Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-10

Eastern Kansas is not financially
busted but it is certainly in soak
A mans guilt is sure to be found
out. Ed Howe once wrote a comic
opera.
The Leavenworth county commits
sioners have an idea they are a board
of pardons
In the Seneca cyclone the paint was
rubbed off a barn, but the barn was
not injured.
No Americans were killed in the
Moscow panic. But Russia is a long
way from Kansas.
A. G. Stacey has got some money at
last! He has been allowed a pension
of SO month.
A perfect day in Norton county is
when people can't leave the house on
account of rain.
The song of the twinebinder was
heard at Peru, in Chautauqua county,
on Tuesday, May 20.
Governor Riddle calls the attention
of the irrig alton board to the fact that
two girls were drowned in the streets
of La Cygne.
w. A. Huff thinks he can make
paper go at Arlington in Atchison
county, where he has started the
\ Times.
A western Kansas milliner advertis-
cs goods in exchange for eggs, thus
placing the latest fashions within the
reach of all
Topeka people are protesting against
the lack of clothes exhibited on bill
board pictures. The lack on the stage
is not mentioned.
In Atchison the rule is the older
the bride the younger the bridesmaid.
AT recent wedding three 6-year-old
tots Officiated as bridesmaid
Hereafter when a Santa Fe en-
ployee's watch goes wrong thirty sec
Onds in week it will be condemned
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A glass of beer was analysed at Be
lott the other day and only per cent
of alcohol was found. The other 05
per cent was beer, we suppose.
The dam of the Logan mills at
Goodland has gone out four times this
spring and the dam of the Logan mil
Ter has gone out some 1000 times.
A Topeka man contracted diabetes
and died by drinking dozen bottles
of state house soda pop, rather than
walk quarter of mile and get beer.
Whenever a Rush county farmer
wants better home for his family he
goes to La Crosse and buys vaca mt
house. It is an i'll boom that brings
nobody good.
II. E. Bird, who used to run news.
papers in Sumner county, has married
a squaw, and his father-in-law, big
chief of the tribe, has set him up in
the newspaper business:
travelling around warning all church
es to unite under the name of the
Church of God at once. The people
say he is crazy. His own mother saws
he is right.
An order has come from the post
Office department in Washington al
lowing the mail-carriers of Fort Scott
to dole out the letters in their shirt
sleeves and with a hot fatigued look
in their eyes.
Beer tickets are no longer sold in
Topeka six for quarter The price
is now five cents a glass straight.
Should the sheriff make another raid
and reduce competition, the price
would advance to ten cents.
The Globe says there are a family
of girls in Atchison ready for adoption
by any kindly disposed person, among
whom are girls big enough to marry
and girls small enough to raise as
pets. Their names have been sent tc
Mayor Loomis of Cowley county.
In response to public demand the
new president of the Kansas Woman
Suffrage society has quit Katie" and
returned to the good old name, Kate.
Katie" is all right for a summer girl
but it don't fit woman who is in the
saddle to enfranchlse her SEX
An Argonia man has chicken with
four legs. When it moves forward
it uses two of the legs, but when ii
goes in the opposite direction, instead
of turning around, it merely reverses
itself like a locomotive, by putting
the other two legs into operation.
"Stick to your cows" says the sage
of Greeley county.
NJ. j. Kirk has just published geo.
logical salt survey of the central and
western portions of Kansas for the
state university.
J. Kansas Morgan writes it 1.-The
Forest Oil company have" and s'the
Buckeye company has. Will the
learned Kansas explain.
A burglar recent, went through a
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