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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

The Ossawotofnie Insane asylum is to
be investigated, or rather the charges
that are made against the superintend-
ent and the stewart. The board of di-
rectOrs were to have commencedproceed-
ings this week. A Kansas City Times
reporter had a talk with Mr.. Martin.
one member of the board lately, and
from his account, matters at that insti-
tuition have been conducted regardless of
law or decency. The outrages and hor-
rors committed there places it upon an
equal footing with the famous Tewks-
bury of Massachusetts,. Seandalous
treatment do the unfortunate beings
receive, who are confined there. 1t ap-
pears to be no uncommon thing for a
subordinate in the asylum to go through
and knock the patients right and left.
The board has letters in its possession
from young man who was confined
at the asylum, in which he speaks of
witnessing some of the most brutal and
audacious acts imaginable for atten-
dents to perpetrate upon poor, helpless
men and women, who have been de-
throwned of their reason, and shut in
pen OF misery to be treated with tender
care and mercy. He says that he fire.
quently saw lunatics knocked down and
kicked in the ribs like dogs, yet DIR.
Knapp permits the outrages to 20 OH
without interference. OF this and let
ting his son have the dead bodies of
those who die at the asylum to cut up,
is he charged. The accusations against
Smith are that he has been making DO
litical capital at the expense of the
state by feeding whole mass meetings;
keeping whisky on hand about election
times, with which to soak the men that
work about the asylum, 80 as to control
their votes, and keeping his family at
the expense of the state. These are a
few of the charges. The board 10 net
decided as yet whether it will take up
DIR. Knapp's case at this meeting or let
it go over until more favorable time.
1t has no money to pay witnesses, and
cannot compel them to attend withoi
pay, though a great many have signiged
their willingness to do 30. The affair
promises to develop nasty state Of af-
fairs at OSsawotomie.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08
The Cowboys Future.

In some parts of Texas there appears
to be some fear that the extensive fenc-
ing of stock ranches will bring about
trouble with the cowboys, whose occu-
patton is thereby threatened with almost
annihilation. They are already report
ed to be cutting the fences already
built, and putting up threatening no
tices. The question of what will be-
come Of the large number of COWBOYS
likely soon to lose their employment is
not devoid Of interest by any means.
As general thing they were bred to
their work; knowing nothing else, and
their peculiar mode of life has totally
untitled them for the ordinary occupa-
tions Of life. They are without educa-
tion and have strong dislike for man
ual labor other than on the back of a
cow-pony. Whether they can be brought
to assimilate with the tastes and occu-
pations of the people In general is a
very important question just now, for
without doubt it will soon have to be
met by actual test. WheA their occu-
patton on the prairies is gone-the only
occupation they have ever had, what
will they then do? Where viii they
go? Too many of them have had no
moral training whatever. They are too
much prone to boast of deeds Of devil
and desperation, and fears that cow
boys banditti will follow the loss OF
their present occupation are not un.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08
That eettlss II.

A negro entered village store in AL.
ALBANIA and asked to look at some coats.
The only one which suited him was
worth about s., but for which the deal
er asked $l4.
iii give you So, said the negro.
my frent, you must pc Crazy. Dot
goat is wort more as ask"
I'll say nine, boss.n
"Shust as gravy as pefore."
1T haint much of a coat" remarked
Sambo, as he looked it over.
'Vell, don't prag about der cloth or
der color, or der making, but What you
sphose happens to de plack mans who
puys der mate of dot goat? Dot ish
vhot I look at
"Did he die wild do yaIIer feber,
boss ?''
Not muchf Dot goat fit him 80 nice
and make him look SO shenteel dot he
runs away NIT my cousin Sarah. und
gifts her $1,000. I haf shust one more
cousin left
well, boss, I guess IN take it, re.
Piled Sambo, and he got into il and
took walk around town to let the
cousin look him over.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08
RiQnk Tar

