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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07

The Indians are Indians still, and
parties coming through any part of the
territory with cattle, whether stock or
beef, make complaints of the heavy
tolls levied in the way of fat cattle. No
one escapes without paying for the
privilege of using Gods grass and wa
ter In the land of Lo, and in many in
stances heavy damages are wrested
from the herds. The depredators have
no scale of prices, and generally give
themselves the benefit of the outside
limit-of an Indian conscience. 1t is
out of the question to pass around the
Indian Territory, and it should be plac-
ed beyond the power of the utterly
worthless to abrogate the constitution
al right of commerce between the states
There should be broad way opened up
through the Nation, or regular terrific
rial government given. Parties whose
business leads them through the coun-
try are entitled to have the rights of
property respected.-Texas Panhandle.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
Official 2nnnOinn


In the good old times of republican
simplicity and honesty, President Buc-
hanan wrote to his niece, Miss Lane.
as follows: Il am sorry to find that
your excursion to West Point on the
Harriet Lane has been made the sub
ject of newspaper criticism on yourself.
The practice, however, of employing
national vessels on pleasure excursions
to crafty any class of people is fair
subject of public criticism. You know
how much l condemned your former
trip on the same vessel, and did not ex-
pect you would fall into second error.
The thing, however, has passed and
gone, and let it pass. After fair time
shall have elapsed, it is my purpose to
cause general orders to be issued by the
treasury department to stop the prac-
tice.''
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07

Col. d. G.. Stockwell, general manag-
er of the Union Stock Yards of East
Atchison, Missouri, was in the city
several days during the past week,
looking up the shipping business from
this point. Mr.. Stockwen was one of
the first stock agents the Santa Fe rail-
road company employed on their line,
and man that has done valiant sery-
ice for the company.
The stock shipments from this place
for the past week was III cars or 2.49S
head, making thus far a total shipment
of beef cattle from the Dodge City stock
yards for the season thus far 652 cars or
1916 head, which is considerable be-
low the shipments made for the same
period up to this time last year. From
now on shipments will be larger, as
cattle are just beginning to get in a
good fix for the market.-Dodge City
Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
Wearing the striDe..

Ex-Banker John Harris, of Olatha,
Kan, the renowned swindler, who was
last week convicted at Wyandotte of
receiving deposits when he knew his
bank was insolvent, was yesterday TAX
el' to the state prison at Lansing, where
lac is TO spend the next five years of his.
existence. a gentleman who returned
from Leavenworth last evening gives
the following account of his reception.
On arriving at The penitentiary he was
given the usual treatment accorded
prisoners, and after donning his uni
form was sent down into the coal shaft
with che other conyicts. He made an
appeal TO the prison officials 10 give him
an easy position, but was told that he
must be treated like ordinary prisoners.
After few hours work in the mines,
however, he was brought up and put to
work in the furniture shop, position
which pleased him much better than
the preceding one. He appeared 10 feel
his imprisonment keenly.
Maj. Wasson, the defaulting army
paymaster, who is also confined at this
prison, has been chosen TO survey the
line and run the level on the state boul-
evard from Lansing to the prison.
When informed of this fact yesterday,
Wasson said he had but one request to
make, and that was that the warden
would give him pair of overallsto cov-
er up his stripes.-Kansas City Pines.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
The Oklahoma nsniaion


