Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-04-01

W. II. Morgan of Peabody, an editor,
will soon have novel published.
In far west Kansas farmers make
regular trips into Colorado for cedar
posts
The assessors of Stevens county has
lowered the assessment of farm lands
from $3.50 to $40.
John Gilmore. who knows thing
or two about farming, says prairie
grass will not be early.
Axtelrs dressmaker finds business
so dull that she has moved to farm.
and between orders for garments will
pillow and plant.
A western Kansas prophet says that
good crop years always abound in cy-
clones. He is putting new roof on
his cyclone cellar.
/ T. A. Filson, who once ran a paper
ut Concordia. is now in the lecture
field and doing well Men strike their
+ gait after while.
The Junction City park is to be
: lighted with electricity this summer.
and there is a roar among the young
people in consequence
The Atchison coal mine has risen to
the dignity of a strike. The principal
owner has red hair, ana wants to run
the diggings to suit himself.
Shetland colt born on Charley
Johnson's farm in jefferson county
last week was exactly twenty-five
inches high and twenty-five inches
long.
Charles Birch. the evangelist who is
saving souls in Concordia. makes a
good haul every time he passes the
hat. One night last week he counted
out $50.
Ben Matchett has returned to Os-
borne from Selling. Ok, where he con-
Quoted a revival. He has been offered
pulpit there, but he prefers to live
in Kansas.
Kansas paper thinks that the de-
ceased Philadelphia who left his
daughter without cent and gave his
second wife all, ought to be ostracised
by good society
A Sumner county shoemaker has in
his shop a rag baby with the sign
stuck to it: ''If you must handle
something, handle this" His visitors
leave his tools alone.
Atchison is the only big town in
Kansas which lost no letter carriers
by the recent raid of the special de-
tectives. Atchison seems to have got
down to its old time gait.
Anderson Gray's two daughters and
his son are circulating petition for
his pardon. Gray is the man who hvp-
Noticed Mcdonald into the murder of
Patton, SO it is said, in Sumner couu-
".
Ira Travers of Fort Scott is mourn
ing the loss of horse and buggy. A
faw days ago an old man giving his
name as Roberts came to his livery
barn and hired team, but the buggy
and man never came back, nor has a
most diligent search on the part of
Travers discovered the least trace OF
him.
Charles Eberstein, Duncan Agar.
Ray Tinney and Walter Moulton of
Kirwin lett this week for the gold
fields of Alaska The band PLAYED
several selections as they were about
to start and finished up by playing
The Girl l Left Behind Me- They
started off full of hope and good
spirits.
Bennett Brown, state mine inspec-
tor, of Girard, says in circular:
"You will please have each boy now
employed in your mines, who has not
attended school, to do so the balance
of the school term, and refuse to en-
ploy any boy under that age unless he
can furnish satisfactory proof that he
has attended school as required by
law
The postoffice at Shervin junction
six miles west of Columbus was robbed
Saturday night of a number of letters
and pouch key was taken.
Mrs J. ii. Maui, of Eudora, while
in the stable milking her COW, was
struck by the animal and pitched for.
ward in such n manner that she struck
the edge of the ma gey with her head
cutting and tearing the skin loose from
her forehead, from temple to temple
so it hung down over her eyes and face
like a curtain. She was not injured
otherwise and VIII recover. She i,
seyenty-fve years old.
Some Topeka amateurs. spoiled by
kind words said of them at home, vii
take tho ''Mikado' to Atchison. They
would better be warned by the hard
lucH of the unfortunate Bester G.
Brown, who, deceived by the f1attery
OF the Topeka papers, took a show t.
Atchison, and from that moment ht
has been n wiser man. but crushed ant
disappointed. He no longer lives il
Topeka. That one unfortunate mis-
take of imagining that he could ''act'
haunts him to this day, and he vii
know no peace of mind this side the
grave.
II. A. Mckee, the new editor of the
Caney Times, says he likes the town
but that he can't run a paper on wind
and he calls on delinquents to pay hin
the two or three thousand dollars due
him.
The Double Six club of commercial
travellers of Fort Scott gave a banquet
Saturday night which is acl1nowl
edged to have been the red letter feet
of that towns history. Besides goot
things TO eat, the committee had pro
vided good speaker. Ralph Burton
who talked OF 1.-The Travelling Man a.
Political Factor. y
The citizens of Lawrence have beer
kept so busy watching the comet that
has just passed that they have no
had time to register.
The attempt of those late blizzard.
to hurt the Kansas peach crop will b,
I fruitless