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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-09

CASH quotations We're as follows
Flour. firmer: No. 9 spring wheat
SS@S0: No. 3. S5IS6 10: No. . red.
SIS 5-S@S9 10; No. . corn. so; No. .
{ yellow, o" 81; No. . oats. 80 3-S; No. =
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-09
OLD DOMINION i me
DAILY SERVICE

ron NEW YORK-From
Company's Wharf, Nor
folk, every week day, 40
ZOO p. m.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-11-09
TRANSPORTATION GUIDO.

Schedule Effective Mon, Juno 6. 1903,
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-08-09

II know 1 I'm an ignoramus
and that l amt fit to live ana
that I'm completely a bad lot'
but l do maintain that the buncn
might have disguised their feel
ings a little bit. l never even
suspected before that l was sucn
a complete unmitigated idiot"
what was the matter with
your hopeful?"
"Oh, we found his gown was
pinned up with a bum safety PIN
which was sticking into the
back of the little buffers neck.
You can't blame the kid, but I'm
a wreck. John Hackett Adams
in Beaumont Enterprise.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-08-09

ordained, that the metallic plate men
toned in the preceding sections shall
be delivered to the owner or owners OF
said vehicles, bicycles and autOmo-
biles, by the said tax collector, free OF
cost, after payment of said license
tax, said metallic plate to stand in
lieu of a license as above imposed and
levied.
Section 6. The secretary of the
Police Jury shall procure the number
of metallic plates necessary to carry
out the execution of the provisions of
this ordinance, and which he will hand
over to the sheriff tax collector and
take his receipt for the same.
Section I. Be it further enacted
and ordained that after the first day
of March of the year 1905 and after the
first day of March of each subsequent
year. no resident of the parish of La
fayette, or of any incorporated town
therein. owner or pOssesSOr OF any OF
the vehicles, bicycles, or automobiles,
mentioned and enumerated and SUBJ
| iected to the license tax imposed and
levied by the first section of this Ordi-
nance, shall use or allow to be used
said vehicles, bicycles or automobiles
for lOcOmOtiOn over the public roads
of this parish without having pre-
viously complied with the provisions
and the requirements OF section 3 OF
this ordinance.
Section 8. Be it further enacted
and ordained that the sheriff tax col
lector and his deputies r hereby au-
thorized and ordered to seize any We
hicle, bicycle or automobile belonging
to q resident owner not having the
metallic plate tackled OF attached
thereto rs required by the provisions
of this ordinance which said vehicle,
bicycle or automobile may be found
in use for locomotion over the public
roads of the parish of Lafayette and
thereupon said sheriff tax-collector
shall Immediately institute suit before
competent court against the owner or
owners of said seized vehicle, bicycle
or automobile, for the recovery of
the amount of license tax due and cost
Including as cost five dollars. fee for
said sheriff tax-cOllector): and after
judgment said seized vehicle. bicycle
or automobile shall be advertised as
Required by law and sold to the high
est bidder for cash without appraise-
ment; proceeds to be applied first to
the payment of the tax due and cost.
Section 9. Be it further enacted
and ordained, that it shall be the duty
of the sheriff tax-collector to report al
the regular session of the Police Jury
in every month of each year, and give
q list of the names of each person to
whom he has issued q license rs re.
quired by the provisions of this ordi.
nance, with the number of the ward OF
road district of the residence of said
person and amount paid for said Ii.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-08-09
Continued on Page ~


