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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-07
First published In the Barber County Index
Dec. 81, 1902.
Publication Notice.


In the District Court Of Barber county, State
of Kansas.
Minnie g. Smith. Plaintiff.
VS..
John Hart, Nancy Ann Hart, e. e. e. Sullivan
and Mrs. - Sullivan, his wife, and Samuel
Frazier and Mrs. - Frazier, his wife, de-
PENDANTS.
The State of Kansas. to John Hart and Nan
cy Ann Hart. defendants above named:
You will take notice that you have been
sued together with e. 3. 3. Sullivan and Mrs.
- Sullivan. his wife. and Samuel Frazier and
Mrs. - Frazier, his wife. In the Dtstrlct
Court of Barber county. Kansas. by Minnie b.
Smith, plaintiff above named. and that I'M
less you answer to the petition hled N
said suit on or before the eleventh day OF
February. 1903. said petition will be taken as
true, and judgment rendered against you &C
cordingly, foreclosfng mortgage executed
and delivered by John Hart and Marcy Ann
Hart, to George w. Stevene. dated April =.
1892 on the following described real estate.
situated I'm Barber COUNT. Kansas. to.w1t:
Lots one, 1, and two. 2, and tho south half or
the northeast quarter Of section six. ., town
ship thirty-four, "a. south, In range ten, 10,
west Of the sixth principal meridian. and Tor
the sale of said real estate. with appratsement,
to pay the debt secured by said mortgage
Witness my hand and Official SEAL this 18th
day OF December. 1Se
Seal: A. w. SMITH,
Attest: Clerk Of the District Court.
Foust Son McClain and
SEW YARD ]. FIELD. Attorneys TOR PIN.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-07
CHURCHES.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL.-Sunday ser
AVA vice: Sunday school, 10 A. NJ. Preaching
II A. NJ. Glass meeting, IL M. Preaching, 80 p.
NJ. Junior League meets Wednesday afternoon
at4:15. Prayer meeting, Wednesday evening
at 1880. Teachers meeting, Tuesday evening.
Epworth League. Friday. go P. NJ. All are
cordially invited. ". j. WEBER, Pastor.
DRESBYTERIAN.-Su school every
l. Sunday at 10 A. NJ. Preaching at II a. NJ.
and ,:3O +. M. l.. NJ. BELDEN,
Pastor.
THRISTTAN.-Sunda school every Sunday
~ at 10 A N. Preaching, IL A. M. and $50 P.
NJ. Prayer meeting every Wednesday even
ing. R. H. TANKSLEY.
Pastor.
p APTIST.-Church east of Grand Hotel.
- Sunday school at 10 A. NJ. Preaching Sun
days at IL A. NJ. and 7:45 Pm. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening. The B. Y. P. U. meets at
p. NJ. on Sundays. j. J. GRIFFIN,
Pastor.
u PISCOPAL.-Services once a month at
- Chapel on South Main Street. Meetings
announced.
Observation-Disclosures held on Tuesday af-
~ ter the third Sunday in each month
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-07

In the District Court of Barber County,
Kansas.
Harry E. Fox, plaintiff.
VS.
flop MIC q and MIRA l,vnd0 HIS
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-07
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT

State of Kansas. Barber county, IS:
In the Probate Court in and for said county
In the matter of the estate Of John c. Robert
son, deceased.
Creditors and all other persons interested in
the aforesaid estate are hereby notified that
snail apply, at the next term of the Probate
Court. in and for said county, sitting at the
courthouse in Medicine Lodge, county of Bar
Der, state of Kansas, on the 30th day of Jan
uary A. d. l9C3 for full and final settlement
or said estate. g. w. Frisby,
Administrator of the Estate of John G. Rob-
ertsOn, deceased.
December 30, 1902
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-07

All kinds OF furniture bought and
sold, stoves repaired, and second hand
goods of every description constantly
in stock. Store on North Main street.
ADAM JACKSON.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-07
Clubbing Rates.

