Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-04-11
Horse-ShoW naY.

The people of Barber county love
good horse, and OH every recurring an
nual stallion day turn out in crowds to
see the show. Last Saturday was no
exception; the streets were jam-full of
people-sO full, indeed, that Main street
was almost impossible. The cry of the
auctiOneer, the patter OF the horses
feet as they flew back and forth OH Main
street, and the melodious braying of
the beautiful and graceful jassacks,
made up typical Kentucky court day.
There were ever SO many people, but we
regret to say there were not as many
horses and long-eared nightingales as
there should have been. THIS is short
sighted policy on the part Of horse-own-
ers. We saw several here without their
animals. TOO busy in the stud;" "Got
all can do anyhow" These and 9th
er excuses were offered, as If these gen
tlemen did not realize that they owe
duty to the breeders who patronize
them, and to Barber county as a stock
growing county.
Every once in a while some live stock
man comes in and tells us what we
ought to do to encourage the business,
in our paper. Well, we feel stimulated,
and away we go, printing every scrap
OF intelligence that we can extort from
our breeders and dealers. Then comes
along day like Saturday. We print
all notices free, and urge the owners of
stations To bring them here. We i'm
plOre them to come, and give reasons
why they should do so, and it is all for
the good of the county, and more espe-
cially for the benefit of the horsemen
themselves. We don't get cent for
our work, whether there be one stallion
OF one hundred on exhibition. The day
comes, and paltry twenty-five are on
the ground. Hundreds of people are
here to see them, but there are are only
twenty-five, where there should be one
hundred. People are here not only from
Barber, but from adjoining counties
and there are but twenty five stations
to be seen. 1t is true that they rash
around so lively that the average spec
tator thinks there are about fifty, but
the truthful scribe cannot make out
that many by any kind of permissible
exaggeration. 1t wont do, gentlemen.
You can't make Medicine Lodge stock
show center unless you show a little
more get-up-and-get. We have the
horses as good blood as flows in equine
VEINS; we have the capital; we have
the men who understand breeding; but
the don't seem to appreciate the value
of advertising their county. There
never was better opportunity than
last Saturday, but it was not well i'm
proved.
! However, there were some horses
here, and they were good ones, and the
INDEX, the originator OF horse show
day in this city, will briefly refer TO the
horses exhibited:
Howard Parker, of Cedar creek, had
his Young Percheron," dapple grey
that is well known and generally appre-
ciated in the county, where he has here
tofOre made two seasons.
C. B. Currie, of Medicine Lodge, ex-
hibited Sam Whisker," a dapple bay
years old, IL hands high, and weighing
1000 pounds. This horse is Clevc-
land Bay and French Draft, and is as
good as any horse in Kansas. He will
show up 100 colts this season in Barber
aud Kingman counties.
Mr.. Currie also brought in his Nor
man colt Jumbo, powerful coming
two-year-old, si1ea by the Lincoln
horse, and with every prospect OF being
| favorite.
J. W. Lappans three miles west Of