It was raining pitchforks and
pine slabs the other morning.
when Brown butted into friend
Jones over on Ryan street.
Jones was looking like a hen in a
cloudburst. No umbrella, no
macintosh, only a bedraggled
felt hat with q race track brim.
what hit you, Jonesy? You
look like Galveston theday after"
Great leapipg Jehosaphat,
Brown, haven't you heard the
gladstone news?" snarled Jones.
We've got q new yelling machine
up at my humble domicile. Yes
with a groan). and it's no joke.
It's a he-male, Brown. Say, old
man. what in Sam Hill makes
these new kids so alfred red?
He's so blamed red he almost
stains my fingers. Um-huh!
we've got the whole works up at
the house-trained nurse. moth
er-in-law. doctor and all the usual.
II had an idea l was somebody
in my own family. I've changed
my mind now. I'm not even as
important as the. wood pile in the
back yard and not half as useful.
I do my sleeping on a fve-foot
sofa in the parlor while the fes-
tive mosquito gets q quick lunch
off my tootsiewootsies, and I
partake Of food either in the
bath room or in the wood shed;
it depends on where the crowd
of retainers are the thinnest.
II got about fifteen minutes
sleep last night. About ten
O'Clock he, it, Tweetie, whatever
they call my son, took it into his
head that there was something
Rotten in Denmark and started
in to prove to the satisfaction OF
the whole neighborhood that he
was IT; that he owned the United
States; that he could yell louder
and more to the minute than any
living thing, and that the siren
whistle wasn't q whisper in q
boiler factory when it came to
noise. His demonstration
proved him correct. The trained
nurse and the mother-in-law
thought be had cholera morbus
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1905-08-09
and maybe they didn't stir me

and maybe they didn't stir me
up.
Il got into all the clothes l had
in about two shakes of a lambs
tail and just burned the atmos-
phere getting to the doctor. l
scorched some more after reach
ing the drug store and when l
got home feeling like a piece OF
bargain cheese cloth after a hard
rain, l found that the kid had
been suffering from that awful
complaint called stomachache.
Wouldn't that make you chew
a gas pipe? Why, they had me
thinking that if I didn't burst
the speed record wide open. the
kid would be a candidate for star
boarder out at the grave yard.
well. after I'd kind of eased
my mind in the solitude of the
cow shed a while; I retired to my
abbreviated couch in the parlor
again. Sleep? Not on your
grand aunt's portrait! It wasn't
five minutes before the lord of
all creation upstairs pulled his
throttle again. At the first yelp
all hands overhead hit the floor
at once and it sounded as tho
they were all trying to occupy
the same space at the same time,
with the baby first on the home
plate.
This time they were all
stumped; each thought some
different thing allied my poor
long-suffering offspring and each
started to prepare some different
and mysterious remedy.
Say. Brown, did any one ever
ask you to roll down stairs with
a basket of eggs and be careful
not to break them: Well, that's
how I felt holding that baby,
The kid fairly shouting the putty
out of the window frames and
me not daring to move a finger
for fear I'd break it or mix uI
some of it's works. l was
scared green: it's head stopped
over on one side and I didn',
know how to get it straight with
out letting go of some part of it
Then by the great horn spoon, il
got so red in the face it darr
near caught fire. Oh! it was
horrible, Brown, I'd rather fact
a japanese army any day.
"Well, just before both of u.
died the whole bunch rushed in
to the parlor with hot rags
water bottles, peppermint, cas-
toria and a few other remedies
can't romomher and rescued MS
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30
OSCAR CRAWFORD DEAD.

Oscar Crawford died at Roswell,
New Mexico, on Tuesday, August
23rd and was buried at Driftwood,
Oklahoma on Thursday, August
25th.
His death ends a very unhappy
chapter, a very sad misfortune
which has been indelibly written
on the annals of the history of Bar
Der county. On Christmas eve,
1902, he and his friend and neigh
Dor, Levi Rule, both young men
about 90 years of age, became in
volved in quarrel at Sharon and
Crawford stabbed Rule from the
effects of which he died within a
few hours. Crawford was tried for
first degree murder and convicted
and sent to the penitentiary in Feb
ruary, foo3. Soon after his con-
flnement in that institution his
health began to fail and his father,
]. F. Crawford, made application
for pardon before w. ]. Bailey,
then governor. Much feeling was
manifest on account of this appli-
cation and the father of the deceas-
ed boy and his friends opposed it
bitterly. Finally, however, pres
sure was brought to bear on the
governor and the pardon was grant
ed in the early fall of 1904, and
Oscar was taken to New Mexico in
the vain hope of restoring his
health. 1t was not to be. His
time on earth has been served.
The horrible crime and prema-
ture death of this young man, as
we'll as that of his victim, can all
be charged up against whiskey.
Weapons are dangerous in thehands
OF boys and young men but whiskey
is ten times moreso. This one
tragedy with the sorrow it has
brought to two Barber county
homes contains sufficient material
for hundreds of temperance lee
lures, and let us hope that with
the burying of Oscar Crawford,
will end all such sad and shocking
ordeals as this one, which brought
him so much anguish and suffering.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30
COW PEAS FOR FORAGE.