d. L. Payne applied to the United
States court for an injunction to re-
strain Secretary-of-War Lincoln and
General John Pope from interfering
with parties who desired to locate in
the Indian Territory. Judge McCrary
refused to grant the injunction and
says:
us the land in question subject to en-,
try under the pre-emption and home
stead laws of the United States? This
is the controlling question in the case
1t is, to say the last, a question of
doubt, or concerning which there is
serious dispute. The executive branch
of the government, after investigation.
being advised by the attorney general
of the United States, has decided it i'm
the negative, and has accordingly is
sued orders to the defendant, John
Pope, who is major general Of the ar
my has military command in the In
dian Territory, to prevent by force the
occupation OF the disputed territory by
white settlers. Under such circum-
stances, all that the court can be reas-
ably asked to do is to preserve the statu
quo until the final adjudication Of the
controversy. Where the parties are at
issue upon question of legal right and
an injunction is necessary for the pur-
pose of preserving all existing rights
until a final hearing, preliminary in
junction will generally be granted, but
in the present case the existing status
would be disproved, not preserved by
granting the writ. The sole purpose
for which the writ of injun ction Isl
granted is advice of final hearing in
such cases as to preserve the rights of
the parties pending the suit, so as to
leave the subject matter Atact to be
dealt with by the court in the final de-
cree. 1t is to compel the party against
whom this is granted to maintain his
status merely until the matter in dis
pute should by due process on the courts
be determined. Therefore to grant a
writ in this case would be in advance
of hearing upon the merits to open
up the disputed territory for settlement;
and thus, in fact, to predetermine the
controversy, as we'll as to destroy the
present situation. To refuse the writ
is to preserve, or at least not to disturb
the existing status without therefore
considering other questions. The mo-
ton for preliminary injunction is
oyerruled on this ground.'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
The Little Sod shanty on the Claim |.

AS HA'SAo ooo oAanLy on the Clalm
! am looking rather seedy now,
While holding down my claim,
best.
And the mice play slowly round me,
As lay me down to rest
In my little old sod shanty on the claim.
Yet ratner ike the novelty of living in this
Though my bin of fare is always rather lame,
But IN nappy as clam on land from Uncle
sam;
In my little old sod shanty on my claim.
CHORUS:
The hinges are OF leather, and the windows
While tho roof the bowling blizzard it lets in,
he.r the hungry coyote as he sneaks up
through the grass.
Round my little old sod shanty on the claim.
When left my eastern home so happy and so
gay,
To try and win my way to wealth and fame.
L little thought I'd come down to burning
twisted hay,
My clothes are plIstered DER with dough ans.
I'm looking like a fright,
And the things are all scattered roun1 the
And fear if p. T. Barnum's man should get
his eyes on me,
He would take me from my little cabin home
CHoRUs:-The hinges etc,
wish that some kind hearted Miss would pity
on me take,
And extricate me from the mess I'm in,
The angel, how I'd blesss her, if this her home
she'd make.
In my little old sod shanty on the claim.
And when we'd made our fortunes on the prai-
ries of the west,
Just rs happy as two bed bugs we'd remain,
We'd forget our trials and troubles as we'd lay
US down to rest,
In our little old sod shanty on the claim.
CHORUs The hinges etc
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07

The dead meat trade is gra dualIy
coming westward and it will not be
many years now before there will be a
revolution in the present conduct of the
cattle business. Ground was broke
last week in Fort Worth, Texas for
large slaughter and meat refrigerating
works. They will have a capacity of
80 head of cattle day for shipment,
and factories will be erected for utiliz-
ing the whole carcass of the animal.
hoofs, horns, bones, tallow, sc. Fertil-
izers, oleomargerine and amonia will be
manufactured and large tannery will
work ur the hides. With the first signs
OF success in this undertaking, similar
enterprises may be expected to spring
up at all the leading towns in the west.
Here at Kansas City the location is ad-
mirable for such venture, and if it can
be made to succeed anywhere it certain
ly can here with our manifold advant-
ages for the cheap and convenient
handling of live stock, unsurpassed
transportation facilities and abundance
of cheap fuel.-Kansas City Live Stock
Record.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
Obliged to Canitnlata

After having failed so many times to
gain "a foothold in the Territory, t
would seem absurd to hear that there
are yet dupes in the land who are at
tempting and expecting to locate OIL
what is termed the Oklahoma lands. -
1t is, nevertheless, true that such is the
case. Word having been received that
the invaders were coming in, orders were
issued for the military to Immediately
eject them. On Friday Capt. Carroll,
with detachment of the 9Th cavalry,
returned from the Oklahoma field in
charge of some forty wagons and about
l5O boomers, and yesterday the captives
were started north with an escort to
accompany them to the Kansas line.
Capt. Payne, strange to relate, did not
care to trust his carcass with the in
vaders, evidently having vivid recol-
lection of last winters trip, when his
followers turned on him and denounci
him as the swindler which he really is.
Cheyenne Transporter.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
A Boom For Governor Click.