Il. Is. Adair, a veterinary surgeon.
who has been imparting valuable infor-
nation through the columns of the
Kansas City Live Stock Indicator, last
week published an interesting article
on Black Leg, from which we make the
following extract:
"CAUsEs.-Late investigations have
thrown much light on this subject; by
the help of the microscope the influences
ct pastures and forage affected with
parasitic organisms have been recogniz1
ed. Formerly their minuteness, how
ever, and the difficulty of determining
the exact agents and their modes of in
PRODUCTION into the animal economy,
left the whole matter in a state of fdoubt
and speculation. Until recently il was
thought that these diseases arose from
too rich diet, by which means the
blood was so charged with nutritive
matter that the digestive fanetiens be-
came impaired and septic action set
up in that fluid. 1t is now known.
however, that these changes are entire
ly due to the presence in the blood of a
parasitic organism termed the bacillus
anthracis, which, acting upon the or
ganic constituents of the blood, impairs
and destroys its vitality.
TREATMENT has been very unsatis-
factory, and in the majority of cases is
of very little use. Venisection is use
full in the very first stages only, and fol-
lowed by saline purgative. Antisep-
tics are called for in this disease; ascid-
icum carb. and salicylic are very useful.
Incisions should be freely made into the
affected part, followed by lamentations
medicated with little ammonia. If
the case proceeds favorably the treat
ment should be followed up by stimu-
lants and tonics; the diet must be nour-
ishing, but not too rich, such as Cruel,
linseed tea and sloppy glashes.
PREyENTION.-In case of an outbreak
in herd, benefit has been derived from
bleeding the healthy animals, or insert
ing seton in the dewlap and adminis-
tering laxative and Alternative. Change
to a high pasture and allow them 60
drink only pure water; give salt regu-
lar, and to keep the blood in proper
consistency. Prof. Williams recon-
mends potassium chlorata, three drams
three times dayn
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

d. w. Wilder publishes the most
graphic description of tornado that
we have seen in print. We give it to
our readers:
The tornado, like death, visits all.
There is probably not county in KaL-
sas or western Missouri that has not
been visited by a tornado during the last
thirty years-many of them many times,
Kansas City has been visited before, and
so has st. Joseph. Our own memory
and the files of the newspapers we have
published are very thickly studded with
these visitations.
1t is cold northwest wind meeting a
hot south wind. There is moment, a
half-hour, of sultry silence, of sitting
air. All the winds of the heavens are
in that meeting; Gagged moment, ,strug-
Cling for the mastery. Neither wins;
the result is a compromise; new birth,
one of natures most hellish monsters,
the tornado. The violent winds, from
opposite directions, and of antagonistic
temperature, clutched each others
throats in death grapple. And they
withholding on earth whirls with
such internal velocity. The friction
gives birth to electricity. And now the
monster is fully made and armed. The
northwest and southern currents are
conquered, and the resultant compro-
mise travels northeast. The whirl is a
funnel or an elephants trunk in form,
and its path over the earth is at the
rate of so miles an hour-the funnel gy-
rating a million times second. Sci
ence is not there to count the reyolu-
tions; only to die if it touches the Cor
gon.
From the southwest at four p. m. it
travels northwest till six or seven and
then dies. 1t has left track quarter
of mile wide over which it has scat
tered ruin and devastation, bounding
like a rubber ball, thearing up trees by
the roots, breaking giant trunks like
pipe stems, making house a splinter
in an instant, stripping clothing from
men and feathers from fowls, drinking
up wells and streams. If the Greeks
had known this monster, they would
have put him at the head Of their heroes
Of hell.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08


reasonableto those acquainted with the
general character of this class of men.
Or course these remarks refer only to
the wild and woody" breed; we can
find gentlemen and good citizens among
the cowboys SIS well as among any 9TH
er class; but it cannot be denied that
there is very large number of men
among the cowboys of Texas who ara
desperate characters and restrained
from deeds of lawlessnes only by an oc-
cupation that furnishes them living
while almost free from restraint. What
is to be the fate Of this class when the
fenced ranches render their service no
longer necessity The question is
one well worth pondering.-San Antons
10 Express.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

