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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

DR.. Patton, editor Of the New York Bau-
tist WeeSly,who5e commentator the speech
of Senator IngallsAin .eulogy Of Sena-
tor Ben. Hill of Georgia, which, togetl.
er with Mr.. Ingalls, reply, has been print
ed IL. the newspapers, comes back on the
Kansas senator In this style: "In return,
foriyour cruel wish that may be doomed
to eternal punishment permit me to ex-
press the hope that you may attain repen.
tance unto life, and putting away all malice.
evil!speaking, bribery and corrupt practices /,
finally be welcomed to the glorious rewards
of the eternal hereafter. !" Senator In
gals ls better known than he bargained
for.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

Mr.. A. ii. Boyd, who lately sold his hotel
and other property at Dodge City and re-
moved TO his ranch near Larned, is contem-
plating trip East to purchase horses for
this and the Dodge City markets, and Will
probably leave on that business soon after
the weather settles down to something
reasonable. Al. has herd of good horses
on his ranch, which heis wintering, and we
suppose they will be on the market in the
spring. As ne has the capital to buy large
ly and the knowledge and facility to han
die that but few possess, we imagine he
can make it pay if anybody can .-LarneC
Optic.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

A patient in hospital in Cremonia, Italy,
is astonishing the medical world by his
feats in the way Of eating. After an attack
of pleurisy, he developed an abnormal
taste for pebbles, iron nails and knobs Of
glass. This unnatural appetite has increas-
ed with years, and he now daily eats tif-
teen to twenty pebbles day, each weigh
ing over three ounces. He thinks nothing
OF taking a dozen or two Of iron nails.
His favorite diet, however, is glass, balls OF
convenient size, polished so US to admit of
easy passage down the throat. All this
seems increditable, but the tact is youched
for by DIR. Cosoi and other noted Italian
physicians. Monthly.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

A large majority of the stockmen hold.
ing cattle on the ranges southeast of Hun
newell and south a Arkansas City will be
Ill attendance at our annual stock meeting
with the determination of becoming mem
oers OF the Association and abiding by the
rules OF the same. One strong organiza
ton on the Strip can be more benefit to the
stock Interests than half-dozen weak ones
SIN unity there is strength" or words to
that effect.-Caldwell Post.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

Reports from various ranches in this vi
cinity, Northern Texas and the Panhandle
are to the effect that, although some losses,
stock has sustained comparatively little in
jury from the recent storms. Although
the snow was light, the sleet which preced-
ed it was what played havoc with cattle i'm
grazing. The storm was unquestionably
unusually severe, but the losses are confined
almost entirely to elderly COWS and year.
lings that were in thin flesh at the com.
mencement of winter. Cheyenne Trans.
porter.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

But few ranchmen are here and but little
is heard about trades. Most Western cat
tlemen are in Texas and the Eastern fellows
haven't returned from their holidays,
Hence the lobbies OF the hotels are unllsli--
ally quiet. The only transaction reported
for the past two weeks was the sale Mon
day by Irwin, Allen & Co., of the Murray
q Atkins ranch in Southern Colorado, com:
prising about A 600 cattle, to Pat Corrigan;
of our city, for ssO,OO0.-K. C. Price Cur
rent
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

A German has invented a safe which; I'm
addition to the customary walls and doors
of steel, has an attachment that, on being
touched, Immediately flares an electric light
on the scene, and at the same time uncoyers.
a prepared plate, on which the burglars
photograph is taken while an alarm is
sounded. A pit opens below and the bur-
glar is participated through the floor.
Would any guilty man escape?
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

Troubles indeed do not come singly. When
one of the Star-route thieves concluded to make
q clean breast of all the facts in his possession,
and his evidence was of such character as to
certainly convict most of the conspirators. Mrs.
Vaile, wife of Vale, the partner of Miner, died
suddenly at Independence, Mo. The indica-
tiOns are that she committed suicide. Her hus-
band was in Washington at the time. Whether
1t was suicide or not, the constant worry over
the troubles of her husband was calculated TO
make any sensitive woman mad.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

A man in gaping dislocated his Jaw. /.
A surgeon restored the bone to the prop
er position and made his charge, which
the man thought TOO high and refused to
pay. The surgeon changed the converS
satfon and soon told his best story. The
patient laughed SO heartily that the
bone became again displaced, and the
surgeon reset is after receiving payment
In advance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

Being pressed for his views on liquof
legislation, Ingersoll said: "If the Missis-
Sippi and all its tributaries were filled with
pure whisky, if the banks were loaf sugar;
and all the low grounds covered with mint.
there would be no more drunkenness thar
there is to-day. l believe In the restraining
influences of liberty"
Colonel IngersoIl followed this with a
story about a man who asked another:
"Would you like to live where no one
ever drinks a drop Of liquor?''
"Yes."
"Where everybodyis industrious ?''
"YeS."
"Where everybody goes to church. on
SundayT'
eyes"
"Where no one talks Of his neishborg'
"Yes."
But there is no such place. Such a
place would be Heaven"
"Oh, no; any well regulated penitentiary
is that way"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

