Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-10-13
Everybody go to the depo. Friaa,

minor complaints.
Ingraham * Fort pay money on the
day papers are executed. If
\ good, big rain would start the
farmers to breaking sod.
John Singer is the father Of another
boy. born on the 9Th inst.
Z. =. Caruthers has moved into 4.
W. Little's residence on Sprung street.
Ell. N,xon's wife and baby have
been home from their Winfield trip two
weeks.
The hens are sadly neglecting their
duty. Eggs are scarce and high
priced
II you want, an organ go and exam
Inc the Cornish, at the post Office.
Cheapest and best. 10
We have had three frosts so far, but
they were so light they have not injur-
ed sweet potato vines.
Mr.. Il. 5. Proctor called Monday.
lie is well pleased with his prospects of
being our next probate judge.
&C. Mills, formerly of Barber county,
is candidate for sheriff in Hamilton
county, on the democratic ticket.
Mrs. Lane, county superintendent,
is busy making up her report. She says
/ ii is n difficult task, as the reports sent
TO her do not tally with those of last
year.
If the city marshal will compel the
removal of unnecessary rubbish from
the streets to-day and tomorrow, the
board of trade will extend him a vote
of thanks.
a. W. Johnston has gone back to
Indiana to get married. lie is expected
home this week. His house is com
pleted and ready for occupancy.
We have exhausted every effort to
find out how many editors will be with
us on Friday, and how many ladies.
The crowd is guessed all the way from
| forty to seventy-fiye.
Mrs. +. a. Brainard, wife of the
druggist at Lake City, died last Thurs
day night at that place. The remains
were taken through here Friday, to
| Wellington for interment.
Mr.. J. ID. Fleming, democratic can
| didate for county commissioner for the
western district, called on us Monday.
lie seems to understand the wants of
/ that part of the county, and, if elected,
will look after them closely.
y line of railroad is being
surveyed through the northern
part of Barber county, passing
near Amber post-oilice and headed
toward Sun City. 1t is understood to
be for the extension of the Mulvane
road.
The Moore Il Merchant millinery
store is daily receiving the latest fall
styles and now offer grand selections of
ladies'felt and fall trimmings, and they
cordially invite an inspection, insur-
ing prOmptness in the execution of or
ders, and reasonable prices. 20
The city marshal was out Monday
night, rounding up cattle which he
found running at large in the corpora
ton. He had quite herd at the pound
gate, but they broke and scattered. lie
only got eight out Of the herd. Ii your
COW Is lost, look through the pound.
A party of Santa Fe railroad survey.
Ors were here Sunday on their way
west To- commence work. 1t is under
stood that they will commence at the
northwest corner of Barber county aud
survey line west 10 Colorado. Wheth-
or this is to be "a continuation of the
/ Mulvane road. or whether it is for
some line from the north, remains yet
To be seen. 1t IS suggested by some
that the survey is nothing more than a
blind.
Sedan Times: "The commissioners
have ordered lot of balls and chains.
and in the future will compel parties
found guilty on petty charges to work
on the public highway, instead of lay
ing in the hunks i'm the county Jail and
having their grub carried TO them.
This is good move and will have a
tendency to improve the morals of some
of our young scalawags who had rather
bunk at the county's expense than to
work for n living"
In the year 1880 this county was as
sessed 10y John W. Mckinney, demo-
crat, and the assessment cost the county
only SIS. The next year L. l.. Lindley,
another democrat, made the asses
ment, and the cost was only $50. y re-
publican, Scott Cummins, has made
the assessment each year since then, at
the following figures: 1882, 500; ISS 5
sos; 1854, los; 1885, Sl95; 1856, S25s.
We do not claim that 1t was as much
work in 1881 as it is now to make the as
sessment, but we fear the cost is IN
creasing faster than it should.
In a long article in the Cresset of last
week, Henry burst announced that he
had left the democratic party for the
rest of his life. This decision on the
part of Mr.. burst was not arrived at.
he explains, until the democrats neg
lected TO nominate him for township
trustee. The question, then, calls for
this line of thought: If by being defeat
ed in his aspirations for so unimport.
ant an Office as township trustee, Mr..
burst got so hot that he quit the dem
ocratic party, what would he have done
had he been candidate for president.
and been defeatedY Left the country
perhaps.
Mrs. Louisa McQuinn has returned
to Albany, Mo. She has lived on her
claim the necessary six months, but is
uneasy. for fear some one will try to
beat her out of the land. She says the
story about her husband having
been seen in No-Man's-Landis all bOsh
The man who is reported as having
seen him, says he never started any