Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-10
Home grown peanuts are sold by the
wagon load in Winfield.

Nine church buildings which cost
IN the aggregate s2s, 900 were built
and dedicated in Barton county dur.
ing 1893.
The local oratorical contest of the
state university will be held in uni.
versity hall on Friday evening, Janu.
ary 26th.
The creamery interest is looking up
IN Geary county. Two plants are now
in working operation and more are
planned
One hundred and thirty-four child,
rem ranging from to 8 years are being
cared for at the Soldiers Orphans
home at Atchison.
Horton residents are making strong
efforts to have their town lighted by
electricity, The prospect is that they
will be successful.
Over 100, 900 bushels of corn have
been shipped from Muscotah during
the past two months-about 165 bu-
shels for each inhabitant of the place.
Elva Burrows. charming young
society lady of Oklahoma City, accom-
panied hunting party into the Arap-
ahoe country last week and killed a
deer.
Two prisoners escaped from the Re-
public county Jail at Belleville last
week, with the aid of nothing but a
broomstici. They have not been re-
captured.
Four thousand and fifty-two head
OF swine died in Walnut township in
Brown county of hog cholera in 1898
hree thousand two hundred and
ninety-two hogs survived.
? Ten Nights in Bar Room is in
store for the Winfield theatre going
public. The winfield Dramatic Club"
has declared positively it will do it.,
SO there is nothing left but to submit
The Rebekahian is the title of a
neatly printed journal just is
sued at Great Bend. AS its name in
dicates it is devoted to the interests of
tie Rebekahs, and is edited by Mr.
laide s. Wayland and Minnie w.
Brady.
The faculty of the Agricultural col
lege at Manhattan has announced as a
rule that mo body of students shall
engage in contests with other than To-
cal organizations without the consent
of the faculty. and this because a
foot ball team from the school went
down to Marysville AID beat the team
there without asking the faculty if
they might.
Coyote hunts are all the go in TIE
western part of the state at present.
30 wv IF ha
| cess SO far, but one is planned now in
Hodgeman that it expected will re-
suit In the capture of several ''var-
mints." The south line of the hunt
will form few miles northwest of
Dodge City, and the final roundup
will take place near the southwest
corner of Hodgeman county.
The slick swindler now takes the
job of Preparing the farmers organs or
pianos at from five dollars upwards.
After fooling with the instrument for
| time he collects his pay and leaves,
| telling the family not to use the il
strument for a half day, as glue was
| used in making the repairs and it
must have time to harden, At the end
of c half day the instrument is found
to be in the same condition it was be
fore it was fixed"
The commander of the United States
infantry and cavalry school at Fort
Leavenworth received orders from the
war department Saturday to admit
Lieutenant Lecomte of the army OF
Switzerland for Il course of instruc-
tions. The lieutenant will enter the
school the first of the year, and, it is
cniI &1l h.
Lieutenant Lecomte is the first foreign
officer to enter this training school,
and it is und that he will apply
for commission in the regular army
if successful in his studies.
Everest was visited by destructive
Saturday morning about o'clock, de-
| stroying property to the value OF
So, 900, and insured for only about
| SO, 900. The fire originated in the two
story frame building of A. W. Sewell
and rapidly com municated to the ad-
joining store Of. ]. w. Simpson, then
to the blacksm mith and wagon shops
further on. The SewelI building was
occupied as drug store and the fire
originated from a defective f1ue. The
| building was valued at So, 500 and in
sured for I,sOC; the stock So, 500, and
! insured for 81 400. Neither of the
other buildings or stocks were in
sured and the loss on each was about
1000. 1t was only by very efficient
work of the bucket brigade that the
rest of the business portion of the
| town was saved.
In December of 1891 Joseph Leten-
DIRE, half breed Pottawatomie In.
dian, traded his bottom farm of 100
acre west of Topeka for the
| Barnstine stock of dry goods and gro.
ceries in North Topeka. Shortly af.
/ ter the sale Letendre's relations had
him taken before the court and ad-
! judged insane and a guardian was ap-
| pointed. The stock of goods was COB
| bled up by creditors who hold attach
ments, and it all went glimmering and
| Letendre had nothing to show for his
farm. Frank Fleming, the guardian
of Letendre, brought suit to set aside
/ the sale on the ground of Letendres 6
condition. 1t has been in court for
/ some time. but Thursday afternoon
the final arguments were made and
Judge Hazen took the case under ad.
visement until next week 1t was
brought out in the evidence that Lee
tendre has. since his wife died, beer
very fighty at times. He imagines
that all kinds of things are after him
and that cats and mice are going tc
eat him up.
BY tying turkeys to stake and al
lowing alleged marksmen to shoot Al
them from distance of 200 yards a.
ten cents shot n C1ldwater man real
lied Sll.s5 four birds one day recently
David w. Hart of Dodge City, a rail
road man, is busily engaged in collect
ing the insurance on a $500 foot
/ that he lost under a Chicago street cal
/ wheel last summer. Mr.. Hart insured
against the loss of a leg in long list
of companies and to the sum total al
$50. 900: He is now reaping the bene.
tit OF his foresight, some of the money
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