Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-23
DIR. Mckee at the Grand June 4th.

Riley Lake came up from Enid yes
terday.
II. H. Case and wife went to Alva
Sunday.
Judge Jackson returned to Winfield
Monday.
VIII Painter came up from his
claim Saturday.
Dixon Pursell came up from the
Strip yesterday.
! Jas. Lockard was doing business in
the city Monday.
Capt. c. j. Skeen was up from
Roundup yesterdy.
Sheriff Mills went to Wichita yes
terday on business.
Judge Mckay, Sundayed with Sem
ator Lands and family.
&C. Q. Chandler came up frorl the
south on yesterday s train.
p. N. Green came over from Att,ca
Sunday evening, to attend court.
w. F. Smith, squire of Kiowa, was
promenading our streets Monday.
Harry Noah came up from Alya
yesterday evening on court business.
Frank Gordon spent few days Of
last week at Alva returning Sunday.
Charles Rumsey, attorney and pu-
glllst OF Kiowa, came up lasS evening.
-Messrs. Landergln & Hull stock
buyers of Eureka, Kansas, are here
buying cattle. Field Il Standiford
sold them the Charles cattle of 400
head.
FRANK Flowers, who was locked up
in the Kiowa cooler was granted a
writ of habeas corpus yesterday 10y the
district court. Herr & Blach are his
attorneys.
The B. Y. p. U. will give summer
symposium social at the residence of the
Pastor wv. A. CAM on June 18th. All
are cordially invited. Myrtle Hall,
President.
Geo Graves trustee of Elwood town
ship, made his returns to the county
clerk Monday. They show decrease
i n population of 234 in the last year,
being 1876 last year.
DIR. J. R. Mckee, dentist, will be at
the Grand June 4th to remain one week.
Any one in need of dental work can't
afford to miss this opportunity. He
guarantees his work
"A report has become current that
the INDEX is in litigation. This is a
mistake; Mr.. Musgrove has begun pro-
ceedings against individuals but not
against the stock company.
This week begins No ofVol. Is of
the INDEX. The INDEX has pulled
through IA long years Of rain, storm
and sunshine and if kind providence is
willing, it win pull through IA more
VIM. Lightburn brought up from
the Strip afine large PIN cushion cactus,
Saturday. He left 1t at the Usage for
exhibition. He returned to his claim
yesterday with another supply of the
new variety of locust seeds, we under
stand.
Uncle Dick Woodward, came up
from Woodward, Saturday evening, to
see his brother, II. T. who has been
very sick for the past week, but
now slowly improving, which we glad
,ly note. Uncle Dick left Monday for
Woodward.
We have received a letter from
Mary E. Straw, which speaks volumes
abridged, in favor of Geuda Springs.
While her communication doesn't
abound in that cultivated metaphor
which generally adorns her speech, she
informed us in way peculiar to her.
self that the sickly people of Medicine
Lodge who neglect to follow in her foot
steps are missing golden opportunity.
Judge Ellis made great mistake
yesterday, which but for the timely re.
membrance by himself of the deed,
might have proved serious. Now if we
understand rightly, the Judge has a
hollow tooth which he must keep
plugged or his client, the court and the
jury would become victimiZed by his
gruff voice for want of articulation.
Upon sitting down before his mid day
lunch, the Judge placed his gum THAT
was his favorite plug directly under
meath his plate on the bottom side of
the table. We presume that Mr.. Ellis
was buried in thought when he arose;
at any rate he wendell his way to the
court house leaving the gum behind;
and it was not until he had arrived at
his post of duty that he discovered
what might have proved a disastrous
mistake. But we know whereof we
speak when we say that he lost no time
in getting back to the Usage and pro-
curing the Invaluable filing; and thus
what might have produced chaos in the
court room was happily averted.
C. r. Mckinney, of Mckinney post
Office, county "P," Oklahoma, was in
the city Thursday, on his way home via
rail, with Viola King 10 year old girl
who he said had been kidnapped from
the Greek nation, by party of people |
on their way to Idaho. Mr.. Mckinney
says he and Deputy Sheriff Milton
Thomas of Alva Oklahoma, came upon
the parties with the girl on the east
bank of the Cimarron river about two
miles south OF the state line, last Sum-
day as they were resting at noon. He
says they at first showed fight upon the
officers, but finally gave up. A man
named VIM. Bowers, of the kidnapping
party, so Mr.. Mckinney says, was plac-
ed under arrest for entlcing the girl
away. and the deputy sheriff took charge
OF him, while Mr.. Mckinney bought
pony from the ''kidnappers" to take