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

hubbards and night shirts
ut is said that the Kansas equal suf-'
fragists will start paper to advocate
. cause so dear to their hearts. 1t is
70 be monthly and will be published
In Topeka.
Twenty years ago the baby of DIR. II.
X. Tefft of Topeka TODD first prize at n
baby show. That baby still is on
earth, handsome young woman, and
still is taking prizes.
Local newspaper writer's are allow
ID great deal of latitude, but the
young man on the Topeka Capital
crossed the equator when he said a
woman wearing Mother Hubbard.
walked into court like a queen.
That frisky young man, Hymen,
who has always been such drawing
card with young people, and even
with old folks, sometimes. will now
settle down to life of staid sobriety.
He was married at Leavenworth last
week.
A deputy sheriff came up from Ration
N. NJ, to IIartland and captured Fred
McCannon and wife. who are charged
with numbering their infant child
about three weeks ago at Ration. They
are accused of burying their child
alive.
Lyons county has a man named
skunk. II the compositor on one of
the papers in that county should hap
pen TO get into the SIX box instead of
the ''h' in setting that name up, the
chances are that Mr.. Skunk would try
to whip an editor
Farmer G.. Il. Okeson resides on one
of the best farms in Brown county.
Within a radius of three miles he can
count nine churches, all of which
have been built within the past few
years. There are also seven school
houses within circle of three miles.
A young couple at Coffeyville went
driving last Sunday and about a mile
from town, their morse scared at some
thing at the roadside. The young man
got out to investigate the trouble and
run into a polecat. lie has since been
the object of much investigation him
self.
d. p. Thomas, of the Fort Scott Hy-
draulic Cement works, north of Fort
Scott, has just closed a contract to fur
nish $4,000 barrels of cement for the
construction of the mammoth Liggett
h Myers building in st. Louis. This
IS the largest contract eyer filed by
The factory, and will necessitate its
running all winter.
Saturday morning fifty-two u. S.
prisoners were brought from Ft Worth
Texas in charge of United States Mar
shall Tulley and placed in the govern
ment penitentiary at Leavenworth.
They were a tough looking outfit.
One of them was a negress. All are
in for minor crimes, their sentences
running from one to five years.
Ground is being broken for the cree
ton of a cheese factory in the eastern
part Of Brown county, near Hiawatha
Wealthy men are interested in tn,
venture and large amount of pat
ronage is being pledged. At the start
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and it is expected that higher prices
can be paid than the creameries ar,
now giving for milk. An experienced
manager has been secured.
A slick swindler is working the law
yers in the eastern part of the state
He approaches an attorney and tell
him that he has friend who has beef
badly hurt while in the employ of
railroad company, through the care
pessness of the company. This frienC
desires to come to the attorney TO en-
ter suit for damages and asks tn,
loan of $3.50 to pay his fare. Tn
smooth man has been making goo
wages out of his scheme
The Globe thinks there are too man
girls in Atchison of fifteen or sixteen
who should have their noses buried i
school books, who powder and cur
and dress and act like soubrettes.
News has just been received of til
finding of oil and coal at Brazilton a
the depth of IT'S feet. The well wa
sunk on Mr.. Verden's farm and show
bountiful yield of both oil and gas.
Miss Florence Bell North of LeaveI
worth has begun suit in the distrlC
court for personal damages in the SUI
Of 1000. Miss North alleges that b
the company's negligence in startin
the train without warning she wa
thrown from the platform, receivin
severe injuries.
When the first victim of the small
pox died in Leavenworth in 1894. a
old colored man was hired by the III
doRtAker to wash the corpse, prepar;
tory 70 burial, no one thinking it wa
caso of small poX at that time ne
until weeks afterward But it wa
and the old colorcd man got the di
ease and died. His widow now come
forward and sues the undertaken fc
$4,000.
People who read the Hiawath
World hereafter without paying for
will have to borrow it. Herbert hs
hung out the sign, ''No pay, no paper
MISS Hurrah lives at White Clou
and Fred Vandergrift, with an inc.
cusable ignorance of anatomy, VOL
ders II she has three hips like IL
other hurrahs.
When an Atchison man gets ahea
enough to lift the mortgage fro
his house and little extra to build
brick porch, his wife prints all h,