Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-02-21
LOCAL NEWS.


Strip country Friday.
Louis Nilsson moved his family and
household goods to Alva, Monday.
-Thirty-fye cents per busbel tor
good Seed Oats. j. ID. Fair & Son,
Sharon,s. Kansas. 3St4
-Drs. Mckee and Gillespie, the Har-
per dentists, will be at the Grand on
Monday, February 18th, and remain one
week.
The Missouri Pacific east bound
from Kiowa got stuck In a drift Eear
IIazeltOn the day of the blizzard, and
was still there at last accounts.
List of letters remaining uncalIed
for in the pOstOtlice at Medicine Lodge,
for the week ending February 18th:
John Bacon, Pete Lam pton. l.. NJ.
Axline, L. NJ.
Charley Randall was up from Kio-
wa Monday. He at one time resided in
the west part Of the county but is now
clerking in Hughey's store In the above
IleHJlOutu lOHH.
II. Lewellyn Jones, prominent at
torney Of Anthony, was in the city last
week to attend district court, but as it
was continued until the May sitting his
trip proved frIitless.
Charley Kidd has taken charge of
the Usage Hotel, and will conduct it
himself in the future. Owing to the
hard times lie will reduce the price at
meals to 20 cents for Barber COUNTY
farmers. See him for rates. If
The statement Of the AtchisOn. To
peka ~ Santa Fe railroad tor six months
ending December 81 shows gross earn
ings Of SO SD ,504. decrease. 81. 305. 400:
net, S6.9i7I47. decrease. 1856 .667: sur
plus, 81 ,295.ll7, decrease, 1891 ,667.
Rev. NJ +. Phillips. PHI. D., who
has for years been president of South
west Kansas College, Winfield, will
preach at the NJ. +. church, morning
and evening, Sunday, March IS. Re
Vival services during the week follow
ing.
james Wilson, the live stock iir-
spectOr for this district, has taken up
his residence at KiOwa, arriving there
Saturday. Mr.. Wilson halls from
Meade county and represented his dis
trict in the state legislature during the
last session.
Iud0a AIoKoy oon,o -, IN, thr ,,.e,,,
bound train Tuesday evening. lie
footed it'' ont to his fathers home
(3 miles northwest of the city through
snow drifts higher than the little
judges head, but, like all other pops, lie
got there just the Same.-Attica Items
Harper Advocate.
Nearly one half of the scrip that
had accumulated before the new con.
tract went into effect, was redeemed by
the county treasurer last week. Nine
thousand five hundred dollars with ac-
crued interest, amounting in all to near.
ly ten thousand, was paid and the war
rants cancelled. The little furry that
followed the depreciation seems to be
about over. So the leaven works.
The Bucknum habeas corpus case
was adjusted last week without enter
ing court. The terms of settlement are
that the grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs
Isaac Bucknum, shall have care of the
children; that the plaintiff withdraws
his action and the defendant, Mrs
Bucknum, is granted decree of di.
vorce. The Bucknum woman will, we
understand, make her home in this city
for time.
The Alya Republican advises its
people to refrain from calling the
stream upon which the city is located
the Salt Fork. That paper has valor
Ously traced its history back to ancient
times and very positively asserts that
the name of the river and is Alva and
not Salt Fork. The Republican is a
trItle too romantic and might as well
try to bore through the earth to China
as TO institute the stated reform.
The prevailing hard times have not
bedimmed the inventive genius OF
Jeweler Ben Kaufman in the least. He
has just completed sort OF miniature
locomotive. which, we are sure. has
not It's counterpart in the country. The
peculiar phase of the machine is that it
is manipulated entirely by clock work
and after running certain distance
it will retrace its path and so on until
1t runs down or is wound up again The
occurrences and stability with which
1t trayerses the wooden tracks made fol
it's especial benefit by the inventor
would cause genuine old Mogul tC
turn green with envy.
"A few weeks ago the venerable DR.
Geo. w. Aver, one of the best known
and most active men of his age in this
part of the country, favored the linden
office with n recent photo of his OWL
Rstute physioSnomy and we have ne
elected mentioning it before for lack OF
space. lie is over 75 years of age, be-
ing born in 1878, has never used spec
tacles, has fought Indians, cowboys
gorillas. guerlllas, grizzly bears anC
faced almost every other kind OF danger
imaginable; he went to school will
Grover Cleveland, was acquainted Will
Horace Greeley and was very intimate
with George Washington; he built thu
first hotel in Hutchison and was Gener
al Grants right hand bower IN the grea
civil conflict, has served a terIl IL
the penitentiary and is proud of it, be
sides having done many other yalorou'
deeds for the good of his country. Th,
doctor is quite fequenter OF the index
Office and during the course OF his vol
nble conversation he has oftimes IN
formed our timid and decrepit mechan
icaI force IN stentOrian tones that he i,