Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-11-25

A Sterling girl wears dollar garters
and ten cent hose.
Governor Morrill, last week ci:ndes-
timely issued a Thanksgiving procla-
nation.
Charley Curtis has got over his scare
and is loaded with a lecture on the
Ralston cure.
Governor-elect Leedy's family con-
sists of two grown daughters and O.
year-old soE.
Royal Matthews of Mcpherson is the
only Republican state senator in the
Seventh district
An Atchison man sought peace in the
bottom of the Missouri river because
his wife nagged him.
The Emporia society men who gave
a minstrel show last winter have been
given permission to do it again.
The Kansas fellows who are hunting
for unlisted federal snaps should not
forget the army paymaster gold mine.
If Cy Leland gets to be secretary of
the interior ten thousand men in Kan
sas will simultaneously awaken to the
convection that the United States In
dian service cannot survive without
their aid
There are more men after the United
States marshalship in Kansas than any
other position, and it has been practic-
ally settled for year who was to have
it if the election went a certain way
Some one is being badly fooled.
The Botl1in family all got there; the
one running for governor in Wyoming,
the one for congressman at large from
Kansas, the other for the legislature
from Hutchinson, and the one after the
county Office down in Oklahoma.
Heavens" said a man yesterday,
''The Populists will get to quarreling
among themselves over state patronage
ronage, and what mixed old time we
will have in Kansas two years from
nowv'
Two real tramps hearing as "tacky
party" in Guthrie the other night,
took it in, and the hostess did not
catch on until she missed some silver
ware the next day. AS the Logan
county girl said: Guthrie society is
great joke"
Two Leavenworth friends met on
election day. Have you voted?''
asked one of them, II guess so,'' re-
piled the other. ''Thcy gave me a
map of Kansas and made a few
marks on it and gave it to man who
put it in cider barrel 1 don't think
much of this ostrich system of vot-
ing"
Sixteen hundred sheep from Arizona
were unloaded at Alma Sunday morn
ing to be wintered on farm north of
town. They were in bad shape, more
than 100 having died on the trip and
some others being unable to travel
with the drove were gobbled up by the
youngsters, and now every boy IN town
hasa little lamb"
Leavenworth and Atchison papers
are working one Il. X. Smith beyond
patience. When he is not leading the
german in Atchison he is dining in
Leavenworth, and the society reporters
keep hot trail on him. Some day the
people will rise up and kill him. 1t
will not be his fault, either. The
newspapers will be to blame. There are
many ways of spelling good men, and
the newspaper route is the short
est.
In a country school house near Glen
dale last week Teacher Amy Allmon of
Carmi township called up primary
class to recite, when one of the larger
pupils struck her with cindcr and an
| other with chunk of coal This was
signal for general attack and the
young woman was beaten and some of
/ her clothing torn from her. Better
disposed pupils defended her to the ex-
tent that she was able to seek safety
in fight, after which she resigned her
position.
The Eureka Herald says: How many
defective ballots were found when the
vote of the recent election was can
vassed it is impossible to say. but judg-
ing from the feel of the several sealed
packages the number is considerable
Some of the packages disclose the mum
Der therein, but others do not. The
Twin Falls precinct, which cast 6C
votes, sends in twelve defective ballots
a loss of 20 per cent. If one half Of
this percentage of loss prevailed
throughout the county, the loss would
reach fully 400 votes In what way the
the ballots are defective we have nc
means for knowing, nor can the mat
ter be ascertained short of contest
and contest is not likely. 1t woulG
be interesting to know what the trou
lie was, and to know it would doubt
less be profita BILE, for it would enable
the importation of little useful infor
nation. Why any person should max.
a mistake and thereby lose his vote i.
difficult to understand, but they do i
in spite of repeated instructions.