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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-03-21
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ASSISTANT SECRETARY MAYNARD has in
formed the Collector at New Orleans that
certain bagging made OF domestic cloth and
other materials, and exported as coverings
OF colt on in bales, may be returned free Of
duty for reissue as such covering on sub
sequent expectations.
1T was believed in Washington on the
l4th that the alleged Moor needing protec-
had sought protection of the American
Consul under the treaty Of 1881.
The Chinese treaty has been signed.
SENATOR HIsCocK has introduced bill
providing uniform law covering the ar
rest and extradition of criminals who es.
cape TO another State or Territory The
measure is the outcome of a conference
hold In New York last year.
Rev. EUoENE PECK, Presbyterian min
lister, was killed at Washington recently
by locomotive while walking on a track
THE House Committee on Post offices has
authorized an adverse report on the Joint
resolution 10 require the Postmaster-Gen-
eral to discontinue the use Of the terra
Gotta colored two-cent stamp.
SERYIcEs in memory OF the late Emperor
William were held At the CoRcorifa
Lutheran Church, Washington, on the 10Th.
The main portion of the services, including
memorial address by DR. Mueller, were
conducted in the German language, The
pastor, however, made a brief eulogistic
address in English and several English
hymns were sung
THE President on the 10th sent the new
Chinese treaty to the Senate.
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KANSAS AND MAINE.

1t is understood that the republicans
are circulating in this state great num-
bers of copies of the speech of Senator
Frye, of Maine, to be used as cam
paIgn document. We think with the
Missouri Republican that the document
will have the effect of convincing the
farmers of Kansas of the gross injustice
to them of the high-tax which Senator
Fry defends. His state, Maine, is one
of the group of industrial states which
the war tariff is intended to favor at the
expense Of western farmers. All the
interests of Misunderstanding, numbering
and manufacturing-are protected and
cOddled by this high war tariff, and
Senator Frye's constituents have grown
rich through its operation. They have
SS5, 10000 invested in western farm
mortgages, many of them on Kansas
farms. They have S3S. $40, 600 on deposit
in savings banks, which, divided among
10000 depositors, gives oyer $50 to
each, and this large sum of deposits is
increasing at the late of 81 100000 a
year. 1t is no wonder, therefore, that
Senator Frye should have high adj
miration for the policy that makes his
constituents so rich and prosperous at
other peoples expense.
But how is it with the farmers of
Kansas? Are they enamored of a sys-
TEN which protects the industries of
Maine at their expense. but gives them
no protection in return? Kansas has
no fishing interest, no lumber interest
no cotton and wooden manufacturing
interest; on the contrary. the people of
Kansas have to buy these articles, and
are forced, therefore, to pay the tribute
which enriches the fishing masters, the
sawmill owners and cotton and wooden
manufacturers of Senator Frye's state.
1t does not appear that the savings
banks of Kansas are gOrged with de
posits. Indeed, there is not a single
savings bank and not dollar of savings
deposits in the whole state of Kansas.
Neither do the people of Kansas own
mortgages on Maine farms. Nor do
they own any large share, nor any share
at all in the Main railroads. In short.
the people of Kansas do not own their
own state, the farms they cultivate, the
houses they live in, the railroads they
send their crops to market on, nor even
the crops they raise. All these are
owned by or mortgaged to the prosper
Gus money lenders of Maine and the
other favored industrial states who
have hrst used the protective war tariff
to extOrt millions of dollars every year
from the farming states, and then in
vested these extorted millions in mort
cages on the very farms they were ex-
tOrted from.
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THE POOR OLD EAST.

The greatest storm that has visited
the eastern states in a quarter of CEN
tury occurred on Sunday and Monday
18th and 18th insts. In the west it would
have been called q blizzard, and the
eastern papers would have pointed it
out as another argument why tie tide
of emigration should be stopped in its
course towards Kansas ard Nebraska.
AS it is, the other fellows OK has been
gored, and the east will have little to
say about its blizzard. The storm
started Sunday morning with a cold
rain; then freezing northeast wind sci.
in, and this was accompanied by heavy
snow storm. BY night six inches of
snow had fallen over the Atlantic states.
