Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1893-10-25
LOCAL NEWS.

Frank Leslie, of Moore, was a visi-
to the city Saturday.
&C. G. Hahn came over from Well
milton last week to recuperate from
recent illness.
Frank Gordon left last week for the
about election time.
Will Cook was up from Kiowa Sun
day returning with Mrs. Cook and Mas
ter Harold, who had been visiting here
the past week.
List of letters remaining uncalled
for in the postofIice at Medicine Lodge,
for the week ending October 18th:
j. 81. Doan, II. IL. Hall. l.. NJ. AxLINE
postmaster.
Judge Edwards returned last week
from his Oklahoma trip. The case in
which he was summoned as witness
was not tried, rs the defendant waived
examination.
Senator Lands did not speak at
Anthony AS billed Saturday on account
Of the train leaving KiOwa so early as
to make it announcement for HIM to
make connections.
Ladies interested in dress cutting
will DO well to call on Mrs. Benning.
She will teach you in one hour how to
cut and fit any dress, free. Second
stairway north of Day 81 Records. At
Why pay $500 for wrought steele
Ranges of agents travelling through
the country, when Noble 81 Case will
sell you one for $500 with seventeen
gallon hot water tank all complete.
1t is not it.
1t is not cough that causes consump-
ton but consumption causes cough.
by taking cough medicines and neglect
ing constitutional treatment you mere
~ pull down the signal of Danger
Ahead See DIR. KoCIELL. 22w4
Hon. Il. 5. Osborne, secretary of
state, will address the people of Barber
county inthe opera house, Medicine
Lodge, in the afternoon and evening of
Friday, November 3rd. Everybody, re-
gardless Of party. should hear him.
Rev. j. Nj. Archer will depart Fri
day for his new field Of labor at indie
pendeuce. No. His successor to the
Methodist pulpit in this city will be
Rev. A.. a. Parker. OF Winfield, who
viii deliver his first discourse here Oh
next Sunday. Rev. Archer's many
friends are sorry to lose him from their
midst, but wish him Godspeed in the
future wherever his lot may he cast.
Blind Boone, the musical genius. is
equally at home in the gay, the plain
tive and the stirring. At one time un-
der his deft fingers the instrument
seemed to shaken with laughter, and at
On mother time dissolved In grief and
" jathed in tears. But his imitation OF a
storm, the Marshfeld tornado-how
shall 1t be described? Language fails
in the decentralization Planet, Sept.
Is, 1891.
Ed. Sample had an escapade Satur-
day evening which night have resulted
disastrously. In purchasing gallon
of Oil tor his lamp he was given gaso-
line by mistake, and filled his lamp
with the fluid. An explosion followed
lighting and Ed fired the lamp out of
the window before any damage was
done. The room was 80 filled with gas
that it was impossible for anyone but
Ed to enter for two hours.
Il. l.. O'Bryan came up from Wood
ward, Friday, to auction Loves stock
He says he considers it qLite an honor
to be summoned to another state to cry
a sale. The judge relates an interest
ing episode which happened shortly af-
ter the opening. A liveryman starting
a stable at Woodward had hired a
young fellow to herd his horses during
the day, and one evening the boy took
the best horse in the bunch and
skipped. The sheriff pursued and
caught the boy and the father Of the
liSeryman paid all expense of catching
the young thief. In the preliminary
hearing the prisoner was bound over
and the liveryman's father, who had
paid out some $40 for the arrest, went
it might appear strange but his boy
1.-THE liveryman) had been helped in a
similar circumstance in the same way,
and he proposed to help some other
mans boy, who perhaps would meyer
do such thing again. 1t is deplorable
surprising.
Frank Lewis went to kiowa
Wednesday, driving his horse and
bugs. Thursday morning the sheriff
received telegram instructing him 10
watch out for harness, and signed
~'F. A. Lewis" Jim Gano thought ii
would afford an excellent opportunity
40 develop his detective abilities and
took charge of the case, determining to
ferret out the bold, bad man who had
the audacity 10 steal our worthy county
clerks harness while away from his
home and family. He took Frank
boy, Edward, out of school and instruct
cd him TO search every vehicle that
came into town, as he would at once
recognize the harness. al day the Wig
liant search continued. and jim had
pictured himself brilliant future as 4
GeLsctiye, when Frank came driving in
his horse wearing the object of all The
disturbance. Everybody who saw him
enquifed ah0nt the particulars and fol
a time Frank looked wild. lie had lost
ao harness. lie said, aud could not IN
derstaud the agitation in police circles
IL WIS .Iims turn TO he surprised and
the beau,iinl plctnres lie had painted
dpr himself were shattered. But he de.
1erminei to be avenged. he would