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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08
Kansas Dav.

This is the twenty third anniversary
of the admission of Kansas into the
Union as state. AS we recede further
from the event it seems to loom up lar.
ger in the past, and the anniversary be.
comes a greater day-the school chill
dren of the state have agreed to call il
'Kansas Day."
Kansas to-day is not unlike young
man of twenty-three. The squallinp
period of infancy is for him long past
raw, awkward and pugnacious boyhood
full of mishaps and bloody noses is
over; some Illusions have been dissipat.
ed, a good many facts learned: and al
twenty-three he stands fairly on the
threshold of active and prosperous man.
hood.
Kansas has gained every year since
the rebellion closed, but most she has
gained since 1874, the last year of those
visltatiOns supposed to be peculiar to
her. That year, drouth, grasshoppers.
and laid missionaries did their worst.
and a new leaf was turned. All the
pages since then have been written in
gold.
Nobody has any fears for Kansas now.
People talk about Kansas as they do
about Pennsylvania or Ohio. The
'scare" period, with its procession of
coat tails turned to the setting sun, has
forever passed away. We move that a
committee be appointed to arrange for
celebrating in style the Kansas quarter
centennial.-Atchison Champion.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08


Mr.. J. S. Halves, importer and breed
er of Hereford cattle, Colony, Kansas.
writes: MY herd now number about
l75 head, of which 100 head are breeding
COWS and heifers, Since the Kansas
City fat stock show 1 have sold to par
ties in Missouri, Kansas and Texas fif-
ty-two head. My heifer Nettie, which
won first premium as best calf of any
breed at this show, has made over p
pounds per day since. She also won
first premium at st. Louis fair. Think
she will be heard from as a yearling.
Stock all doing well. 1 shall have ten
calves dropped by Grove 4th, by Grove
Sd, in March, and about thirty more in
1884. My show bull Fortune is doing
splendid service, and shall have a
large number of calves by him this sea-
son.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08


y Colorado correspondent of the Kan
sas City Indicator is opposed to crowd
ing the country, and says: The Colo
RADIO local papers are still printing ''esti-
mates" showing how from 80 to 100 per
cent. per annum can be made either
from cattle or sheep, while the owner
stops in town and is having good time.
The Colorado local papers know less
about the country they live in-its needs
and wants and resources, and less about
the requirements and interests of their
subscribers who live on the ranches
than they know of spelling and syntax,
and that is little enough. They are
never tired of telling what splendid
field" we have here for new beginners
in the stock business, while every stock
man knows there is hardly room for
these who are here now, and who have
already invested their means.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

The Indians in the western part of
the Territory used to go to the COW
camps and ask for beef, which in most
cases they would obtain and kill. Then
they would go over the hills and add a
few more carcasses to their supply of
fresh beef. They have changed the or
der of things in the Washita country
now, so far as the little formality at
the beginning is concerned, and don't
care who knows they have fresh beef.
The grass leases are giving poor Lo new
ideas of Importance, and an insatiate
canine appetite gives his belly misery.
Texas Panhandle.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08


New York letter: l see, by the way,
that one of General Grants sons, Ulys-
ses, jr,, has been getting a Sl5O,OOO
house. The one the head of the family
occupied cost $4,000. Soon after Jes-
Sc Grant married the daughter of ex-
Senator Chaffee he received his father
in-law's house, worth about So, 600.
Whether Fred Grant has house of his
own or not, l can't at the moment say.
But the Grants have certainly done well
in New York. No other family has
done SO well in so short time. Both
financially and socially they are very
near the top. TwO-thirds of the social
leaders think it very great honor to
have any of the Grants at dinner or
a reception. and possibly it's. Anyway,
the lustre of the name goes very far.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

Mr.. James III. Owens, of Oxford, this
county, has new method of currying
his fine Shorthon cattle. He takes a
handful of salt and rubs it along their
backs, necks, OH their ears and fore
heads. Then general ''lick" all round
Will begin, and in few minutes ca, h
and every ANIMAL in the lot has had a
first class currying and no time or labor
lost to the owner. Besides this the brine
from the salt removes all insects and
leaves the skin as clean and free from
scruff as can be, and the hair shining
like Silk.-CaldWell Journal.
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From Petticoats 70 Pants.