That night regular hurricane set in
and telegraph poles were snapped off as
if they were brittle weeds; chimneys
tOttered and fell and weak buildings
were leveled to the ground. And still
the snow fell until by Monday. in MANY
places it was four feet deep on a level
and the drifts were piled up 10 the sec
ond stories of houses. Communication
between New York, Washington, Balti-
more, Philadelphia and Boston was en-
tirely cut off, even the telegraph refus-
ing to respond to the demands made on
1t. East river was frozen over hard and
Brooklyn people walked over to New
York. Not mail went out of or into
New York for thirty hours. The sur
face railroads in New York were all
stopped Pedestrians were lost in snow
banks and many were frozen to death
in the very streets or New York. AT
Saratoga forty inches of snow fell. at
Troy the snow was four feet deep. AT
Amsterdam five feet, At Albany the
storms equal had never been seen. At
Harrisburg, Penn, Il g tracks were
lined with telegraph poles that had
blown down. At Philadelphia all BUSH
ness was stagnated. The states of New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio were the
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There have been neither deaths, birth
nor marriages since my last communi-
cation, but in the way of blowing and
gardening, we have simply "got there. >
Potato planting is about oyer and of
all the good days for planting, st. Pat
ricks day in the morning was the pref
erence in this locality. VIM. Heald
and VIM. Gartin have planted some
four acres of onion seeds and have got
them in in good shape, and so far have
done their part, and If providence does
His, onions will be plentiful in the
neighborhood of Deerhead. :. James
McDaniels, our former school teacher
has moved out on the johnson place.
He talks something of going to Arkan-
sas. We would hate to loose him, for
he is good teacher and good man with
it. Mr.. McGentus las rented the
VIM. Cochran farm and Mr.. Stanley has
rented the Chas. Wilson place, now
owned by r. Lake; and Mr.. Ropp, we
understand, has the Frank Fosill place.
There will be no farms left idle for the
want Of tenants. (. Moses Cox, who is
holding some cattle at Dan Lacey Is, has
been troubled with his throat for some
days past which required The services
of a doctor. Miss Rose Lacey has also
,en effected in similar way. w.
a. Clinkscales has been appointed
notary public at this place. This is
step in the right direction, and should
have been. done before, IIa also thinks
of doing something in the way of selling
land. MAC.
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company will proceed to employ new
men, and will not agree to take back
the brotherhood men.
Whether it was this circular or the
good sense of the men that caused labor
to be resumed. we do not know; but
anyway, traffic was resumed Sunday.
The men went to work almost as sud
denly as they quit At o'clock the
order was gwen TO resume work and it
did not require many minutes for tie
men to hear it. So far as known, the
railroad company made no concessions
or promises. Gov. Martin, the state
board of railroad commissioners, the
Santa Fe officials and committe repre-
senting the engineers had conference
at Topeka on Sunday and 1t may be
that at this meeting the differences
were adjusted.
AT Kansas City, several brotherhood
men absolutely refused to quit work.
five of these being Southern Kansas en-
gineers. This action caused others to
become weakened and so there was
no surprise when work was resumed.
Though it was reported that the Mis-
souri, Pacific and other western roads
were in the strike, such was not a fact
and only the Santa Fe and Southern
Kansas men were out.
All men laid off were Ieinstated by
Mr.. Goddard with no loss of pay.
The local effect of the strike in Bar
Der county was not serious. This city
was well supplied with PROVISIONS and
fuel, sufficient TO last a month, and our
people were not uneasy; but there was
some disappointment at not getting the
mail regularly. Friday, Saturday and
Sunday no trains came in from the east.
Sunday night the delayed mails of Fri
day and Saturday were hauled i'm from
Attica late at night, by freight train,
and this mail was opened Monday
morning. 1t contained the first partic-
ulars our people had of the strike, our
information having previously been
confined TO the meagre reports furnish
ed by the railroad officials here, and
every one who has eyer attempted to
pump" a railroad employe, knows how
satisfactory the operation is.
The Sunday mail did not get here ;
nor did the train Monday bring over
anything from east of Attica, and so
Monday, and till yesterday afternoon,
we were again in darkness.
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New York on the 18th Michael Sheeny,
while drunk Drained his wife with poker,
and Frederick Schilling stabbed his wife
IN the abdomen with a butcher knife
Frederick Carlin, a worthless, drunken fell
low, hacked his mistress head to pieces
with q hatchet.
