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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09
Stock Show.

The Fat Stock show opens at River
view park, at the stock yards, to-day
Yesterday there were seen indications
on the streets of Kansas City, several
herds of splendid cattle having been
driven through on their way to the
quarters assigned to them at the park.
Could the old Scotchmen, who institut-
ed the first cattle show near an hundred
years ago see the splendid herds of
Scotch polled-Angus and Galloway cat
tie that the rich pastures of America
produce, they would be lost in astonish-
ment. Farmers would meet at the tav-
erns then and drink and expatiate on
their respective herds, and at last the
idea of public show of stock struck
them, goodly number of bets were
made as to who would be the successful
exhibitor, and when the show was held
unknown competitors carried off almost
all the prizes, to the great disgust of
the projectors of the scheme.
The prize winners however, did not
take their stock home with them. The
animals were eagerly purchased by
their beaten competitor, and the shows
became established for all time. From
the medium-sized black cattle that
were then exhibited, these mammoths,
that are on exhibition at the stock
yards are descended.
An association was formed and q
herd book instituted. The first steps
were taken and the road has been trav-
eled ever since, getting longer and wild
er and better filed with much finer
stock. There is no reason in the world
why these foreign breeds Of cattle
should not be further improved upon
our rich pastares and our genial climate.
The breed of English horses has lost
nothing in our hands, and why should
not our herd books In due time take
precedence of theirs?
1t is only by exhibitions and keen COM
petition that this can be done. Cattle
will always be staple production of
this country. The rule should be to pro-
duce beasts with the greatest amount
Of first-cIass beef and the smallest
amount of the coarser parts TO their
whole weights. High-priced beef cat
tie unite these two qualities, fine con-
dition and free from coarseness. The
difference in price will always amount
t, a good profit. and the chances are
that the fine animal has cost less to feed
than the coarse one.-Kansas City
Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09

Choice export cattle have lately been
bringing prices which are certainly bet
ter than the condition of trade three
months ago gave grounds for anticipat-
ing. Indeed we confess to having been
most agreeably disappointed in the out
come. Good fat cattle have apparent
ly been in lighter supply than usual
Notwithstanding the fact that more cat
tie have been marketed in the west in
the last few weeks than ever before in
the same time. This does not look
much like progress in cattle feeding, but
is probably to be accounted for by the
fact that the states have furnished a less
proportion than usual of this stock.
Added to this diminished ratio of choice
stock is the circumstance of a very
steady export trade through the autumn
by which more cattle were absorbed than
it was anticipated that there would, be.
The ranchmen of the Northwest have
held back great many of their cattle.
too, because Of their wish to sustain
prices, and because they have been i'm
pressed this season, more strongly than
ever before with the fact that it is more
profitable for them to send in their
stock at greater average age. Though
there Is an unfavOrable reaction this
week, the November cattle trade is
opening on basis fully up to the pop
ular expectation.-Breeder' Gazette.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09
Tell w. Walton returned ON Saturday

Tell w. Walton returned on Saturday
having completed the survey of the va
Iious pastures in the central division OF
the Strip. Tell had hard time of it,
owing to the beastly weather, as the
English would say, still he looks none
the worse for all his hard work.
Lots of through cattle are being locat-
ed on the Oklahoma lands, and the ma
jority Of them are in low flesh. One
does not need to be prophet to predict
that skinning viii be a regular business
on thatrange next spring.
Several of our resident cattlemen and
others have been agitating the subject OF
packing house for the past two weeks.
We understand the subject has assumed
such shape as to insure the establish
ment Of this important enterprise. A
company viii be organized with suf-
ficient capital to run the business on q
large scale, and it is expected that by
the time cold weather sets in, the pack
ing house win be in full operation,
The enterprise is one that win pay
handsomely, as there is home market
for all the bacon that can be made. Be
sides. it viii give our farmers a ready
cash market tor all their spare hogs
Caldwell Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09
Jay Eye Sees Private Purse.