The Topeka Commonwealth addressed inqui-
ries to the officials of fall the counties in this
state asking as to the number OF saloons in each
county. Replies were received from 43 coun-
ties, and 600 saloons were reported in these.
Notwithstanding this st. John is lecturing to
eastern 'audiencies on n salary of $1,000 per
month, declaring that prohibition is success
in Kansas. He has told the lie so often that he
now believes it himself
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

1t is reported currently that several large
contracts for cattle were entered into by
cattlemen. in convention at Austin, at SIC
for yearlings and $40 for two-year-olds,
delivered at Dodge City, Kansas. Fifty
thousand head have probably changed
hands.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

The papers are publishing funny story about
Ben Buffers courtship, and why he never mar
ried- He with several other young men were
suing for the hand of the prettiest maid in the
neighborhood. On a certain night she was to
give her answer as to the one she preferred.
The lovers all had to cross a deep brook on a
slick log. Butler went early and with bucket
OF lard thoroughly creased the log. One by
one his rivals attempted TO cross the log, when
down they'd go into the water. Late I'm the
night Ben being the only suitOr present was
given the hand and heart of the fair one He
was elated beyond description, and started
home in his glee and forgetting the creased log,
down he went into the brook. The wetting
gave him chills and fever and when he got wei
the fair one had got tired Of waiting and had
married her fathers hired man. So'Butlor is
still bachelor
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

The boys put up very wicked job on
MIR. A. McClain last Thursday. They in
troduced Dick Phillips, of the Comanehe
Pool, to Mr.. Me as Agent Tufts, and insist
ed upon his Sitting his case to him. 1t was
fun for the boys, but not so very extra fun
ny for Mr.. McClain.-Caldwell Post.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

1t is not exactly dignified for one member of
congress, in debate on the floor, to call another
a "hound" and dirty gutter snipe," as Mr.
Haskell called Mr.. .Townshend yesterday. "False-
hood" and liar appear to be mild expressions
in the opinion of the Kansas member. Globe
Democrat.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

The Texas Stock Association will hold
It's meetings annually on the second Tues
day i'll january in each year. j. F. Miller
was elected president of the association
and Geo. b. Loving, secretary. A consti.
tuition and bylaws was adopted and per-
manent organization effected.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

Miss Susan b. Anthony will be sixty-three
years old in few days, and will celebrate the
anniversary by starting on an extended trip to
Europe. She is one of the few women who
have at all times maintained spOtless name
and under all circumstances displayed good
sound sense in her woman's rights business.
Everywhere she is recognized as woman of
brains, and honest in purpose. She is a sister
of ID. Il. Anthony, of the LefYenworth Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

Col. Winfield Scott of Western Texas,
was offered $5OO,O0O cash for his ranch a
few days ago, but would not accept the
price. He has 200 head of horses and 20,-
OOO cattle on the ranch, and over 10000
acres of mother earth and lots of timber.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

Nearly all the large hotels in the country are
experimenting with fire escapes, since the ter
rible Newha,l eHouse fire at Milwaukee. The
law should require that every public house
more than two stories high be provided with
outside escapes of some description.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

There appears to be no probability of the leg
islature enacting a law that will insure the exc
cution of the death penalty in this state; and
yet something of the kind should be done.
Governor Click had this to say on the subject
in his message:
~The law fixing the death penalty should be
amended As it now stands, iti left discretion
ary with the executive to issue his warrant to
carry out the sentence of the court. No one is
willing TO exercise discretionary power in a
case of life and death, while any executive
would obey the law and issue the warrant in
such cases, were II mandatory. The warrant
then would issue as matter of course, and the
law, and not the executive, would be response
bic for its effects"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

Senator Flick has introduced bill into the
legislature of this state adding to the text books
used in the public schools elementary philoso-
ply and hygiene. Such a measure should not
be encouraged at present in this state. The
pubic schools are generally crowded with schol-
ars willing and anxious to study the ordinary
branches, and to increase the number of text
books will retard the poorer classes. Scholars
desirOus of studying the languages and the
sciences are generally able to attend private
schools and pay for the extras.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

The congressional apportionment bill, which
has passed the lower house of the general as
sembly, places Barbour county in the seventh
district as follows: Mcpherson, Harvey, Sedg-
wick, Sumner, Rice, Reno, Kingman, Harper,
Barton, Stafford, Pratt, Barbour, Rush, Paw
nee, Edwards, Comanche, Ness, Hodgeman,
Ford, Clarke, Lane. Gray, Meade, Scott, Sc
quoyah, Arrapahoe, Seward, Wichita, Kearney,
Grant, Stevens, Greeley, Hamilton, Kansas,
Stanton Population, 142,465. OF the present
delegation in congress, including the fourmem-
bers-at-large, only Anderson and Hanback, are
in the same district
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

Mr.. w. E. Campbell's foreman wrote
him last Thursday that he had seen but
about thirty or forty dead cattle on the
south side Of their range, along the Miller
and Pryor fence, and they were mostly
Barbour county cattle.-Caldwel Post.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23
The Cow For All Purposes.