AN east-bound train on the Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western jumped the track
near Binghampton, N. Y, recently. Many
Of the passengers were seriously injured.
THE long and stubborn strike OF the
Reading employees was officially declared
OF on the 14th at Philadelphia by a conveu-
ton of delegates, and the men were given
the right to apply for their old positions as
individuals.
THE Rhode Island Repu blican State con-
vention has nominated the following ticket /:
For Governor, Ryal Z. Taft, of Providence;
Northumberland, Enos Lapham, OF
Warwick; for Secretary Of State, Samuel
NJ Gross; of Westerly; Attorney General,
Horatio Rogers, OF Providence; General
Treasurer, Samuel Clark, OF Lincoln.
CooGHAS's furniture store at Grand and
Bowery, New York, was burned recently.
Loss, 100000
IT was thought that twenty lives were
lost in Essex County, N. j., alone during
the recent terrible storm. Eastern news
papers OF the 18th were filed with accounts
Of the terrible experiences of those who
happened to be caught in the blizzard, the
like OF which had never before been
known.
sNowPLow pushed by four engines
jumped the track at Sharon, N. Y, on the
18th, killing Thomas Feeny, conductor,
George Fowler, engineer, Charles ORION,
brakesman and Thomas Reilly, fireman,
and injuring Thomas Bower, j. u. Cameron,
Engineer Luther Gates and Fred Strong,
fireman. The four engines and the pillow
were completely demolished.
THE main buildings Of the Green dyeing
and finishing works at Pawtucket, R l.,
were destroyed by fire recently. The loss
was 100000.
GENERAL BADEAU has brought suit
against Mrs. General Grant for an account.
ing. Badeau was for time editing the
Grant memoirs, but was discharged after
stormy scene in the bedroom of General
Grant during the latter's fatal sickness.
Badeau now claims $4,000 for his services.
In the suit OF Bennett Z. Wilson against
John w. Keely to compel the latter to sub.
NIT to an inspection of his motor, Judge
Finletter in the Court OF Common Pleas
at Philadelphia has rendered a decision
granting the privilege Of inspection.
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sHERIFFs SALE.
uAEhIEE 3 bALE.
In the District Court Of Barber county, I'm tn,

state OF Kansas.
James n Burnham, Thomas X. Han
ma, Albert III. Munger, Frederick
Y. Stocpel and Oscar l.. WoodVate
partners, doing business under the
nrm name and style of Burnham,
Hanna, Munger Co., plaintiffs,
versus
William Ramsey and d. e. SheIdor,
doing business under the firm name
and style OF Ramsey sheldon,
pY VIRTUE of an order of sale, 10 me f,ircct-
~ ed, made by the Hon. c. w. Ellis, Judge Of
the District Court of Barber county, Kansas.
Vens' snerin or Barbercounty, Kansas, will, on
TUESDAY, APRIL 3D.,
A. D., 1883, between the hours of nine o'cloch
IN the forenoon and six O'clock in the after
noon OF said day, and continuing between the
same hours from day TO day, at the store room
formerly occupied by Ramsey & Sheldon. in
the city of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, as a pen-
era era store. orer for sale, ut public auction, to
the highest bidder, all of the right title and
interest Of said defendants in and to the fol-
lowing described property, to-wit:
All That portion OF said defendants general
Stock or dry goods, notions, hats and caps
ooots ana shoes, groceries, clothing and ali
goods OF every description and nature hereto-
tore levied on in the above entitled action,
under ana ny virtue OF an order of attachm ent
10 me directed, and issued out of said court
Said above described property has been levied
on ~ inc property OF said defendants, Ramsey
d Sheldon, and by said Judge ordered To be sold
during the tendency of said action, and upon
the following terms, to-wit: For cash in hand
or If tho purchaser thereof so desires a prom
lssory note to be given 10y said purchaser. with
good and sufficient surety. to be approved by
said sheriff and Frank Holmes, clerk of said
district court, said note to be dated the day of
the sale of said property bv said sheriff, to bear
~ per cent, Interest per annum from date I'M
18th, 1888. N
Given under my hand this goth day of March,
A. ID. 1888.
GEO. w. STEVENS,
40 Sheriff of Barber county, Kansas.
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A brute named DIR. George NJ. Cox, of
Springfield, Mo, wreaked has vengeance
on helpless woman III a terrible man
ner last week. She had been the mis-
tress of his son and the young man had
spent considerable money on her, much
to the disgust of the father. He, the
father, induced the woman, Isabella
O'Dowd, to go from st. Louis 10 Sprihg-
field where he met her, enticed her INTO
a carriage and then nearly killed her by
breaking bottle of vitriol over her
head, destroying her features, the sight
of one eye and otherwise disfguring
her. He was arrested and released on
bail. Strong threats were made of
lynching him.
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THE LATEST

JEFFERSON CITY, No., March 1S-Colonel
l.. A. Goodman, secretary Of the State
Horticultural Society, is in the city. He
gives a summary OF the fruit prospects for
the State, based on reports received since
the LIST of March, as follows: Apple CROP
full, Notwithstanding last summers
drought; buds not damaged materially by
winter. Peaches will be about halt crop
in South Missouri. The cold snap, Jam
uary 10, killed all the buds as far
as the Missouri river, and there will be
very few peaches north of Springfield and
Carthage. Pears are In as good cond-
ton as could be desired. The late
spring is very favorable to all other fruits,
holding them back so as to be out of danger
of late froSts. Good prospects for full crop
Of cherries and plUms Raspberries and
blackberries were injured by last seasons
drought and not two-thlrds of a crop is ex-
pected. Strawberries suffered severely
from some cause, and will not yield over
half crop, except in some remote instances.
Grapes, hardy varieties, full crop; other
varieties, one-half a crop. Colonel Good
man is now experimenting the publication
of the horticultural report, which will be
ready for distribution in a few days.
CHICAGO, March 1S-General Manager
Olds of the Canadian Pacific railway, ap-
peared before the Interstate Commerce
Commission here yesterday to answer
questions regarding the competition of his
road with United States lines. He assert
ed that his company was not disturber,
but that it had given American shippers
the advantage OF reasonable rates. The
Canadian Pacific was not responsible for
the competition in Chicago and the West,
as the American roads were the initial lines
and the Canadian Pacific only took such
business as they brought TO it. He asserted
that his road was working in amity with
the transcontinental lines and by
agreement was allowed to make a lower
rate fixed upon. The statement that the
Canadian Pacific had robbed the American
lines of So, 0O0, 600 in 1887 was all bosh The
gross earnings OF the Canadian Pacific in
that period were Sl1 COG, 600 and the rev.
enue from its Interstate traffic $l65, 600.
NEW ORLEANS, March 1S.-The United
States grand jury returned an indictment
against the Illinois Central Railway, y. 81.
McConnico general agent, and ID. b.
Morey, general freight agent, for viola
tion Of the Interstate law. This is the
first prosecution in the South under the
provisions of that law. The indictment
alleges substantially unjust and unreason-
able transportation of cotton from Canton
and Holly Springs, Miss, to New Orleans.
and also unjust discrimination against the
people OF New Orleans in favor OF Lowell,
Mass, in the transportation Of cotton from
the points above referred 20. The railway
charged 81 80 bale from Holly Springs to
New Orleans, a distance of 800 miles, and
10 cents per 100 pounds for cotton from
Holly Springs TO Lowell, Mass, distance
of more than 1000 miles
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direction OF the Government
IT is said that houses belonging to Prot
estants are systematically fired ut Barbara
Oscampa, Mexico.
AT the regular meeting OF the Bank of
England directors on the 18th. Mr. Jones,
one OF the governors OF the bank referred
to Mr.. Goschen's plan OF the conversion Of
the public debt By means OF gradual re-
duction OF interest as a scheme less honor
able than the Irish plan of campaign, and
he called it an outrageous attack upon the
rights Of property.
RECENT dispatch from London an
nounces the drowning of sixteen persons
on Bari by the capsizing OF a pleasure boat
WEDDING party Of sixteen persons, re-
turning from church at Neuzatz, Hungary,
the other day, started to cross the ice on
the Danube in carriages. When half way
across the ice gave way and the entire
party were drowned.