Men who have been willing to attri-
butte so much of the countrys' prosper
ity to republican management ef pub
lie affairs, are respectfully requested to
make note of the fact that the farm
ers, mechanics, and in fact all the peo-
pie of Kansas are now getting rich un-
der the administration of a democratic
governor. Gov. Click looks out through
the plate glass windows of the execu-
tive office at the Capitol and sees Kan
sas fairly groaning with the big crops,
while millions of little pigs, calves,
chickens, goslings and infantile turkeys
bask in the bright sunshine, refresh
themselves from the overflowing springs
or cool themselves in the grateful shade
of towering wheat stacks and grow
large and fat in anticipation of the
bountiful stores of corn soon to be crib
bed for winter use. He sees the people
well clothed and happy and rejoi es in
his heart. Verify this is regular old
democratic crop year.-Winfeld Tele-
gram.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
Enforcing Law.

There is a good deal of popsy-wopsy
truck in all this chatter of prohibition
lists about enforcing the law while it is
a law,n and so forth and so on. Two
thirds of the fellows who do the most of
this talking, might on investigation,
learn that at least one-fifth of all the
statute laws of Kansas are daily ignor-
ed and violated Customs and general
sentiment of the whole people Is prac-
ticaliy the law, regardless of what a
legislature enacts or omits to enact.
One man can take a horse to water,
but regiment can't make him drink.
The prohibitory law, like the fugitive
slave law, may, through official machin-
cry and demagogism, be made the bra-
zen serpent for while before which
many good men, ilypocrites and tim :
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07

Some parties in this county allow their
fondness for cheap fun to carry them
INTO conduct prejudicial to the interests
OF the community. For instance, a
party from northern Kansas were in the
county this week looking for claims on
which to file. They were told a roor-
back about the claims all being taken
up and that four men had recently been
hung in the western part of Harper
county for jumping claims. All this of
course seems idle nonsense here, but
such stories travel, and grow as they
travel, like the Texas fever y2rns, and
damage our county proportionately.-
Harper Sentinel.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07

"Yesh," said he as he leaned up
against the bar with cracker in one
hand and schooner in the other, ''jest
look at what waters doin'. Thersh
Capin Weba drowned, and hundred
folks dumped into eternity down near
Baltimore, boats thurnin' over; and
floods sozzlin' everything. 1 tell We,
they kin preach water all their mine
to, it's got its weak pints. Ye never
o. no bodies gettin' drowned in beer,
nobody never fell off wharf into bay
o. cideran' got drowned. Theys good
deal to be said on both sides o. this
moral question. Capin whatll ye
have"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07

Maj. A. Drumm was IN the city the
past week and returned home Monday.
He reports that the calf crop on the
ranges of Barber and Comanche coun-
ties, Kan, and the Cherokee Strip is
one-half of what it was last year.
An exhibition that will be well worth
travelling long distance to see will be
the procession of about 500 thorough
bred cattle on the streets of Kansas
City, on Thursday, Nov. 1st, the OPEN
ing day of the Fat Stock Show. The
breeders of polled cattle promise to
furnish about 300 head for this unprece-
dented street parade.-Kansas City In
dicator.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
Ont In n Fall Suit

The big snake which Manager Frank
j. Pilling has been showing burst its
skin yesterday afternoon. 1t was in the
ordinary course of nature that the
twenty-three feet python, like the small
er members of the snake family, should
shed its skin once year, but unusual
interest was attracted to the shedding
process from the commercial value of
the python. Yesterday afternoon Mr..
Pilling, with party of friends, sat in
the place of exhibition anxiously watch
ing the snake i'll preparation for the
fateful crisis. The snake up to this
time had shown no interest in the pro-
ceedings. Suddenly the apparently life
less coil rolled lazily over, there was a
sharp cracking sound, and the upper
part of the monstor's body showed a
a new and brilliant color. The python
had revived and appeared to be proud
and happy. The shedding process went
on gradually, and this morning the old
skin had been almost entirely discarded
Wichita Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
The Texas Panhandle.