dred thousand head of beef cattle to be
shipped to market over the Santa Fe
road between here and the western state
line; 100000 head Of through cattle,
most of which will change hands at this
place; 5000 head of horse stock that
will test this market and get caught;
100000 worth of bscoded bulls for our
stock ranches south of us, for the year
1888; better class of stock cattle all
round; prices maintained on range cat
tie, beef cattle remain firm and the sup
ply scarcely equaliug the demand.-The
Dodge City Globe.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

An accident occurred on the Brook
lyn bridge last week by which twenty
persons were killed. The walk for foot
passengers is entirely too narrow for
the thousands that go over that struct-
ure. A jam occurred Thursday after
noon and the crowd thinking the
bridge was falling rushed for the New
York side, trampling under foot hun
dreds of people, and throwing many to
the paved roadway below, killing them.
Twenty men were killed in the con-
struction of this bridge.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

The Sedalia, Mo-, Democrat wants
Frank James pardoned, and makes its
wish in this pretty piece of word paint
ing. 1.-The time has now arrived when
amnesty should be granted; when the
white winged dove of peace should fly
across thetroubled waters and proclaim
landing place for the bitter memories
of the past. Everybody has been for
given and forgotten except Frank
James, who has come at last to seek
rest within the confines of a magnani-
nous commonwealth, trusting all to
the honor and honesty of people for
whom he has ten thousand times i'm
periled his life.''
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

Recent returns from the range indi-
cate that the average loss of cattle in
the past year has been 81 per cent,
against 4 per cent in the rrecee ling
winter; gain in value $3.50 per head; calf
crop, considerably larger; amount of
beeves shipped, about the same as last
year; general average condition of range
not so good as last year; condition of
cattle, not so good as last year; per cent
of improved bulls in use, 81 against AZ
year ago. The losses of the past winter
have fallen chiefly upon old COWS and
heifers calving, and upon young stock.
There is no prevalent disease on the
range.-Breeders Gazette.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

An eastern nihilist has noticed that
only the wealthy and prosperous people
smoke cigarettes, and this is the
class the nihilists are for destroying.
He proposes to load the cigarettes with
explosives and thus gat clear of large
portion an Objectionable population.
As the proceeding will catch the great
army of dudes we hope the discover
er will not be prevented from carrying
out his ideas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

The woods are full of chaps wanting
range on the Cherokee Strip, now that
it is settled that the Stock Association
have secured lease. Previous thereto
they were almost afraid to look at the
Strip for fear that they might lose a
dollar. The men who had the nerve to
put i'll the time, money and labor in or
der to straighten out matters on the
Strip, can afford to sit back and watch
the worry Of the sadly left timid ones.-
Caldwell Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

In modern Egypt man is not per-
mitted to see his wife's face before mar
riage. This is rather rough on the
young man, but it prevents the news
papers of Egypt from making jokes
about the girl enticing him into an ice
cream saloon and bankrupting him at
the first round.-NOrristown Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

Wednesday afternoon about O'Clock
II. w. uolcomb who is holding large
flock OF sheep 10 miles north of this
place on Sand Creek, was shot through
the back by Scott Briley stockman
who lives in the same neighborhood-
Dodge City Globe.
And all this time we thought that
this affair occurred near Medicine
Lodge. 1t does not require much
trouble to give credit to even small
item, Mr.. Globe.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

Last Friday raid was made by the
city marshal of Wichita on the six
gambling places in that city, and the
inmates were arrested and put in Jail.
The city authorities say they are de-
termined to to prosecute gamblers to
the full extent of the law.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

John Pratt, of Chase county, Kansas,
has COW that bids fair to rival the ia
nous kansas Queen" in height and
weight. She is three years old weighs
1850 pounds and is still growing. She
is at present on the farm of o. C. Pratt,
of South Fork.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

