Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-11-25

majority given in Atchison county,
The wires are already being laid for
the post-office positions in Kansas.
win White, the Emporia editor, says
that there is no beauty in woman's
leg.
Atchison people think Leedy will be
all right, since he has consulted Jim
Orr about patronage.
Leavenworth will soon forget the
election of 1896. They have mayor
to elect there next spring.
A Garnett girl decided to propose to
her young man if Mckinley was elect
ed. Cards will be out soon.
Every time Kansas does wrong there
is man present who says: "Well, Kan
sas is at last down to bedrock"
The Emporia Gazette expert says the
legs in the Twelve Temptations are
better than those in the Devils Auc-
tion.
The editors of the Alma Enterprise
don't want the post-office. In the last
paper they announce that ''it's news
were after"
DEMONSTRATION" is the platform
upon which the Leavenworth Times
will wage the fight in Kansas during
the next four years.
Miss Margaret Kane was elected
treasurer of Kiowa county She is said
to be the first woman elected county
treasurer in the state.
The Atchison Champion discovers
that the Republicans made gains in
Osborn county, anyway. But the pop
uiists carried it just the same.
There is report that out of twenty
SIX men who wrote for the Kansas
blue-book to Topeka house twenty.
five asked for the "bIew book"
Fred Vandegrift gives it out cold
that it was a lack of votes which de-
feated the Kansas Republicans. This
vindicates Simpson and Bristow.
There are fifty-six prisoners now con-
fined in the Shawnee county Jail. Sew
eral of these have been tried and sem
fenced. The sheriff will take squad
OF them over to Lansing soon.
The Ell Dorado Republican since the
election is shooting such articles as
The Buried Cities of Nineveh, Baby
lon and Nlpur" into its readers rs edi-
torial in a manner which is heroic.
Nate Barnes is the only Kansan who
has called on Major Mckinley yet who
had the good sense also to call on Edi-
tor Frease of Canton and give him a
warm Kansas hand-shake. AS result
Barnes got six or eight lines.
There was some excuse for the defeat
of Stine in Wyandotte county Null
berry Kelly kept him on the road in
specting coal oil, and he had no time
to make canvass The hardest-work-
ed men in Kansas are the coal oil dep
uties
gressional districts, Cowley, Chautau-
qua, Greenwood, Butler, Harvey, Sedg-
wick and Sumner will form the Sew
enth congressional district 1t would
be the prettiest district in the stcte of
Kansas.
Katherine Bert, who was seven years
past the Scriptural three-score-and-ten,
died in Dickinson county last week.
Seventy seven descendants attended
her funeral, and afterward all sat
down to square meal served in the
basement of ID church.
1t is told that in a certain little town
in the vicinity of Larned certain.
minister preached series of very rab-
id sermons against the sins of dancing.
Upon this the young men of the town
got up a big dance and offered him the
proceeds. Did he take the money?
The lady or the tiger.
Quails are said to be plentiful. We
hear sportsmen talking of the good
time they have killing and eating the
luscious birds. Now, we can't do any
thing in the killing line, but are will
ing to help with the eating, if some
over laden hunter would only deposit
portion of his burden at our corner.
Grover says for all to be thankful on
Nov. 26. At present our prospects for
getting an appetite for turkey are far
better than the prospest of getting a
turkey for our appetite. But we are
always hopeful We may yet happen
to have dark night and be lucky
enough to find low roostlng turkey
on neighbours fence
Friday evening little wreck occur.
red on the Santa Fe road between
Belle Plaine and Wellington. The
mixed train that started from Mulvane
was the victim. The trucks of one OF
the freight cars gave way and smash
up was the result. There were nine
passengers on the train and they were
all taken to Wellington an the engine,
giving some of them an exciting trip.
Nobody was injured and the damage to
the trait was Insignificant
The Kansas game law is dead let
ter. What is needed is free-for-all
shooting in season, and a penalty fo,
selling, exposing for sale, or for ship