Jay Eye See will probably 60 into win.
ter quarters early next month. Mr.
Case has, since his departure from New
York, had many offers for the horse
despite the prohibitive price of $50 ,OOC
which was placed on him. but is deter.
mined to keep him. People in a posi-
tion to know, say his winnings foot UT
to nearly 100000.
On the Monday after Jay Eve See
beat st. Julien he bought 81 100 cam
els hair shawl for his wife, and offered
in payment check for 81 500. The pro-
prietor naturally hesitated about ac-
ceptiRg it.
II don't know you, sir" he said.
MY name is Case, of Racine, Wis
consin."
The merchant looked blank.
I'm the owner of Jay Eye See," said
Mr.. Case.
The merchant ittmped up. 81 beg
your pardon; did not know that
Mr.. Case then drew his wallet, which
was full of checks ranging in value from
$500 to $4,000. ''See if you can find q
check among them whose maker you
KNOW" said Mr.. Case. A suitable one
was found, and as Mr.. Case left he said
"This is all Jay Eys Sees money"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09
MEDICINE LODGE. BARBER co. KANSAS NOV g. 1883

Every reader of the daily papers must
have noticed the increasing frequency
with which those who for any reason
find their lives burden resort for relief
to the crime of suicide. Scarcely a day
pa IS, without some such case b ing re-
ported, and frequently the suicidal act
is committed under circumstances that
render it well-nigh incomprehensible.
Whether it is that the restraining and
consoling influence of religious belief
has been weakened by the operation of
infidelity and by the rapid spread of
materialistic ideas, or whether the stress
and strain of modern competition result
in so throwing mems minds off their
balance as to temporarily deprive them
of their judgment and self-control, it
would be hard to say; but whatever
may be the influence at work, it is as
certain as it is deplorable that suicide is
much more frequently committed now
than in less enterprising and more hum
drum days.-Atchison Champion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09
Glucose Going.

A writer who signs himself "Glucose
Stakeholder, sends a communication
with the headline, "For Sale or Rent, ("
to the Chicago Grocer, that is refresh
ing in its frankness, and from which it
would seem that the glucose market is
getting sway-backed. Itsaysi
Amy number of glucose factories,
costing from 5000 to 81 ,5O0, 600 each
located in variousj parts of the
country are now lying idle. The reasons
for offering to sell or rent are that an
unappreciative public does not respond
to our philanthropic endeavors to fur
nish bastard sweet at the price of gen.
uine sugar. Nobody asks for glucose.
No housewife buys it for culinary pur-
poses nor for putting up her fruit. We
have been compelled to resort to all
sorts of expedients to get it used at al;
have had to flavor or color it with cane
or sorghum goods to make it pass as a
table syrup. We mix it with cane su-
gar, but the public rebels. We smuggle
it into confectionery, and are able in
these ways TO work OF good deal, but
it is a good deal of trouble to cover UP
our tracks. Then, again, the pesky
sorghum men are making a genuine
syrup equal to the best from sugar cane
one gallon of which will sweeten as
much as two and one-half of ours, which
they will sell about as cheap as we can
sell ours. Last year they made 15,OO0,-
600 OF 20 ,o00, 600 gallons, and will largely
increase the amount this year. Under
all these discouraging circumstances we
have decided to permanently retire from
the business, and offer for sale or rent
almost our entire plant, aggregating in
cost from SIC, ,O0O, 600 to Is, ,OOO, ,00o. Our
factories can be utilized for various
manufacturing puposes whose products
viii not be as Objectionable to the pub
tic as ours have been. For further in
formrtiou and terms apply to any of
u.s."
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09