A DISPATCH from the British Northwest
says: Last spring it was reported that
owing to hunger during the previous win
ter several cases Of cannibalism had &C.
Cured at Little Red river, or Peace river,
below Vermillion. II now turns out that
the cannibalism was not caused by hunger,
but was the work of a woman who had
turned ''wehtigo" several years ago, and
who has since killed and eaten twelve per-
sons.
THE Rev. Mr.. Sheldon, drowned some
time ago in Alaska, was an English mis-
sionary and not the Government official of
that name as was at first thought
THE house of Ulrich Raux, a carpenter
Of Ste. Sophie, Can, was destroyed by fire
the other night. Raux's three children
and his wife, the latter of whom was an
invalid and bedridden, were in the building
and were burned to death.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended March Is, numbered for
the United States, 202; for Canada, &c;
total, 22S, compared with 253 the previous
week and 2S2 for the corresponding week
last year.
GENERAL BoULANGER has been deprived
of his command because he visited Paris
contrary to instructions Much excitement
existed
SENATOR CARSoT, father of the President
OF the French Republic, died recently, aged
eighty-seven.
LATER reports from the scene of the Vel
low river (China) floods. seven months ago.
place the number of lives lost by the mum
dalton at between "a million and a half and
two million.
CLEARING house report for week ended
March IL showed an average decrease of
80 SohP otSu WIFI tue corresponding week
of last year. In New York the decrease
was 315.
The London money market was reported
fairly active during the week ended March
IL. English and colonial securities adj
vanced, but Americans were quiet. In
Paris prices were good until the last day
when they broke on news of the German
Emperor's bad health. In Berlin and
Frankfort the market was quiet and
steady.
A HEAVY snow storm was reported raging
In France on the 18Th. In Paris the streets
were in dangerous condition.
THE Honiteur de Rome says that Empress
Augusta, widow of the late Emperor WILL
lam, intends to become Catholic The
report was discredited at Berlin.
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principal sufferers, and in the state of
New York alone the damage is estI-
mated at S2O,OOO,0OO while in the city
S7,0OO,Oc0 will not cover the damage.
All of this occurred the middle of
March. not west of the Missouri river,
but in the civilized, sedate and proud
old east. Sorry we are for the sufferers,
and we cannot too heartily commend
the generosity of Bismark, Dakota. in
telegraphing to Mayor Hewitt that that
city was anxious to contribute to the
bliZZard-sufferer of the east.
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Randall has prepared tariff bill of
his own, and last week introduced it
into the house. 1t repeats the entire
internal tax on tobacco and on fruit
brandies; repeats the license tax on
liquor-deaIers makes free alcohol used
in the arts, and reduces the tax on
whisky to so cents gallon. He claims
that there is considerable reduction
of duties Oh many articles now paying
duties, and that it carnes to the free
list many other articles, especially raw
material.
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Senator Ingalls, made nothing by his
attack on the dead generals, Mcclellan
and Hancock, and now he no doubt
wishes he had pursued course of gol-
den silence. Mr.. Ingalls, was candi-
date for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in 1864,
on a platform strongly endorsing Nc
Clellan. Our senior senator is not only
sour, but he is very inconsistent.
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There will be no Hill boom i'm Kansas
this year, and all talk about such a
movement is ill-advised and misleading
We do not endorse every official act of
Mr.. Cleveland, but candidly believe
that he has done as well as any man in
the party could have done. And he is
improving every DAY. 1t is safe TO say
that ninety per cent. OF the democrats
OF Kansas are for Mr.. Cleveland for a
second term. There is not even any
danger OF one Cleveland delegate
being elected from Kansas to the st.
Lolis convention.
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The brotherhood men are yet out on
the c., b Il @. system and that road is
filling the vacant places with outside
engineers and firemen. That road is
handling its usual passenger business
and half as much freight as formerly.
The Santa Fe "fizzle" disguised the
go" brotherhood strikers.
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If any reduction is to be made in the
internal revenue taxes, it cannot prop
erly be made on smoking and chewing
tobacco. Cigars and cigarettes and all
kinds of tobacco are Injuries, and are
only enjoyed by people who care MOTH
ing for the extra cost occasioned by an
internal revenue tax.