Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-01

ne OIL prospect at Peru has encour-
aged dressmaker to establish herself
there.
The measles have gotten SO bad at
Humboldt that the public schools have
been closed for two weeks.
There is said TO be $50 joints in
Crawford county. Is this part of the
Crawford county system of renown?
What simple minded people there
are in the short grass country! A La
Crosse man a1vertises for lost ten
dollar bill.
Heavens" exclaimed a Butler coun-
ty belle, when out of hearing of her
partner. that man dances like news
paper man"
1t is said that the late cold snap in
Southern Kansas lacked about Is de-
grees of doing the fruit any harm or
the plumbers any good.
c. p. Dewy, large ranch owner of
Manhattan, has just finished buying
100000 bushels of corn to feed his cat
tie. Saturday he dined the farmers
from morning until night on an old
fashioned oyster dinner. lie used the
opera house and thousands were fed
The Russian thistles. which grew all
over Rawlins county in great abun-
dance last year, are now being blown
across the prairies. scattering the seed
everywhere. Wire fences catch and
hold the pests until the fences in some
places are places are nearly hid from
sight. Uuless some decided action is
taken by the farmers to rid themselves
of the obnoxious weeds the pests will
cover the whole county next year.
There is some wild animal at large
in the vicinity of Wamego that is car
rying off and killing young pigs. One
of William Darncll's boys was with
in forty feet OF it. lie beat a hasty
retreat, and both he and his father,
who is an experienced hunter, went
in search of it, but without success.
Other hunters have gone after its
scalp, but have never seen the animal,
only its tracks being found. 1t is de-
scribed as having long. nearly yell
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S. Stout, who lives at Axtell, has
been resident of Marshall county for
seventeen years. He has made farm
work more of luxury than a burden.
lie has taken out no less than six
patents on different farm implements.
lie claims to be the original inventor
of the first one-row riding corn cult
vator ever patented, and this was in
1859. lie is now working on two
row cultivator, the models of which
are completed. In 1895 he patented
a corn fodder loader, which will load
an entire shock at once, without tear
ing it to pieces. 1t will load a shock
minute.
In few days one of the most cen
trail brick business blocks in Fort
Scott will be sold at public auction in
settlement of the estate of an old col
ored man named Samuel Hagan, who
recently died and was supposed to be
without means. Since his death it has
developed that he owned some resi-
dence property and city lots in Spring
field, Ill, some valuable stock in the
zinc mines at Galena, Kan, as well as
half interest in the business block
in Fort Scott known as the McDer-
mott building. the other half interest
being owned by Judge f. L. McDer-
mott, prominent lawyer, who was
old Hagan's friend and adviser.
Miss Anna Burroughs of Marysville
fol
known cornet soloists of Kansas. She
has played in public since she was 10
years old. In 1891 the band of which
she was the leader carried off the first
prize in the bond tournament of the
Dakotas. Miss Burroughs took part
in the concerts given by the Modoc
club in Topeka in 1895, which were
given to raise money to take them to
the national G. n. Il: encampment at
Louisville. She also led the Oketo
band who played on Mckinley day at
the Beatrice, Neb.. Caautauqua. She
has grown to womanhood in Marys-
vile and is popular and pretty.
A train of Is cars loaded with ice
from White Bear lake, Minnesota. has
just reached Concordia, consigned to
Cunning. Betournay, and John Stew
| art. The train load contained over
200 tons of CONCEALED Minnesota eli
mate which will be doled ont to the
people of the town at - cents per cwt.
! The ice is from Il to Is inches in thick
ness.
| The Stay ers of Charley Rodman. of
( Haryer county, are in the coils of the
: law. They are Mrs. Charley Rodman.
: VIM. MattoX, who was highly re-
spected citizen of that county, and his
brother-in-law, named Clark. All
We're arrested last week Mrs. Rod
| man confessed. and says Mattox on
different occasions offered to furnish
her poison with which to kill her hus-
| band. She refused but afterwards
/ employed Clark to shoot him. She
! paid him $50 for committing the muir
der. The money was paid by her to
| Clark just before the arrests were
made. She described the bills she had
| given him and they were found in his
room at Mattox's house. There is a
! great deal of excitement in the neigh
borhood
! Mrs. A. II. Sawyer, mother of ex-
! Chief Justice A. II. Horton, died OF
heart disease in Topeka Monday night
/ aged IS years.
! S. c. Smith of Lawrence is writing
notes on the raid for the Lawrence
/ Journal. Anybody can get his piece
| in the Lawrence papers if he will
| choose 1.-THE raid as his subject.
An eastern capitalist has been in
Atchison talking up scheme for con-
Meeting St Joe, Atchison, Leaven-
/ worth, and Kansas City by an electric
railway, with quick trains and low
! fares.
I Bradstreet says that, excepting
! Cripple Creek. Galena is the liveliest