Last week at Martinsburg, w. Va,
two people were married. Rev. John
Lanstreet, formerly chaplain of 'Jeb"
Stuart's confederate regiment of cavel-
ry, performed the ceremony. There was
nothing peculiar about the affair, ex-
cept that both parties to the contracts
had been known for thirty-five years as
respectable women in that vicinity.
The groom, if such name be applicable
to the leading spirit i'm the transaction,
has been known for ten years in Mar
tinsburg as a woman of correct habits,
modest demeanor, and marked intelli-
gence and refinement. His, or her name
is Jane Catherine Payne. During ten
years referred to Jane Catherine kept a
little store in Rest, on the Winchester
pike. There is no better family in that
region than the Payne's. The mother
was left widow in comfortable circum-
stances some years since and married
again, but subsequently separated from
her second husband, and she now lives
on one of the best farms in Frederick
county, Virginia, near the town of Rest,
before mentioned. She brought up sew
Ell children successfully, four of whom
married prosperous farmers i'm the
neighborhood. Another lives at this
time with her mother. Still another
conducts fourishing school for young
women near her mothers home, and
the remaining, Jane Catherine, who
from childhood evinced remarkable bu-
siness talent, has, from the time of hel
attaining years of maturity, been en-
gagged in commercial pursuits. No one
in that vicinity was more favorably
known than the last mentioned woman,
living quietly and attending closely to
business, so that her neighbors gradual
ly came to look upon the proprietress OF
the little store as an old man. Judge
therefore, of their astonishment when
on last Tuesday, Jane Catherine appear
ed in Martinsburg, boldly announced
her conversion from the gentler to ster-
ner sex, purchased and arrayed herself
in suit of masculine hablliments, in
Guiding a silk hat and pair of red top
ped boots, and followed the performance
by stating her intention to marry Miss
Annie Hinton, a lady who for years had
been her associate in the town of Rest.
In the explanation furnished some stat
ed that there had not been any occasion
to doubt her femininity until about a
fortnight since when she was led to
visit Drs. McGuire and Love at Win
chester. These gentlemen performed a
simple and painless operation, and an
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

nounced to the patient that there could
be no doubt as to the perfect masculin-
lty !; and that the ignoramus who SUPER
intended Jane GATHERINGS advent into
the world deserved to be prosecut-
ed for the dense stupidity which
brought about her subsequent wearing
OF petticoats instead of trousers. Arm
ed with this information, Jane Gather
Inc lost no time in carrying out the pro-
gram before mentioned. The license
issued for the ceremony was made out
in the name of Jane Catherine Payne,
it being j. C.'s intention to have his
feminine name Jane" changed TO a
more suitable name of John as soon as
an act of the legislature can be procured
for the purpose. OF course, the COM
munity in which this startling metam-
orphosis occurred, is considerably stir
red up over the event, but there is no
doubt as to the facts stated, as no one
questions the purity and sincerity of the
parties to the matrimonial contract.
There are no more reputable physi-
clans in the valley of Virginia than the
medical gentlemen credited with the
emancipation of Jane Catherine from
Petticoats. DIR. Mcclure is widely
known as skillful surgeon, and DIR.
Love, the other physician, is a son-in-
law of Charles James Faulkner, and a
highly esteemed physician and gentle
man. The parties who were to-day
Joined together in matrimony, not only
have been associated in business, but
have lived together for years in the clos
est social intimacy, walking, eating,
and sleeping together without the slight
est suspicion of their belonging to oppo.
site sexes. Some indignation was at
first expressed among the neighbors
over the late discovery.
AS these people, 80 strangely brought
together, stood at the altar to-day,
Jane Catherine presented somewhat
manly and determined appearance. His
hair was cut and closely trimmed, and
his radiant countenance, guiltless of
moustache or whiskers, looked positive
ly handsome in comparison with that of
his bride, who is apparently two or
three years older and hardly as prepos-
sessing in personal appearance as her
companion. The newly welded pair
will, after short visit among friends
and relatives, settle down in their for
mer home, and it is hoped will enjoy
present happiness indefinitely, while at
the same time continuing the present
striking illustration of the proverb that
truth is stranger than fction.-Wash-
| ingtOn Republican.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