A dispatch from st. Louis, dated the
I'd, says: The grand jury made final
report this afternoon. 1t returned in
dictments against Joseph III. Mcintyre
state coal oil inspector; Ed. Butler,
democraticpOlitician and so-called boss;
David w. Caruth and DR.. Frank j.
LutZ, police commissioners. The in
dictments allege that these parties con-
Spired and combined to obstruct the ad-
ministration of law with reference to
gambling, lotteries and gift enterprises,
and to dictate and control police ap-
pointments with view to carrying out
their schemes, political and otherwise.
They are charged further with attempt
ing to influence ex-Chief of Police John
w. Campbell not to interfere with gam
bling, lotteries, ETC., and failing in this
they did remove him without cause
from Office. The report of the grand
jury is very scathing in its language.
1t asserts that a combination of noto-
rious persons existed for the purpose of
obstructing the laws with regard to
gambling. censured the governor for
granting pardOns, especially to convict
ed gamblers, and recommended the
withdrawal Of the pardening power
from the governor and the appointment
of a state board of pardons. 1t further
recommends that the power of appoint
ing the board of police commissioners
be withdrawn from the governor and
that they be appointed either by the
mayor or circuit judges. 1t also severe
ly censures the use Of blank resigna-
tions by the governor.
Among other indictments returned by
the grand jury are: Henry S. Newman
state commissioner of labor statistics,
charged with selling notaries' commits
sions; Hugh J. Brady, member of the
legislature, bribery; Warren F. Nc
Chesney, leader of the gamblers ring,
attempted bribery; Henry w. Moore,
managing editor of the Post-Dispatch,
and Florence d. White, reporter of the
same paper, abstracting court records.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09
Is Ex-Governor St. John Rish ,

A group Of mines known as the Mil
ierproperties were sold to-day to ex-Gov-
ernor st. John, Of Kansas. The mines
cave been in litigation for more than a
year, and the purchaser ASSUMES alf
risks and pays besides S27, ,eO0.-Denver
Tribune.
In 1873 Ex-Governor st. John was q
lawyer of medium ability practicing at
Olathe, Johnson eaunty. He was not
rich, or even in independent circufffstssn
ces. Assuming that the above para
graph is true and in view of political
events In the past four years, we should
say that four years Governor of Kansas
must be very profitable. st John must
have stood solid with the corporations
to make not less than 100000 in four
wears
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09
On Tuesday the Trinidad Cattle Com

On Tuesday the Trinidad Cattle Com
pany, sompOsed Of Hall Bros. and p. T.
Scruggs, Of this city; Major Deering, of
Clay county, Missouri, and Casimiro
Barela, of Colorado, consummated the
purchase Of the James Wilcox ranch,
located 25 miles southeast of Trinidad.
There are between IL, 600 and II, 600 head
Of cattle on the ranch and the price paid
was in the neighborhood of $500, 600.
The officers Of the company are, VIM.
N. Hall, manager; p. T. Scruggs, assist
anttmanager and Casimiro Barela, treas
urer. The principal sffice of the eom-
pany will be at Trinidad, Colorado
Kansas City Indicator.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09
The majority of people who have a,

The majority of people who have an
affection for horses remember the pop-
ularity of Dexter when he was king OF
the turf. But few have kept track OF
his relationships. These are of unusual
interest, because they show how pecu-
liar traits become fixed in families rath-
er than in individuals. The stallion
Dictator is full brother to Dexter, and
is the sire of the now fastest horse in
the world, Jay-Eye-See, which recently
beat st. Julien, and has lowered the
record Of Maud S. Dictator is also sire
to Director and Phallas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09
Some months since mob attacked tn

Some months since mob attacked the
Paola jail and took from it and hung a
negro accused of rape. The mob fired
several shots in the Jail door and win
dows, one discharge taking effect in the
arm Of the sheriff's son, Ed. Long. The
wound received by young Long proved
to be very dangerous and painful one
and he has almost lost the use Of his
arm. Some time ago he brought suit
against the city for $4,000 damages,
After several days trial of the case the
jury brought in a verdict for the plain
tiff for s.. 800, and assessed the cost up
against the city.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09

Russell Record: At a depth of 2iO feet
the drill of the artesian well struck a
vein of boiling hot water, which came
up over 100 feet in the well, making the
drill so hot that the workmen could
hardly manage it. Cold water was
poured down to lower the temperature
but the water remained hot for a long
time. The strangest part of the affair
Is that the depth is not sufficient to look
for heat, and the water is in the red
randstOne, the same as that found
around Brookville and Salina The water
was OF sufficient heat to cook an egg in
three minutes.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09

The latest issue of the "Blue Book, y
which gives the salaries of all the gov
ernment officials, shows that there were
In the year prior to its issue, forty-sev-
en- postmasters in the country whose
salary for the entire year were less than
81 each; eleven who received less than
y csnts for their years work; and that
Postmaster Sloan, of Perilla postoffice.
White county, Tenn, actually received
the munificent salary of cents for his
entire years labor.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09