There is nothing mean nor slow about
this country in the way of honoring po-
cts. Ninety years after the death of a
poet, we give him big funeral. 1t is a
wonder that more people do not become
professional poets.-7Norristown Her
aid
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

Mr.. I. w. Hagsdale, of Paris, Mo-,
writes us that Shelbina, No.. party
has contracted to delived to VIM. Swan,
Of Cheyenne, 5000 graded Shorthorn
heifers and bulls.-Live Stock Record.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

The estate OF Maj. Conkle, the we'll
known cattleman who died few weeks
ago, is valued at S25O,OOO, and all this
ne made in less than ten years in the
stock business,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

According to the returns of the town.
ship assessors, Kansas dogs are decreas-
ing in numbers; but increasing in wick
edness. The sheep killed every year
are more valuable.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

Silver was discovered in Colorado in
1854, and in 1882 its product was SIS ,OOO,-
600. Wheat and corn were first raised
in Kansas in 1855, and in 1882 its wheat
and corn product was worth S65. .OOO. 900
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08
BARBER COUNTY INDEX.

An Right Page. Eight Column paper. devoted
70 ne Interests q Medicine Lodge aud the
soutpwest The largest paper Published in
Nansas. largest circulation Of any papers 10
the southvest. II Offers unsurpassed facilities
20 advertisers. ami gives subscribers more -
loct ruadlnE matter than any paper published
In Knnaaa
Subscription price. saOO per year In advance.
Aadreas All letters ~
Ew. PATSE.
Medicine Lodge, Ka.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

A late writer speaks of James Bu-
chanan, once President of the United
States, as "a methodist with little
M"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

MEDICINE LODGE. BARBER CO, KANSAS JUNE 8, 1888
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Mountain Lions have been causing
considerable trouble on stock ranches
in Colorado.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

The stockmen are arriving in this city,
and horse and cow talk is quite COM
mon. John Blocker passed through
for Wyoming, with $500 head Of cattle
ON Sunday last. R. NJ. Wright has
added lot of fine Polled Angus bulls
to his herd. Two of the bulls are of
imported stock. Capt. j. T. Lytle has
received encouraging reports from elev-
en- herds of cattle he now has on the
trail. So far they have found all the
grass and water necessary and will go
through to their destination in good
shape, in fact in better shape than for
several years past.-Dodge City Times.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08
BARBER COUNTY INDEX.
Adyertising Kates

Every day we receive proposals for advertise
ing spare from patent medicine men, sewing
machine companies, book publishers adverfis@
ing agents. etc. To NIL such we will say: The
space in this paper can be filed with home nd
vertseineflts at good prices. We have a rood
We have no foreign ads In the paper and don't
care TO have unless they pay in Cash our rerular
rates. These are:
column, tour iocasion,, per year. s1.soo
:, :. l52U
Anrcadins notices 10 cents per line EACH I'M M
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08
cHURcHEs
POSTAL

Po-tOfnce at Medicine Lodge open from A
20 = IN. sundays one hour Ou arrival ~ mail.
Money orior Ofhco. w.D VANSLVKE PM
ENNA VANSLYEE. ASSISTANT.
The Mails:
From Harper and all Enatern points arrives
daily d3FN n; lysye- daily nc 10 0AM
from sun city, Lake city, soldier Creek, He'd
Creek, Hutchinson, kinrmnn, RrJss, kiowa
Lodi, arrives Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri
daysm5rN. DcpartsTuc-siay-, Thur-'lays and
saturdays HtHAN.
From luka Elm Mills and Snrntoun arrives ON
Tuesdays aud Fridays ats FN aud departs ON
Wednesdays and Saturdays at sam.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

