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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-01-06
Do Arastodons stin Livs2

A very curious report comes from the
far northwest in our unexplored Alas
kan possessions. 1t is that living mas
todons have been seen in those regions
by native Indians within the past FIVE
years. Such reports have come before
from furriers, but as these were white
men with the vices of civilization, they
were not fully believed. Now comes
confirmation from the Stick Indians
who live in that region. One Of them
lately reports that he followed an i'm
mense track that seemed to be freshly
made. Going to the brow of an eleva-
tion he saw sight that chilled him
and sent him quickly in retreat. It
was of immense animals contending
in battle. He said it was bigger than
the post traders house, had great shin
ing yellow tusks and a mouth large
enough to swallow a man. Relics Of
mastodon bones have heretofore been
found with those of prehistoric man.
Doubtless he was mans most danger
Gus enemy before history began. If this
story had originated in one of the sem
sational eastern papers we should not
give it moments attention. But it
comes from the Alaska News, which we
are charitable enough to hope is a repu-
table paper, and readers of the Ameri-
can Culdvator are entitled to hear this
story, which, II true, is OF great scienti-
fic interest. 1t used to be thought that
mastodons could only live in hot, or at
least moderate climates. But the mas
todon had very heavy fur, as we know
from pieces Of skin found encased in ice
in Siberia some years ago. 1t is not
an impossibility that few specimens
of the mastodon may have survived to
the present day in localities not acces-
sible to man.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-01-06

BEATS THE RECORD.
San Gabriel, Cal, Woman Is q Great
GRANDMOTHER at 40.


The youngest great grandmother in
the country lives in southern Califor-.
MIA, in San Gabriel valley, says the San
Francisco Call She is a good-looking
vivacious woman OF middle age and her
name is Mrs. Jennie Nelson. Before
she was Is, Mrs. Nelson was mother,
at 30 she was a grandmother and at 46
she became great grandmother. That
is record which is seldom requaled.
Ass- -s<efson was born in San Bernard
ino, CAL, in May, 1850. Her mother
was a Spanish woman and her father
an Englishman. Her maiden name was
Jennie Fawcett and she was particu-
larly handsome and attractive girl. At
that time there were very few white
families in that section and so those
which were there were friendly. The
nearest neighbors and closest friends
OF the Fawcetts were the Nelson's, and
when Miss Jennie was only IA years old
she was married to George Nelson, a
young man of 10. When Jennie lacked
two months of completing her fifteenth
year she became the mother of bright
baby girl. The youthful couple moved
to San Diego and there in the course of
eleven years six more children were
born to them. The eldest child was a
girl and was named Isabelle. She was
soon famous far and wide around San
Diego for her beauty, and her friends
were not surprised one day to hear that
she had come home from school to an
nounce that she had been married to
Earl q. Phelps, dashing young man
from the east. Miss Isabelle was in
short dresses still, but her mother for
gave her, and the couple went to live
on young Phelps ranch near the town.
There, when Isabelle was Is, her first
child was born. This made Mrs. Mel
son grandmother at 80. Since then
the grandchild Amelia, has grown to
g1rlhood and last year she became en-
gagged to young Orange county ranch
man, Henry Walker. They were mar
ried short time ago. At the age of 16
years and months Mrs. Walker be-
came the mother of little boy. This
interesting little chap has the most
remarkable set of relatives. Besides
his 46-year-old great grandmother he
has an aunt who is a week younger
than himself, and he has a grand-uncle
who is less than three years old. Baby
Walkers father is but 20 years old,
his grandfather has just passed his
thirty-fifth birthday and his great
grandfather Nelson is barely 40.
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EIector Linton. of Kansas.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Jan. 2.-Senator
PETER has been requested to have re-
moved the charge of desertion from
the record of Observation-Disclosures Lin
ton, of Cherryvale, Kan. He said to-
day that it could only be accomplished
by special act of Congress, but that the
charge could not affect Mr. Llnton's
status as an elector, as it never had
been tried by either court-martial or
in the civil courts. An investigation
of the record, he said, showed Mr..
Linton left the army near the close of
the war, after serving through several
campaipnS.
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ON BEING A SNOB,
Take People as They Come and Don't
--s-s-------Be Narrow.


