Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1896-03-18

Hewins, and the cornplanters show /
signs of doing business.
Maggie Dull of Sumner county never
misses lecture and is a member of !
two literary clubs
Farmers who put their corn in their
cattle this season lost it. Farmers
who have their corn in the crib are |
still hoping.
The government inspector has Just
finished his work of inspecting the af-
fairs of the Oklahoma City land office.
He found everything in ship shape.
Geo. McLaughlin4son-o of prominen,
Chicago lawyer. was found guilty of
burglary and grand larceny, in the
district court at Mound City Friday.
A petition asking for grand jury
received only seven signatures in West
phalia. The Westphalia people pay
taxes, and they know bad thing when
they see it.
Mennouites are settling in Chey-
eynne county. They are a class of
settlers who, when settled, they stay
settled, and they make the country in
which they live bloom
The evangelist on duty at Hewins |
thought he was done, but finds that |
satin has been among his flock, and |
he must convert some of the town |
bad boys over again.
The st. Mary's girls have had an
enumeration of the marrigeable men !
of the community made, and when the |
ice cream season opens will begin a
leap year campaign.
J. b. Parks of Washington county
drove across the line into Nebraska
after a load of corn. He also loaded
up with corn juice, and on the way
home, being unable to manage his
team, was thrown from his wagon and
killed.
A Kansas court has ruled that "a
man who calls upon a woman regular
ly and takes her to entertainments
occasionally, is legally engaged to
marry her." Such decisions have
been rendered by courts in other
states, also.
The city and township assessors OF
Wyandotte county, at their meeting
agreed to assess both real and person
al property at its real value That is
business like plan. 1t will make
more favora BILE showing Of both prop,
erty and taxes to a stranger.
A rock pile has been established at
Abb enc by the county commissioners
for offenders to work out their fine
and costs Monday Mckinney and
Murphy were menacled to ball and
chain, given a hammer a piece and
set to work. The novel sight drew a
great many people around.
L. NJ. Crawford has paid the Leaven,
worth opera house license for 1895
amounting to 500 with balance due
the year previous, and the case which
has been against him in the court sfor
several months has been dismissed.
The license for 1896 became due the
first of the present month.
/ A gang of street men were employed
to clean up and flush the cutters at
Leavenworth Monday. Water was
| turned on from a two-inch hose. A
large number of minnows, the kind
used by fisherman to lure croppie and
| bass, passed through the nozzle, swan
along the cutters and finally dropped
into the sewers and out of sight.
j. T. Longs Kentucky emigrant cal
has arrived in Lane Monday, bringing
seventy people from the blue grass
state. They will farm the lands OF
Mr.. Long. For the past five years Mr..
Long has been inducing men in West
Virginia and Kentucky to invest in
/ Kansas soil, and each year he has in.
creased the number of emigrants to
that place.
The council chamber was crowded al
the last meeting of the commercial
club at Coffeyville. The committee to
secure cash and grain subscriptions
for the new mill have been well re.
| ceived and there is no question but
what the required amount will be
raised. A charter has been applied
for and new members are being taken
in daily. The mill is sure 60
North Lawrence has been troubled
with nocturnal clown; but long
legged copper, with double triggere6
pepper, got after it and scared it out
of town.
In a Kingman county school district
where there are but eight resident tax.
PAYERS and the land is mostly owned
by non-residents. they paw the school
teachers S55 month instead of the or.
dinsry $50, and he boards around among
the eight families, paying S5 weeli
instead of SO, the ordinary price. In
this way the residents get their money
back and the non-residents pay tht
bills
At a restaurant in Chautauqua coun
ty, is on sale this week maple sugar
made on the farm of W. H. .Jelf from
trees raised from seed planted by hi
, own hand. This shows what our farm
ers could be enjoying if they had i'm
proved the early opportunities. On
an adjoining farm John Burden ha
, cottonwood trees planted by himsel
, that measure over nine feet aroun'
and John proposes to take one o
!, them to mill one of these days, that h
can have lumber to use that he ha
raised himself.
/ Robberies of Kansas postoffices ar
i becoming altogether too numerous.
An eastern Kansas editor says: Tn
clock and the delinquent subscriber
: are about the only things that go OF
: tick nowadays
: Efingham has risen to the dignity o
: bath rooms. That is horse on old
fashioned Muscotah that probabl,
: never will be offset. and the long strug
p gle between the two towns may b
: counted as over.
l Strong City citizens are preparing t
: open up the earth to see II there ]
anything In it ss-----.--
e Oil strikes have become so commo
4 in Wilson county that it is q hard mat