All the boys we have been able to in
terview on the subject of the wintry
spell the fore part of the month, agree
in saying it was very slight on the cat
tie. There was no drifting in any of
the neighboring ranges worthy of note,
and although some of them look little
drawn, all are still in good fix, content
ed and thriving. Good beef, fat and
juicy, is still in abundance all over the
Panhandle, The coming spring must
be hard one indeed to make the losses
to ranchmen come any where near the
average.-Texas Panhandle.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08
The Saloon Business.

We have about come to the conclusion
from observation, that large majority
OF the saloon prosecutions are caused
not so much by the zeal of the prohibi-
tionists, but are forced upon the public
by the grasping and order defyingscon-
duct of the liquor sellers themselves. In
many communities containing strong
temperance element, there seems to be
no disposition to interfere with the vio-
lations of the law, to a certain extent :
but the average liquor seller, as soon as
he feels his footing secure, seems to be
unable TO restrain himself, but runs to
the utmost extreme. AS long as man
has money they will sell him liquor. re-
gardless of his being habitual drunk
ard, or a minor, or one whose friends
have given notice to sell no liquor to.
Disorder prevails, the peace is disturb
ed, and drunken men reel through the
streets. Boys are found acquiring bad
habits and in many towns some of the
brightest men are dropping off from the
effects of drink. These things are
enough to arouse community, and if
saloon must become den of discord
or trap for robbery, the saloon will
have to go. Even persons who opposed
prohibition, and advocated license and
regulation of saloons are left without
an argument. The liquor sellers, by
their defiance of all law and regulation
deprive those who would be their friends
OF all power to help them. We believe
that liquor selling could be carried on in
large majority of towns in Kansas
without interference if the men engag-
ed in it tried to be half way orderly and
decent.-Troy Chief.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08
A Mula Rannh

The raising of horses and mules in the
west, especially in Western Missouri
and Kansas, has received quite stimu-
lus of late. AS there are stockmen who
desire to be informed as to the cost and
probable profits of raising mules, the In
dicator has gathered Trustworthy infor-
nation OIL the subject, which it presents
below -.
A first-class jack, guaranteed in every
particular, ranges in value from 81 200
to 81 500.
Texas mares, if good, are better for
this purpose than any other stock that
can be purchased for the money.
First-class Texas mares cost SOS to
SIS each.
Good yearling mules can be sold at
about $65; two-year-olds, $S5 to 500 /;
three-year-olds, 500 to SIPS. The ami
mails must be really good ones to bring
these prices.
The expense of raising mule is about
one-third of what it costs to raise
steer. The same capital judiciously
used in raising mu es may be made to
pay twice what it would have done il
invested i'm cattle.
From 100 to $50 mares will make q
very fair start, but with larger num-
Der, the profits will be nearly in proper
ton.
One jack to 40 mares is about the
usual proportion.
The abeve facts furnish the principal
information required by those who con-
template engaging in the business. and
were furnished by those who contem-
plate engaging in the business, and were
furnished by those who claim that the
figures are within bounds. There is
nothing like experience in any business
and the raising of mules Is no excep-
ton. One thing is certain, the demand
for mules is yearly increasing in the
west, and that mule will not cost as
much to raise as steer, while a three
year-old mule will generally be worth
more than three-year-old steer.-Kan-
sas City Indicator.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