w. L. Utterback whose farm is
about two and one half miles east
and north of this city, has crop
OF cow peas this year which is go
ing to pay big. He left two vines
at the Index office on Saturday to
demonstrate to anyone who doubts
his word, that they are adapted to
this country.
The pods are from s inches to a
foot long and the peas resemble an
ordinary bean. Stock eat them as
readily as they do corn and thrive
on them. The vines are fine and are
equal to alfalfa for hay, and their
yield is immense, one vine making
an ordinary feed. Mr.. Utterback
tried the crop this year mainly as
an experiment. Next year he will
put out a larger acreage.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30
A WAIVER OF $4,000.

F. V. Russell of Great Bend, at
torney for the Great Bend & Gulf
r. r. Co., accompanied by Sterling
S. Duncombe, Of Chicago, one of
the stockholders, will be here on
Thursday of this week and will file
a waiver of bonds in excess OFFS H.
900 from Elm Mills township. The
company asked $4,000 from the
township and the election was
called to vote that amount but
some Of the citizens of Elm Mills
thought it too great and the com
pany reduced it. The waiver will
be filed under the seal Of the com
pany and if the $4,000 are voted
next Tuesday only $4,000 can be
issued.
There will be a meeting at the
Amber school house tomorrow
night when the proposition will be
thoroughly discussed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30
MAKES THINGS BOOM.

Work on the D. E. & G. road is
being pushed with vim. A large
supply of material, consisting of
steel rails, sewer pipe, piling, ties.
ETC., has arrived via the Orient and
is being unloaded for the switch
yards and the grading began today
through the town. The men who
will superintend and conduct the
construction work have been here
several days arranging plans, etc.,
and the completion of the road to
Cherokee is only a matter of few
weeks. This brings a large num-
Der of people to town, and adds in
creased impetus to the business en-
terprise, all of whom were enjoy
ing lucrative patronage. The de-
mand for houses to rent cannot be
supplied. Cherokee Messenger.
These same conditions will ma
terialize in Medicine Lodge, ,kiowa,
Lake City and throughout Barber
county if our people are wise
enough to SUPPORT the bond propo-
sitions now pending. Do you still
think, asa taxpayer and a citizen
you can afford to vote "no?"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30
FOUGHT FOR HIS SWEETHEART.

Orville Eager of Lake City
township, was arrested and brought
to town on Tuesday night of last
week by Sheriff Haun and he will
have to answer to charge of as
sault and battery and disturbing
the peace, at the October term of
court. Orville got into a quarrel
with Harry Thompson at an ice
cream social at Lake City.
Thompson, by some strategetical
movement, induced Fager's sweet
heart to eat ice cream with him
when Eager appeared and protested.
The lady, rather than cause troub-
lie, did not eat cream with Thomp-
son, but that did not better matters
and a little later there were some
words between the two rivals and
Eager raped Thompson one ov-
er the head with small club, and
also INDUCED in profanity and
boisterous language while admins
tering the punishment.
The prisoner was held in Jail
from Tuesday night until Thursday
when his father, H. w. Skinner and
Riley Lake qualified on a bond of
$500 and secured his release. 1t is
probable that the young man will
plead guilty when court convenes.
This is his second time in Jail this
year, but since there is "a woman
in the case" in the latter instance,
some charity is due him. Such
troubles as, these always. make US
feel glad that our young days of
strife. turmoil and puppy love are
in the dim vista of the past.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30

Lodge and Elm Mills townships 60
to the polls next Tuesday to vote
on the Great Bend & Gulf PROPOSE
tion they should take these figures
as their guidance in the matter,
and when the county election to
vote on the Denver, Kansas & Gulf
proposition materializes, every vot-
er in the county should do the
same thing. No county can keep
abreast of the times without hav-
ing railroad advantages and if Bar
Der county lets this opportunity
pass there will be plenty of other
communities ready to take advan-
tage of our folly. Ifyou want bet
ter prices for what you produce and
cheaper prices for what you con-
sumo, vote yes on these PROPOSE
tions. Ifyou want your farm and
city property to be worth as much
when you want to sell as those of
your neighbors in counties east and
north of you, vote Eyes In short,
if you value yourself on a par with
other people and if you are in favor
of making Barber county rank with
the best of them, help to bring
about this state of affairs by COM
ing out squarely in favor of more
railroads and first class service such
as is offered by these two great
trunk lines.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30

