Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-07-25


Hon. r. A. Cameron started to Tope-
ka last Sunday. lie may be nominated
for attorney general.
An inch and quarter of rainfall oc
CURED here Sunday afternoon. More
than II inches of rain has fallen here
since April.
The republicans will nominate their
candidates for county Offices August
10th. The democratic convention will
likely be held two weeks later.
W. S. Denton is mentioned as a prob
able candidate for county attorney be-
fore the democratic convention. Mr..
Denton is an able lawyer.
w. ii. Osborn went to Kansas City
yesterday TO see his mother who is "
ing dangerously i'll from the effect of
cancer having been removed from her
side.
Mrs. J. NJ. Stewart, who visited here
with her sister, Mrs. Caruthers, for two
months, started last Saturday for her
home in southwest Missouri, at Will
low Springs.
If the Cherokee Strip should not be
released, Barber county can feed a
large propotion of the cattle on the
Strip. We will have corn to sell and
keep this year.
John Runyan and Roy Hall started
yesterday to the Territory on a fishing
and hunting excursion. Their head
quarters will be on the Wild Cat ranch,
near Keystone.
Mrs. Savage, who lives north three
miles with her son in-law, Robt. War
rem, fell Sunday night from the door
way and fractured bone in her foot.
DIR. Gillette is in attendance.
Mrs. w. l.. Wainscott, of Nevada
Mo-, and Mrs. Herbert Sparks, of Kan
sas City, are here visiting the family of
r. NJ. Sparks. The former is a daughter
and the latter a daughter-in-law.
The INDEX trvors every public i'm
provement that is practicable, and just
as soon as the water comes through the
ditch in sufficient quantity we will
then talk about voting bonds for a
standpipe and for water mains.
A number of our citizens are regular
lookers-on at the institute. Said an
old friend of ours yesterday, "Why sir.
if was young man had rather at
tend that new-fangled school than to go
tn a camD-meetinp -
1t is understood that RIM. Woodward
will be a candidate for probate Judge
subject to the action of the republican
convention and it is further understood
that the announcement of his candidacy
made the other candidate for the office
, sick.
The a. T. and S. F. Ry., now runs a
through sleeper from Kiowa to Kansas
City over the Southern Kansas railroad;
and through sleeper and chair cars
from Caldwell to Kansas City by way OF
Wichita. Persons going from Medi.
cine Lodge can take either route. 6
The Barber county delegation to the
/
ed Monday. 1t is made up of L. a
McNeal, w. Il, Rouse, Capt. John Rog-
ers, IL. 5. Lands, Geo. w. Ellis and G.
| Long. They will work for the nom.
ination of Mr. McNeal for lieutenant.
governor.
: Married, at the NJ. Z. parsonage
Medicine Lodge, July "a, 1883, by Rev
II. Sanderson, Mr.. Thomas Warwick
{ and VI ISIS Elizabeth Hunter, both re-
Gently of Kirk-by- ThOre, England. The
happy couple have at once gone to house
keeping on the Ramsey place. two mile:
southeast.
Last Sunday, about seventy-fye OF
T thirty of the young gentlemen of thi:
city were riding with their girls and il
appears that all who did not have
smashups or runaways got thoroughly
wet. One i'm particular who was max
ing his first trip was badly stove III
with rheumatism and lumbago, OF
Monday.
Judge Ben Carr and T. G.. Cutlip, OF
this city, have formed a cO-partner
ship in the practice of law under the
the firm name of Carr Il Cutlip. Boil
are well and favorably known here and
they will more than likely do well
Judge Carr has an honorable record a:
an old practitioner and he has filed al
! important judicial position. He com
: bines good Kentucky, Virginia anC
Tennessee stock as does his partner
Mr., Cutlip.
Al. f. Bevans left here last week il
company with widow, Mrs. Shoe
maker, sister of Charlie Bevans' wife
and well known in this city and it il
understood that the two have gone
west to establish their home. Bevan:
left wife here, he having married
Tom Clark's daughter. They had beer
living south of here seven miles. VIM
Bevans, Al's father, thinks that Their,
can be no mistake as to the intentions
of the couple. AL lately sold his plac,
and got $500 and he owed considerable
( money in this city. He certainly die
L not consider the rash step he was tax
ing, Mrs. Shoemaker was formerly o.
: Chautauqua county. She has two Of
e three children and is divorced from hel
husband.