Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-05-14
Spring chicken is nearly ripe.

Keep the carpenters and painters at
work.
Protracted meeting at the Christian
church begins tonight
The first Strawberries of the season
were in town this week, selling for 40
cents box.
The threatening weather Thursday
night kept many persons from the
ghost party.
Our market is well supplied with all
seasonable vegetables. Also with but
ter and eggs.
The ghost party last night was sue
cess, financially and otherwise. 1t was
new and novel.
There was a fine promise of rain
Thursday night, but it turned out only
slight drizzle.
Z. y. Simmons took a few days off
this week and visited Caldwell, We'll
lingtOn and Wichita.
Van Slyke s. Martin had part of the
INDEX to sample their. delicious ice
| CIelun one Jay THIS week.
City Marshal johnson did good work
i'll getting signatures to the court house
and Jail petition in New Kiowa this
week, securing 107 names in one day.
Comrades Eli Smith, r. NJ Woodward
and r.. \. Cameron went to New Kiowa
to-day to assist in instituting Grand
Army Post. That will make the fourth
one in this county.
The district court docket, published
| in this issue, contains l56 cases. There
| will be an average of ten witnesses in
each case, or $50 witnesses. Every
one of these should be subscriber to
the INDEX.
City Marshal Johnson announces
that this will be the last week of grace
on cattle and horses running at large.
/ lie will commence to take up and i'm
pound all stock found out of enclosures
next Monday.
Rev. Joel Mason is a fugitive from
justice, again. He was to have had his
preliminary examination on the charge
of rape, yesterday; but he did not APP
pear. The supposition is that he will
turn up in few days.
J. b. WILDER, wife and children ar
rived here from Idaho yesterday Mrs
WILDER is a daughter of L.W. Story, of
the Avenue house. Mr. WILDER was a
conductor on the Santa Fe in 1872, and
runs a train out west now.
Kiowa Journal: Early yesterday morn
ing, May llth) Mr.. Geo. r. Barricklow
died very suddenly Of neuralgia of the
heart. Deceased was forty-nine years
of age, and leaves a son, Clyde, fourteen
years old, and a sister, Mrs. Lovejoy,
to mourn his loss.
Base ball fever has struck the eastern
| towns with virulence that promises
some fatalities, and in this city we hear
nothing of it. Perhaps this is because
we have no room for the game, or our
boys and young men have no time to
play, but perhaps it is not.
Sharon News: We understand that
Sparks Bros, living west of Mumford,
hSlNC WV anu lNCDbN dNlCO VI
wheat that is in splendid condition, and
if nothing occurs to injure it between
now and harvest, the yield will surely
be from twenty-five to thirty bushels
per acre.
Justice McCandless has been busy
this week, i'll his court, with the pre-
liminary examinations of the Chit
woods and Young, charged with the
robbery of Arthur II. Snyder, near this
city, last summer. The prosecution is
represented by County Attorney Howe,
his son, Wheeloc!l Howe, and Brand &
Long. The attorneys for the defend
ants are Ellis & Oyerstreet and f. Sam
pie. So far, no new evidence has been
given, though number of witnesses
have been examined.
The INDEX is in receipt of a copy of
"reminiscences of the Early Days"
being "a true history of the trials of an
Inflated emigrant train. bound for Cal
ifornia, who were held captive among
the Indians for space of four years, i'll
the Medicine Lodge valley, in the terri
tory now embraced in Barber county,
Kansas" by Scott Cummins, The Pill
grim Bard" of this county. The book
contains So pages, and is dedicated TO
Hon. L. y. McNeal, of this city. We
have not yet had the pleasure of read
ing the book, but have no doubt it will
prove interesting.
Ayoung man, who was travelling with
party of movers, on their way to the
west from Arkansas, accidentally shot
and killed himself in Lakes pasture.
one mile from Lake City, Tuesday af-
ternoOn. 1t appears that with several
of the boys he was hunting in the pas
ture when he discovered a snake, and
in taking gun from the hands of a
companion, it was discharged and the
ball tore its way through his chin and
upward through his brain. producing
instant death. Justice James Nurse
held an inquest and the body was buried
the same afternoon. The name of de-
ceased could not be learned from our
informant.
|. We are glad to see that Bro. Sherpy,
of the Sharon News, has come out in
favor of building the courthouse and
Jail. For awhile he opposed the meas
ure, but now he says: After carefully
considering the matter in all its phases,
We have made up our mind, individually,
to sign the bond petition, and our best
judgment assures us that we are right
in urging our people to do likewise. We
never yet saw anything dishonorable in
making manly acknowledgment that
one erred in judgment, when convinced
that he did so. Again we say. sign the
petition for the courthouse and Jail, for