Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-30
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w. ii. HARRISON. formerly Of this
county, was here this week. He has
been spending much time in California
during the past two years and owns 81
500 acres of lahd hear Tulare lake, in
that state.
This morning, the Barber county del
egatiou TO the senatorial convention at
COldwater. started for Isabel in a four
horse omnibus driven by j. b. Gano.
In the party were I. a. McNeal, j. w.
McNea 5. l.. Overstreet, G. w. Ellis,
j. ii. Posey, l.. NJ. Axline, Frank
Holmes, Capt. Fair, w. d. VanSlyke
and Judge Hardy. They are confident
of getting the nomination for T. A.
McNeal.
A happy fishing party composed of
Judge Ellis and children, 5. K. w.
Field and wife, S. Z. Stone, wife and
children, Judge O'Bryan and wife and
Miss. Jessie O'Bryan, J. b. Ely and
wife, Mrs. L. Ii. Dunn, Mrs. Geppert
and Z. III. Shelly and wife, of Kiowa.
were up at Elm Mills on a fishing ex-
cursion Saturday and Sunday and re-
port having had a delightful trip and
zine fishing. Fred Ellis caught the best
string, AZ bass, crappie, perch and cats.
Thompson's opera house was filed
last Sunday by the congregations of the
four churches in this city and old SOL
diers who were present to attend union
religious exercises under the direction
of the G. A. r. post of this city. Rev.
McElroy, of the Presbyterian church.
preached the sermon while Rev, San
derson, Rev. Cain. Elder Embry and
Rev. Hahn assisted In readings or
prayers. A choir selected from the
several churches, with Mrs. }. III. Nc
Cracken as pianist, furnished excellent
music. The hall had been tastefully
decorated with flowers and flags and
altogether the occasion was one to be
remembered. More than 500 people
were present.
a correspondent in this issue tells of
hardship that the people in the south
west part of the county have to endure:
the driving in of cattle from eastern
counties to be graZed on our rich grass
es without paying any rental or taxes.
The law is lame on this point. for while
it allows our county to tax cattle driven
in from another state or from an I'M
organized county In this state it makes
no provision for taxing cattle whose
owners live in organized counties,
though such cattle may, and frequently
do. remain here eight months in the
year. Our friend should remember his
grievance and vote for candidate for
! the legislature this fall who will agree
to introduce an amendment to the rev.
enue law covering this point.
Messrs. Wood Il Vincent, who have
been engaged in the boot and shoe and
furnishing goods business in this city
during the past two years. have decid
ed to move their stock to Trinidad,
Colorado, where they will add extern
sively to it and continue in the business.
Medicine Lodge never did business
WIN a. hOAN IohOitAhAC nlIls anu lllC
city never lost two better citizens than
f. II. Wood aud +. L. Vincent. They
will retain their real estate interests in
this city and, it is to be hoped, that in
time they may decide to return here.
They are young men who Will prove to
be creditable and energetic citizens ill.,
any community and, with their wives,
they will be useful and bright members
of society, their social attachments be-
ing superb.
+. y. Gross, who lived near Sun City,
was arrested last week in Comanche
county by Constable +. a. Whitaker on
complaint of George Cant, of Pratt
county, to whom Gross had mortgaged
? cows, bull and horses. Gross was
driving the stock west and Mr.. Cant
concluded the he was attempting to get
it out of the state and so had him fol-
lowed ard arrested. Gross was ar.
raigned before Justice McCanlesS, in
this city, Monday. for preliminary exam
nation on the charge of grand larceny
and yesterday morning he was bound
over to await the action of the district
court, his bond being fixed at 81, 900, in
default of which he went TO Jail. Den
ton u Jones appeared for defendant
while c. L. Long assisted Mr.. Shannon
in the prosecution.
Hon. L. U. Humphrey, of Indepen-
dence, Kans., republican candidate for
governor, was here last Friday evening
and spoke to good-sized audience at the
court house. A delegation of citizens
headed by the band, met the speaker at
the O'Clock train and escorted him to
the Grand hotel. From this display, it
was inferred that Mr.. Humphrey was a
big gum and that he might be expected
to paralize the democrats and turn the
entire county over to the republicans.
He didn't, though. He was preceded by
Mr.. Jess Overstreet, who had cut-and-
prepared speech covering pretty much
everything from the discovery of Amer
lea to the last primary convention and
this speech was fred bodily into the
audience. By the time it was finished
the crowd was most too sleepy to pay
much attention to Mr.. Humphrey. The
band awOke the sleepiest and then Mr..
Humphrey proceeded to speak his piece,
commencing by saying he would not
talk long; but this promise he broke for
he spoke an hour. He is not an orator,
though rather plausible speaker and
had he confined himself to the living
issues of the day he would have made
more friends. Asst was he fought over
the war. resurrected slavery, misrepre-
sented the democracy, as usual, BELT
tied democratic statesmen and lauded
the republican spoilsmen, preached the
WORKOUT doctrine of protection and