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


School
A farmer in sumner county lost six
ty large. fat hogs one day last week
from cholera.
The annual meeting of Democratic
editors will be he held at Leavenworti
April 18th.
Straw hats are ripe in Erie. A local
dealer is getting rid of his old stock by
a fiv cent bargain counter.
Wild Jim, travelling artist. is just
now extracting quarters from the peck
cts of Sumner county people without
pain.
John Longmate, an old citizen of
Scranton was run over by heavily
loaded wagon and killed one day last
week.
J. D. Anderson of Harvey county,
recently died leaving life insurance
policy of $1,000 to be divided among
eight heirs.
The postmaster at Lawrence has
I been ordered to reorganize his force
and drop one man from the free de-
livery force.
Thayer's oil sand is loaded. Six new
wells have just been finished and
another large steel tank is in course
of construction.
When Kentucky comes to southern
Kansas for its horses. it would seem
to be Kansas business to go into fine
! horse business steep.
! Martin Mohler (may his tribe de-
crease) is trying to break out of OBJ
livicn by writing letters on alfalfa to
the Kansas newspapers.
Grandma Hedges of Monett, who is
rs years old, walked four miles on an
errand last Monday, rather than have
her team taken from the pillow.
] Governor Morrill, has issued procla-
nation for Arbor Day, April 10. on
which day many people in Kansas will
| celebrate by setting out trees.
John Cummings, one of the early
settlers in Wolf River township, Doni-
phan county. died on the eth inst, of
cancer His age was "A years.
| The people of Atchison are kicking
against sewer bond proposition.
Atchison is the old fashioned town
which can get along without sewers.
The y ray is not new to the Kansas
editor. The editor who wants an ex-
change and is too tired to write a let
ter has long used the rs in profuslon
The principal business of the Tope-
l1a land Office just now is to receive
applications for fragmentary parcels
of land formed by bends of streams
A Riley county man picked up two
acres of land of this kind one day last
| week.
Miss Lenburg, blind evangelist, is
working Ottawa. An Uncle Tom S
Cabin company broke into the town
last week, but she is trained vocal
list. and gave better show, and the
invaders left after one nights per-
! Torrance.
The town of Topeka is talking of
constructing an auditorium in order to
catch the state conventions. 1t should
also replace its marble heart with
something that can feel the warmth
VI hospitality. HeH let lHein ask LOT
conventions
i. ID. Roberts. n well known land
agent of Fort Scott has been arrested
on an order of execution issued from
the Office Of the clerk of the district
court Robert is accused of conceal
ing his property to defraud his cred
itors.
The Kansas City, Wyandotte &,
Northwestern never has paid any tax
es on rolling stock in the townships
between Seneca and AXtell, where it
uses the Rock Islands tracks. This
discovery was made by Auditor of
State Cole last week.
Prof. Dyche had better leave the
lecture field and open a museum if he
wants to retain his Arctic specime MS
When he lectured at Alma, some one
stole his elder duck robe and at Nor
ton the seal boots were stolen from
his EsquimauX manikin.
! A committee appointed by the Com
mercial club at Coffeyville has rented
and furnished large hotel for the pa
tients of julius Goodwin, healer
who has just arrived in that town
Goodwin claims to cure by means of
magnetism, and large numbers there
claim to have been relieved by him
Dr. Pendleton, powerful preacher.
and an old warrior Sc in Methodism,
was, on Thursday. assigned to the
Baldwin circuit, which pays $3.50 IA
year. Dr. Pendleton has twelve chill
dren; SO many, indeed, that there is a
brass band in his family all parts be-
ing taken by his children. The band
plays at DIR. Pendieton's meetings.
Mrs. Walters living at Lane. small
town near Ottawa. committed suicide
Friday night. Herself and husband
retired as usual, and during the night
the unhappy woman committed the
deed. Mr. Walters occupied a couch
adjacent to that of his wife. but was
not aware of the fact until some time
after he arose in the morning. when
he discovered her. dead, with a ghast-
ly wound in her throat. razor, bor-
rowed of her son the night before was
used.
A young, absent-minded doctor at
LAY ioSHe "Heu SeltHS mdrrleu IorSOt
, when putting on the ring. felt the
brides pulse and asked her to put out
her tongue. As time rolls on he will
not encourage her to use her tongue
Mrs. Achsah Barnard, the widow OF
Stephen Barnard, died at her home in
Centralia last week, aged 81. She set
tied with her husband at the town OF
Sumner in 1857. When that town
went down they moved to Centralia.
The Forest Oil company's pay roll
in Wilson county now carries 125 men,
| a gain of seventy-five in six weeks.
1t cost one Montgomery county man
a fine Of s. % 10 ,aloN,. two fnr.r.1,,,.s