Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-06-18
PostoHice moved? Yes. Mulkey,s

Postoffice moved? Yes. Mulkey' s
book store gone too? Yes. 1
Deerhead and vicinity will celebrate
July Sd, Saturday, at the Mccarthy
ranch, now the ptoperty of Steve Carr.
1t has been said: The farmer
plants his seed, and while he is sleeping
the corn is growing. just so with ad-
vertising. While you are sleeping or
eating, your advertisement is being
read by hundreds of persons who never
saw or heard of you or your business,
and never would, had it not been for
your Advertising
Col. c. Wood Davis, of Wichita, was
here and at Kiowa this week, talking
up railroad matters. He is the father
of the " Cottonwood Davis - road, now
headed from st. Joseph, Mo-, south
west through Kansas. L. is probable
that some kind of a proposition will be
submitted to the people of Barber
county in connection with this road.
DIR. G. 7. Rigg and family and Capt.
Eli Smith and family, started yesterday
with three wagons for an extended trip
through the west, in search of pleasure
and recreation: They will be away
from three to four months. Both of
the gentlemen have been under the
weather fol some time, Capt: Smith be-
ing quite sick and confined to his room.
From the Sun City Union we learn
that the 6-year-Old daughter of Mr..
Pierson, living miles west of that
town, was bitten by rattle-snake,
on the 4th inst, but will recover. That
John Mckay, jr., of Medicine Lodge,
will likely engage in business there.
That w. &. Douglass, of Elm Mills,
will be republican candidate for pro-
bate judge.
Trustees Riley Lake, of Lake City,
Scott Cummins, of Elwood, Louis
Lockart, of Sun City, b. Lacey, of
Medicine Lodge, camped with the board
of equalization this week, each one
determined that the people of his town.
ship should have a fair deal. Kiowa
township was not completed, though
Trustee Mexican will likely be on hand
next week.
Sun City will celebrate with a barbe-
cue, races and other entertainments on
the Sd of July. 1t is to be regretted
that the people of that vicinity could
not have been induced to come here OH
that day, and no doubt they would have
come, had there not been a misunder-
standing about the date. At first, it
was understood that Medicine Lodge
would celebrate on the 5th, and with
that understanding Sun City selected
the Sd.
County Clerk Taliaferro was at
tempting to cool his parched throat with
a-glass of soda water last Saturday,
and instead of syrup. carbolic acid was
accidentally put III the glass. The error
was discovered before he had imbibed
much of the poison and what little he
did swallow was brought out by the
timely administration of sweet oil.
ipecac, mustard and other emetics. He
is of the opinion that carbolic acid is
neither palatable or healthy.
Another general rain visited Barber
county Wednesday morning, 10Th inst,
and this, Friday, morning another gen.
eral rain fell, and now there is not a
croaker left In the county. A corn
crop never appeared better than the
one now growing in Barber county; the
millet is doing well; sorghum is pros
pering and the hay crop is assured.
Much of the oats crop given up as
failure four weeks since will do TO cut,
and the wheat, though short, is much
better than was expected. Cattle have
never fattened as rapidly as during the
past six weeks, and. all live stock is
dong well in Barber county. Altogeth:
er, our people have nothing to complain
of this season.
The preliminary examination of Ike
Steel, charged with shooting Theodore
Beers, on the 29Ih of May, was com
menced before Justice Durham in this
city on the 1lth inst, and after several
witnesses had testified, including DIR.
Lockwood, the case was continued for
ten days to await the result of the
shooting, Beers condition being criti-
cal as yet. 1t appears that the ques-
tons to be settled are: Was Beers in
the act of attacking Steele and was lie
shot in the breast or in the back? The
evidence on these points is conflicting.
The feeling of the neighborhOOd ap-
pears TO be about equally divided be-
tween Steele and Beers, and we could
fill these columns with expressions we
have heard from both sides.