William Andrews. an old farmer liv.
ing In the suburbs of Saco, Me-, has
In his cellar nearly fifty barrels OF
wine. He will not drink it, sell it, give
II away, or throw it away. AS he made
it all himself, its sale would not only
conflict with the state laws but with ma.
uonal ones, and the property keeps i'm.
proving in quality every year to the ex.
asperation Of Mr.. Andrews fellow citi-
liens. Some of it is already more than
twenty wears old.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09

The United States senate during the
twenty-day session in the month of
June last, consumed forty thousand
quarts of Apollinaris water, which was
paid for out of the contingent fund.
How much whiskey this stands for ION
the side," or whether the latter was al
so paid for out of the contingent fund
has not been revealed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09

The Oklahoma building, which was
occupied by Payne and the War Chief,
was moved yesterday to Rodoff s. How
ans coal yard, to be used by them for
an office. The building was sold at
auction short time ago to satisfy a
mortgage. The material of the print
ing Office is stored away in Musgrave's
ware room, and it will also be sold at
mortgage sale in short ttime.-Gueda
Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09

They haven't much use for Mormon
missionaries IN she soath, to Judge irom
the following encouraging announce
ment by the Mobile Register: IF the
Mormons send eighteen missionaries to
the southern states, as they say they
will do, they win send eighteen candi-
dates for tar and feathers.H
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09
BARBER COUNTY INDEX

An EiSht Page, Rirht Column paper, devoted
20 tho Interests ~ fhc,iicinc Lodge and the
southwest Tho hrxcst paper published In
h"n~e' barEsst circulation n any paper In
sh' southwest. II offers unsurpassed facilit lee
20 atVertiscr-, aui Eivcs subscribers more a.
loot rcading matter than any papcs published
IN Kansas.
suosc-iptiou price, ts.00 per year Ia advance.
Address AL lcttgr- 90
Ew. PATSE,
Medicine Lodge. Ka
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09

Ten disgusted colored!gentlemeR left
Topeka on the sd of last month for
theirold home in Tennessee. ThISe
hundred colored people assembled at
the depot to see them off.
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THE BARBER COUNTY INDEX.
MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS.


The remains of the Indian chief,
keokuk, which were buried at the old
Sac and Fox reservation in Franklin
county, have been exhumed and taken
to Keokuk, Iowa.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09
Sorghum a. Cattle Food.
To THE BREEDERS GAZETTE


/ have noticed in recent years, in print,
statements to the effect that sorghum,
when fed to cattle, frequently produces
fatal results. In consequence of the
great power this plant possesses of re-
sisting drouth, it furnishes the surest
fodder crop we can grow in this climate.
SOwn broadcast the yield is very salts
factory, and a full crop can be made
when corn, under the same circumstan-
ces, would prove total failure. 1t
seems to adapt itself to all classes of
soil, from the waxy black to the light
sandy. Will you please give us through
your valuable columns the merits or de-
merits of this plant as a feed for cattle
and oblige SUBSCRIBER
WM. KUYKENDALL.
REPLY.-Reports of fatal or Injurious
results from feeding sorghum to cattle
we think must be unfounded, except in
the sense in Which such reports may be
made of corn fodder or any other food.
Cattle have died in consequence of over
eating, OF from injudicions feeding, but
abundant experience has shown sor-
ghum to be a valuable food for stock.
Most commonly it has been used as
soiling crop, cut and fed while green !;
but in many cases it has been cured and
fed as corn fodder is, not only to cattle,
but to horses and sheep, with good sat
isfaction. AS our correspondent states
the unusual ability of the plant to with
stand drouth makes it especially suited
for dry climates. A few days since a
gentleman connected with large sor-
ghum sugar factory in central southern
Kansas, speaking of the possibility that
the factory would not be able TO work up
all the cane grown, said the farmers
there counted the crop worth nearly as
much for fodder as they obtained for it
at the factory, and would not feel they
had suffered loss il obliged to keep a
portion of their crop.
In some cases sorghum seed has been
drilled or sowu in the fall, or in early
winter, so as to get an earlier growth in
spring. We do not know If this would
be desirable whore our correspondent
lives. A much heavier, and, as we
think, more valuable crop, can be OBJ
tanned by drilling the seed in rows, and
giving it cultivation, rather than by
sowing it broad-cast.-Breeder's Ga
Zette.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09

