Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-11-18

will hold their annual meeting in To-
peka next week.
Every body ought to be happy in
Kansas this year. Both sides will have
a chance to ratify.
Could the Kansas farmers desire
more happiness than they has at his
command at present?
What has become of TIT CHA stly
smiling tom-cat that the victorious
Kansas newspapers used to run after
, elections?
The man who has the contract to
sprinkle the streets of Garden City has
a good thing of it this fall; soaking
rains three or four times a week.
The Atchison girl who wants to be
loved for herself will shortly wear her
sha bbiest clothes to Leavenworth on a
visit. The greatest secrecy will be
maintained regarding her bank ac-
| count
Our farmers should take advantage
OF the splendid weather we are having
and get everything in good shape for
winter, for you know, we do have some
pretty hard winters even in the south
ern Kansas cline.
On one Kansas ballot the voter
wrote: II don't know how to vote
this ballot, but want to vote the Re-
! publican ticket straight. Fix it up
yourself" 1t was counted as ''show-
ing the intention of the voter"
VIM. Brandt, boy of Barton county
had one arm taken off by threshing
machine last summer. The commits
sioners of that county are magnanim-
Gus enough to assist him in getting an
education, and allow him 81. so week
for that purpose
A Shawnee county boy prepared ra b.
bit snares in the woods by attaching
looped cords to the top of bent sap
ling. man passing through the
woods became entangled in the trap,
released it and escaped being hanged
| by the merest chance.
A Kansas woman, blind from birth,
has been given sight by an operation
A peculiar feature of her recovery is
that she cannot tell the name of any
article or thing without first placing
her hand upon it and letting the sense
of touch convey the impression to the
mind, although she can see the article
plainly.
Engineer Joseph Collins who was
killed at Beaumont in q wreck one day
gineers on the Frisco road He was
wealthy, perhaps worth hundred
| thousand dollars. For a number of
| years he had not worked regularly, but
ran his engine part of the time more
for recreation than for the money in it.
| He could not be contented idle all the
time, and found the fascination to
work part of the time irresistible
A sealed bottle was taken from the
Kaw river at Topeka Sunday after
noon. In it was bit of paper, and
upon the paper the following was in
scribed in firm, steady hand: 81 seal
this in a bottle and set it adrift on the
bosom of the Solomon river, Monday,
November 2, that all the world may
know that L have not been fooled a
lick in the road since the st. Louis con-
vention. ! am a whipped man, and
single gold standard did 1t. Stranger
why may find this please give it to the
newspapers.-A.H A. Fl. E.
Elliott, the young man who has just
been pardoned out of the penitent tiary,
was convicted of burglary at Ottawa
and sentenced under an assumed name.
His people live in Chicago. They are
in good circumstances, and his mother
knows nothing whatever of his dis
grace. Ever since his departure from
home five years ago, she has kept his
room for him, airing it daily. A year
ago his stepfather was informed of his
trouble. but he would not consent to
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of his innocence Whether the young
fellow be guilty or innocent, he con-
fesses that it was by falling into bad
company that he got into the peniten-
tiary, and he has returned to his moth
er resolved to do better in the future.
Two women, who were walking down
the streets of prominent Kansas
town, attracted considerable attention
without intending to. One was telling
in very emphatic way what she was
going to do to some fellow named Os-
car, if he didn't do the right thing bv
her. She seemed to he very mad about
it and some bystanders became inter
ested, hoping Oscar would happen
along so there would be murder and
some excitement. The other woman
listened intently, putting in word or
two occasionally, whereupon the other
woman would say: 'Oh, yes" and say
a sentence over again. 1t was finally
ascertained that the woman was an act
ress and was saying her lines to the
other woman. She had been speaking
a little louder than she intended to,
that was all.
Carl Noting of Atchison county who