The following papers will be furnish
ed In connection with the Index at the
rates quoted. Old or new subscribers
can take advantage of this offer and
can get both papers one year for the
price named opposite the papers:
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-07
First Published in the Barber County Index
December "a, 1902.
Publication Notice.

of Kansas.
Emma 8. Pierce, plaintiff.
VS..
o. B. Pierce, defendant.
The above named defendant, o. B. Pierce,
will take notice that the said Emma 8.
Pierce. plaintiff. did on the 18th day of Deem
Der, 1902, file her petition I'm said district
court, within and for the county of Barber, in
the state of Kansas, against the said o. B.
Pierce. defendant, and that the said defend
ant, o. B. Pierce, must answer said petition
filed as aforesaid on or before the Bird day Of
February, 1903. or said petition will be taken
as true and q judgment rendered In said action
and defendant and awarding plaintiff custody
Of child and costs Of suit.
A. L. RERR, Attorney for PP6.
Attest: A. W. Smith,
q. 81 Clerk CT the District Court
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-01-07
Official Directory.

PREslDENT. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
of Kansas. 49,. w. A. Harris
Member of Congress 18th Dist. C. 1. Long
CopgreSsman-at-large ....... Charles F.Scott
Judge OF oath judicial Dist -. :. z. B. Gillett
State Senator. 37th District. IT. A. NoftZger
Representative, 77th District. w. G. MiIlar
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
Tornado in Kansas.

Pittsburg. Kan: About 1880 o'clock
Saturday morning a tornado passed
through the thickly populated mining
district. north and east of Pittsburg,
destroying hundreds of houses, mine
tipples and buildings Of every descrip-
ton, leveling to a mass Of wreckage a
large portion of every camp between
the Deylln Miller shaft, north Of From
tenac, and the Morgan shaft, on the
State line, and converting into ruin a
strip of thickly populated territory
eight miles long and two miles wide,
and leaving death and desolation in it's
wake At least two persons we're kill
ed and fully so injured in the storm,
and perhaps many others were injured
whose names have not been procured.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
Formal Demand for Money.

Springfield, Ill: Formal demand
was made Friday upon the Auditor of
Public Accounts by the Commission
ers Of the Illinois and Michigan Canal,
for warrant for $4,000 of the appro-
priation made by the last General As
sembly for the maintenance of the
channel. This action follows the dis
solution by Judge Creighton of the
temporary injunction which restrained
the Commission from using any of the
appropriation. Auditor Mccullough
has asked Attorney General Hahlin
for an opinion on the subject. II the
Attorney General decides that the
Canal Commissioners should receive
the money without further delay the
warrant viii be issued as requested;
otherwise, the funds of the commits
sion may be tied up for year or two
at least, even with a final favorable
decision in tho courts.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
Insanity Plea
for Mrs. Cutler
Attorneys Will Attempt to Prove
Mental responsibility

Bunker Hill, H.: Mrs. Ida Cutler,
who is held to the Grand Jury for the
murder of Ewart Mears Checksfeld
July 20 by poison, was much improved
in condition Thursday She sat up
awhile and took nourishment, but nerv-
GUS prostration, accompanied by heart
attacks, is still acute, and the attend
ing physician thinks 1t will require
some days before she can be moved to
the County Jail.
The petition for the habeas corpus
proceedings has been granted by Jesse
PEBBLES, master in chancery, in the
absence Of Judge Robert B. Shirley.
The case will come up before Judge
Creighton in Carlinville on Monday
next.
1t is the opinion of the Sheriff that
the County Jail will accommodate
Mrs. Cutler at no distant date, and
he is preparing a room for her.
The defense will try to prove that
Mrs. Guller's little peculiarities were
nothing more than insanity; that her
hatred for children was the outcome of
a weak-minded person, which had its
ending in the poisoning of the boy.
They declare there is no motive for
the deed, and that she did the act in a
fit of hatred bordering on insanity,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
Woman Arrested
as Riot Leader
Grand jury Takes New Turn in
Investigating Outbreak

Danville, ILL.,: Sheriff Whitlock Fri
day arrested Bessie Armstrong, who is
identified as the woman who climbed
into a wagon across the street from
the jail and advised the mob to shoot
down Sheriff Whitlock during the al
tack on the jail July 25. Immediately
after the Sheriff fired along the groove
in the steel rail batterlng ram with
his riot gun, her shrill voice was heard
above the shouts of anger and pain
saying: Shoot the Sheriff; some
body kill that Whitlock"
The matter was before the Grand
Jury Friday, which adjourned until
Monday without reporting further true
bills. The woman is identified by Dep
uty Coroner Hall as being the one he
saw standing near the wagon on the
night Of the riot at the Jail.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
Court Dissolves Canal Injunction.

