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

for $50, and his wife paid si23 of it by
selling butter.
ID. o. McCray's telephone caught fire
one day last week. McCray is a man
who sends hot stuff
Ottawa has woman only 81 years
old who is a grandmother People il
Ottawa are very fast.
Lawrence has eight whist clubs.
She may be trifie short on culture
| but she can beat Ottawa to death Oh
cards.
T.! The city council at Ottawa has pas
sed an ordinance levying an occrpa-
ton tax of $40 on each newspaper pub.
lished there.
1t is stated that $1,000 worth of
/ Stevens county bonds have been stolen
! from a bank at Lafayette, Ohio. A
reward of $1,000 is offered for their re.
turn.
The annual meeting of the State
Temperance Union will be held at To
peka March ,. Each church and tenn
perance society is entitled to three
votes.
The Ellis Review makes oath that a
stratum of seven inches of coal has
been discovered al depth of twenty
feet on the Smoky Hill, southeast of
town.
Young men who are looking for
wives should file sealed proposals for
the Horton young woman who has
1000 bushels of corn in the crib wait
ing for the rise.
Ewing Herbert, who has nose for
everything, declares there is coal all
Brown county. and advises people to
go to digging right at home instead OF
running off to Cripple Creek
Bert Smith worthy beerierker of a
Robinson Club" has been compelled
to postpone his prospective marriage
while he does thirty days time in jail
and rustles for 800 to pay a fine
David kelso for many years in the
service of the Missouri Pacific law de.
partment at Atchison, has formed a
partnership in the general practice al
Leavenworth with N. E. Van Tuyl.
Ibid you fall?" said an Atchisor
man, rushing to the rescue of a woman
who slipped on the icy pavement sol
no, = she said. Il just sat down to see
if l could find any four-leaf clovers.'
Kansas always to the fore A Kan
sas newspaper has removed its devi
and hired in his place young woman
Lille Stapleton by name, and invest
ed her with the rank and title of s'dev
ilene."
The New York Life company las
week sold under mortgage judgment
1 ,2S5 acres of land in Wilson count,
belonging to one Eli Neff. the sam,
company buying it in at S15.793. o
less than S12.5 so an acre 1t was tn
biggest land sale that ever has taker
place in the county.
The probate Judge of Finney count,
has left a lot of marriage licenses sign
ed in blank for his wife to issue Will,
he is away. Later on there will b.
l some mistit marriages. The law pro
vides for no deputy probate Judge, an
it is the duty of the officer not only t.
? sign licenses but also to decide wheth
SA opPllNdhCo
The Usher Guards have decided t
hold public drill on Washington
birthday at Lawrence. Sam Ushe
who is a sort of patron saint for tn
company, has offered beautiful soil
gold medal that will be awarded t.
o the best drilled private or non-con
missioned officer in the company. TIL
$ medal is now worn by the first SCI
l geant. A. A. Krause.
y tramp was arraigned IN the Otta
: wa police court and fined IS and costs
u He became angercd about it and Gale
the Judge a kangaroo and his court
kangaroo court. Thereupon the judg
n added another s. to the fine for con
2 tempt Of court. The tramp retortet
e that it would be hard to be in contemp
of court like that and received anotl
T er S. fine. He then damned the cour
e and sworc he would not work for tn
e city and received an additional SIS a
s the police hurried him out throug
the door.
G The big business the railroad con
e panies expected to do in the corn trad
70 in Kansas is not panning out-at lea,
Il not yet. Everybody is buying cor
% but nobody is shipping out in motto,
IF able quantities. But ten per cent
G the crop of 90 has been marketed
The per capita water consumptio
lo of TT. Scott is enormous. The repol
le for the last half of December shows
t use of 703,34 gallans per day. II
railroads are responsible for this e.
e cessive use. The three systems alor
D. consume 4.5O0, 900 per month.
10 A Pennsylvania paper gives its reat
ers this advice: The eastern half {
Kansas produced last summer nearl
20O-million bushels of corn Kansas
now supplying the table salt for Ne
r Works -four hundred, and the apple
r that Queen Victoria finds so bene6cis
lie to her rheuma tism. and the Standar
m Oil company has just been shippin
IL the immense products of her oil field:
w which means constant stream of We
70 low metal in. The world has bee
er moving west for good many centu
N les and its instinct hasn't made an
mistake in the matter.
to- Instead of going to Cripple Cree
t put few dollars into hens. and DO
Or row a rooster, advises some wise ma
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