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


A Newton family went to church
Sunday and the house was robbed dur
ing their absence.
One of the state house clerks is SO
pretty that his friends are in constant
fear that he will be stolen.
The American Volunteers will or
ganize company at Wichita, and
fight the devil on his own ground.
TlSe dancing girl who wears "1OC
yards of silk" didn't draw as we'll at
Kinsley as girl who would only wear
one yard.
j. q. Armitage and family of Abb
lene, who went to Honduras to get
rich, have returned to Kansas in search
of good health.
Kansas apples are shipped to New
York and New York apples are ship
ped TO Kansas. People never know
when to be satisfied.
Emporia amateurs will present a
play" as soon as the leading lady can
be selected, and there are sixteen ap-
plicants for the place.
The flower plants in the big flower
beds at the state house have been TAX
en- up and moved in out of the weather
to be taken care of for the winter.
The fires in the zinc smelter at lola
were started last week, and Charley
Scott is the possessor of the first piece
OF spelter ever made by natural gas in
Kansas
Hunters and the oldest inha bitants
of Kansas agree that the squirrels have
filled their pantries, that the goose
bone is almost white, that cranberries
are unusually sour, and that crickets
stopped singing unusually early.
A Lawrence man who heard some
thing creeping about his hay NOW hur-
rledly ran to the house and procuring
his revolver, charged up into the loft
to find that the creeping noise had
been made by a lonely hen.
Some of Topeka's benevolent ladies
are trying to get transportation tc
Texas for the old blind woman nag.ed
! Robbins who used to play the organ
cite on the streets last summer She
is very sick and thinks Texas climate
would do her good
a Topeka man who has tried being
supported by the city and by the coun-
ty and by begging has given up and
will go to work. ''If they can't treat
me as well as they do some Others he
said today, ''I'll show them l can get
along without them"
Several Of the Topeka women who
gave reports at the suffrage conven-
tion said that owing to the care of their
homes, and of taking care of babies,
their reports were not as full as they
would have desired to give. These
were model suffragists
Among several decisions rendered
the 7th by the supreme court is an
affirmation of the judgment of the dis
trict court of Labette county in the
case of Marion Asbell, convicted of the
murder of his wife and sentenced to
| be hanged. This means life imprison-
ment for Asbell
A Topeka charity worker complains
that when the city hears of one desti.
tute case it overloads that particular
family with things enough for ten fam.
lilies and suggests that all donations
be given to the poor through the Asso-
ciated Charities or the police matron to
insure an equal distribution.
A woman appeared at the agricul-
tural museum at the state house YES
terday and asked to be directed to the
place where the ''craRy work" was
kept. The attendant was about to dl-
rect her to the Office of an enemy of his
upstairs when she explained that she
meant ''crazy patch work" The state
does not keep display of crazy patch
work.
A good many Topeka people have
never heard it perhaps, but the city IL
brary will not allow book to go into
a home that is afflicted with conta gil
Gus disease. Books that are already
| there are fumigated before they are re-
turned. At Leavenworth when book
is caught out that way it never gets
back. 1t is destroyed and the borrow
er pays for a new one.
Jack King, who is probably the most
popular policeman on the Topeka force
and undoubtedly the biggest, was mar
ried last Wednesday evening and none
of the force" found it out till he took
in the cigars. The bride was Miss Jen-
ME May Walter, who used to live in
Lawrence, but has been living with
her sister, Mrs Frank Robinson. Mr..
King had his home furnished for him
self and bride at 2O1 Klein street and
they were married in their own parlor
in the presence of few friends. Be-
fore he became policeman, Mr.. King
was the champion heavyweight wrest-
lee of the west
A Wellington girl said, election day:
81 suppose there viii be a large crowd
in town today to vote" She after.
wards confessed that she thought peo-
pie had to come in to vote just as they