Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-06-10
Another spooner company has been

Another Spooner company has been
organized in Kansas
Ness county reports an increase of
| population the last year.
Frances Murphy wants $40 a night
for fighting the rum power.
Cy Warman has story in McClure's
! this month about an engine that dis
appeared in quicksand That thing
actually happened once.
There is a great kick because Con-
/ ductor Harry Griffin has been taken
off the Topeka and Atchison run by
the Santa Ee management. Griffin is
one of the most ob1iging men who ever
punched ticket, and the women dote
| on him.
The new adjutant general of the G.
A. r., the patriot who beat a
daughter of a deceased old soldier out
of job, has beautiful lace curtain
whiskers and a soft, velvetr voice.
You will not be mistaken when you
meet him; there is no other man like
him in Kansas.
Haskell county has surplus of rat
tie snakes and cyclones this year. The
local paper says in many instances a
dozen may be found in a single den.
Whether snakes or cyclones is mat
ter for speculation or conjecture, left
for the reader to determine for him
self.
Away out at Cimarron the people
are praying tor rain. The western
part of Kansas is not like any other
portion of the globe. Sometimes
when all the rest of the world is dying
of drouth, western Kansans will be
building arxs to float around in.
Galena and Joplin are in the midst
of war concerning Joplin's electric
railway entering the former place
without the consent of the city coun-
ell. 1t is claimed, now, that the road
will enter over private property. The
best thing for Galena to do is to build
a few smelters and reduce her mineral
instead of sending everything to Jop-
lin to be worked. Galena furnishes
about eighty per cent of the output,
but looses half the benefit by not
smelling her own ore.
The executive council at Topeka,
has ordered search to be made for a
missing carpet valued at something
over 500. The carpet originally COW
cred the floors of the offices fitted up
for Bank Commissioner Briedenthal,
and had been in use about a year,
| when it was taken up for the contract
ors to fit up that part of the state
house for the governors use. A coup
lie of weeks ago, Breidenthal was as
| signed to the rooms in the east wing
formerly occupied by the attorney
general A new carpet was necessary
ana the carpet used in the east wing
was thought of. Then it was discov-
cred that the carpet was missing, and
nobody seems to know what has be-
come of it.
During the progress of Jury trial
in Labette county the other day Judge
Skidmore left the bench for a mo-
ment and stepped to the back part of
the room. While he was gone his
stenographer, Ray Ritter of Columbus,
perched himself in the judges seat.
While the judge stood talking with an
acquaintance stranger accosted him
and asked him if he lived in the town.
The Judge replied that he lived in an
adjoining county. ''Here attending
court, l suppose" the man said, and to
which the judge assented. The stran-
ger then asked: ''How old is that little
red-headed Judge on the bench?'' 81
: don't know" Skidmore replied, "but
during the campaign it was reported
that he was about 49," Forty! Why
he doesn't look it." exclaimed the
stranger. No, 1 don't think myself
he does; but that fellow deceives his
looks in more ways than one"
Judge William Hall of Mcpherson
comfy, has just rendered a most i'm
portant decision. 1t was a case where
in James P. Townend held a mortga ge
!, against A. Rostine and others. A
Judgment had been rendered in the
district court and an order made to
, sell at .;heriff's sale. Instead of adj
vertising for sale the plaintiff comes
before Judge Hall and moves the
court to appoint a receiver on the
lands in question. The cause was
tried on it's merits, consuming three
!, full days and an examination of TWEEN
ty witnesses The judge held to the
rule laid down by judge Martin that
if party came into court asking re-
ceiver they must wave the excess of
interest over per cent where the
mortgage stipulated under certain
conditions that it was to draw 12 per
cent The next point was the solven-
cy of the defendant and the equity OF
the law. The judge worked on the
! theory that the defendant was solvent
and personal judgment would be
good. 1t was proved that the land
was worth what the mortgage called
for with per cent interest on all de-
: ferred payments. The judge refused