Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-24

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say here. clearly and emphatically that any
| ana All such rumors are absolutely without
! transactions with us always was and Is with
out stain or blemish.
In reference to kansas City Kan, VIC saw
further that 1t as entirely throu n his infu-
| ence and throuIh his suggestions we ioined him
in PURCHASING and improving valuable tracts
LONG BROS
| by JOHN LONG"
1t cost Sumner county s2,237, 92 to
run its poor farm last year.
A meeting of stockmen will be held
at Emporia on the 25th for the pur-
pose of devising ways and means to
prevent the regular annual importa.
ton of fever infected cattle from
| Texas.
The Burlington, Coffey County, city
library is well patronized The re-
port of the librarian shows that there
were Ella, 100 visitors during the past
year, and that 9,2O0 books were
loaned.
Orders have been received at the
Central branch railroad shops at Atch.
isoI to lay off the forces evSry Satur-
day and orders reducing the working
days to eight hours each are also ex.
! pected.
The Wellington Mail says that al
falfa culture is attracting great deal
of interest in that vicinity and the
probabilities are that a large acreage
will be sown in Sumner county in the
| spring.
Though four warrants are out for
-" "rr"et of Hadley. of Denver city
! hall bo5dle ca fame, he has not yet
/ Sfrin
| y sure that he has ! eft the city, or is
ii hiding,
| People hardly ever ct too old in
| Kansas to set up housekeeping. This
is ILLUSTRATED in the recent marriage
Of Mr.. Alva X '~son, ag"d "A. and Mrs.
Nor is, ged 40, which occurred in
| Howard.
| The case of William ii. Hildreth, ju.
nior mem ber of the firm of Abe Stein
! d Co. New York, charged with grand
larceny, which was set down for pre-
iminary hearing Tuesday was indefi.
nitely adjourned.
Paul Lobie, who killed his wife at
Shaft No. 3, in Cherokee county last
week, has been bound over to the dis
| trict court. His bond was fixed at
1000, but he could not find signers
and SO went to Jail
The postmaster at ScootsvIlle,
Mitsiicll county, found himself $500
! behind in his accounts when he was
checked up by a postoffice inspector
last week. His bondsmen put up to
cover the deficiency.
Charles Peiffer, an electric light
trimmer in the employ of the st. Louis
Electric Light company, was killed at
o'clock Tuesday morning while trim
ming one of the lamps used to light
up the Union depot yards.
w. T. GoCdnough, formerly of To-
peka, but now foreman of the Soldiers
home printing Office at Leavenworth,
accidentally broke his ankle one day
this week. Mr.. Goodnough was quar-
terly serge ant of the Sixth o. V. /.
during the war
The Coffey County Fair association
has discovered that the fair held last
fall at Burlington cost 5000 over and
above the receipts from all sources.
This has not discouraged the stock
holders, however, and they will hold
another fair next fall.
Albert Bigelow Paine is not letting
up in his efforts looking to a reform in
the method of conducting the bourbon
county poor farm. Just now he is be-
sieging the county commissioners with
photographs, petitions and pitiful
pleading, which can scarcely fail to
insure capitulation.
Alfred Etchen and Curtis Miller.
young Montgomery county reprobates,
were each fined $40 and costs, amount
ing to $50 or $40 last Wednesday. for
disturbing an Epworth League meet
trial was long one, the case being
hotly contested by the defense,
The railroad tax in Chase county,
the collection of which has been on
joined, amounts to 81 200, nearly one
sixth of the entire tax levied. That
will II ice the sschool districts
and townships through which
the railroad runs in straight.
ened financial condition, unless a COM
promise is effected.
Joe Byers, or as he is commonly
known Broken Nosed Joe,r died very
| suddenly last Wednesday, at
| Tomlinson's ranch. southwest of Finn
dale, of what was supposed TO be te-
tanus, or lock-jaw. superinduced by
kick on the leg by mule, he having
/ previously been a victim of blood pois-
| oning. Byers is not thougt hto be his
true name. He gave the name of
sister he said was living in Topeka,
whose name the attendant had unfor-
tunately forgotten when he died.
Chase County Reveille.
| The school attendance at yelling.
ton has decreased to such an extent
| that the board of education has dis
pensed with three teachers.
A young lad, son of John Wilson,
| living some five miles east of Logan,
was the victim of an unfortunate ac-
cident last Thursday. In company
with two others he was hunting rab-
bits, and through the playfulness of
] younger brother with the party cary
| ing the gun, the boz was shot at short
range, full charge of shot entering
his thigh. Medical aid was sum
moned as soon as possible but suppur-
alton aud gangreen set in SO rapidly
that death ensued in few hours. The
deceased was about 13 years of age.
Attorney General Little of Kansas
has appointed petition TO. be filed at
Erie, Neosho county Monday or Tues
day next in the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad quo warranto case,
asking that the roads charter be for
feited and the entire railroad property
be turned over to the state, because
OF violation of the laws in moving
the general offices out of Kansas.
Just two loss than hundred mar
riage licenses were issued by the p-o-
bate court of Dcnophan county during
1893. More licenses were issued dur
ing January and February than dar-
ing any other two months and during
july none were issued