF BARBER. So.
James w Cox,
versus
Burnett A. Chisholm and Louisa
Chisholm, his wife; The Western
Farm Mortgage Company, Alex8n-
der Campbell and - Campbell. his
wife. w. H. McCague.
DY virtue of an order Of sale issued out of the
y Barber District Court sitting in and for said
Barber county. in the above entitled action and
to me directed. Twill on
SATURDAY, THE 9th DAY OF FEBRUARY
A. D., 1883, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of said
day, at the front door of the courthouse in said
county. offer for sale at public auction and sell
without appraisement, 10 the highest and hest
bidder for cash In hand, to satisfy said order of
sale, all the right, title and interest whatsoever
OF the aboye-named defendants and each of
them, and OF all persons claiming under them In
and TO the following described tract, piece and
parcel OF land lying and situate In said coun-
~ of Barber, to-wit:
The north half of the southeast quarter of
section six, 9, and the west half of the south
west quarter of section five. ). all in township
thirty one, 81. south of range eisreB. IL, west
Of the sixth, 8, Principal Meridian. containing
one hundred and sixty. 160, acres. more or less,
together with all and singular the tenenente.
mere d1taments and appurtenancee thereunto
belonging or in any wise apperfaining.
Given under my hand at my Office in the city
OF Medicine Lodge. in said county. this 9TH day
Of January, 1889.
GEO. W. STEVENS. Sheriff.
GEO. J. BARKER, Attorney for Plaintiff. 1881
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-30
ROAD NOTICE.

To Whom it May Concern:
In pursuance of an order made BY the board
of county com missioners of the county of
Barber, in the state of Kansas, in regular SEES
sion on the 9th day of January, A. ID. 1859. no.
tice is hereby given thar E. Keith and eleven
others, householders of said county residing
In the vicinity where it is proposed to lay out
and establish the road below mentioned have
presented to sale board their certain petition
praying the laying out and establishment of
public road in said county as follows:
Commencing at the northwest corner of
section one. township thirty-three. range ten;
thence running south to the south line of sec
lions thirteen and fourteen, township thirty
three. range ten; also road commencing at
the northwest corner of section two. town
ship thirty-three, range ten; thence running
south to the south liIe of sections fourteen
and fifteen, township thirty-three, south of
range ten; also a road commencing at the
northeast corner of section twelve, township
thirty-three range ten; thence running west
to the west line of sections three and ten
township thirty-three, range TO- west; said
roads all to be forty feet wide. and that David
ClouEh. w. w. Fain and s. v. Eek, viewers
duly appointed, will meet at commencing point
of said proposed road on the 18th day of Feb
ruary, A. D. 1889. and proceed to view said
road, and to give ali parties hearing.
Witness my hand, and the seal of said coun-
ty. affixed at my Office in said county, this 9th
day of January, A. ID. 1885,
ILS.] W. L. ROUSE, County Clerk.
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ROAD NOTICE.
To whom It Nav Concern.

To Whom it May Concern:
In pursuance of an order made by the board
of county commissioners of the county of
Barber. in the state OF Kansas, in regular SEES
sion on the 9Th day of January, A. d. 1889, no.
tice is hereby given that o. P. Ward and
twenty-four others, householders of said
county, residing in the vicinity where it is
proposed t" lay out and establish the road be-
low mentioned, have presented to said board
their certain petition, praying the laying out
and establishment of public road in said
county as follow:
Commencing at the intersection If sections
twenty-nine thirty, thirty-one and thirty two,
township thirJy-four, range ten: thence run.
ming ono mile south on the section line to the
southeast corner of section thirty-one
township thirty four, range ten; thence one
mile west on the section line, ending al
the southwest corner of section thirty
one, township thirty-four. south of range
ten, west; said road to be forty feet wide
and that G. w. B. Derrick. u. T. L. Burns
and Isaac Bucknum, viewers duly ap
pointed, will meet at commencing point OF
said road on the eth day of February, A. ID
lsSs, and proceed to view said road, and t.
give all parties hearing.
Witness my hand, and the seal of said ceuD
ty, affixed at my Office in said county. this 9Th
day of January, Il. d. 1889
lL.S.] W. T. R0u. E, County Clerk.