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

kill a rabbit will be able to be out in q
| few weeks.
State Superintendent Etryber has
| appointed his wife to the best position
in his Office.
| The blind staggers are affecting the
horses as well as the politicians in
Russell county
| The last remains of Mr.. KHite Try
were swept up by the western Kansas
papers last week.
| Several prehistoric mounds have
been found at Neodesha- This is an
old game in western Kansas
Tim Mccarthy, outside of banking
hours, is working tooth and toe-nail
for the annexation of Hawaii.
Four boys all less than fifteen years
of age, celebrated Christmas by getting
drunk on Hutchinson whisky.
| One barber at Chase plays the cornet
and the other the fiddle 1t is a close
! shave as to which is the worst.
Santa Claus undertook to fill New
ton girls stocking, but had to sublet
the job to her. 1t was too big.
An Anthony man says no doesn't
need any assistance from mistletoe.
All that is required is persistence.
prominent lawyer of Pratt got a
list of the widows Of the town and f.ent
each large turkey for Christmas.
Three cases in the Harper Police
court last week showed that the cele-
| bration of Christmas is not diving out,
A northern Kansas paper says that
| no governor of Kansas ever had curly
hair But they have all had their legs
| pulled.
In many parts of western Kansas
| corn is now down to 10 cents a bushel
as low as it has ever been in the his
tory of the state.
The long dry spell of December and
November in western Kansas was
thought to have injured the wheat,
! but the late rains have brought it up
and out all right.
1t is probable that the King of Cow
ley county will get out of the race for
the United States Senate. He daesn't
stand ghost of show and he will
| grapple with the fact before he is
many days older.
The Emporia papers believe there is
gas beneath the town and are advo-
| eating hole. The hole business is a
| pleasant plaything which costs lots of
| money. Emporia should let private
| enterprise find the gas
An Ellis county Woman poisoned her
husband a few years ago because he
| was too poor to provide her with luxu-
ries, and to make the way clear for her
| to marry a richer man. She was ar
rested, but escaped severe punishment
! through the negligence of the officers
| of the law, and married the man of her
choice. Misfortune after misfortune
overlook them until they are now poor
| err than the woman's first husband ever
was. New Years day she received
word that the man she has poisoned
| had fallen heir to an immense fortune
in Germany, and asking the proof of
dis death.
| A well known young farmer of But
Ter county has novel rabbit trap on
his farm. He had been digging els
| tern some time back and after finish
ing the excavating he was compelled
! by the stress of other business to stop
work on the cistern for time, and af-
| ter covering the opening with boards
| be left it alone. The other day he
| CHANGED to be passing, and removing
| the boards he looked down and saw
| eleven rabbits at the bottom, ten feet
| below the surface. He at once con-
cluded that the cistern would be good
place to keep his rabbits for the winter
and he accordingly threw them down
| some food and will pull them out one
at time whenever he thinks rabbit
| stew would be relished.
A fire company has been organized
at Hoisington and the boys are anx
iously waiting for blaze.
There are s91 prisoners in the Kansas
penitentiary. Politically they stand:
Republican, 426; Democrats, IT'S; Popu-
lists, 70; Independents, IT: no politics,
! 1913. There are in the penitentiary 343
Methodists, 1872 Baptists, SO Catholics,
| 81 Christians, Al Presbyterians, % Luz
therans, 9 United Brethren, Second
Adventists, IL Episcopalians, Congre-
| gationallsts, 5 Dunkards, Quakers. 3
Jews. and 1O6 without any religion.
On Christmas day the Arkansas City
| football eleven beat the Ell Reno club.
making them the champions of Kansas
| and Oklahoma. The Fort Reno club
never been beaten before. although it
plays almost continually.
Beneath the fippant paragraph
Johnny Gilmore hides grief: 'sThe bru-
nette hat trimmer and gray nocturnal
skirt dancer of lovers lane was induc-
ed to informally depart the town a few
nights since, to the regret and chagrin
of her masculine worshipers, married
| and single