Every year the necessity of an outlet
by rail from the Panhadle northward
becomes more pressing. The ranch
msrf of that territory as well as the
whole state of Texas and the Indian
Territory are practically at the mercy
of the III. K. & T., which under the
present law, has the exclusive right Of
way north and south through The Indi-
an Territory, and as it runs through the
eastern end of the Territory, cattle
must either be driven to it from the
western part of Texas or go northward
only to meet a barrier in the Kansas
dead Line"
The system which is being largely
carried on by ranchmen at present, and
which promises to prove the most pro-
liable in future, viz: breeding their ca :
tie in Texas and feeding the steers in
the more northern states and terrific
ries, demands better facilities for the
rapid transit of these young steers be-
tween the two sections, and the people
of northwest Texas are fully alive to Il o
in p rtan;e of this matter. at Colora-
do City, the newspapers are clanforing
for direct railroad Communication with
Kansas City, and when we consider the
fact that there are in that vicinity now
from $4,000 to 100000 beeves for ship
ment, it is no wonder they are anxious
for an outlet.
That the United States government
should exercise the right of eminent do
main through the Indian Territory, no
sane business man will deny, and we
are glad to know that congressman
Wellborn, of Dallas, Texas, intends
making an effort at the next session of
congress to that end. lie should be
ably supported in this endeavor by ev-
cry member from the west. A branch
from the Santa Fe at Dodge City run
ming south through the Panhandle to
Colorado City, would be a most valua-
BILE acquisition, not only to the people
of Texas but to Kansas City, and with
the immense amount of live freight
seeking transportation both ways, as
well as the rapid development of that
territory the road should pay well. Off
GERS OF the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe,
and the Atchison, Topeka& Santa Fe
have been in consultation in regard to
Tins matter, and it is to be hoped that
some action will be taken which will
secure to the ranchmen of Northwest
Texas the railroad facilities they so
much need.-kansas City Indicator.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07

A correspondent asks which has the
greater fortune, w. III. Vanderbilt or j.
w. MacEey and what the elder Astor's
fortune was. Mackey is worth about
$50, 900; Vanderbilt is said to be
worth OO,00O,0O0. He had S55, 200, 600
In U. 5. bonds year ago. Astor's
property was estimated at $40, goo, 600 or
$4,000, 900 when he died. 1t was most
ly in real estate which has since nearly
quadrupled. The present Astor is sup
posed to be worth $40, 900, 600 or $50, O,OOO,-
OOO
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
servers will bow, but it win not endure,

servers will bow, but it viii not endure,
so to speak.
If most people donot believe in q lawi
are not in favor of it, dislike it, regard
it as unjust and useless, where comes
in the common sense or logic of them
cramming it down their own throatsY
If a cook has served up a supply of
tainted meat and strong butter, must
we eat such, even 20 the exclusion of all
other diet, to convince her that we want
a changer
We have noticed in our pilgrimage
here below that people who are anxious
for an unpleasant law to be enforced
against other people are the very first to
rebel against a law which interferes
with what they conceive to be their own
rights. There is vast difference as to
whose bull is gored. Law is not made
for the people. 1t is made by the peo-
pie, and when majority of the people
declare law to be null and void the
highest authority in the law making
line has spoken. There can be no high1
er law making power than the voice of
the people, Though sometimes this voice
is the voice of ignorance, superstition
and prejudice.-PaolaS Spirit.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07

A stranger recently went to a hotel
at Bismark, Dakota ITO dine. He found
fault with the waiter and was promptly
pounded by the proprietor and servants
arrested, locked up and robbed by the
jailor. This hotel keeper must have
been the host to whom once entered an
eastern tenderfoOt and ordered quail on
toast. The proprietor pulled out re-
volver and remarked: Young man.
yod want hash" And the young man
took hash.
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BARBER COUNTY INDEX.