Kansas City Times: They had a ball
down in Nickerson, Kansas, the other
night, and the Argosy man was there,
Says he The 1.-THE form of little Mrs.
Con was clothed in tiara of auburn
curls which fell over her slOping shoul-
ders i'll a manner most bewildering to
behold. Her eyes reminded one of dia-
mond springs sparkling in the shade of
whispering willows. She was decidedly
the finest type of beauty present" 1t
would appear to be not uncommon
thing for the hardy young ladies of
NickersOn to go prancing about in JAN,
clothed i'm tiara.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

Judge Amos Harris was drawn into a
discussion of the prohibition question
the other day, and the fellow who start
ed the old gentleman has found that he
writes with pointed pen. We extract
few paragraphs from the letter. The
language is undoubtedly from our old
democratic friend:
II protest that the people can no more
be legislated into morality and temper
ance than they can into religion, and
that the principal of prohibition, as a
fundamental principle of legislation is
born of the same malevolent, dogmati-
cafintolerance as were the behests of
Cromwell and his puritanical round
heads that made the taking of the sac
rament, evidence of the qualifications
for official position.
At the restoration many of the adher-
ents of Cromwell found homes in the
wilds of New England, and carried with
them to their American homes the aus
terity of morals and piety that made
possible the restoration of Charles III
with all his vices. Hence the blue laws
of New England, that fined man who
failed to attend church, or kissed his
wife on Sunday. But the aesthetic mo-
ralist, who is the magazine for the mo-
rails of the whole community, is shock
ed at the copartnership in crime be-
tween the government and people, when
by legal regulation, rules are prescribed
that control abuse, and leaYe the citizen
of proper habits to control himself.
''I}ut these questions do not necessar-
lily come into the controversy with which
the people of the state at present have
to do. The meager plurality by which
prohibition became part of the con-
stitution with so large number of the
people voting at the election failing to
vote for or against left it problemat-
ical rs to the sentiment of the majori-
ty."
The election of Click as governor,
was square and emphatic instruction
for resubmission- The last legislature
cowardly lodged the question. But the
damned spot VIII not out until that
question has been fully and fairly met. =
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

Two or three train loads of the eleven
hundred bulls, of which mention was
made few weeks since, have arrived in
this city, and the remainder are on the
way. Very extensive corrals, forty or
fifty in number, which are provided
with sheds, racks, feed troughs and
water tanks have been built, and hun
dreds of tons of hay and thousands of
bushels of corn stacked up. Eleven hum
dred Shorthorn bulls in one lot are a
good many bulls Wichita Eaple.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08
NO. IS

Payne in the convention. In Pennsyl-
vania where the Standard Oil company
has most of its interests are said to be
still better fixed than in New York.
Most of the democratic leaders and
members Of congress are said to be in
the field to secure Payne delegation to
the convention, and they say that they
would insure the democrats that state
with all the cooperation of corpora
tions in it. Ex-senator Wallace and
ex-Speaker Randall are put down as
looking on Payne as Il re strongest man.
With these leading states thus secured
the comblnatisn will look after the
south and west, and then claim that
Payne is the coming man.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

Tom McNeal, of the Medicine Lodge
Cresset and party of new cow men
were in the city yesterday en- route to
the old Brisbin ranch on the Cimarron.
w. W. Cook, the livestock broker, of
the same city, and Rye Van Slyke also
were in the city. Tom McNeal and
party will have picnic or two and per-
haps three before they return from the
b. L. T., as their chuck wagon stopped
an hour or two in front of one of our
furnishing" houses. This is not an
Illusion which alludes as it were. We
hope the boys will have a good time
and fair weather for their trip.-Cald-
well Journal.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

Another batch of Arabs, similar to
those whose presence has become so fa-
miliar in Kansas, arrived in New York
recently. These Arabs get the idea
from American travellers in the Orient
that America is an immensely rich
country, where begging is lucrative
occupation.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

