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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-11-21

After the wreck was cleared Il was
learned that but 90 men were killed i'm
the Pittsburg lKan.l mine disaster.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-11-21

The Oklahoma convention assembled
at Wichita yesterday. Congressman
Springer and Weaver were TO have
made speeches.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-11-21

Nj. W. sutton, an early resident of
Barber county, was elected to the legis
lature In Ford county. OF course he is
n Republican.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-11-21

There will be no hot winds or short
age Of crops next year If the promises
Of the Republican party are kept. Then
defeat Will not DE- 50 bitter.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-11-21
Carpets For Everybody.

Rigg < Johnston have Just received a
-''ii line OF carpet samples from one of
Tho - 49,, --ret houses ia st, Louis,
Any one wanting carpets
TO call aud get prices. 30
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-11-21
sAERIFF's sALE..PERsoNAI PRoPERIY

STATE OF KANSAS,
BARRIER COUNTY,
In the District Court Of the oath Judicial Dis
trict
b L. Martin, c. G. Perrin and T. E.
Games, partners under the name
ana firm of Martin, Perrin & Co.,
Plaintiffs.
M. II. Updegraf and Ed l.. Smith,
partners under name and firm of
UpdegFaH Smith, Defendants
pY VIRTUE OF AN EXECUTION to me di-
In and for said county and state l. George w
stevens. sheriff OF Barber county, Kansas, will
on
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1888,
at the store room formerly occupied by Upde-
graft Smith, on Main street. in Medicine
Lodge, Kansas, at 10 O'clock in the forenoon Of
hlghest bidder, the following personal prop
erty:
All the stock i'm trade of Drugs and Drug
gist Sundries now in the store lately occu-
pied by Updegraf Il Smith, above defendants)
on Main street, i'll the City of Medicine Lodge
Kansas
Levied upon as the property of said defen-
dants and To satisfy Judgment obtained
against them by said plaintiffs for the sum of
Three Hundred and Twenty-four ana 2O-IJg
dollars 9420l with interest at 10 per cent per
annum from date OF judgment. together with
the costs OF suit and the costs of this snlt-
Given under my hand In nv u.iice in the
city of Medicine lodge, this, the 18th day OF
Nov, loSSs.
GEO. W. STEVENS,
1921 Sheriff of Barber county, Kansas
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-11-21
STEAM ENGINE FOR SALE.

A SIX-HORSE-POwER STEAM ENGINE
necessary pulleys. shaffing and betting, all in
the best of order, and Cheap for Cash. This Is
perfect outfit for corn-sheller, corn and
cob crllsher, aud steamer for chopped feed.
Call at once Ii must be sold.
THE INDEX,
IS Medicine Lodge. Kansas.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-11-21
MONDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1855.
sHERIFTs sALE-PERs0NAL PROPERr7

1921 Sheriff of Barber county. Kansas fiss
, 1888-10-07
Cheerful n~1ortuary Practices.

In n corner was an ~inclosure, which
contained bushels upon bushels of human
bones, piled in heaps. bleaching and bis.
tering in the sun. A grave was being dug,
and we watched the process. The Indians
used a crowbar and machete, scooping out
the loose earth with their hands. Pro
ceeding lower down, they filed their
hemp fiber aprons with the dirt and
scrambled to the top with it. Now and
then the crowbar would enter something
with a cracking and tearing sound-pass,
ing through a skull. Then the Indians
would take 1t out in their hands, Examine
and comment upon it, and generally iden.
tify it as having belonged to some friend
or neighbor. If the bones belonging with
it were easily obtainable they lifted them
out respectfully and laid them on the pile
in the charnel house.
1t seemed as If every skull in the yard
had once sat upon the shoulders OF an
acquaintance, so many did they identify
as part of the late Don Juan or Don Jose
"a lesson to somebody. One cadaver was
brought up-that of a woman-on the
bones of which flesh still adhered, dried
like a mummy Why, in heavens name,
when there is so much unoccupied space
all over the country, they continue pfling
dead people on top of each other. from
generation to generation, none can tell.
but such seems to be the universal Gus
tom all over Mexico and Central America.
-Co Philadelphia Record.
, 1888-10-07

