Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-05-09
HazeHon items.

improved places in HazeIton.
Messrs. Caudill and Keller made a
business trip to Wichita one day last
week, and are now ready to go to their
new field of labor. They will leave
here Monday.
The Hazelton school closed Friday.
Friday night they gave fine entertain
ment that pleased everybody who was
there and made those not there wish
they had been.
.. IL. Dunbar has bought the prop
erty formerly owned by W. A. Garner
and used by him for store room. Mr.
Dunbar will move his feed store to his
new location in short time.
l. l.. Donalds IN of Newton. Kansas
was here one day last week Just to see
what kind of country we had. He
expressed himself as being we'll pleased
with our country. and said it was
ahead of what he expected to find.
Harry Black looked across the fence
at George Chamberlain house a few
times and decided that one more coat
of paint on his house would put him
pretty near on par with George. He
put on the paint and is feeling better
now.
1t will only be few more DAYS till
alfalfa is ready to cut and then we can
just go right on harvesting hay till
frost, for it never let's up growing while
the weather will permit. The man
with good alfalfa field has a steady
summers job.
w. l.. Shilling of Topeka was here
one day last week, and while here paid
our office visit. w. l.. is an old time
republican, but he says that the demo
Gratis have got up a ticket that is going
to be awful hard to beat. The big ma.
jorlty is all that he can bank on to pull
the corporations through this time.
Mrs. j. K. 2. Halstead had a very
narrow escape the other day. AS she
was driving out of town in a single
buggy her horse got frightened and be-
gan TO kick and run, threw her out of
the buggy and came pretty close to
throwing her Oh barbed wire fence,
but fortunately she escaped with no In
jury except nervous shock.
Quite number of our farmers bought
and sowed Texas red oats this spring,
and they locked like fine oats, but so
far we have failed to find single farm.
er that got stand from the fine seed.
and personally we know of one fellow
who has got to try the old standby.
kaffir corn, to take the place first allot.
ted to Texas oats. Bad seed was the
trouble.
One day last week we happened to be
present and heard little crowd of six
republicans discussing the republican
ticket and five of the six expressed
themselves as going to vote the Harris
ticket The only trouble is that on
election dag most of them Will not
have the backbone to do what they
know is right, aud will vote the same
old crowd back into Office, if they can.
Friday morning w. F. Goodan and
o. FL. Dunbar got mixed in a little
scrap, and GoOdan came out with
pretty good sized bridge On his nose.
Friends got to work and finally got
them apparently cooled off, but later in
the evening they got mixed again, and
now the courts will have the matter to
settle as each has had the other ar.
rested charged with assault with intent
to Kill; and now the expenses will be-
gin. They are both out on a $500 bond
to appear before His Honor, Judge
Olinger, at his office on May Sth, to
answer to the respective charges.
Last Friday morning a man arrived
in HazeltOn on the early train Tor sup.
posed to have come on the train). He
called for bed at the hotel and spent
most of the day, supposedly, in bed. In
the evening he got out and and walked
around town little and before retir
ing Informed the landiady that he
wanted to be called at 3 O'Clock so as to
go out on the early morning Santa Fe
train. When some one went to call
him be was gone, and just about o.
clock the Hargis elevator at the Santa
Fe track was discovered to be on ire
and 1t burned down with all of its con-
tents consisting Of some wheat and
corn. Mr.. Hargis was not at home ut
was supposed to be In Wichita. This
makes about the fourth fire Mr.. Har-
gls has had here. and we learn about
that number has visited him in Kansas
City. Up TO this last one there was
hardly any evidence as to what started
the fire, but this time this man who
was at the hotel during the day, was
almost caught ct the work by parties
residing near the elevator, and in fact
was so close that there is little doubt
of his being the man who started the
fire. Now the strange thing about this
matter is that every time Mr.. HargIs
has had fire here this same man has
been here just before the fire, and al
ways disappears for time after the
fire. Now the question is, has Mr. Har
gis an enemy that is taking his revenge
in burning him out and destroying his
property! II looks little that way;