Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-03-18

Jolce over the prospect of the largest I,
yield of wheat in many years,
Miss Emma Little, who is Register !
of Deeds in Wa',aunsee county, re-
ceives $4,000 per year in fees
When the Westmoreland Record is
shy of editorial matter it explains
that it was done to .'economize time"
This month has five Sundays, five
Mondays and five Tuesdays. Some
thing had to happen when it came in,
so big snow storm is with us.
| The farmers who last fall pulled out
of Washington county on account of
the crop failures are drifting back and
| will resume work on their old farms.
! A Kansas City man, Wednesday, run
up the American flag and by the side
! of it flung out the new Cuban banner
] to take full breath of fresh, free air.
The title to 800 acre farm in Atch-
/ ison county was quieted in court re-
Gently. The lawyers received $50 acres
of the land and 500 in cash as their
! fees.
a Doniphan county man will plant
forty acres to sassafras this spring
and make the leaves up into cigarettes
for the cure of the tobacco smoking
habit.
Goodland will establish saDitarium
for the treatment of consumptives.
The altitude is said to be just right,
and DIR. f. II. Smith has got the hang
on the Edison cure.
Sol Miller asks what has become of
the rid fashioned boy that used to
swap knives ''sight unseen" He is
still on deck, but he does business
side and unseen
George and Emile Brunkow, two
! boys of Westmoreland, who long have
been without home. We're sent to the
reform school last. Here is good
suggestion for practical charity in
Kansas.
An Auchison man was recently trav-
cling on the Missouri Pacific, when a
stranger said to him, Are you Ed
Howe of Atchison?" NO" the man
replied. 1.-The reason look so bad is
that have been sick several weeks"
The average salary paid the minis
ters of the Kansas conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church is S725
year. The average salary in the
Atchison district, the best paid in the
conference, is $s37, or about S7o
month.
a Galena woman asked Colonel Wei
dy to write mice piece for her on
her birthday, and this is what he
wrote Whatever may be said of
Tennie's mental strength or moral
standing, she is an industrious woman
having worked hard all her life, and
by strict economy has secured a little
home in which she celebrates this
birthday aud, we hope, may enjoy
many others"
middle aged woman giving the
name of Mrs. Mary Watson, was dis
covered in a sealed box car on the
Kansas City. Fort Scott and Memphis
road at Fort Scott Friday morning
She had been locked in the car a day
and a night and had liyed without
food and water. She said she got in
the car at Ash Grove, Mo, intending
20 ride to Kansas City, not suspectin q
he car would be delayed. When
found, she was faint for want of food
Russell Smith met with horrible ac-
.:dent at Welsville. near Ottawa, on
Wednesday, resulting in the loss of
ieveral fingers. lie was engaged in
operating corn crusher and in mo-
nent of inadvertence got one hand
too far into the jaws of the machine,
md it was caught by the rollers. Re
alizing his danger, as the arm was
irawn in by the resistless gear he
oraced himself and by desperate ef-
iort wrenched his hand from the teeth,
? terribly laccrated. One finger was
:orn off at the knuckle and part of an
other was left in the machine. The
! cords of the missing finger were drawn
! out with it, breaking some distance up
n the arm.
T That snow storm demonstrated that
c there is such a thing as joking the
ground hog too much.
: Cornelius Driscoll. an old resident ot
+ Cioud county. residing ten miles south
{ west of Concordia, was found dead
: in an old cornfield near his home. II,
@ had driven his cattle into the field anC
|. was watching them feed, when it i,
:. supposed he had sudden attack o.
heart trouble
Y The alcohol distillery enterprise i.
a assured at Leayenworth. The S25,O0t
g bonus will be raised within few weeks
a The proposed distillery (for alcoho
n only would consume 1000 bushels OF
is corn daily and give steady employment
: to from $50 to 200 men. 1t would ruI
d at full capacity for at least ten or elev
en- months in the year The promo
ters of the big enterprise have entered
into an agreement that makes TIL
d donors perfectly safe. The money sub
scribed to the fund to secure the plan
: is not to be touched by the distlller,
company until the plant shall hav
been in opera tion 60 DAYS, and the
!" only one-third of the s95, 900 is to b
paid over. The other two thirds is t
be paid in one and two years
d Money covers multitude of sins i
t. Fort Scott. A Avieious prisoner confine
W in Jail there was recently released be
rt cause he had fallen heir to a fortune
A Fort Scott school marin was al
J. rested for disturbing a religious meet
,s ing and her beau had to skip to Mis-:
es ouri That is worse than being al
n rested.
lie Kansas expends annually nearly 81
ID 900, 900 in other states for packin
Id house products. That is one most ad
s. mirable way of not prospering. Al
to the packing houses should be in Kan
sas.
to The Fort Scott water works will b
h. sold on mortgage for fifty thousan
L dollars.
Jewell county boasts that the mapl
ID trees are in bloom in that country
IN The have been in bloom in Cowle
to county for over two weeks