Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-02-15


On the board of visitation.
Kansaa City has an order for f.ty
thousand pounds Of snar Tcr CtIb4.
The proposed sugar plant al Fort
Scott Will consume 2,800, 200 gallons
of water daily.
The annual meeting Of tie s'aie
Barber's Association was held IN ~
peka this week.
Mrs. Eugene Dorca8 Of Sere5I,
died CT small Fox Feb oh, .n! wes
buried at midnight. 5t
S.aon Gseenspan has teeu rri+ss..l
temporarily from the asylum an1;is =:
l:s home il Topeka.
Three Of lie Twentieth Hans, Col.
Funstous regiment, haze died Qf
variola since Jan. 28.h.
Ma! Of Z .rlow. Of Watorb,1r, Conn !,
$ 20 lie marie On Feb. II, 70 Mrs
DidUt.. oi i>insiey, Mans.
Mis- Lottia Kretchner of Oklahoma
has been sent to the peni5entiary for
live years for cattle stealing.
Salna is to have brick and tile
factory, Clay near Tie city is pro
nOunced to be suitable for vitriiied
brick.
The Williamsburg post office was
broken into the evening of Saturday,
Feb. 4tb, but the thieves were fright
, en' q away before securing any booty.
". j. Judd was robbed Of $500
worth OF diamonds While on a Santa
Fe train near Kan sas City enroute for
California A fellow traveller who
lad josIcd against Judd was accused
ard seafched, but 10 clue TO tie rob
berry found.
The Coifey County contest has been
decided in favor of the Republicans.
The Populiet candidates had received
majority Of votes before the soldier
vote arrived from Manila. the latter
gave the Republicans nine majority.
Emil j Israel, a dry goods mer-
chant of Plttsburg, was found dead
from revolver shot, il his store Sun
day afternoon. A revolver lay near and
the body was III such position that
it is supposed he died by his OWN
hand slfT
MuToNvALE,. Kan.-Peter Ham
merl!, Ire 1siE,i;sssst, y lho ''kst 'faii srot
iuto company Of temperance cru
saderS who wee entering his place and
seyerly Wouuding the editor of the
MiItonysl7 Press, has been found
guilty Of assault. A new trial is be-
ing sought.
A decree OF foreclosure was entered
in the Z. S. Circuit court, Monday
against the junction City and Fort
Kesrney branch of the U. P. road.
A decree for the sale of the Leaven-
worth q Southwestern was also issued
to satisfy mortgage of the American
Loan and Trust Co.
A libelfer 50, coo damages has been
fled against the the Standard Pub
Ashing Co. of Leayenworth, by Col.
D. r. Anthony. The suit is over an
article which appeared in the Stand
ard Of Oct. 10th, which insinuates
that Anthony received money for
some purpose from a we'll known
gambler.
More than seventy five labor dele
gates met in library hall, Feb. 6, to
organize State Society Of Labor and
Industry. The convention was called
under the authority of the law passed
at tie special session, which author
ICES this society to elect secretary
who shall assume the duties of labor
commissioner.
Colonel J. 6. Mccoy sanitary in
spector for Kansas, has recommend
from 66 live stock firms pronouncing
| him the best official of the kind that
The state has ever bad. Gov. Stanley
viii probably reappoint him. Con-
cerninr the free barbecue given by the
| National Live Stock Association il.
|
January 1883, fe sa!s: '1bat man
moth barbecue of buffalo meat, beef
mutton and pork ; was enough for us.
| For weeks before we net thousands of
hobces, hollow 10 the boots, who we're
trav cling Denverward from all aer
of the west. They didn't do u Thug
to our big feei. Preparations haG
heen made to feed 10, ZOO people-and
every body would have had plenty had
they been orderly. But the hungry
grew obstrepeFous and charged the
pits before the cooks W 3re ready. And
such scene! There was a great rick
OF Ioaves of bread, five feet wide at
the bottom, 100 feet long, and piled
about four or Eve feet high. The mob
stormed that and captured it. Hungry
/ MI n ate like wolves, then trampled