l referred a short distance back to a
Russian opera lac heard. 1t was inter
esting because the music and the singing
were so much like the Italian school. The
people are great theater goers here. and
the art of acting n singing is far be-
yond the general average of our OWE
stage. b accessories, such as scenery,
costumes and pretty feminine faces, are
lacking 1t seems odd, even yet. to go to
an opera or a play at $3.50, and walk out
in the court yard of the theatre for a Gig.
arctic after an act or two. and find it still
broad daylight. Almost no one wears
evening clothes in Berlin, The women
are obliged by a cast iron law to take off
their hats. and it's a wonderful comfort,
too, to the men Berlin women are not
pretty by any means
In Vienna a plain woman is a rarity
here a pretty one is much more rare
Beer does it. | fancy A woman of 25
with anything approaching a figure is
seldom to be encountered on the Berlin
streets 1t is beer always and ever. The
gowns are Ill fitting. the shoulders round
and the faces heavy and pudgy. 1t is not
the healthy, rosy plumpness that often
goes with maturity in England and Amer,
ica- but the colorless and fluffy accumula.
ton of fat that has none of the elements
of beauty in 1t. They neither sit nor
stand erect. OF course this Is a mere
generalization, and | shall be vastly
obliged If the German readers of this let
ter will not rise at once and pepper the
paper with missives. proving at length
and with unquestionable force of logic
that | am an ass and in no way qualified
to judge.-Blakely hall in The Argonaut.
, 1888-10-07

Across the corridor from the roomy of.
ices of Secretary Whitney is the compass
testing room of the navy department. l
strolled in there today and saw two very
interesting curios. One was a quaint,
high backed chair which had been used
for years by Gideon Welles. who was the
secretary of the navy in Lincoln's cabinet.
''Sit in it." said Lieut.. Denfeld, land l
will show you the star attraction of the
room" He unlocked q glass case and
carefully uncovered an ordinary looking
ships chronometer.
But its history was not at all ordinary.
1t has lain for four years in an Arctic
cairn without receiving the slightest
damage. 1t had been catched in the
arctic wilds in 1872 by members of the i'll
fated Polaris expedition, and in 1875 it
found there by her majesty's ship Dis
covery. 1t was taken to London in due
course, and later returned to the govern
ment of the United States. The report ac-
c~ompanying 1t states that the London test
srs discovered that the ~chronometer lost
but one-tenth of q second per day, which
was the loss statement In the rate paper
of the American manufacturers. The
officers of the British ship state that while
they were there the mercury of the ther-
mometer was frozen for forty-seven days,
although n day the mercury marked 104
dogs. below freezing. This Is considered
to be the severest test syeT borne by Q
time marking Observation-Disclosures
Letter.
, 1888-10-07

l-Headquarters Department of the
Platte, Chief Quartermaster's office,
Omaha, Neb., Sept. 10, 1888. Sealed
proposals in triplicate will be received at
this Office until the Goth day of October,
1888, at 2 o'clock p. M, central. time,
when they will be opened for all labor re-
CURED in the construction and completion
of three (3) or four (4) double sets of
officers quarters at Fort Du Chesne, Utah,
in accordance with plans and specifications
copies of which may be seen at this
Office or at the offices of the depot quar-
termaster, at Ogden, Utah, and post
quartermasters Fort Douglas and Du
Chesne. The United States reserves the
right to reject any or all bids, or to accept
bids for construction of one or more of
the buildings as it may elect. Blanks for
bidding with circular giving additional
information, will be furnished on a~pplica-
ton to any of the Offices herein named.
Envelopes to be addressed to the under
signed, marked Proposals for construc-
ton at Fort Du Chesne." VIM. B.
HUGHES, quartermaster, q. S. A.
Chief Quartermaster.
, 1888-10-07
Arrowroot Culture i'm barbados.

Arrowroot culture Is carried on in a
shiftless sort of q way. and a valuable in
dustry has thus been neglected. while the
iBarbadians have consistently put all their
eggs into one basket. On the northern
side of the island. among roaring surges
and flying sea spune. | saw little patch
OF something growing. with tender, fee
BILE, light green leaves. very like lettuce
that is a week above ground. The cult
waited land was perhaps a quarter of an
acre, and in one corner of the lot stood a
miserable thatch rooted shanty. This was
an arrowroot plantation and mill. A lank,
poverty stricken white answered to nv
call, and conducted me about his estate.
ending mp with the manufacture. Two
women, whose pallid faces. bent backs
and hstless looks spoke of scanty rations
all their lives. were busy squeezing the
water out of a mass of white fiber by
handfuls into a sheet stretched over a
barrel In n corner stood a large cir
cular Crater to be turned by some lazy
hand-that was all.
The root looks like small, white sugar
zane. divided into jointsA growing some
six inches long; is cut. fiber BY graf
ing. soaked in water. ISL then has the
starch that is known as arrowroot
squeezed out slowly by such discouraged
looking females as those we're. In APP
Pearance and taste this was quite equal
to what | ave seen in Bermuda; and
along this north coast is vacant land that
Is useless for cane, enough to supply a
great demand, with every facility for Gull
tivation. And it must be profitable, for
upon the receipts from that petty. poor
place. at $2.75 per hundred pounds, these
three people subsisted- Living. it was
not; that was an ambition to which their
widest hopes had not scared: but they
did not cease to exist, n were not more
utterly detected in gait and general get
up than many Of their compatriots who
worked In cane felds.-Dr. William F.
Hutchinson In American Magazine.
, 1888-10-07