Goodwill would come easier If we
could all contrive to make our expecta-
tions Of one another bear a more rea-
sonable relation to facts, says Scrib-
ner's. Mos. of us are apt to have
general standard of looks, conduct,
morals, intelligence and agreeableness,
and to think favorably of persons who
come up to it or surpass it, and more
or less unfavorably of persons who
don't. People who come up to our
standard are mice" and we like their
company and cultivate their society,
and other people are not mice"
and we are apt to speak Of
them with some disparagement, to
avoid being thrown with them, to sigh
when they ask us to dinner and to
think the time spent with them is
wasted. But We can easily discrimi-
nate overmuch and be ungenerously
fastidious about our companions. Peo-
pie whose circle of playmates is limited
to select few of certain scarce kind
are bound to be narrowed by their So
cial sQueamishness. 1t is much better
for them to compel themselves to take
people more as they come and try to
get some pleasure out of every one.
even if 1t is only such self-denying
happiness az comes from pleasure
given.
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PINGREE INAUGURATED,
Detroit's Mayor Becomes Also Mich,
igan's Governor.


LANSING, Mich, Jan. 2.-Precedent
and form were thrown to the winds
yesterday in the Inauguration of Gov
ernor Hazen S. Pingree and the other
state officers. A comfortable crowd of
curious people had gathered in the ex-
ecutive Office and parlors at the cap
itol. Mr.. Pingree arrived, accom-
panied by Mrs. Pingree and coterie
of personal friends. Shortly after, he
entered the executive parlors, accom-
panied by retiring Governor Rich and
Commissioner French of the state land
office, where at noon Chief Justice
Long of the supreme court admins
tered the oath of Office. an introduc-
tion followed by the chief Justice, and
all present shook hands with and con-
graduated the new governor. Thus
began the gubernatorial career of a
man who is considered one of the most
unique personalities in the United
States, and who holds at the same
time the office of mayor of Detroit and
governor.
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covered, it was found that the gas was
againg flowing with almost full force.
The conclusion is reached, therefore,
that after his sister-in-law lift him for
the night he deliberately turned the
gas on again, but finding death too
slow by that means, opened the win
dow and plunged headlong to the pave
ment below.
No writings were found in Mr.. Nc
Cullagh's room explaining his act or
leaving instructions for the arrange
ment of his affairs after death.
Mr.. McCullagh's illness came on him
shortly after the close of the late Re-
publican national convention. 1t took
the form of acute asthma, compli-
Gated with nervous depression When
he passed through the acute stage he
found himself slow in recovery. His
limbs had lost their vigor, his arms
were numb and there were premoni-
tions that the brain had come under
the same shadowy spell. He would
not admit that he was failing either
physically or mentally, and insisted
on managing his newspaper from his
bedroom. All through the day he sat
in his chair wrapped in blankets, re-
ceived reports from his subordinates
and gave them orders for the conduct
of the paper.
ST. LOUIS, NO., Jan. 2.-The inquest
on the body of j. B. McCullagh, editor
of the Globe Democrat, whose remains
were found under his bedroom window
Thursday, began yesterday.
1t developed the startling fact,
through the testimony of DIR. C. H.
Hughes, McCullagh's physician, that
the deceased made what was at the
time believed to be an attempt at sui
eide on December % last. On that
day, DR.. Hughes testified, he called on
Mr.. McCullagh and left with him a
four-ounce bottle containing two
ounces of digitalis, powerful heart
tonic, an overdose of which would
have the effect of paralyzing the ac-
tion of the heart. The same night
Mr.. McCullagh took an ounce of the
medicine, enough to have caused
death, but which, owing to the weak
condition of his stomach, was immedi-
ately rejected. When DIR. Hughes
| called the next morning he was
greatly alarmed, and asked Mr. Nc
Cullagh if he had taken that amount.
An evasive answer was given.
DIR. Hughes testified that he was sat
isfied Mr.. McCullagh had not taken
the medicine by mistake. The physi-
clan at once connected the startling
circumstances with a conversation had
with Mr. McCullagh shortly before. in
which tho latter sn0lre of the death NJ
Abraham Lincoln, saying that he died
at good time, and that when any
man outlived his usefulness it was time
for him to go.
He also testified as to Mr.. McCu1-
lagh's strange and evasive manner on
the day preceding his death, and con-
cluded his testimony with the positive
statement that his impression was that
the case was one of suicide.
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War ON the Live Stock E.chanre.

