Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-03-25

( The school boys of Santa Fe have
been called to the pillow, and the les
sons will be heard no more until fall
A. E. Bishop, formerly of Abilene,
but now of Kansas City, will, it is re-
ported, go to South America as mis-
sionary next month. He will take his
wife and two little children with him
and will work under the auspices of
the Gospel union.
S. E. Poor and c. J. Lamb have pur-
chased large tract of land just west
( of Abilene where they will engage in
irrigation gardening. Water is found
in abundant quantities at n depth of
fifteen feet and they propose to sink
wells and pump the water by horse
power.
! Fred Brown, who used to train
horses for Cy Leland, is now at Qua
nah, Texas. working for cement
plaster company. Men trained in
life's work can turn their hands to
anything. An old Doniphan county
man. who was Leland's orderly dur
/ ing the war, is now an evangelist in
Arkansas.
Elijah Morse, the millionaire Con-
gresham of Massachusetts, is said to
have withdrawn S4OO, O09 in loans from
Kansas since the passage of the mort
gage redemption law and invested it
in Iowa mortgages. Mr.. Morse has
been worked cruelty; the same law
has been on the Iowa statute books for
thirty years.
The county commissioners, in estab-
fishing a rock pile at Abilene on which
prisoners work out fines, have solved
much vexed problem. A fresh lot of
rock has been hauled and that already
broken is being hauled to the poor
farm. where it is being used in con-
creting the cellars, making walks,
drives, etc.
A party of masked men appeared at
the house of T. w. Berry Saturday
night and finding Joseph Conwell
there under suspicious circum stances
gave him severe beating and ordered
him to leave town threa tening him
with tar and feathers if he did not
obey. There are a few things Atchi-
son will not stand.
Frank Peters. little s-year-old boy
living at Fort Scott had his right hand
blown off Friday evening. The little
fellow had just started the fire and had
thrown Il shovel of coal into the stove
when the explosion, which is supposed
was caused by heavy Illuminating
cap, such as is used in blasting, oc-
CURED. 1t is thought the cap was in
the coal which the lad had just put in
the fire.
The report of DR.. C. B. Carpenter,
secretary of the board of health at
Leavenworth, for February, shows
there were 81 births and 30 deaths for
that month. The number of mar
riage licenses issued was II. DIR. Car
penter says the number of deaths and
births was unusually large for the
shortest month in the year. There
were five deaths from pneumonia,
three from heart disease, three from
phthisic and one from old age.
At the regular meeting of the his
torical seminary held in Lawrence
Saturday at the state university,
Major Abbott, of De Soto delivered a
lecture upon the subject Causes of
Wakarusa war" Major Abbott was
one of the pro-slavery leaders in this
) state. His lecture was from personal
! experiences at that time. Professor
f. II. Holder, the president of the
seminary, made short address, as
did also Mr.. b. w. Woodward, upon
early Kansas history.
Fools are gong to Cripple Creek and
: walking the streets for a job, and wise
men are going to Short Creek, Kansas,
, and striking fortunes in lead and zinc.
; Short Creek is the best poor mans
) country on earth. In proof of this the
Galena Post tells the following: Hen
~ Jones will give Elmer Hoffman and
) George Elliot dollar apiece to kick
him over one of Alaskas mountains
when he reads this item: Just befo re
leaving Galena he sold his third inter
est in the Horse Shoe to Ed Stice for
$50. Since the immense strike there
, Stice has refused $500 for one
sixth interest, or S., 900 for the inter-
, est he purchased for $50 not ten days
ago."
: A well dressed, smooth appearing
, man has been working some of the
Eudora citizens the past week. With
business like air he called upon them
| representing he was government
agent looking for counterfeit coin
and requested them to show what
: money they had in their possession
l He then used chemical which turns
the coin black, declares it spurious
5 and takes it away with him. Several
of the citizens are looking for the
government agent"
the soldiers stationed at Fort Leav
t enworth have been engaging in more
: field practice. The weather was just
"A little raw Saturday afternoon fol
: maneuyering, but rapidity of the move
l ments kept the blood circulating pref
+ ty freely. A sham battle, similar t.
: the one fought at the old bridge Tues
. day, was on the program of maneuyer.
| for the afternoon. 1t was a fight 70,
=, the possession of the waterworks res
S ervoir just north of the city. In tn,
r fight the infantry took the NOR,
: prominent part. The news of tn.
;. sham battle was circulated down tow1
: and as result crowd from the city
saw the bloodless fighting
2 Another big flow of oil has beer
n struck at Humboldt. Kansas sand
d oil bearing sand-wilI prove to b
c sands of gold yet.
Fred Scott, aged 16 years. son o
q John Scott, who lives three miles cas-
II of Kirwin, shot and killed three vii.
It geese on the fly, at one shot. last Mon
V day.
Moses Harmon, who is now serving
years sentence in the federal peni
4 tertiary, at Leavenworth, for sendin;
y improper matter through the mails il