Springfield, ILL.,: The commission
ers Of the Illinois and Michigan canal
won a decided victory in the Sanga,
mon Circuit Court Thursday when
Judge James A. Creighton dissolved
the temporary injunction against the
State Auditor and State Treasurer, re-
straining them from paying to the
commissioners any part of the appro-
priatiOns for the maintenance of the
canal made by the last General AS
sembly. The temporary writ was
granted by Judge Owen p. Thompson
some time ago. The counsel for the
petitioners held that the constitution
of 1870 prohibited an appropriation be-
ing made for railroads or canals. Rep
resentatiye Richard E. Burke of Chica-
go. who filed the original suit, viii as
once appeal to the Supreme Court.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
Faulkner Convicted
on Perjury Charge
Third Trial Results in a Heavier
Sentence Than al First

st. Louis: Harry A. Faulkner,
whose third trial on the charge Of per
jury began Monday morning, in Judge
Douglas court, was convicted and ais
punishment fixed at three years I'm
prisonment in the Penitcntiary, We'd
nesday afternoon
II took the jurors JUS 50 minutes to
decide on the verdict. They roti:ed at
$40 o'clock and returned at $40.
William L. Boeckler, president OF the
Boeckeler Lumber Company, was
chosen foreman, and he signed the
verdict.
The jury agreed as to the guilt Of
the defendant on the first ballot. I.
is said that three ballots were taken
on the question of penalty
After the jury disagreed in the Soc
ond trial of Faulkner last week, Il was
said that It was because the jurors
were not entirely satisfied from the
instructions of the court as to what
constituted knowledge" as applied TO
testimony before the Grand Jury, and
WITHIN the meaning OF the language
of the indictment against Faulkner
To make this point clearer for the
jury Judge Douglas Wednesday. in his
instructions TO the jury. defined the
words know" and knowledge" as fol-
lows:
The words know and knowledge"
as used in the indictment and IL these
instructions are not TO mean certain
or personal knowledge obtained by
sense of sight only: the words are
used in their common and ordinary
meaning.
This section of the instructions, II
is believed, assisted materially in aid
ing the jury to speedily arrive at a
verdict.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13

Newton, ILL.,: Hidalgo. village In
this county. II miles north of Newton,
on the Illinois Central, was nearly
wiped out by fire between IL and
o'clock Wednesday morning. The
fire, which is thought to have been OF
incendiary origin, started in Bowers
& Vanettis wareroom, near the OIL
tanks. The buildings burned include
Bowers & STAINS two hardware stores.
Bowers & Vanetti's general store and
wareroom, ]. w. Elders saloon, DR..
Kuechlers poultry house and the Odd
Fellows hall. The town hall was torn
down to stop the progress of the
flames. BY hard work the Illinois Cen.
trail depot was saved. Only two store
buildings are left in the town.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
Sarto Elected Pope;
Will Rule as Plus x
Patriarch of Venice Chosen on the Seventh Ballot
New Pope is of Humble Birth

Rome: On the seventh ballot in.
the conclave of cardinals Tuesday
morning Cardinal Giuseppe Sarto, pat
riarch of Venice was elected pope, to
succeed Leo XIII, and now rules the
Catholic world as Plus X.
81 bring you great joy, We have
a pope" rang out a great vibrant voice
high up above the central portal Of
the chief temple of christendom. The
proclamation reached every ear of the
multitude which filled the splendid ap-
proach below Tuesday morning. Eager
though they were to learn whose brow
would wear the triple tiara, the Roman
populace raised a mighty shout of &C
clamation. For several moments wild,
tumultuous cheers rose toward the
blazing midday sun.
The red.robed cardinal above paus.
ed with arms uplifted and silence
came, sudden and complete. Again
that sonorous, dramatic voice: He
is his eminence, the most reverend
Cardinal. Archbishop and Patriarch
Giuseppe Sarto, who takes the title of
Plus X"
None heard anything beyond the
name of the new pontiff. The last
words of even that wonderful voice
were swallowed up in the greater
voice of waiting Rome. To that was
added in another moment a brazen
chorus of Joy from the belfry above.
The other bells of Rome heard it and
took up the great acclaims. The same
bells which a week ago sang the re-
QUEEN of the dead pope changed a
glad welcome to the new.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
Windstorm Sweeps St. Louis.

