Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-09-11

0E. MeLallin. who has been known
: ito go home to dinner bareheaded,
: says Sol Miller is absent-minded.
A car loaded with $4,000 chickens.
, valued at 400 was shipped from
Clay Center to San Francisco recently.
The Morrill, News says the estimate
OF the Kansas corn crop is million
bushels, but admits that estimates are
sometimes little Eighty
The Rev. T. P. Jolly is the most aus
tere clergyman in Reno county. It is
said that he would not know a Joke
If he were to meet it in the big road.
Judge G. w. DeCamp of Lyons coun-
ty has cattle ranch of 1000 acres and
has 800 acres of it in corn that will
yield this year 10000 bushels. The
Judge is 70 years old and began life as
lawyer.
The Missouri Pacific on Wednesday
hauled out of the Central Branch
country for one firm forty-eight cars
OF corn, or 1920, 900 pounds. The firm
was three days loading it. 1t was
corn the farmers had held in store
from the crops of 1893 and 1894.
| The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
Company and the Western Electrical
Company of Chicago on Monday insti-
tuted proceedings against the Anthony
Telephone Company of CINCINNATI, o.,
and the Peoples Telephone Company
of Leavenworth to recover heavy dam
ages for infringement on four separate
patents.
| Don't talk about your apple trees
blooming twice in season any more
this season. A Sumner county man
says that he has an apple tree in his
yard which is now in bloom for the
sixth time this season. He also SAYS
the tree has yielded one full crop of
this year and the prospects seem to be
good for another.
| Ed Hoch says he hopes eastern peo-
pie will not be deferred from coming
to Kansas by the report that it isn't
safe to travel along the common high
ways out here, least an ear of corn
fall on you and crush you. If people
are careful they need not have much
| fear from this cause. We don't believe
one death in ten out here is the result
of such accidents.
Judge Foster allowed writ of error
in the case of Josey Wallace, sentenced
to be hung in Fort Scott September 81
for the murder of his father-in law.
Alexander Sears, in the Nation, and
ordered the hanging deferred until the
case can be heard in the United States
supreme court. 1t is thought this will
give Wallace lease of life of one year.
He is in the Federal prison at Leaven-
worth.
Marysville had a fearful rainstorm
Saturday. The floods tore up the
streets, sidewalks and railway tracks
and flooded nearly every basement in
the city. The citizens were very much
alarmed lest many of the largest and
best buildings would tumble down.
An excursion to Fort Riley next morn
ing had to be declared off on account
of the numerous washout in the
neighborhood.
The Manhattan Nationalist saws: We
have read great many disparaging
remarks about Mrs. Barnum's marri-
age to Greek lord. Nearly every
paper in Kansas has had some kick to
make. So far as we are concerned we
desire to assure Mrs. Barnum that we
don't care aragged edged nickel wheth-
er she marries Greek god or a dago
organ grinder. It's all the same to us
and it wont make so very much differ
| ence to her.
j. H. Carney and son, with their out
fit, pulled in Saturday from Baxter
Springs with 500 head of 2, 3, and A.
| year-old steers now grazing in the pas
ture. Il. o. LISTERS cattle were ship
ped home two weeks ago, to be put on
feed, to be marketed on or before the
holidays. Two hundred of them are
| 1,2OO pound cattle now, the other 1919
weighing 1,030-natives of course.
F, Mr.. Carney has big steam power feed
cutter, with gasoline engine for pow
er and will soon have an apparatus at
work that will be worth the while of
the people to see in operation.
The county seat of Reno county has
abandoned her street railway.
Perry McNeal, charged with viola
ting the prohibitorylaw, and Jap NJ.
Apple, and Charles Mcdonald, charged
with highway robbery, broke jail in
Lynn county county's seat Thursday
night. They sawed off a steel bar,
letting them into the corridor and
when Deputy Sheriff Thurman APP
peared they overpowered him, took the
keys away from him and locked him in
one of the cells. A reward has been
offered for the recapture of the escaped
prisoners.
Mr.. T. w. Eckert, one of the direc-
tors of the penitentiary. who was in
Topeka Wednesday on his way to Lam
sing. to attend meeting of the direc-
tors, had in his grip large flag which
was purchased by Mrs. Eckert, and
will be placed over the penitentiary
building Saturday. There has not
been flag over the penitentiary build
| ing for two years, and number of old
soldiers who were recently appointed
guards have been asking for flag.
Mrs. Eckert heard about the flag story
and she purchased the flag which will
float over the penitentiary buildings.
Harvey county old soldiers have
formed an old soldiers association and
will arrange to have annual reunions.
Sedgwick county old soldiers talk of