Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-09
Hsw a Mining stampede Breaks Ont.


Dear reader, shall 1 give you few
symptoms of the mining epidemic in
mountain towns? All right. 1 win
anyhow!
Symptom LA long-haired man is
seen pounding up piece of quartz
about the size Of mans hand.
Symptom 1.-Two men meander ND
to him, and ask him where he got it
Symptom 3.--The long-haired man
looks down into the mortar, and lies
gently to inquiring minds who linger
near.
Symptom 4.-More men come around.
The long-haired man gets n gold-pan
and doubles himself up over the ditch
and begins 10 pan.
Symptom 5.-Two hundred more men
come out of saloons and other mercan-
tile establishments and Join the throng.
Symptom 6.-The long-haired man
gets down to black sand, and shows
several colors about the size of q blue
jays ear.
symptom z times.-Several solitary
horsemen start out, with some pack
mules. and blank location notices and
valley tan. The plot deepens. The
telegraph gets red-hot. Men who have
been impccunious, for 10, these many
years, come around to pay some old
bills. Poor men buy spotted dogs and
gold-headed canes. Stingy men get
reckless, snd buy the first box OF straw
berries without asking the price.
have caught the epidemic myself.
l am getting reckless. Instead of
turning my last summer lavender pants
hind side before, and removing the ham
sandwich Autographs from the front
breaths, have purchased a new pair.
i never experienced such a wild, glad
feeling o. perfect abandon.
L go to church and chip in for the
heather. perfectly regardless of ex-
pense. Ii Zion languishes, come for
ward and throw in the small currency
with lavish hand.
Banks, Offices, hotels, saloons and
private residences show specimens of
quartz carrying free gold and carbon
ates, hard, soft, and medium soft, with
iron protoxide of nitrogen, rhom-
bohedral glucose indications of vale
dictory and free milling oxide of anti
fat in abundance.
Nellis, who lives near the Mill Greek
carbonate claims, came into town the
other day to get an Injunction against
the miners, so that he could injunct
them from prospecting in his cellar,
and stalking his pie-plant bed
When he goes out after dark to drive
the COWS out of his turnip-patch he falls
over a stake every little while. with n
notice tackled on it, which sets forth
that the undersigned, viz, Johnny
Comelately, Joe Newbegin. Shoe Fly
Smith and Union Forever Dandelion
claim one thousand five hundred feet in
length by six hundred feet in width for
mineral purposes on this claim, To be
known as THE Gal with the Skim-Milk
Eye" together with all dips, spurs, al
gies or variations, gold, silver or 9th 81
precious metals therein contained.
Mr.. Nellis says ne is glad to see a
'boom," and at first he did all he could
to make it pleasant for prospectors; but
lately he thinks that their sociabi.ity
has become too earnest and too stimuli
taneous.
totd him the only way / could see
to avoid losing his grip, and having bis
string-beans dug up prcmaturely, was
to- STAKE the entire ranch as a placer
Claim. buy him a Calling gun that
would shoot the large size of buckshot,
and then trust to the mysterious move
ments of an overruling Providence.
do not know whether he took nv
advice or not, but am looking anxious
ly along the Mill Greek road every day
for a six-mulo team loaded with disor-
ganized remains. and driven by man
who looks rs though he had glutted his
vengeance. and had two or thrae gluts
left over Oh his hands.-BM Me-.