Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-03-06
KANSAS AED TIE WORLD.

An OK weighing 4,250 pounds is on
exhibition at Maysville, Ky.
A man in Nova Scotia has been sent
to prison for lying at horse trade.
1t is said that Kansas is twenty-five
years ahead of the times-but she is
fifty years in debt.
There are four girl pages in the Kan
sas house OF representatives and one
female docket clerk.
We suggest that Mr.. Shuler call his,
skating rink Niagara. The people will
then go there osee the falls
The spring meeting Of the Cherokee
Strip Live Stock Association will he
held at Caldwell. Kansas. on March 23d.
The entire family Of children, sixteen
In number, OF Mr.. ana Mrs. Gilbault, Of
New Chicago, NJ. T., have died of diph-
iberia.
Drunkards now form So per cent. Of
the insane persons i'm Paris asylums.
In this fact lies n whole temperance
sermon.
Some towns are affected with cranks.
Lake City has only one.-Prairie Dog.
Sharon has a crank, too, and an ironty)
one at that.
An experienced party thinks that
whisky should he taken straight, or, if
you must Grinkit with something, drink
It with alacrity.
A Mt. C5le, Of Wichita. says that
firm there is experimenting with few
car loaSs of keel, from which brick
worth SEQ per l 600 can be made.
Fred Black, young man at Dodge
City, died from an SversOse OF NOR
plume. He had been on a drunk and
took the narcotic to quiet his nerves.
Herman J. Fringer, Late of Ford
county, and for many years postmaster
at Dodge City and probate judge Of Ford
county, died of drUpsy, at his old home
IN Canton, Ohio.
G. f. Hammond had to pay So for the
Offeuse OF shipping cattle and hogs in
the same ear without separating them
by a.partition. Humane agent Mitchell
was the pTosecutOr.-B Breeders Gazette.
The valuable Angus cow
Vine l2th tlS59) in the herd of Mr.. HaI-
nay, Gavenwood. Scotland. has lately
giYenb!rih to two very fine heifer calves
by the Highland Society prize bull
Young Heru (iSS7).
The ranchmen are now toasting their
shins around anthracite stoves and spec
ulating as to whether Eve per cent. or
twenty per cent. of their cattle will
freeze TO death and how large per cent.
OF freezes they can stand and pay divi-
dends.-IOwa Homestead.
The Kansas Cowboy, published at
Dodge City, says most of the calves on
the range north of that town have died
from exposure. The safest way for
castlemen is TO keep their bulls herded
or fenced away from the cows until the
FIRST of July, or even u month later, as
that will avoid early ealying.
All ruminant hoofed beasts have
horns and cloven feet. If the hoofs are
even the horns are even, if odd, as in
the rhinocerOus, the horns are cdd, that
Is, single or two placed one behind the
other. Recent creatures with feathers
always have beaks. Pigeons with short
beaks haze small feet. The long limbs
of the hound are associated with long
head.
A citizen Of Medicine Lodge expects
koOn to put a bone-miIl In running order
and will grind bone meal to he use,l as
feed for chickens. The gathering of
bones in Barber county viii, some day,
be source of great profit and the man
who will laccumulate them now may con-
ildently expect good price for such
bones I'm the near future. The bone
meal imparts to the fowls that quality
from which the egg shell is formed.
Lyman Parsons, who has returned
from a trip to the Pan Handle country
states that the reports of no loss of cat
tie are incorrect. Severely cold weather.
heavy SHOWS and chilly rains have got
In their work" pretty effectually. as the
carcasses so often seen, plainly indicate.
The truth Is the winter has been rs ex-
ceptiOnally severe in the Pan Handle as
elsewhere, and the effort made to con-
cesl facts will not make losses less.-Sun
City Uniun.
The plaintive tones OF the pioneer
stockmanare indeed pitiful TO cohtem-
plate, as he utters his lamentable efIu-
sion over the business OF raising cat,le
being run dOwntO such low point. and
the expense Of wintering cattle having
multiplied TO such an enormous extent
until all the profits OF the industry are
consumed and he at last SAYS, like the
aged darkey, that '.de ole home aint
what IL used ter be-" The cause of
this seeming dimInution of profit in
stOck-raising arises from various sour
ces. First may be mentioned the large
immigration OF the past few years. tax
ing up as II did the best vacant lands in
the county. fencing of lots to he titled
and banishing stock from the best and
most fertile part of the plains, leaving
vnly the broken prairie, high hills and
deep canyons for the stock TO range on.
The number Of cattle have increased,
and the range has been gradually taken
! DARK. JOHN HuNTAx.
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