Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-11-27

The Santa Fe is relaying its south
ern h ansas division with steel rails.
Frank Knox, formerly of Osborne, is
now in the banking business in Salt
Lake City.
The lazy corn-husking period has
arrived. 1t is an all winters job, and
nobody is in hurry.
Nearly all the section forces on the
railroads have been reduced or will
be for the winter season.
Martin Mohler predicts five straight
crop years, and Colonel w. 5. Tilton
backs him in it, and that ought to set
tie it.
An Atchison girl believes that with
four weeks of good skating ice this
winter she can be married before
spring.
An Atchison county man who used
to have the long whisky record has
sobered up and now beasts of a recent
long distance ride
An Abilene young married couple
will go on a wedding tour to India,
where, after brief honeymoon, they
| will become missionaries.
An Atchison woman, according to
the Globe, would not go to see "Rich-
ellen played because she didn't like
these Shakespearean tragedies
The good rains in Western Kansas
last week encouraged the farmers to
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counties will be greater than last year.
r5Amos Vallier, the Indian who killed
Joe Bigknife in the Quapaw agency,
is in Jail at Columbus and will be tried
| at the May term of court at Fort
Scott.
ID. S. Hanna of Graham county went
all the way to Denver to see Schlatter
only to find him gone. Nothing ails
Hanna, but he has the curiosity of a
woman.
5F. F. Pierce of Broadhead, Wis, has
broken GROUND for foundry at Coffey-
vile, n town, by the way. that has
been picking up good deal of sub
stance lately.
| he will wreak vengeance upon those
who put him i'll Jail. 1t is too bad.
Colean should be released and the
men and women he robbed put in jail.
Eugene Ware has gone east, it is
supposed, to confer with General
Booth about place on the Generals
Salvation Army Staff. Mr. Ware has
cl lraaHxy iInnfiGa1 l.;
''War Cry"
A study of the Australia ballot and
how to vote it ought to be a part of the
| curriculum of the public schools. 1t
seems that per cent or more of the
present voting generation can't get
the hang of it.
After real biting frosts have caused
the leaves to fall and the weather then
again becomes clear and warm, fer
mentation and evaporation of the
fallen leaves occur, forming n smoke
or colored mist in the air 1t is this
smoke that gives us Indian summer.
Senator Lucien Baker is a member
of the Sons of the Revolution, and his
son is named Burgoyne. He probably
did this SO he could have the same dis
tinction his father had in whipping
Burgoyne.
Two old friends in Atchison have
quarreled because one of them failed
to respond to the others trump signal
IN game of whist. They belong to
| the Rathburn private car set. too.
which m lsaS II I. E.,
! others.
Hector Cowan, the X. L. preacher
! coach who broke an engagement to
preach in order to see Missouri play
foot ball, probably thought eternity
| was a great way off and there was
| plenty of time to save souls after the
Thanksgiving game.
| Johnny Vernes died at the county
poor farm of Wyandotte county last
| week. His prayer was: please, God
let me die" He was blind, his hear
ing and speech were badly defective
and getting worse, and of late, rheu-
| rcatism had afflicted him severely. His
prayer was well meant and it's answer
was considered blessing too long de-
layed.
Tom Henderson, w no lives in Mont
gomery county, met with nice streak
of luck the other day. He was going
to town to sell load of wood worth
about 81 so and had his gun with him
In small pond over near old Morgan
town he saw a very large flock of geese,
the pond being thickly covered with
them, and managing to get a good
shot he killed seven large geese
| with his first barrel and one more with
his second barrel. He took them to
town and sold them for a dollar each.
The case of Hobson Bros, showmen,
versus the Missouri Pacific, at Coffey-
vile, to recover So, 200 damages al
| legged to have been sustained by the
| plaintiffs by the refusal of the railroad
to carry their show from Coffeyville to
Caney in July 1893, at less than local
| rates was tried in the district court in
Chautauqua county Friday. After
| hearing all the evidence the court
| dismissed the case upon motion of the
| defendants attorney.
A Burlington man has gone into the
courts because the city tried to prevent
him from poisoning all the well water
in his neighborhood by using his well
for sewer. A good treatment would
be to put the man in his well and put
| the lid ON.
| 1t is estimated that 5o ooo finoers