Topeka, Kan, Jan. 2.-Suit has been
commenced in the United States cir
cult court in this city to dissolve the
Kansas City Live Stock exchange. The
petition was prepared by United States
Attorney w. c. Perry and was signed
by Attorney General Judson Harmon.
The petition charges that the object of
the organization is to control the
charges for handling, selling and buy
ing live stock at the Kansas CITY
stock yards, and that its existence re-
strains trade, is against public policy
and is a violation of the federal anti
trust laws. The application for a
temporary injunction in the suit will
be heard before Judge Foster, of the
Federal court, on January IA.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-01-06
J. B. M'CULLAGH DEAD
EDITOR ST. LOUIS GLOBE
DEMOCRAT A SUICIDE.
Threw Himself From the window of
His Sick Chamber-Found ON the
Sidewalk With His Skull Crushed
He Was Tired of Living.

ST. LOUIS, NO., Jan. 2.-Mr. Joseph
b. McCullagh, editor of the St Louis
Globe-Democrat, and one of the best
known newspaper men in the country,
is dead, as the result of fall of twen-
ty-five feet from a second story win
dow of his apartments at the residence
of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Kate Manion,
at 1897 West Pine boulevard.
Just before midnight Mrs. Manion
went into Mr.. McCullagh's room to in
quire hoW he was, as had been her
custom for some time past, and found
the gas streaming from one of the
burners and Mr.. McCullagh in semi
conscious condition. She Immediately
stopped the flow, aired the room and
aroused Mr.. McCullagh, and then,
with an admonition to be more care
full, retired to her own room. This
morning, after the body had been dis
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-01-06
Lirhtninr and Trees.

Cedar and fig trees are rarely struck
by lightning. The beech, the larch,
the fir and the chestnut also seem to
be peculiarly obnoxious to the bolts
OF .Joye." There are trees, however,
which appear to attract rather than to
repel the lightning fash. The trees
generally enumerated in the category
of those which the lightning is most
apt to strike are the oak, the yew, the
elm and the Lombardy poplar.
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FINAL OFFICIAL FIGURES.

Complete Vote Cast for Presidential
Nominees in the Late Election.
CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-The official can
vass of the vote of Maryland for Presi-
dent November was completed to-
day. The total vote in the different
states was 13,3ss,762. Mckinley, Re-
publican, received 7,101 ,4o1; Bryan,
Democrat, 6,47o,656; Palmer, Gold
Standard, 135, ,956; Levering, Prohibi-
nonlst, 130, $50; Bentley, National. IA
By; Matchette, Socialist, 1889. Nc
knleys plurality is 63O,7,2 and his
majority over all 316, ,399.
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Award Against venezueIa.

BERNE, Dec. 31.-A Frenchman by
the name of Febian lodged a claim for
$4,000, 900 some time ago against vene-
zuela on account of denial OF. justice
by the Venezuelan courts The mat
ter was eventually submitted to the
arbitration of the president of the
Swiss republic, who has awarded Fa-
bian $3.50. .OOO
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Miss Bodine an Actress.

PARIS, Mo-, Jan. 2.-Miss Clara,
daughter of Congressman-elect R. N.
Bodine, left yesterday for Fort Worth,
Tex, to take the part of Flora May
Randolph in Clay Clements "The New
Dominion. The step was a surprise
to her acquaintance, for, though she
had long been conspicuous in amateur
performances and was known to be
ambitious to go on the stage, her
parents were much averse.
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Maceo.s Successor Slain.

HAVANA, Jan. 2.-According to ad-
vices received at the government pal
ace from Captain General Weyler's
headquarters in the province of Pinar
del Rio, General Ruiz Rivera, who sue
ceeded the late General Antonio Maceo
in command of the rebel forces in that
province, was wounded in a skirmish
Wednesday and subsequently died
from the effects of the wound. No
details of the engagement were sent
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Blind Man and His wife Insane.

FORT SCorT. Kan. Jan. "A blind
man and his wife, both of whom were
found to be insane, were arrested here,
after the woman had assaulted her
husband and created disturbances in
different hotels of the city. They gave
their names as Smith, and said they
had been living at Carthage, Mo.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-01-06

Hetty Green, the richest woman in
the United States. was a witness in
court one day this week. and earned
so cents. Did she take it? Well
the United States. was a witnes in
court one dasy thi week, and earned
so cesnts. Did she take it? Well,
rather.
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entered.