st. Louis: A wIndstorm, which as.
sumed hurricane velocity in several
parts Of the city Wednesday after
noon, killed one laborer at the Worlds
Fair grounds and seriously injured
eight others who were working on the
Agriculture and Machinery buildings,
Although subjected to a strain exerted
by wind blowing at an estimated rate
of 60 miles an hour, the completed and
partially finished exhibition structures
of the Exposition were damaged but
slightly. The velocity OF the wind in
the central part of the city was 80
miles an hour. In several of the down
town stores the employees and custom
ers became frightened by the roar OF
the wind and the vivid flashes of light
ming, but the ineipient panics were
easily quelled, and no one was In
Jured. The wind played havoc with
telegraph and telephone poles and
wires throughout the western and
northwestern part of st. Louis. 1t is
estimated that more than 100 poles
were leveled and the ground covered
with a tangled web of wire.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
Police Search for
Cantrell's Tools
Chouls Who Aided the Negro
Leader are known

indianapolis, Ind: The police are
securing the city in search of the muir
derers implicated in the confession Of
Rufus Cantrell, king of the ghouls."
Cantrel. it develops, was the leader of
the organization of murderers and cut
throats that went under the fantastic
title of the Sign of the Cross" The
name was derived from the peculiar
manner in which the sworn members
Of the organization signed their names
to notes of warning and other letters
that were exchanged from time to
time. At least a score of murders
committed from January, 1900, to jan
uary, 1902, are laid at the door of the
Sign of the Cross" 1t is now apparent
that the confession purporting to be
that of Cantrell, made public by the
police Saturday, was true only in its
general assertions. Supplementary
statements had been made by Can
trell, and it is upon these that the po-
lice have been at work. The supple
mentary statement contains the
names of accompices, the corrobora-
tive evidence, and gives a longer list
of crimes than that already published.
1t is now definitely known that the
Sign Of the Cross" disposed OF the
following:
Patrolman Watterson; a patrolman
whose name the police will not make
public; Carrie Selvage unknown
Pennsylvania; three unknown WON.
en-, three infants, Walter Johnson,
Charles Hall, Richard Jerman, VIII
liam Gray
The other murders the detective re-
fuse at present to divulge. The bod
les Of the victims we're sold to medi.
cal colleges, and Cantrell and his as.
sociates, who furnished the material
for dissectlng rooms, and also cared
for the picked bodies, found no diff.
Guilty in thus covering up the traces OF
their cold-blooded crimes.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
Plus X. Assumes
PePal Crown
Immense Gathering Bursts Into
Unrestrained Aeclamation

Rome; Pope Plus x. was crowned
in ST. Peters Sunday morning with
ceremonies of the rarest splendor in
the presence of a great and imposing
assembiage, The sitting heat was
the only drawback to the occasion, for
seyeral of the perspiring crowd inside
the church tainted, and many of those
standing outside were sunstruck The
doors were opened at $50 O'clock,
when the sunshine was already in
tense The basilica was Immediately
crowded, and it was found necessary
shortly afterward to close the doors.
There was an immense crowd in the
great square of st. Peters, where they
stood in the sweltering sun. waiting
with Italian patience, for the reopen
ing of the doors. The square was di-
vided into sections by numerous lines
tof troops.
A O'Clock there was a merry peal
of bells, and the Pope appeared in the
atrium, where he took his seat upon
his throne. Cardinal Rampolla, arch
priest of st. Peters, then delivered a
speech Of cOngratuiation, after which
the dignitaries formed in procession
and marched into the church.
The PopB in full canonicals, was
carried hUyh in the sedia gestatoria,
and was surrounded by members of
the noble guard. He was received
with immense applause. His face
was pale. AS he was carried along
he blessed the multitude, and often by
gesture requested that the applause
cease. His Holiness was preceded by
the Cardinals, each attended by a
chaplain, equerry and traln-bearer.
The sight was q magnificent one.
While the bells were ringing the pa
pal troops knelt, trumpets sounded,
and the choir sang the anthem "tu es
,Petrus." The basilica was hung with
red damask. At the upper end, be-
hind the high altar, was an immense
artistic throne, where the Pope sat,
after he had knelt in prayer before the
sacrament. Then the mass began, eel.
ebrated by the Pope.
This was the first papal mass cele,
brnted in St. Peters since the Italian
Government entered Rome. 1t was
mostly celebrated by proxy. the Pope
most Of the time sitting on his throne
He only approached the altar to in,
cense it, then to consecrate the wafer
and then to commune
AS Cardinal Macchi, the dean of the
Cardinal deacons,5 placed the triple
crown on the head Of the venerable
pontiff, the throng of 10000 persons
gathered within the cathedral burst
into unrestrained acclammation, the
choir intoned hymn of triumph and
the bells of Rome rang out joyful
peal
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
Abatement PIea overruIed.