The Chicago syndicate which is to re-
ceive 100000 acres of choice lands for
building 81, 100000 state house at Aus
tin, Texas, consists of j. V. Farwell,
Hon. G. B. Farwell and Taylor Babcock
the last named living at Canton, Ill, and
is now in Austin experimenting the
building of the first story. Mr.. Farwel
says it will be finished in five years.
They will fence their tract this season,
if possible, and stock it at once with
Texas cattle. They are going to use
Hereford and Polled Angus bulls. A
party of Englishmen recently offered
$4,000, 900 in fencing and cattle against
the land. If this arrangement is made
the enterprise will be the largest of the
kind in the world.-Drovers' Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

The Fort Worth Live Stock Journal
of last week had the following items:
On the 25th, Ike Cloud will ship from
this city 5000 head of cattle, purchas-
ed from the Devices Bros 4. Mr.. Tom
O'Connor, it is said, failed in the num-
Der of cattle he had contracted, 1900
to Snyder Bros. He fell short some l.
400, the disagreement being on ages.
Mr.. O'Connor claims that he has fulfill
ed his promises. :. The parties who re-
Gently went to Mexico and purchased
10000 head of cattle, but who refused
to receive them on account of a duty of
$3.50 per head being put on them, are
said to be negotiating with Capt Rich
ard King for the purchase of &c, 600 ones
and twos. :. Cattle are selling in Bee
county as follows: Cows and calves; S35;
yearlings, So, and two-year-olds, ,S14. :.
John Farrar, of Ennis, sold this week
to Capt. Reed, of this city, 2,1OO head
of mixed cattle at S19 per head.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-06-08

Many New Mexico stockmen are
greatly prejudieed against improved
bulls, but it is because they have been
deceived in many cased by designing
spectators who have sold to them
'bottomless" fine stock, which could
not stand the climate. 1t is safe to
predict, however, that the day will come
when New Mexico will have many fine
stock ranches, where grade and thor
oughbred animals will be raised at
home.
Cattle scattered badly the past win
ter, which may have given raise to the
unfortunate reports that losses had
been more than usually heavy. AS the
roundups proceed, all the Panhandle
stockmen are expressing themselves as
most agreeably surprised at the light
losses, which are said by all to be below
the average. Even with herds brought
in late in the season and not in the best
of condition, the owners are having
good luck beyond their expectations.
There is lots of work in gathering the
scattered herds, but the cattle are on
the turf. 4Panhandle.
T. J. Pierce, of Emporia, who is es-
tablishing himself in the stock business
on the Cimarron, shipped from Emporia
eight hundred head of good, improved
stock which he started for his ranch the
last of the week
j. NJ Day informs us that he has Sc
cured lease Of 30O, 900 acres of land in
the Indian Territory Immediately south
of his range in old Clark county, now a
part of Ford. This gives Mr.. Day one
of the finest ranches in the west.
Frank Bernard, Of Cole county. N.
NJ, was in the city Saturday, and i'm
formed us that he would have 1900
head of Southern Colorado and North
ern New Mexico Sheep on this market
soon. His sheep are near Coolidge now.
He win bring them to Cimarron and
shear them, after which he will put them
on the market.
"What viii the harvest be?'' is the
general inquiry among stock and ranch
men, We answer, the largest calf crop
ever branded In this section; one hun.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-10
How News Ia Mada

New YORK, Nov. 9.-The Central News
association, London, is correspondent for
so-called news association here. In stat
ing his view of the far expansion of dis
patches, the manager of the central news
said: "We send points of intelligence in
twenty words, of which the American ps-
pers make two columns" The Herald
correspondent adds: ''The spectators re-
ceived this with loud laug hter and enjoyed
the assurance of the juvenile sub-editor.
who said he filed up ali foreign dispatches
from reference to books, documents, tele-
grams and personal knowledge.
T. x. Scoonmaker, who makes
up some of the cables from
dispatches sent here by the central news
association, was asked if he was the party
who ''pads out" dispatches spoken of. He
answered "cables here received were not
padded to the extent testified to by
Mr.. Saunders in London, but were filed
out to some extent.' The whole business
attracts attention here of the reputable
and responsible makers of newspapers.