- fSa2p- ,clouded the brow of DR..
~ -alph Stanton, the emmett young phys
J sician who everybody declared would
make his fortune in his profession,
and pretty Nellie Saville escaped, glad
to hide her flushed cheeks from her
cousins Jealous eyes,
Mrs. Stanton threw herself languid-
ly into the depths of an easy chair
SO l have found you at last, my dear
Ralph. I have been seeking you for
the last hour"
He hated this woman in spite of her
dark, witching beauty. His uncle had
found that beauty irresistible, and by
late marriage robbed his nephew of
the quarter Of a million which he had
taught him to expect would one day
be his.
What did you want with me?" he
asked curtly.
You are cross. I wanted your so
ciety; nothing more. Is there any
thing strange in that?"
Most fattering of you, my dear
aunt, ! am sure"
1t was Mrs. Stanton's turn to frown.
Don't call me by that hateful name
II did marry your uncle, you might
remember that am not yet 25. BY the
way, Nellie Saville quits the teens next
week."
"Indeed!
Yes. Charming girl, isn't she?
Really, Ralph, If you should see the
dismal hole of a parsonage where that
girls parents live you would feel CRATE
rui to me for my compassionate gen.
erosity In taking her from 1t for lit
tie while. Are you going to Lady
Campbell's this afternoon, Ralph?"
mo, I detest tea and tennis"
so do /. Besides, have a head
ache. Will you prescribe for me?"
After the majority of Mrs. Oak
brooks guests had departed for Camp
bell house, DR.. Stanton was pacing the
lawn with Sir John Dolby, smoking
cigarettes and talking politics; and in
doors his relative occupied a velvet
lounge and tried to read the last new
novel.
He came to her at last; but it was
with a serious face and an open tele-
gram in his hand.
MY sister has met with an accident.
Levison wants me to go at once"
20, Ralph! Is it serious? You will
return here?"
Il think not" he returned, replying
to the latter question.
you will come to Melton Willows
at Christmas, Ralph?"
II really cannot promise. Good-by."
She sat there until the sound of the
horses hoofs had died away, then she
crossed the room and looked at the
notes he had written. One was for his
hostess-apology and explanation, Of
course-but the other was for Miss
Saville." A moments hesitation-then
she tore It open.
Dear Miss Saville: Before you see
this you will know the reason of my
sudden departure. But I cannot wait
until our next meeting for the answer
to the question 1 should have asked
YOU this morning If Mrs. Stanton's en-
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Iowa Teachers in a Wreck.

DEs MONIES, Iowa, Jan. "A pas
senger train on the Keokuk and West
ern, southbound, was wrecked yester-
day morning two miles south of
Norwalk, injuring several passengers,
one perhaps fatally. 1t was a heavy
train, loaded with teachers going home
from the state association. The ground
under the track was softened by rain
so the rails spreasd
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Plot to XIII Cecil Rhodes.

CAPETowN, Jan. "A plot to wreck
Cecil Rhodes train on its way from the
coast was discovered and the extraordi-
nary precautions taken in consequences
thwarted the plotters. Several de-
tectives who were put on the case have
been shadowing three Germans from
the Transvaal. Rumor connects the
same men with the burning of Rhodes
country house a week or so ago
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-01-06
Thirty Years for a Cattle Thief.

GREELEY, Col, Jan. Al Cochran,
the cattle rustler, has been sentenced
to thirty years in prison for cattle
stealing. 1t is said that he is under
indictment in Kimball county, Neb,
for the murder of Paul Rose, the stock
man, whose cattle were found in his
possession when he was arrested, and
for the theft of which he was found
guilty in this state
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-01-06
A 100000 Fire.

CoLLINsvILLE, Ill, Jan. 2.-The Col
insville zinc works, owned and oper-
ted by Mesker Bros. of st. Louis, were
partly destroyed by fire yesterd ay.
The engine and boiler room, Office pot
ters' works and one kiln were totally
destroyed. entailing a loss of about
s100. 900, partly insured.
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CITY OF MEXICO, Jan. LA terrible
disaster has occurred in the Santa Ger
trust mine at Pachuca, one of the most
famous silver mines In the country.
From some cause not known. fire broke
out in one of the levels of the old
southern workings Thursday. causing
tbs suffocation of fourteen miners.
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Last Years Chicago Fires.