PROPOSALS FOR BUILDING MA
t%erials. Headquarters Department of
the Platte. Chief .Quartermaster's Office,
Omaha, Neb, Sept. 10. 1888. Sealed
proposals, in triplicate, will be received at
this office until l o'clock p. M. central
time, Oct. 20, 1888, when they will be
opened Tor furnishing nails. hardware,
doors, windows, blinds, s.airways, interior
finish and finishing lumber for the con-
struction Of three or four double sets of
officers quarters at Fort Du Chesne, Utah,
to be delivered aboard the cars, as the
case may be, at Omaha, Salt Lake or at
Price station, Utah. Descriptive lists and
specifications with all necessary inforna-
ton can be had on application to this
Office or that of the depot quartermaster
at Ogden or the post quartermaster at
Fort Douglas. Bids will be received for
the whole or any portion of the materials
required, preference being given to arti-
cles of domestic production or manufact-
ure. The United States reserves the
right to reject any or all bids. Bids to be
addressed to the undersigned and envel
opes marked proposals for materials for
Fort Du Chesne." VIM. B. HUGHES,
Quartermaster, U. S. A, Chief Quarter
master.
, 1888-10-07

1 am myself 30 deaf that common con-
v%ersation is inaudible to me when in a
room where there is no other noise, but
when there is singing or instruments
playing | can heal as well as any one, and
when on board of railroad cars in motion
l have frequently heard conversation
from the seat behind me that those on
the seat with me could not hear. l have
known a number of people similarly
affected am 10 years of age. and have
been deaf for more than fifty years.
Charles Stone in Scientific American.
, 1888-10-07

historical Dept; Cheyenne, Hvo.
, 1888-10-07
An Cure.

The ORIGINAL ABIETINE ONT
MENT is only put up in large two ounce
tin boxes, and is an absolute cure for old
sores, burns. wounds, chapped hands and
all skin eruptions. Will positively cure
all kinds Of piles. Ask for the ORIG
NAL ABIETINE OINTMENT. Sold
by DIR. w. n. Hunt, at 25 cents per box
by mail 80 cents.
, 1888-10-07
Notice # sale of school Bonds.

Notice is hereby given that the trustees
of school district number 2. in Converse
county, Wyoming, will on the Sth day of
October, A. D. 1888. at Douglas in said
county, sell the bonds of said school dis,
tfiet-te-theLamount of s., 900, to-wit:
Ten coupon bonds numbered from l to 10
inclusive, of denomination of $500 each,
bearing s per cent interest and payable
and redeemable in fifteen years.
Said bonds having been issued for the
purpose of building a school house in said
district and providing the same with nec-
essary furniture, pursuant to a vote of the
qualified electors held on the LIST day of
September, 1888, and in accordance with
the provisions Of chapter 70 of the ses-
sion laws of Wyoming for 1888.
W. f. G. STowITTs,
G. i. MEADER,
w. l.. BEoRKs,
Board OF Trustees.
Manville. Wyo., Sept. 10, 1888.
Anybody wanting to buy or making in
quiry about the bonds, please address the
board at Manvillc, Converse cdSuty, Wyo.
ming.
, 1888-10-07
DROPOsALSFOR HAY AND OATS.

department OF the
Platte, Chief Quartermaster's Office,
Omaha, Neb., September, 81, 1888.
Sealed Proposals, in triplicate, subject to
the usual conditions. are invited and will
be received at this Office until two o'clock
D. m, October ODD, 1888, for deli
Fort Washable, Wyo., of thirty (3O) tons
of hay, and forty thousand (40, OO0)
pounds Of oats, sacked. Bidders to specify
price per ton for hay of 1000 pounds,
and price per 100 pounds for oats deliver
ed in burlap sacks. The supplies must
be good and merchantable. The hay to
be well cured and delivered in the stacks
or in bales-kind t o be stated in bids.
Preference given TO articles of domestic
production. The government reserves
the right to reject any or all proposals.
Further particulars and blanks for bidding
nav be obtained at this office or of the
Post Quartermaster Fort Washable.
Proposals TO be addressed to the under
signed marked proposals for hay and
oats" VIM. B. HUGHES, Quarter
master U. S A, Chief Quartermaster.
Job Printing neatly executed at the
, 1888-10-07

