Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-27

Miss Lena O'Bryan will leave
shortly for Forest City, Arkansas.
A party was given in her honor by g.
q. Chandler at the residence of Mr..
and Mrs. Runyan last Friday evening.
The Palmer ranch on Bitter creek
was sold to +. MCGEE OF Paola last
week by Cook & Lindley. We under
stand that the buyer will engage in the
stock business quite extensively.
List Of letters remaining uncalled
for in the p D. ct Medicine Lodge
Kansas for the week ending Feb. %, go
John w. Morris, Bells Coaterna, Eliza.
beth WEIGH. t. A. McClearey, P. NJ.
$1,000 wanted at 10 per cent interest,
or in smaller sums, for six or nine
months. My property Is clear and no
debts. Will give note signed by my
self and wife. Write or call on j. Ii.
Matthews, Medicine Lodge, Kans.
Probate Judge Funk issued mar
riage license last Saturday to Henry ID.
Zahm and Miss Iva V. Tucker, both
of Woods county, q. L. They former
ly resided in this county. They went
to Kingman where they were married
by Catholic Priest.
Some worthless miscreant threw a
rock through the window i'm the back
door of Glasier IL Co.'s store Sunday.
To much of this kind of work IS being
done in our city and it Is becoming a
terrible nuisance to the people of our
city.
The Iowa bank has begun lnjunc-
ton proceedings in the Shawnee county
court to prevent the paying of the
sugar bounty over to the cane growers.
OF course the matter Will be taken 10
the supreme court and it is only q mat
ter Of conjecture as to its ending.
"A good general rain began to fall
Monday evening and continued until
this morning. We have not learned
the exact amount OF rain fall but old
farmers say 1t was the best rain we
haye had for several years. 1t is still
cloudy at the time of going 10 press and
we may have more before the weather
clears.
"A letter from Dick IIolmdoD to
&. g. TaliaferrO states that he is get
ting along nicely in his new vocation.
His position is known as industrial
Teacher" The mission of his office is
to teach the Indians to be useful and
industrious and 20 make good citizens
of them. Dick takes to his appoint
ment like duck 10 water.
"A young man by the name of Marsh,
of Lake City, was in town yesterday
with Doctors Moore, Burney, and Gould
to have dislocated shoulder pulled
in JOINT. The shoulder had been dis
located for some months and was i'm
properly treated from the start and our
doctors were unable to adjust It. The
doctors were working with him for
hours but to no avail.
The attention of the probate Judge
was occupied Saturday and Monday by
two insanity cases. Miss Annie Dan
ner OF Kiowa was tried Saturday, and
James N. Harmon of Sun City, on
Monday. In both instances after hear
ing the evidence the jury returned a
verdict Of insanity and the patients
we're ordered taken to the insane asy-
lum. Both cases are reported to be
serious. The friends and relatives of
the parties have the sympathy Of all.
Through the efforts of County
Clerk Lewis snug little sum was saw
ed TO the county consisting of the fol-
lowing items: Sl595S, error, interest
on bank deposits; $6S4.02 reduction on
state tax levy; $l254.23, credits due
county from state; making a total of
$2097.S3. Mr.. Lewis had some diff
Guilty in getting the state auditor to
allow the $l254,23 credit but finally
succeeded. The result is that this mon
ey is saved to the people of the county.
Mr.. Otis Lorton, late of Topeka,
Kans., has accepted position on the
Times force, and arrived here last week
with his fairly. Mr.. Lorton is a job
printer of ability and experience and a
thoroughly competent man in all
branches of the newspaper business.
1t is safe to say that the standard of
excellence heretofore maintained by
the Times in the quality of work turned
out will be continued under his work
manship. -LondOn (Ohio) Times.
Clarence Martin and Miss MaudTal-
bolt were married Sunday by Probate
Judge Funk, at the residence of the
brides parents in Moore township.
Mr.. Martin is a prominent school
teacher of the county and has just
closed successful term IN Nippewalla
township. The bride Is the daughter
of MI. ana Mrs. b. f. Talbot well
known throughout the county. We
are informed that the young couple