A correspondent who asked the Can
ada Farmer for means Of judging the
age Of cattle and sheep by their horns
and teeth received this information
1.-The horns grow uniformly for the FIRST
two or three years, and consequently no
ring or wrinkle is apparent TO mark the
age. After that age ring Is formed
each succeeding year. The general rule
is TO count three years for the first ring
and one for each following ring, but this
cannot be relied upon to tell the age ex-
actly, as in highly-fed, highly bred cat
tie earlier maturity is secured, and
sometimes becomes hereditary. This is
true also of teeth, particularly OF Short
horns. the usual marks OF age in some
instances recently noticed occurring
whole year before the time in most cat
tie. Generally when a month old the
animal has eight incisors, the full num-
ber. At two months the four central
teeth are much worn at three months
the central six; and at four months all.
Then a gradual diminutlon OF the teeth
proceeds, and at fifteen months the milk
teeth are far apart. At eighteen months
the two central teeth drop out and two
permanent ones appear. At two years
there are four permanent and four milk
incisors. Atthree years, six permanent
and two milk; at four years, eight per-
manent, but the two outer ones smaller
than the rest. At about four years the
second teeth are well developed, and a
little fiattened at the top, and the two
central ones begin to show dark line or
mark. The full set of molar, six in each
law. above and below, are found In the
full grown OK. In some cases they are
III q ,.,f flto faf txx-n va n M 70
months. The wearing of the teeth de-
pends on the character of the food, as
well as the constitution. Generous and
substantial feeding at an early age fa-
vor: early dentition and there is good
reason to think that after several gener-
ations of good feeding, such as some of
our breeders and cattle fatteners give,
early maturity OF bone becomes trans
missable. Ii is to be seen. therefore,
that there is 10 criterion of age which
can be depended upon.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

An Austin, Texas, telegram, under
date of January 2lst, says: "A scheme
has just come to light by which num-
Der OF wealthy cattle men can get con-
trol OF all the land In the Panhandle
country, including, so reports say, capi-
tol lands. A bill is drawn and almost
ready to be presented, looking to this,
so the spirit Of legislative prophesy says
tO-niOhf
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

Ex-senator Ross, of Kansas, now a
resident of New Mexico, is reported to
be in Washington working up project
for a system of five lines of railroad ra-
dating from Albuquerque, which, if
carried out, will open up new cow ter
ritory to the southwest, and obviate the
present necessity of long drives and con-
sequent loss by cattle men.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

A few days ago a lady bought in a
Chestnut street fruit store, Philadel-
phia, quart of strawberries for sick
friend. They cost her SD. In the same
store Muscatel grapes sell at So a pound
peaches and cucum6ers at 81 each, and
ripe tomatoes at so cents pound.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

1t is said that in Brazil, where the in
habitants take coffee many times day,
alcoholism is unknown. Immigrants
gradually contract fondness for coffee,
and their children fall into the habit,
and never contract a love for liquors
that are so fatal in other countries. The
number q cafes in the large cities is
enormous, while the drinking saloons
are very few.
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THE BARBER COUNTY INDEX.
oace: OVER THE MEDICINE VALLEY BANK

The Leavenworth liquor prosecutions
have gone over until the next term of
court. Five days were occupied in en-
deavoring to secure jury, and as the
term was drawing to close, the judge
postponed the cases until the next
term.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

William Delapp writes the Kansas
City Times from Watertown, Dakota,
that he finds that country too cold for
stock raising, and wants to know where
fo rrO Yaovf
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

During the year 1888, $50 head of poll
ed Aberdeen-Angus cattle were import
ed from Scotland into the United
States
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

The Texas cattle drive to the north
for the pastseventeen years has amount
ed to 4,7O7 1915 head, valued at the low
est estimate at little over $50. .OOO. 600.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-08

The Illinois Shorthorn Breeders As
sociation will publish catalogue con-
tanning list of all the herds in the
state.