Thoroughly cleanse the blood, which is tho
fountain of health, by using DIR. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery, and good digestion, a
fair skin, buoyant spirits, and bodily health
and vigor will be established.
Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors,
from the common pimple, blotch, or eruption,
to the worst Scrofula, or blood-poison. Es-
pecally has it proven its efficacy in curing
Salt : rheum or letter, Eczema, Erysipelas,
Fever sores, Hip joint Disease. Scrofulous
Sores and Swellings, Enlarged Glands, Col
tire or Thick Neck, and Eating Sores or
Golden Medical Discovery cures Cousump-
ton (which is Scrofula of the Lupgsl, by its
and nutritiye properties, If taken in time.
For Weak Lungs. Splitting of Blood, Short
ness of Breath. Catarrh in the Head, Brou-
affections, it is a sovereign remedy. 1t
promptly cures the severest Coughs.
For Torpid Liver, Biliousness, or Liver
Complaint Dyspepsia, and indigestion, it is
an unequaled remedy. Sold by druggists.
Price Sl.O0. or six bottles for $500.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-02-09
WHO WAS KILLED.
Col. RhOad. Denies Gen. Lsxrstf. Mule storY.

Col. hhoaaA Denies zen. AeZGettH Mule SfeFTs
EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your issue
of Dec, 8 there appeared an article by Maj .-Gen.
Nj. D. Leggett, in which the General gives q par
tial history OF my war record, and compliments
me more perhaps than deserve; but the Gen
eral has made one mistake in his article that
wish to correct. He states that I was posted at
Raleigh n. c., with the army in 1865, and that
was riding by mule which was eating and
the said mule kicked and broke one Of my legs.
Now, if the General had said that a respectable
horse had kicked me, and located the occur
ence at some point where I was present, do
not think that would have tried to correct
the statement; but the idea Of an army officer
who was brought up in the backwOOds OF the
far West deliberately riding up to a mule while
eating 1t certainly indicates = lack Of judg-
ment, 70 say the least. While il is true that
did not have the advantage of even a common
school education, it is true that / learned
enough about the eussedueSs of an old mule
long before the war to give him plenty of room
while munching his army rations.
The General is mistaken. / was not with
the army at Raleigh, N G. The officer kick
ed by the mule must have been q milliner
clerk before the war, or he would have known
better than to approach a mule from the rear,
as a front approach is always preferable.
served with Gen. Leggett from Shiloh in
1862, either in his brigade or division, except
at short intervals, to the close Of the war. he
was Colonel of the 18th Ohio when I first made
his acquaintance, and he won his stars at the
front, as l can certainly testify. He was s
good disciplinaTian, but courteous and kind 70
the men and officers in his command bat
neither that mule nor any other kicked me
during the war.-WM G, RHoADs, Breyet-Co
onel and Lieutenant Colonel, Both IL, Mays
vile, No.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-02-09