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MEDICINE LODGE. BARBER co. KA NsAs SEPT 4 1883
with the Queen of the relm crazv ar

With the Queen of the relm crazy and
weeping inconsolably over the grave of
an ignorant Scotch servant, the Prince OF
Wales head over ears in debt, and flirt-
ing with Lillian Russell, the Prince of
Teck being sold out under the sheriff's
hammer, and the Duchess of Edin-
burgh's wedding trousseau in a pawn
shop, the royal family of England is in
a bad way.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
CHoRUs:-The hinges, etc.

The parties who brought in over a
thousand head of cattle Monday, say
they had not particle of trouble in US
ing the Harper trail. viii the Medi-
cine Lodge, Anthony and Caldwell pa
pers please take notice.-Harper Senti-
npl
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
There are few people who win NOT he

There are few people who VIII not be-
glad to learn that tire oystermen pre-
dict an unusually good supply of the
succulent biyaive this season. as regards
both quality and quantity. This intel
ligence is all the more welcome because
for the past two or three years the great
American oyster has not been keeping
up its reputation; Last year q crop wa5
particularly poor.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-07
CHURCHES
POSTAL

fostuiirc ~ NediCinr Lodgc open frurn5 A "
too rN. sundays one hour On arrival uf mail
MUuny orilrr uuioa. W.D. VNNSLYEF. PN
ENNA NNNSivKg. As-tsrNNr.
The Mails:
Frun Iarpct aud ul Eastern points, arrives
DAILY ut p Ne, lcfVrs daily at lOtN
Fruu sun tftv. Lake city. Soldier Crock, Red
Afrpk, Hutthluaun, kinruHu. Iru-a kiown.
lsHli, arrives Monday, WotinJe,inys aud Fri
dnysHt Bpm. bCpausIucssiays. Thursdays and
hafurflnyH 80 ~ ".
frum luka, Elm Mills nud Surntugn arrives nn
NNuHinYa uud Frituya uf q N and dernrts un
wednesdays AMI Saturdays nt san
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BARBER COUNTY INDEX.
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THE BARBER COUNTY INDEX.

MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-09-01

How ANIMALS HELP EACH OTHER. So
cisl animals perform many little services
for each other. Horses nibble and COWS
lick each other. Monkeys pick from each
other thorns and burs and parasites.
Wolves and some other beasts Of prey
hunt in packs, and aid each other in at
lacking their victims. Pelicans fish in con.
cert. TIE Hamadryas balloons turn over
stones to find insects, ETC., and when they
come TO large one as many as can stand
around turn it over together and share the
booty. Social animals mutually defend
each other. Brehm encountered in Abys-
sinia great troop of balloons which were
crossing o valley. The latter were attacked
by the dogs, but the old males Immediately
hurried down from the rocks, and with
mouths widely opened reared SO fearfully
that the dogs preeipitately retreated.
They were again encouraged to the at
tack but by this time all the balloons had
reasccnded the nights, excepting young
one, about ak months old, who, loudly
calling for aid, climbed en- a block Of rock
and was surrounded. Now, one of the
largest males, true hero, came down
again from the mountain, slowly went to
the young one, coaxed him and triumph
antly led him away, the dogs being too
much astonished to make an attack. On
another occasion an eagle seized young
monkey, which, by clinging to branch,
was not at once carried eff 1t cried loudly
for assistance, upon which the other mem
bers of the troop, with much uproar, rushed
to the rescue, surrounded the eagle and
pulled out so many feathers that he no
longer thought of his prey, but only how
to escape. This eagle assuredIy would
never again attack a monkey in troop.
TOur Dumb Animals.