Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01

You should advertise in the papers.
Recently an Abilene man advertised
in the MONITOR for a girl, and the
very next day his wife presented him
with one.
The county commissioners of Sum-
ner county offered bounty on rabbit
scalps. During a recent organized
hunt 1000 were slain in a single day.
These were taken to Belle Plaine and
stored for the scalps, but during the
night some miscreant broke into the
store house and carried away the en-.
tire lot.
The marriage of Miss Maud Miller
to Lieutenant Charles Crawford, of
the Twcnty-first United States Infan-
try, was celebrated Thanksgiving eve
in Paola, by the Rev. 81. A. Cooper, at
the First Presbyterian church. Miss
Miller was a social leader in Paola,
and until recently a teacher in the
Miami county High School.
Porter S. Cook, of Shawnee County,
has filed his answer in the contest
proceedings against him for the office
of Sheriff of that county. The ans
wer is in the nature of general de-
nial, and contains couuter-charges of
buying votes with free beer, of which
privilege there is ample evidence both
parties availed themselves.
There seems to have been a slight
misunderstanding over the raising of
the quarantine against territory cat
tie on November Is. There is a heavy
penalty under the law for driving cat
tie across the line prior to December 1.
There has been rush of stock, how
ever. since the 18th of November, but
many herds are being held until the
expiration of the statutory limit.
Walter Costigan, of Topeka, who,
with E. H. Snow made a failure of the
Ottawa Journal, and has now got into
a squabble with Snow over profits
that never materialized, is reported to
have said that there will be a terrible
cornmotion in Kansas next year if he,
Walter, should decide to enter politics.
No doubt, Walter. No doubt. But
who the devil is Walter, anyway?
Cheaper and better stockyards;
cheaper and better government; fake
insurance driven out of the state and
Legitimate rates reduced; better
schools; better banks; better health;
more and better babies; more happi-
ness; less mortgages; more property;
more money, and more sense-all in
better proportion under "repudia-
ton, anarchy" and populist rule in
Ksnsas. Strange isn't it?
The Rev. Willis Jordan, pastor of
the Christian church at Caney, has
been granted a divorce against his
wife, Ada. Rev. Jordan caused a
sensation by publicly denouncing his
wife from the pulpit last Sunday. He
declared in his speech that he had
been victimized by the bold adven-
turess with whom he had become in
fatuated. He said he had married her
but since found out that she was at
the time married to another man.
Pensions have been granted as fol-
lows:-Origina1, Frederick B. Will
liams, Presley; James C. Mcconnell,
Kansas City; Samuel S. Davis, Fort
Scott; William R. Anderson, Gardner.
Increase, Ti1ghman II. Pitts, Farlins-
vile; William Seymour, Hutchinson;
Barnett Rogers, Ell Dorado. Original
widows, ETC., Catharine M. Gerkin,
Block; Sarah Frame, Kansas City;
Rebecca Robinson, Arkansas City;
Minors of Beniah N. White, Fort
Scott. Mexican war widows, Sarah
White, Wamego.
"Mr. Bryan's offer of $3.50 to the
University of Missouri for the best un-
dergraduate essay on a political ques-
ton is generous and shows an interest
in higher education. However, if
Bryan should be the judge of the es-
says, the worst one would be tolerably
sure of the prize" The foregoing Is a
producti' n of that new s., 900 Mu1vane
Press, and is certainly reflection on
the mechanical skill of the manufact-
urer. When one pays 5000 for a
printing press he has the right to ex-
Pect it equipped with all modern ap-
piiances, including few brains.
The following Kansas postmasters
have been appointed:-At Grenola,
Elk county, F. Drum, vice c. VIII
1iams removed; at Miltonvale, Cloud
county, ]. Hall, vice J. Hubbell re-
moved; at Mulvane, Sumner county,
c. Higsdon, vice s. Chamberlain re-
moved; at Pretty Prairie, Reno coun-
ty, S. Demorest, vice II. Gault remoy-
ed; Arlington, Reno county, 1. s.
Trembly, vice A. Roetzel, resigned:
Chesney, Sedgwick county, J. A. Hart
ley, vice J. L. Saunders removed:
Richmond, Franklin county, Mrs. A..
R. Harshberger; vice J, M. Day re-
moved; Stark, Neosho, county, l.. G.
Murray, vice w. o. Harper removed.
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