Newly furnished and centrally located. Only
1N first-class house In the city. Reasonable
rates for board aud lrslging by the day or
public generally.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-07
The French Detective,

During the empire, between the years 1856
and 1868. there lived in Paris an Englishman
who moved in good society, was a member
of more than one frst-class club, and who,
until after, his death, was not known to be-
long to the secret police of Paris. Appa-
rently he was middle-aged gentleman with
good private means, living alone, and dining
every day at Bignon's or the Cafe Anglais.
Yet this individual was the means of bring
ing more scouadrels of certain class to JUS
tice than perhaps any other detective in the
French capital. All the agents secrets of the
Paris force have their special line of bust
ness-their special beat, SO to speak, where
they hunt up the particular game they are
told to look after. This Englishman had in
his day been great gambler, and even long
after he had given up rouge ct noir and bac-
carat, loved little ecarte with not very low
points, and could hardly exist without his
rubber of whist every evening His special
ite with the police was to spot down men
who cheated, or were proprietors of gam
bling hells. On one occasion, which must
be remembered by many members of the
French Jockey club, he was the means of
having arrested a person who had been in
troduced into that club, and who played GER
threw discredit on all the members until the
affair was cleared up. And yet this gentle
man lived more than dozen years in Paris
without anyone suspecting his employment,
and even after his death the truth only came
out by accident. OF men employed in the
same manner as was this Engl1shman- each
man having his own beat in the hunting
ground of crime-there are at least three or
four dozen in Paris. As matter of course,
their lives would not be worth a wesk's pur-
chase if the dangerous classes could identify
them. 1t is only by keeping their names and
appearances strictly secret that they carry on
their work, which they certainly do in as eff
cient manner as any body of public SER
wants in the world.
Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-07
HANDY.

Brought up by hand: The coal hod.-N.
Y News.
Hired girls are generally given Excelsior"
beds to sleep on.-Boston Courier.
The difference between Harvard and his
Excellency is not in kind, but in degree
Lowell Courier.
The stammerer who told the editor that be
had brought him some Je-June poetry spoke
better than he knsw.-Boston Daily AdVer-
tiser.
How did it happen that nearly all the old
Quaker families became wealthy stranger.
The fashions never changed. Philadelphia
News.
The single eye-glass Is worn by the dude.
The theory is that he can see with one eye
much more than he can comprehend.-N
Orleans Picayune.
Oscar Wilde is in favor of giving ones
wife name sesthetically suggestive of her
husbands business. A good plan. A chem
lists wife would be then Ann Eliz furni-
ture dealers, Sophia a farmers, lilly; a
fisherman's, Nellie tonsorial artists, Bar
bara !; pawnbroker's, Jewli burglars 8,
Kitty an attorneys, Lawra; barkeep'
er's Gin-evra an editors, Rit-a-Pittsbure
Telegraph.
The peasants of North Germany believe
that if man whistles in the evening sit will
make the angels weep" That's all the North
Germans know about 1t. If the angels could
hear some of the men who frequent our Office
whistle one of their fantasies" it would
make them swear. 1t makes us swear, and
we know the angels have higher. purer and
more delicate appreciation OF music tnan We
have.-Burlington Hawkeye.
Young collector: Here is a very ancient
little piece of Chinese ivory, evidently OF
some historical value, and only paid $40
for it. Can you translate the inscription for
me Professor after profound; ;a;,, study: This, $
an Fneiish one, written in Chinese charac-
ters, and says, ''No money. no washee. y
Young collector does not say that he has
promised to take two more at the same price
II the dealer can secure them for him
Life.
ssSir," said a suspicious looking individ-
ual on Congress avenue, accosting business
man, sin New York eleven men represent
5000, 900, ,O0O.' lis that SO ?" eyes Now
in Austin the wealth is not quite SO much
concentrated. We will assume that twenty
of US represent 300, ,Oo0" eyes" 'eWe
viii also assume that you and are two OF