Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1885-02-06
KANSAS AND THE WORLD.


Wichita Jail recently, has been recap
tured.
TbeAtchison Champion declares that
a revival Of religion is much needed in
that town.
Fort Scott has one brewery and vari-
Gus establishments for the manufacture
OF ''soda water"
The Sun, at st. John, Stafford county,
is neat four page, eight column news
paper started by G. B. Weeks.
Geuda Springs is to have a fine bank
built. 1t will be of brick, about seven
ty-6ve feet in length and q twenty-five
foot front.
Those who cultivated artichokes last
year will plant large acreage next
spring. They are said to beyery prolif-
ic, and make the best of feed for hogs.
Leavenworth asks an appropriation
Of fifty thousand dollars from the legis-
lature, to build the Soldiers Home,
which was located there last summer.
The high grade stock of Barber coun-
ty is being added to at very rapid rate
and ere long it hay be that we may yet
fly the pennant for fine stockholm cat
tie and horses.
Z. Maloy was tried on a charge of
selling whisky at Kingman, and twelve
citizens who sat on the jury would not
convict him. Another evidence of the
unpopularity and inefficiency Of the
prohibitory law.
The president has issued a proclama-
tion directing that the military reserva-
tion Of Fort Dodge, KS. being no longer
needed, for military purposes, to he
placed under the control Of the secreta-
ry of the interior for disposition by sale
or otherwise.
n. =. Browning, of Brown county,
Kansas, presented the following RENE
dy for blackleg to the Farmers insti-
tute in Hiawatha. He has tried it and
found ii an efTectual remedy. add to
100 pounds salt, 10 pounds sulphur. 8
lbs. cOpperas, 3 lbs, s,saltpetre and pints
Stacked lime. Mix and feed as salt is
fed"
When Kansas has cold, severe win
ter, says the Wa-Keeney World, the
next seasons crop will be good one,
and after mild, open winter, poor
crops. This is what old farmers say.
On this gauge won't there be grand
crops in southwestern Kansas the
coming season.
The number Of car loads OF stock of all
kinds received atKansas City in 1884 was
5,257, which would be equivalent to 2.76I
trains OF twenty cars each: OF. If it were
put in one train, allowing thirty feet to
the car, the line would be !, ,Gs6 ,Si0 feet,
or SO4 miles in length-about equal to a
train whose engine is in st. Louis, Mis-
souri,, andthe rear car in Wichita, Kan
Sas.
A dispute occurred at the county
clerks Office in Leavenworth a short
time ago between Col. d. r. Antho-
ny, editor of the Times, Republican,
and Judge II. ID. Green, q prominent
lawyer and democrat, growing out of
controversy relative to the Legate-
Kerens letter, published in the Globe
Democrat, which resulted I'm Green
dealing Anthony several blows, telling
him to the floor.
The wonderful success which has at
tended the importing and propagation
OF foreign horses In the last ten years.
has called attention to the superiority
OF many American horses to anything
foreign and has stimulated inquiry for
the best. Many are asking eagerly if
the MUrgans still exist, and they often
find half dozen strains among the
finest horses in their own county. In
the recent preparation Of a register of
Morgan pedigrees, the compiler learned
that there were many Morgan horses,
each regarded by his admirers as the
superior to anything of other breeds. b.
At late cattle hurrah in Emporia,
Kas., the boys had high old time. On
the walls were Illuminated horns and
appropriate decorations, among which
were the notices:
kings are rulers and despots in the
east; in the west the cattIemen are kings,
and good ones at feast"
Good breeding and good feeding will
always leave their mark"
"Horns are out Of fashion.-Gallo-
way"
straight horns for us.-Herefords.
Little horns are useful.-Jerseys."
Take a mixed horn.-Colorado."
Take short h0rn.-Durham."
Long horns for us.-Texas."
The Pratt County Press says: From
all the information we can gather, there
hasn't been such mortality among cat
tie since the winter Of 20 and II. Our
neighbors, Barber and Comanche coun-
ties are suffering terribly. The losses
In these two counties as estimated by
shrewd stockmen, viii reach quite 40
per cent This is a fearful loss. Mr..
Frank Farmer, Of this county, engaged
to feed four hundred head for a gentle
man at Sun City. He brought them TO
his place last week. The distance Is
not to exceed forty miles and vet he
lost 130 head of the herd. What is
needed is a separation Of big herds into
small lots, well fed, watered and shell
tered.