Scott Cummins, the poet of poets
in this part of the universe, was in
the city a few days last week shak-
ing hands with old Barber county
friends and incidentally disposing
of some of his poems, Musings of
the Pilgrim Bard" He isgoing to
take in the big G. A. R. encamp-
ment at Denver and will distribute
a few hundred copies of the books
among the old boys on that occa-
sion. The Pilgrims friends here
were all glad to see and meet him
again and they hope it will not be
so long before he renews the visit
again. This was the first time he
had been in the county since 1893.
Barber county proudly claims him
as her own.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30
NAN AND TEAM WANTED.

The School Board of District No
I, Medicine Lodge, are desirous oil
employing man with team to
transport the school children to
and from school, residing in what
was formerly the Richardson dis
trict,, about four miles west of the
city. Anyone who desires to make
application for contract is request.
ed to call on the board.
L. {. WILLIAMS. Clerk.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30

Ted and Tom McClearey had an
at home party last Wednesday
After all the little guests arrived
Mrs. McCleary, assisted by Mrs. c.
w. Wilson, took them down to the
Elm Creek grove where there was
plenty of room and shade for all OF
them. An abundance of ice cream
was one of the leading features of
enjoyment. Probably the most
pleasing result-of the occasion was
a fine double-capacity wagon pre-
sented them by their parents. Ted
and Tom are about the most i'm
portant chaps in town with their
new vehicle and every boy and girl
who sees them out with their new
little rig is anxious to be their
friend.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30
THEY MEAN BUSINESS.
7. L. Lindley Writes From Chicago Con.
cerning the Great Bend & Gulf
r. X. Company.

T. L. Lindley of this city, who
went to Chicago last week, met
some of the, stockholders of the G..
B. & G. Railroad Co., and writes
the following letter to J.S.Runyan,
cashier of the Citizens State Bank,
This letter is strong endorsement
of the responsibility of the com
pany and ought to have great
weight with the voters of Medicine
Lodge and Elm Mills townships
when they cast their votes on the
bond proposition next Tuesday:
Chicago, August "a, 1905.
Mr.. John S. Runyan, Cashier,
Medicine Lodge, Kan.
Dear john
arrived in Chicago on
belated train this morning, and
called on Mr.. Herbert S. Duncombe
who is connected with the Great
Bend and Gulf Railway proposing
to build from Great Bend to Medi-
cine Lodge, by your request and
some Others, and he went over the
entire situation and gave me list
of the different ones connected with
this proposition here in Chicago,
and Of the twelve Or fourteen men,
| find, on looking them up, all are
connected with large financial in
terests and some of them have large
means of themselves. Just at this
time, however, number of these
gentlemen are out of the city and
besides this, it is pouring down
rain and it is very hard to get
about. Mr.. Duncombe, however,
introduced me to Mr.. B. G.. Sam
mons, cashier of the Corn Exchange
Bank, next to the largest bank in
the city, and Mr.. Sammons assures
nc that they are not going into
this enterprise with the intention
OF selling out to any one, and he
also assures me that no one of these
men connected with them has any
interest, in any way, with any other
railroad SO far as his knowledge is
concerned. He also assures me
that some of these men who are
worth million or more, are going
into it with the expectation that
If any bonds are issued later on
they will have a chance to pur-
chase them; that most all of them
are seeking investmsnt for theil
money. From what | have learn.
ed by talking to the gentlemen
met, am confident and convinced
that there is no scheme in this bus.
mess and that they intend building
this road if they have any encour.
agement along the line and that
the road will be extended both
north from Great Beud and south
from Medicine Lodge after this
particular line has been completed
The reason that have come to
this conclusion is, the financial
standing that the men connected
with this line have. will proba
bly, leave here this evening for
Pittsburg and will not return to
Medicine Lodge before the tenth OF
twelfth of September.
Yours very truly,
T. L. Lindley.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Blacksmith at Coats, Kansas, Shoots
Wife and Himself. Family
Quarrel the Cause.

