Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-08-28


ley county contractors.
A family named Drinkwater were
compelled to leave Dodge City and
go to Chicago an account of the search
ty of drinking water in the former city.
Dodgeites don't drink water unless
compelled to.
who once lived in Atchison travelled
10000 miles to marry an Atchison man,
all of which shows that in spite of the
best training people sometimes display
the most outlandish taste.
A Lawrence man told funny story
the other day and one of his hearers
laughed SO hard he died in few min
utes. The strange thing about it is
that the victim was man, for girls
are alwaps dying a-laughing."
wild plums are more plentiful than for
years, wild grapes. are loading the
vines everywhere, and hazelnuts are
bending the bushes low with their
weight. 1t is great fruit year.
A ten or twelve million bushel corn
| crop in Reno county was necessary
this year to bring up the general aver
age. just like Kansas-it finally
| comes to the front with its unexam-
pied resources and redeems itself
Kansas Railroads will have to begin
piling freight cars into the state a
month before harvest time if they ex-
pect to move our great corn crop to
the drouth stricken states east of here
before it becomes necessary to start
subscription papers for their relief.
A few days ago lot of prisoners
confined in the county Jail at Law
renee made their escape. One who is
under Indictment for murder ran three
blocks to notify the county attorney.
He ought to be given the badge of
trusty.
| Hiawatha World: Rev. Mr. Honnell,
who was famous in this section in the
early days as missionary among the
Indians, is fatally i'll at the home of
his brother, L. G. Honnell, at Everest.
An operation was recently performed
on the sick man and he cannot recov-
er.
| There is new book coming. Major
O. B. Gum, whe halls from somewhere
around the mouth of the Kaw, has
written an answer to ''Coin's Financial
School," and is having it printed.
The major is late in the season and
will stand a show of getting frost bit
ten.
The Troy Chief says if Shows chinch
bug remedy is fixed fact, and sue
cess, why continue to make secret of
it? Every school boy in the state, to
say nothing of the older people, knows
of the remedy, how to get it, how it is
produced and how to apply it.
| Mrs. James III. Brady has brought
suit against Colonel James H. Brady of
the Kansas Land company of Topeka,
one of the leading real estate dealers
of the state. alleging abandonment
They were married in Abilene nine
teen years ago and Brady made for
| tune out of railroad building.
A man rushed into the Clarion Office
at Lacrosse the other day, gave Bro
Whiteman the granger's grip and with
| tears in his eyes blubbered forth: ''Good
Lord, what shall do? 1 havn't a nub-
bin on my farm. My corn has cared
SO large that even the steers can't eat
it, to say nothing of the calves I've
got to give up whole lot of the crop
to get a corn shelter. Din such a
country"
A Topeka physician this week made
the first test with that new remedy
for diphtheria, anti-toxine He claims
to be the first in the state to give it "a
trial. He made the trial in family,
five of whom were pretty bad with the
disease, but he did not make success
of it. He administered the anti-toxine
to but one of the five children and that
one died, but after a hard struggle,
the others recovered.
The people of Hackney are almost
as tired of hearing ''this rain is fine
for the corn" as the Athenians were OF
hearing about thejustness of Aristides.
A chicken thief by the name of Poole
was arrested early Wednesday morn
ing near Lecompton with nearly 300
chickens in his wagon, which he had
stolen from farmers. For two weeks
he has been travelling through Shaw.
nee and Douglass counties at night,
and has stolen several thousand. Tues.
day night posse was organized to run
him down, and when captured he was
on his way to Kansas City to dispose
of his stolen plumber.
Wednesday night as w. II. Orvis
went to get on the train at Severance
he was approached from behind and
hit on the head with a sandbag and
knocked senseless. He was then car
ried short distance, gagged and
robbed of $500 in bills and a large
amount United States bonds. He was
found about two hours later bleeding
and unconscious and it was with great
difficulty that he was restored to con-
seriousness. Mr.. Orvis was one of the
wealthiest men in the county, and was
just starting to Boston to attend the
Knights Templar conclave.
Phillips county will prosecute Dr. A.
Golden for failure to comply with his
contract for furnishing seed corn.
Whooping cough is epidemic at Ober
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