she's broad in her hips and long in her rump;
straight and Hat back without even hump.
She's wide in her lips and clean in her eyes:
She's fine inher shoulders and thin in her thighs
She's slim in her neck and small in ber tail:
She's wide in the breast and good at the pail;
She's fine in her bone and silky of skin;
A good grazier without and butcher within.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

The meanest man on record is the one
who promised his boy pair of skates If he
would not cry for week, and when the
time was nearly up, and the boy felt GER
tain OF the skates, took him into the shed
and thrashed hiAl.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

Our correspondent, 'Sedwick," from Sedg-
wick, Kansas, writes under date of 18th inst,
that the town is booming, and the surroundings
ditto. Small wooden buildings have given way
to stately bricks and stone, and prosperity is on
every hand
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

member of the legislatu re, Hoffman, of
Franklin county, presented long petition, con-
tanning I1O0 names, the other day, asking for
railroad Legislation. 1t has been discovered
that the petition was one gotten up year ago
to prevent the removal of the court house from
Abilene, and Hoffman substituted different
heading and used the same names for another
purpose. His intentions may have been good,
but it was certainly u small thing for member
10 do
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

"When did George Washington dier'
asked an Austin teacher OF large boy.
as he dead: :" was the astonisbed reply.
"Why, it was not more than six months
ago that they celebrated his birthday, and
now he is dead. It's bad year on child
rem. Ireckon his folks let him eat sotncF
thing tinit didn't agree with him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

A Kansas town that does not believe it is un-
derlaid with coal or oil should not be allowed
to remain on the maps. Nearly everywhere
search is being made for the valuables, and in
some instances with fair prospects of success.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

The Ford County Globe informs its readers
that Indian horses have been dying from some
unknown disease the past twoweeks. One firm
alone has lost twenty horses in one camp.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

The Eldorado Press mentions with great glee
that the first shipment OF stock from that place
to Kansas City over the st. Lonis, TT. Scott and
Wichita railroad was made on Monday last.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

Large quantities of hay have been shipped
into the Platte valley ranges in Nebraska and
those in Wyoming, where the heavy SHOWS
have prevented the cattle from grazing.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

The Missouri, Winfield and Southwestern rail-
road project has met with encouragement and
substantial backing far beyond the most san
quine expectations of its projectors.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

Everything points to another period in Eng
land of live stock contagion. Both foot and
mouth disease and pleuro-pneumonia are ap-
pearing in unexpected places.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

Ice in the Chicaskia went out last week catae-
ing much damage to young timber along the
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

The New Jersey legislature has provided that
nine of jury of twelve shall convict or acquit.
This law will be generally enacted, we imagine.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23
THE BARBOUR COUNTY INDEX
!. W. PAYNE, PR0PRlt IOR.


The Harper Sentinel has changed hands, w.
A. Richards having sold out To U. y. LeabhaTt.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23

There is man at Madison, Indiana; by
the name or O'Donnell, who has a stomach
that must be lined with fire bricks. The
endeavor of Walcott, in New York, to eat
quails has revived "reminiscences of O'Don:
nell's exploits, and they are summarized
rs follows:
In the fall of 1879, on wager, he ate
thirty qnails in thirty consecutive days.
AT a subsequent date he ate, in thirty
consecutive days, double the number of
quails-sixty.
On April 5; 1881, he ate twenty-four
goose-eggs in fifteen minutes and twenty
seconds.
On April 20, 1881, he devoured two mihce
pies in an incredible short time, washing
them down with eight drops of croton oil.
On July 4, 1881, at public celebration
in the park, in twenty minutes by the
watch, he ate cooked goose, weighing
eleven pounds and ten ounces, Including
the stuifing, and then demanded his dinner.
In the fall of 1881, he drank half pint
Of castor oil on wager.
On another occasion, the Scientific Amer
lean having, as O'Donnell says, stated it to
be impossible for a man to cat a dozen oys-:
ters in sugar, he tested the matter, and very
easily got away with three dozen slrgared
oysters at one short sitting.
One day last week, Oh wager, the loser
to pay the bill, he ate five cans OF urtllnes
i'll ten minutes, and asked for more.
oDonnell is Il hale, hearty man, of good
disposition, unmarried, of Irish parentlge;
and If about forty years Of aye. 1t is fort
tinate that Mr.. O'Donuell is unmarried, as
he might wake up some night aud eat up
his wife's corsets, hoop skirts, and other
nonrishing paraphernalia which usually
accompany a fine looking woman.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-02-23
CHURCHES.
POSTAL.

POstOffice at Medicine Lodge open from I A VI
to 9 PM. Sundays one hour on arrival of mail.
Money order office. W. ID. VANSLYKE, Pm.
EMMA NANSLYKE, ASSISTANT.
The Mails:
From Harper and all Eastern points, arrives
daily at p NJ; leaves daily at l0AM
From Sun City, Lake City, Soldier Creek, Red
Creek, Hutchinson. Kingman, Bross, kiowa,
Lodi, arrives Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
days at5PN. Departs Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays at Am.
From Iuka, Elm Mills and Saratoga arrives on
Tuesdays ana Fridays az 3 M and departs on
Wednesdsys and Saturdays at SAM.
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