Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-09-13
LOCAL NEWS.

the city Saturday.
"A horse was taken from ii. n. Bur
ner's stable last night.
The post-office at Evansville was
discontinued last week.
Mrs. Holmes and Miss Lulu Hahn
visited at Attlca last week.
Barber county IS going almost en-
masse to see the strip opening.
Sam. Luallen will have a lunch
stand at Alya Saturday afternoon.
II. A. McNeal left Saturday for
Guthrie, where he will meet his brother
Joe and rush for some Strip town.
The banks of this city will be clos
Saturday owing to the Strip opening.
Customers and others will take notice.
"A pair Of steel-bowed spectacles, in
case, was found near the Avenue
house yesterday and brought to this
Office.
Miss Lena Gregory, of KiOwa, was
guest of Miss Myrtle Cook few days
of the past week, returning home
Monday.
Luther Fisher and Miss Alice Buckle
were married 10y the Probate Judge last
Wednesday. Parties are Of Polk coun-
ty, Missouri.
Ladies, If you want dress made to
at you, or coat cleaned and refined, or
good job of sewing done, call on Liz
Fishburn.
Il am now prepared to do all kinds
OF Dress Making and plain sewing.
Call on Mrs. Donia b. Fleming, one
door north Williams furniture store. tt
Special Agent Swineford has tele-
graphed Hoke Smith asking that trains
be allowed to run into the Strip after
twelve O'Clock Saturday. at the rate of
twelve miles an hour. No answer has
yet been made public.
The nomination OF a republican
township ticket resulted in the follow
ing: For trustee, Dial. Morris; for clerk,
w. I. Rouse; treasurer, +. B. Chaplin;
justice of the peace, r. A. Cameron;
constable, Jim GanO.
Quite a number of our citizens have
been TO Kiowa and registered this week.
Conservative estimates place the num-
Der that the booth will handle at O,000.
They say only an eye witness can con-
ceive the situation.
F. III. Shelley came up from Kiowa
Friday, with Bluestem colt belong
ing to Shaw Bros. Saturday night his
team got out of the Ellis pasture, and
4 one of the mules came into town and
Sywent into Woodward's stable. The
other was not found and Mr.. Shelley
got horse from the stable to get his
wagon back to Kiowa.
DIR. a. S. Cloud was up from Kiowa
last Wednesday to attend the regular
meeting of the pension exam lining
board. There we're no applicants pres
ent, so he returned early in the after
noon. He says the booths will be so
crowded at Kiowa that it is doubtful if
all get chance to register in the five
days allotted before the opening. Wen.
dell, the Doctors youngest boy, accom-
panied him,
The State OF Kansas vs. James NJ.
Hutchlns and William D. Hutchins
was case that engrossed the atten-
tion of Judge Howe Monday. The
complaining witness was John Upper.
man and the case evolved some spicy
testimony. Disturbance of the peace
was the charge and the verdict of the
jury late in the evening was acquittal
for James Hutchins and fine of one
dollar FOR billiard.
The Hazelton Express is Tuning
extensively because it thinks certain
Jim, Tom and Lon" are running the
democratic party of Barber county in
the interest of fusion. We can imag-
Inc who is meant by the first two but
the Lion" must be an Express myth.
The Express democracy is OF the stall
wart variety, and very small or even
imaginary aggravation Immediately
produces foam under the collar.
MARRIED-ByProbate Judge Stevens,
on Wednesday of last week, Louis b.
Omey and Miss Melvlna DsPugh, both
of Little Mule Creek, near Lodi. DOC"
Omey, as he is commonly called, has
been raised among the hills and dales
of Western Barber, his parents having
moved to this county in 1879. The
bride is a sister of John and Harvey
DePugh and Mrs. Anna Edwards, of
this county, and has been a popular
young lady OF her neighborhood. The
newly welded couple will live on what
IS known as the Omey place until they
move to their future home near King
fisher, Ok. Territory.
-kiowa, the Gate City, is now reap
ing some of the fruits of years of pa
tient waiting and hope. The contIgu-
GUS new country is bound to prove
lasting benefit to our sister city on the
border, fO- there does not exist a fair
er expanse of terrestrial domain than
stretches to the south and east of XII
owa. 1t will be strange indeed if the
border town, with it's two railroads, it's
transportation facilities and direct
connections does not Immediately take
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or 100 miles of its border. 1t is already
built up and an energetic class of bus
mess men can make it what it should
be, wholesale point.
Dave Circle, formerly of this coun-
ty, returned last FRIDAY after a three
years absence in Washington and along
the Pacific coast. lie says there are
thousands of free soup houses along the
coast, and chat hundreds of thousands
of men are out of employment without
a nickel. Many have sold their blank
cts and clothing to obtain food, and
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