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: Since the pub
lication Of G. n. DreY's story Of the battle Of
Nov 1858, / have received many kind letters
and cOrroborative accounts Of that battle and
the leading part which the 9th Ne. took in ths
conflict at that place, yet there are few who
dispute the well-authenticatsd statements. For
instance, in your issue of Oct 81 Griffith Lyle,
Co. g, 49th Pa, says his regiment was in the
front line" 1t is we'll attested that the 9th
Me. led the assault alone, and that the first re-
Inducements were the 9th Wis, followed bY
the 49th and 18th Pa of the same brigade.
The 9th Ne. lost two-thirds of their number
in the assault, which sufficiently attests who
bore the brunt of the battle. Let me quote
from letter now before me, written by Chap
lain M. ]. Kelley from the field just after the
battle: "a mere skirmish-line flor our regi-
ment was Adeployed as skirmishers) drove a
whole line of battle from their intrenchments
and held them. Up the ascent, across the rifle
pits, into the intrenchments where it Fained
lead and iron, some portion of the time actually
facing more than 10 times their number, our
regiment went alone They took the intreneh-
ments and held them for more than 10 minutes,
until the 9Th Wis, that gallant regiment that
never yet gave back, came to the rescue"
Listen to what another of the 10th Pa. boys
(Corp1 B. T. Johns, Co. A. now resident at
Chambersburg, Pa, wrote me recently: l saw
the heroic 9Th Me. deplOyed in front of US as
skirmishers, while the brave old hero, Dayy
Russell, ordered the charge and rode along close
up to them, until the rebels opened on them
with grape and canister and railroad spikes,
when he dashed back to Us with orders to
double-quick, run, and we never stopped
until we reached the rife-pits just to the right
of the fort, where the 9th Ne. had the hand-to-
hand combat"
That is where the 49th Pa boys were, and
they got there very quickly after receiving
ORDERS to their ample credit, as did also their
sister regiment, the 119th Pa. But the battle
was then nearly over, and their duties were
mainly to hold what had already been capt
ured, fact which is amply sttested. Il ID
positively beyond dispute that Gen. Russell
| ordered forward the 9th he. alone and ahead
of all others.
Numerous other regiments poured in from
the witnessing Fifth and Sixth Corps when the
fight was found to be more than mere Skin
mish, but the 9Th Ne. must ever hold the post
of honor in the history Of that battle.
The dissenting member of the 10th Pa. had
no cannon-balls to face when he received hil
musket wound, for at that time the 9th Ne
were holding the fort, which the enemy were
trying to recoyer.-H. E. MATHEWS, San Fran
| cisco, Cal.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-02-09
He correct. Comrades SewlIn and LOgsdon.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In your issue
of Nov. 10 is an article from Comrade NeBlin
in regard to one Taylor, supposed TO belong 10
Co. NJ, I'd Mass. Cav. In Co. NJ there were two
men named Taylor. George Taylor enlisted
in San Francisco March 10, 1868, and deserted
at camp, East Capitol Hill in May, 1863 Arch
ibsld Taylor enlisted at same time and place;
was taken prisoner in action at Dranesville
Va, Feb. p, 1864, and died at AndersonvilIs,
Ga. / do not believe the Taylor mentioned by
Comrade NeWlin was either of the above. 1t
could not have been George, for he would
hardly have gone inside of the rebel lines and
got captured; and besides that, he would not
have known anything about the fight at Ash
by's Gap, which occurred two months after
wards At the time mentioned by COmrade
NeWlin Feb. 20, 1864 Archibald Taylor wss,
with me, en- route to the rebel Capital. Where
Archibald died is a matter of record and Ia
probably correct.
John Taylor, of Co. L, is reported missing,
which meant at that time that he was probably a
prisoner. He was not taken prisoner at Ashbyis
Gap ON the 18th day of July, 1868, as his COM
pany was not engaged in the fight, and if he had
been taken prisoner he could not have reported
the casualties so correctly. 1t is my opinion
he was taken prisoner the following day on our
return march to our lines, as several men were
reported missing, among them one OF my COM
pany NJ. l believe John Taylor is the man.
Will Comrade Newlin please write me in re-
gard to this matter, as his letter in your issue
of 10th of November is the first l have heard
of the matter. and am very much interested
in anything pertaining to my old company.
To Comrade LogsdOn, Co. F, 2d Mass. Cav,
in your issue of Dec %. will say that hs is
mistaken in the name of the Lieutenant who
was captured in the affair at Ashby's Gap. 1t
was Lieut. John G. Noreros5 of Co. II, not
Lieut. Baldwin. Capt. NOrcross is now living
in Los Angeles, Cal. He was prisoner about
20 months, escaping from Charlotte, N. c., the
latter part of February, 1s65-GEo. A. NAN
MING, Co. d, I'd Mass. Cav, Rathdrum, Idaho.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-02-09
Nc Enrls Of the 12th w. ~

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: / have sue
ceeded in recovering and now have in nay posses
sion the eagle presented to us by our corps
commander, Maj.-Gen. John Gibbon, for gal
liant conduct in the assault on Fort Gregg near
Petersburg, Va, April 2, 1866.
It was stolen from our flagstaff some I0years
ago, and was in the possession Martha COreorsn,
grocer and liquor dealer, of Steubenyille, o.
The first Information leading to the recovery
of the eagle was given me by Comrade 3.
w. Mahan, Co. K, 18th w. Va. Comrade W..
NJ. Dunlap, of Liberty District and Lieut..
John Briggs, Of Wellsburg, went with nae to
Stubenyille, and we, in company with COmrade
Mahan, called on Mr.. COrcoran and presented our
claims for the eagle. We convinced him that
we had more interest in that bird than be had
He came to the same conclusion and handed
over the bird, stating that it had been pre-
scented To him some 10 years ago by railroad
brakeman.-W. B. CURTIS, Colonel, 18th W.
Va, West Liberty, w. Va.