Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-01-17
LOCAL NEWS.

IL o. Omiln, Tue SHARON merchant,
was here Monday.
C. q. Chandler made business
trip to Anthony and Wichita last week.
Henry burst made business trip
TO Wichita last week, returning Satur-
day.
-Alva is indeavoring to organize a
working division of the Uniform Rank
X. of P's.
The Willing Workers will meet
with Mrs Allen Smith, Wednesday at
ternoOn, Jan. II.
1T you want a good cigar, step
around to .. l.. Days drug store and
get a Cuban King"
John Fraich was up from the Strip
few days of the past week, hunting a
mare that had strayed from near the
black jacks. He returned Monday.
"A thief purloined the contents of a
contribution box from one of the
churches in Wellington the other night.
He evidently thought this was a new
departure in charity.
Taylor Nichols OF Lake City was in
Monday. He has not ted any stock this
winter excepting a work team, and says
everything looks we'll After the fail
ure in crops the open winter is certainly
Godsend.
List OF letters remaining uncaled
for in the postOffice at Medicine Lodge.
for the week ending January 18th:
Mrs. Maggie Mari, A. &. Melrose, Eli
Simmons, Waiter Wade, j. White
J.. NJ. Axline, postmaster.
Charley Kidd has taken charge of
the Usage Hotel, and will conduct it
himself in the future. Owing to the
hard times he will reduce the price of
meals to 20 cents for Barber county
farmers. See him for rates If
The winter has been so mild that
as yet our ice men have been unable to
putolp any of that essential article and
more or less apprehension is had as to
whether the elements will favor this
branch Of industry at all or not.
-Alva is negotiating with the orches-
ira OF this city for the music for their
ball on the 23rd inst. The event is to
be the dedication of the fine, new hotel,
and if they succeed in securing our or
chestra we can guarantee complete sat
isfaction so far as the music is con-
cerned.
The court was delayed on Thursday
morning on account of the stem ographer
not being present when court called,
and when the stenographer arrived
Judge Mckay instructed the clerk to
record fire of one dollar against him
rs gentle reminder that he should be
on time in the AUTHORIZATIONS Re-
publican.
-Mothers ought to know that their
babies, though apparently we'll and
looking plump, yet, if they are slow III
teethng, if they sweat about the head
during sleep, especially in day time,
are listless, dull or at times restless, or
have large abdomen or large joints,
they have deep constitutional dys-
crasia and need homeopathic treat
ment. Apply to DIR. Kociell.
"A telegram was received at the de
pot last Saturday addressed to the
Burger" This was a jaw-breaker for
those about the station, but as the mes
sage was wanting to learn if there was
an ordinance in this city. in regard to
peddlers, they concluded that it was
destined for the mayor. 1t has been
settled by the mental lights about town
that the sender of the message was
native of one of those foreign nations
where the principal man of the village
Is called the "Burgher," and conse-
quently II is now in order to address
him as Burgher Bramwell The mes
sage was from a man in Washington,
DC.
-kiowa was up In arms Monday
night in expectation uf raid from the
Dalton gang. A COW boy rode into
town from the south that afternoon
and reported that the Daltons were
gathering in the Strip 25 miles south of
that city, and it was thought raid was
intended somewhere on the state. I'm
mediately the alarm was spread and III
very short time every man in town
was veritable walking arsenal
Guards were thrown out in all direc-
tiOns and the streets were paraded by
armed men all night, and had the rob-
bers appeared they would doubtless
have met with warm reception. But
daylight appeared without the expected
raid, and it has not yet been ascertain
ed whether or not it was false alarm
Wellington Standard.
In the many trials and tribulations
of the early settlers of new country,
there are few that equal the sad duty
Cfayoung man named Mcclure, who
passed through town on Monday night
with the dead body of his father
wrapped in bed clothing in wagon,
on the way to their former home near
Deerhead, 10 miles west of Medicine
Lodge. They had been TO their claims
46 miles southeast of Alva only n few
days, and on Sunday morning about
daylight the young man was awakened
by the groans of his father and asked
him what was the matter, but receiv-
ing no answer he got up and built a fire
and prepared some hot coffee and
breakfast, thinking that as they had
worked hard the day before and retired
early, his father was only restless from
laying in bed so long, but who can i'm
agine his feelings when on approaching
the bed he found his father still in
death. AS there was no one else with
in several miles of the young man
hitched up his team and started home
He only stopped IN Alva few minutes
to inquire whether or not an inquest
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