CHICAGO, Jan. 2.-The annual report
of Dennis J. Swenie, chief of the Chi
cago fire department., shows that dur
ing the past year 5,674 fires have oc-
Cured. They caused total damage
of 81, $50, 92O, which is 1898, $50 less
than the damage done by fires in 1896.
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More Missouri Miners for Leadv,,,.

LEADvnLE, Col, Jan. 1.-Two more
car loads of Missouri miners have ar
rived to take the places of strikers in
the mines. The new comers were es-
corted to the mines by strong mill
tary guard, The streets were crowd
ed, but beyond hostile remarks there
was no demonstration.
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A Kansan Klled by Robbers.

CHEToPA, Kan, Jan. Last even
ing T. w. Glass, a grain buyer. son of
Captain T. M. Glass, while in his Office
at Welsh. was held up and shot twice,
from the effects of which he died in
few hours. Two men have been ar
rested on suspicion.
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q little thing. Ella. You will sign It,
Of course?'
No. dear; do it for me. Only ini-
tlais. How singular that they should
De alike, Is it not? Ella Stanton.
El1nor Saville. There, now, dear, just
run upstairs and see If Louise has
mended that lace tore last night"
A moment more, and Ralph Stan
tons simple, honest letter lay open be-
lore her. Jealousy had quickened her
memory. She knew 1t by heart.
Refolding it, she inclosed it with
that other in an envelope addressed
In Nellie's prettX~Sraceful. caligraphy
to "Raff1n Ss1ne01, ssd:," and sealed It
carefully.
1t was necessary to destroy the mis-
slve originally intended for Ralph,
and to indite another one to Mr.. Gra-
nam IL discovery was to be avoided.
Two years later DR.. Stanton was
Journeying northward. The London
season was over, and the famous ply
sician had been on the point of start
ing for his holiday, when he was sum-
moned by telegram to Sir Christopher
Knott, wealthy patient brimming
over with gout and crotchets.
Thinking! 1t was dreaming!
Dreaming Of a slim, petite figure and
huny golden hair, and glorious blue
eyes. Yes. though she had refused
him, he loved her still. Her home was
at Grimstone.
Would he see her? What folly!
Doubtless she was married, and, If not
had she not told him in the cruel lit
tie letter, which was even now in his
breast pocket of his coat, that it could
never be?
Grimstone! Grimstonev shouted a
porter, and so his reflections came to
an end. But only to awaken into
llvely interest. From a second-class
carriage girl alighted-a girl In a
neat little hat and gray dust cloak.
underneath that hat was a piquant
little face and clustering fringe Of
fluffy golden curls.
Nellie was alone in the drawing
room. Suitors had wooed in vain.
She was the orthodox clergyman's
daughter, with her duties to perform
as they rose fresh each day, and in
the past nameless disappointment.
Her thoughts had turned on that
visit to oakbrook two years ago, when
the waiting maid brought in q card.
"Dr. Stanton"
This is. indeed, a pleasant sur
prise" she said, with a rosy flush that
told its own story. 81 am sorry man.
ma is not at home"
Il am staying in the neighborhood,
professionally and could not leave
without calling on you. 1t is the priv
ilege of friendship, and you desired
that we continue friends
Nellie looked puzzled. "I do not un-
oerstand YOU What do you mean?"
Il beg your pardon for the allusion.
Miss Saville, but you cannot have for
gotten? The words were in your let
ter-a letter I have kept because you
wrote it. in spite of its contents"
Indeed you are under a mistake. 1
never wrote to you in my life."
"Then you never wrote this or re-
ceived this?"
And he placed in her hand the two
unfortunate letters.
When the primroses looked like
stars in the grass and the air was
filled with the odor Of violets, a we'd
ding took place at Grimstone church.
And three months later a society jour-
nal announced that Mrs. Stanton,
widow of the late George Stanton
Esq, Of Melton Willows, Berks, had
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ATcHIsoS, Kan, Jan. 2.-The Cham
plon Publishing company yesterday
gave chattle mortgage to A j. Felt
Tor ST,7O0 Other claims have been
fled which Mr.. Felt says viii be paid
md the publication continued.