Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1886-06-25
Everybody is coming to town next


Tomorrow, Saturday. J. p. Gibson
will cell at auction the Palmer house
furniture.
John Brisbin has gone to st. Paul,
Minnesota, on business, and may re-
main there awhile.
Where is the postofice? Moved.
Where il MuIkey's book store? Moved
to the Carmichael building. l
Hot and Geld Baths, for Ladies and
for Gentlemen. Under the Grand Ho-
tel. Barber shop adjoining. Open at
ali hours. 40m3
Wise men often change and Mulkey's
book store now occupies the Carmichael
building, one door north of Mckinney
Bros. livery stable. /
Rev. Gillian will preach next Sun
day on the subject, KILLED for Lying. -
Who it was, is not stated but the sup
position is that it was a real estate
agent.
Jas. y. Blair returned Monday from
a trip through Comanche, Clark and
Meade counties, and reports plenty of
rain, good crops and prosperity in the
three counties mentioned
Mr.. Wheeler, of Deerhead, of the firm
Of Palmer u Wheeler. has gone back to
his old home at Delaware, Ohio, where
he expects to remain for some time,
working in the interest of Barber
county.
The Deering All Steel Irvine Binders.
the Dcering Giant Mowers and the
Deering Light Mowers are the most
durable and lightest draft machines in
the world, and they wear the blue rib
bon in Barber county in all field trials.
and don't you forget it. For sale by
Noble X Nixon. Sat
Watson & Fullington, of Comanche
county, shipped from this city, last
Monday, two car loads of fat cattle to
the Kansas City market. John Sidner.
the old time cOw-man was in charge of
the outfit. He also brought in year
ling buffalo heifer that he shipped to
Hon. +. VI. llewenS, of Chatauqua
county. 1t was captured OH the Staked
Plains.
Marshal Johnson is in receipt of a
letter from New Kiowa, announcing
that the grandest preparations are
being made for the celebration at that
place on the 9TH of July. The tourna-
ment, the cattleroundup, the barbecue,
the dance and the fireworks VIII be
worth going miles TO see and it is to be
hoped that Medicine Lodge will be well
represented there.
Rev. DR.. Philip Kronn, late of Abb
lene. was here yesterday and last night
and occupied, alone, room No. 81 at
the Grand hotel. 1t may also be stated
as matter of general state news, for
the Doctor is state character, that he
came here as representative of an
Atchison bank, to bid on the county
bonds sold yesterday. His conduct
while here was exemplary.
y drive out east this week with II. f.
Noble convinced us that there was
never better prospect for a corn crop
than is to be seen ont there. The far
mers are completing their wheat harvest
Which, by the way, was more satisfac-
tory than was anticipated, and next
week the oats crop will be cut. The
talk about the oats crop being failure
was not the truth. for while the straw
is short there is good grain, and much
good feed will he obtained.
At Tic Christian church. Sunday
night, tie children of the Sabbath
school and the members Of the church
choir gave 4 pleasant concert and en-
tertainment, embracing vocal music.
recitatiOns and dialogues. But one
week was spent in preparation, and
Prof. BeesOn, Ed. Mulkey. the teach
ers, the choir and the children all de.
serve praise for the success attending
the affair. The church was uncomfort-
ably crowded, and many were unable
to gain admittance.
The county commissioners, sitting as
n board of equalization, on Tuesday
completed the work of equalizing the
assessments made by the township trus-
tees this year. The abstract of assess
ments has not been completed yet by
the county clerk, every book requiring
changes; but the work will be done next
week, it is presumed. The aggregate
taxable wealth will he about three mil
lions of dollars, and the population will
be about IL 900. The average value of
lands, by townships, is as follows: Med
icine Lodge. 81; Kiowa, Si.22; Sharon.
S3.7S; Sun City, S2.63; Elwood, SOL;
Lake City, $500.
Several cases were sent TO the dis
trict court Of Kingman county from
this county at the last term of our
court, the most important ones being
the case against Dave Black, charged
with killing the soldier at Kiowa: the
case of Griffin, Young and Chit,yood.
charged with rohbing Snyder and the
civil suit of Griffin against Eli Smith
and others. The following attorneys
and witnesses went to Kingman this
week: Attorneys Brand, Long, Sample
and Ellis; Sheriff Nelson, Under-Sher-
III Lindsey and Messrs. O'Bryan, Lee,
Roberts. Cage Thompson and Mr.. and
Mrs. Lefevre. Mr.. Sample returned
last night and reports that the Black
case, the Griihn civil case and the case
against Griffin and Chitwood were con-
tinued until the December term of the
court. The case against Hunt Young
was on trial when he LETT Kingman.
There was n severance in the last-named
case, and Young. Griffin and Chitwood,
will he tried separately for the robbery
of Snyder.
No-Man 's-Land is booming, as We
learn from John Row and Bert Aber,
who returned to this place on Thurs