Oliver P. Withers, the black
smith at Coats, Kansas, a small
village near the Barber Pratt coun-
ty line about twenty-five miles
northwest of this city, shot his wife
and then himself on Tuesday even
ing of last week.
The principal in the tragedy was
a brother of F. A. Withers, who, a
few years ago, was in the photo
graph business in this city. At last
reports, the woman was still living,
but in a very critical condition.
The facts and circumstances con-
nected with the double tragedy are
related as follows by the Pratt In
ion:
Oliver p. Withers went to the
home of his divorced wife and shot
her with a thirty-eight caliber re-
volver and then shot himself with
the same gun. He is dead and she
may die.
The circumstances leading up to
this crime are briefly as follows:
On July 7, 1904, Daisy Withers
filed a suit for divorce from Oliver
P. Withers charging him with cru
city. On November "a she had the
case dismissed. On May 10, 1905,
she again filed a suit for divorce
which was granted July 7, 1905,
Just one year after the day of first
filing. The property, two lots in
Coats, was given Mrs. Withers to
be sold and she was to retain $500
and turn the residue over to Mr..
Withers. A deal was made but fell
through and on Tuesday she was
notified by County Attorney L. G.
Turner, to make proper disposition
OF the property. She went to With
'ers and told him her instructions.
He was not pleased and went out
and commenced drinking. He
went to his boarding house and got
his revolver, then went to the home
of his divorced wife. She was
standing looking out window
and he was IN the same room near
door about four feet distant and
In her rear. He shot her in the left
back right at the waist line and
the ball ranged forward and lodged
near the hip bone on the right side
and is still there. She threw up
her hands, screamed and fell to the
floor and he at once turned the gun
upon himself and fired, the ball en-
tering his head between the eyes
and ranging straight back fractur-
ing the skull at the back of the
head but not coming out.
The shooting ACQUIRED about 6
O'Clock P. m, and he died about
9 o'clock the same evening. Mrs.
Withers is still alive at this time
but will probably die.
There are four young children in
the family made worse than orphans
by this horrible deed-Ida, aged 10
years, Neal, aged 8 years, Mary,
aged 7 years, Ray, aged 4 years
Mrs. Withers stated to friends
that she was afraid, but no one
thought there was danger of such a
deed.
When he shot the woman and
saw her fall he evidently thought
ne had killed her, and SO fastened
to finish himself.
!! his ends another family trouble
so far as the principals in the trag-
edy are concerned, but the poor
little helpless children are left to
suffer the penalty of wayward par
ents.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30

Verne Gibbs and wife welcomed
fine boy at their house on Friday,
August 25th. DR.. Coleman in at
tendance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30
THE SALT CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE

of Hutchinson, Kansas, will accept
your note for one year in payment
of tuition if it will accommodate
you. Write at once for large illus
trated catalog and full particulars.
I4-4t
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30

w. D. Miller of Isabel, was tran
sacting business in the city on Fri
day and did the proper thing by
enrolling on the Index books.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30

B. Gano, G. A. Hibbard and
q. w. Shaw left Saturday for Chi
cago in charge of the Gano & Hoag
train load of steers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30

The Denver, Kansas & Gulf r
r. Co. have rented the former Sam
pie law office on Kansas avenue
east, next door to T. L. Lindley, fol
official headquarters at present.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30

Miss Margaret Forsyth and Miss
Matte DeWeese departed last
Thursday for visit in Canada.
On the return trip Miss DeWeese
will.stop at Toledo, Ohio, to visit
relatives.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30

VIM. Palmer lost his fine 4-year-
old Hamilton driver on Sunday
morning. Acute indigestion was
the trouble. 1t amounted to the
same as hauling off pair of $1oo
Williams.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30

Our delayed S and 10 cent de-
partment goods have arrived and
are now on sale. Don't fail to see
them as they are all Special Bar
gains.-V. S. Cook.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1905-08-30

Buy Silk Patent Flour, Harper
if you want the best. A. B. WiIk-
ins & Co.