Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-18

another ssfbst antfsl GrvsS{ng From Kan.
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County Sends q Train Of TWentv-Four
Cars Loaded with Corn and Flour.
Fort SCOTT, KAs, April T.
The Butler County, train bound for
Cincinnati reached this city on time, al
4:30 p. m. yesterday. At three o'cloch
Mr.. ]. W. Miller, Superintendent of the
Wichita Road, accompanied by Mayor
Pearsall, a delegation of citizens and the
Board of Railroad Assessors, WHO are il
the city, boarded special train which
had been provided and went out TO Union.
town, where they met the relief train and
conducted 1t to the city. All along the
line of the road the people turned out and
received the relief train with d perfect
ovation, and when 1t reached the Mis-.
souri, Pacific depot in this city it was re.
ceived by 1000 people. The committee
who will accompany the train to
Cincinnati are: J. II. Pullimander, chair.
man; VIM. Harrison, Walter Holcomb,
j. &. Henrie, j. w. Tucker, Fred Wise,
o. Embrie, T. P. Fulton, j. h. Gardner
and George Gardner. They were enter.
tanned In this city last night and left at
$3.50 this morning, running to jefferson
City to-day, and to st. Louis Tuesday.
The train is composed of twenty -four ca rs
of corn, with 10000 bushels, and one car
of -four, $4,000 pounds, under the charge
of Conductor S. II. Hayden, of the st.
Louis, Ft. Scott and Wichita road. The
entire train is handsomely and appropri-
ately decorated, the notices, cartoons and
sunfowers, representing distress on the
one hand, and the desire to relieve it on
the other. kansas, new, poor, needy
and 'grasshoppered' in 1874; gia mt,
rich, fat and saucy in 1884," is a favor.
lite idea. The car donated by Richard
pyramid Of corn In the center, wide ex-
tended field covered with an immense
number of large shocks of corn, in the
left an elegant farm residence with en-
tensive and well-kept lawn. A large
barn, wind mill, fat stock and evil
dences of prosperity and ease complete
the scene. The inscriptionis: "Richland
Shares Her Abundance With the Distressed
VI OHlO. LIE inscription Oh the
car door Is compliments of Richland
Township" Motto: "May or Pyramid
of Corn Renew Your Hope" On Rich
lands second and third cars - the same
Inscriptions az the above. The car donat-
ed by the tow n of Augusta, Butler Coun-
ty, represents Kansas and Ohio. In the
centre Is q raging river, the "Ohio." An
extraordinary porker, fat, round, with
twenty kinks in his tail, benevolent ex-
preston on his face, and q big ear of
corn in his mouth, is on the left bank OF
the river, labelled "Kansas." a
still more extraordinary pig, lean,
long and with an eXpectant
look on his countenance, is on the
right bank of the river, labeled "Ohio."
Beneath all is the title: "Ere's to Yer"
Augusta sends three cars, all with suita-
BILE inscriptions and notices. These are
fair specimens of the decorations, each
one of the cars being similarly dressed.
The notices and cartoons described are
painted on canvas and attached to the
sides of the cars, entirely covering them.
The whole is magnificent monument of
Kansas plenty, Kansas gratitude, Kansas
liberality and enterprise.