Georgetown, Ky: The defense in
the trial of Caleb Powers, charged
with conspiracy In the murder of VIII
liam Goebel, Tuesday attempted to
go back OF the acts OF the legislature,
declaring that the journals OF the body
were 1alsifed in not recognizing w. 8.
Taylor as governor of Kentucky,
The purpose was to have the pardon
issued 70 Powers by Taylor, who oc.
cupied the governors once and was
the Republican claimant to the once.
hold good. Judge Robbins overruled
the motion, called 9 plea In abatement.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
CAMERA ON A eUNsTocK.
Designed to Study Movements Of the
Birds.

Designed to Study Movements Of thu
Birds.
The study of the problem Of man.
fight which is Just now being given
a great deal of attention by scientists
all over the world, makes 1t essential
to study the movements Of birds in
flight in order to get pointers as to
Just how a man should conduct
himself in his efforts to make
himself master of the air. These
pictures are exceedingly difficult
to get get, principally for the rea-
son that the bird has come and gone
before the photographer can get his
apparatus in readiness to make the
exposure.
The inventor of the camera support
shown herewith claims that all dim
culties are entirely overcome by it,
The invention consists of mounting
a camera on the stock of a gun so that
the exposure may be made at the OPP
perfume moment without the least de-
lay. The photographer will go forth
in the same state of readiness as the
gunner, and the instant he sees what
he wants he levels, aims and pulls the
trigger. His securing of the proper
pictures will in a measure be depend
ent on the skill of the photographer
as a marksman and this is a qualif-
cation which can readily be acquired
with little practice.
Such a gun will be Of value. not
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13

New Orleans, La. The authorities
of the Louisiana State experimental
station have announced that the Mexi-
can boil weevil has appeared on their
reservation. The discovers was made
by DIR. J. D. Graybili. Five hundred
specimens of the worm were collect
ed. half of which were sent to Wash,
ington to the United States entomolo-
gist, G. o. Howard He identified
them as the genuine Mexican boil
weevil. This is the first time that the
boil weevil has appeared outside Of
Texas,
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
rerrIfle HaIIstorm III Iowa.

Sioux City Ia: A terrific hailstorm
visited Northern Iowa about 4 o'clock
Sunday afternoon, extending as far
east as Hamilton County. and doing
almost untold damage In some locali-
ties, Corn was stripped and beaten to
the ground and some live stock was
killed. In Sioux City the mischief by
hall and wind was also unprecedented
Chunks of ice fell as big as a mans
fist, and millions Of individual stones
were as large as walnuts. Plate-glass
windows, even, were broken, screens
and awnings torn and tin roofs perfor-
ated. Many fine shade trees we're
ruined.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-13
10 Build Water Plant.

Nevada, Mo; At its regular month.
ly meeting Tuesday night the City
Council passed a resolution asking
Mayor Wight to call a special election
for the purpose of voting 100000 in
bonds for the city to build its own
water plant with. The Council voted
unanimously for the resolution The
franchise of the present water com.
pany will expire in a short time, and
a proposition to renew it was defeated
a year or more ago.