Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-01-29


Scott in one day recently
Billy Welch has gone to work for a
Kansas City printing house.
What has become of the Capt. ST.
verd monument in Cowley county.
Hog cholera in Atchison during the
year 1s95 entailed loss of 100000.
Fire-guards are being burnt on town
ship lines in many western counties.
Howard has blooded filly known
to turfmen as the ''Campbelljte Mare"
Dennis Flynn knows his business
Whenever he introduces bill it is
known all over the country as 'The
Flynn Bill"
George Mcpherson has sold his farms
southwest of OsLaloosa. $50 acres, to
John Clare of Atchison county for a
little over SO, 0OO net
An inmate of the insane asylum at
vastly rich by the decision of the court
in his favor in mining case.
An Oklahoma paper states that the
prettiest girl in Coalgate has red hair
and a freckled face. Coalgate is evil
IDENTIFY short on pretty girls.
An EN. says that on account of the
coal oil inspection law the Kansas
merchants can undersell the Oklaho-
ma merchants cents on the gallon.
The measure adopted by the Baxter
Springs News makes its columns look
like contributions of spring poetry.
and swat it goes into the waste basket.
gold craze since the Cripple Creek eX-
element began. The journal reports
two golden weddings one day last
week
Clay Whiteman says the new woman
shall have plug hat. mandolin sleeves,
a hustle and boomers. Then the sea
gulls will have to come off the gar
bage tugs.
Mrs. Miller of Otero who was
thought to be insane. jumped from
the depot platform in front of the en-
CINE of Rock Island train No 6, and
was run oyer and killed.
1t looks like dispensers of the ar
dent would be compelled to leave
Franklin county or quit the business.
There are fifty Kelley graduates in
that county and they all ''stuck" but
one.
Edwin l.. Charlton of Lawrence will
t1.x- 70 =, s. !,
his runaway wife and bring to justice
C. Albertus Rich. who ran away with
her. He is in San Francisco. where he
will prosecute the case.
A Lawrence man has struck a plan
to avoid paying rent for telephone al
his residence. He has established a
telegraph line of his own and with q
ticker at each end. keeps up com
munication and pays no toll.
"A profitable industry in Leaven.
worth is the organization of Cripple
Creek colonies. The victims, in addi
ton to railroad fares, pay fee to tn,
promoter for the privilege. Wher
they get to Cripple Creek they hustl,
with the rest of humanity.
Mrs Belle Worrell Ball formerly
of Kansas" is said to be the first wo
man newspaper correspondent to re
ceive the privileges of the press gal
lery of Congress. Mrs. Ball grew NJ
in Pawnee county, and has done con
siderable newspaper work in Eansa.
City.
John McCool of Brookdale, VIII,
shoots ia bbits for the market. went
out last week with seventy-nine shell
and brought home scventy-sever
rabbits. That knocksthe record
of 'Ade" Reynolds crack man
| who hunts rabbits in Chautauqu;
county.
Six conductors running on the 8, 4th
and l.. &c c. districts, witt
headquarters at Ellis, hav,
all been discharged within tn,
last fortnight. all for the same cause
that of neglecting to give receipts TO
cash fares None of the unfortunat
men were accused of retaining tn
money but for violating the company
rule governing cash fares.
Payne Brothers are still threshin
near Santa Fe. So far they hav
threshed between 10000 and 27,OO
bushels of small grain, and severa
thousand bushels yet contracted t
thresh. Payne Bros. have but one {
the five machines which are thrashin
in Haskell county.
Bv a competitive contest among tn
Kansas University, Representative
was chosen for place on the program
of the annual meeting of the Stat
Bar association. These were exam
ined by Judge James Humphrey, an
Monday it was announced that Arch
Hogg of Lawrence had been success
full in the contest.
: Daniel Gibson of Morton county vii
experiment. on small scale, with il
rigation this spring. He has pu
chased several lots adjoining his hon
and Will cultivate and irrigate the
r for the purpose of raising sma
5 garden. Mr.. Gibson bought a ne
: Perkins windmill several weeks ae
) and realizes the fact that it is bette
r to begin on small scale rather tina
not to begin at all.
A Seneca man, who owed SLIGO
Stockton Record on subscription, sen
5 a check for $160, and the honest editt
diddft do a THING hut send IL hack fl