Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-09-19

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stopped here this week with Mrs. Yant
on her way to Comanche county where
her brother lives.
The Santa Fe will sell tickets to the
Topeka fair for S7.71 for the round trip,
including one admission to the grounds.
Round trip tickets to the G.. a. r. s7.2l.
Barber county citizens interested in
the Cherokee Strip lease are over at
Caldwell this week in consultation.
. The lessees claim they have a year in
which to get their stock of the Strip.
The service of song at the NJ. f.
church last Sunday evening was lis
tened to by good audience. The an-
thems and solos were excellent. The
pastor has been requested to prepare
another such sermon for the near flu
| tuTe.
Balls. Smith, the horse-thief arrested
in June 1887, in this county by Sheriff
Nelson, Maj. Lamont and Frank Wise,
was tried in the Uuited States district
court at Wichita last week and SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary.
lie had been in Jail since his arrest.
1t requires unlimited gall" for a
man who is not subscriber or patron
of newspaper to attempt to suggest
what kind of news, political and other
wise, the paper should publish; and yet
there are such men who are continual
ly making suggestions to the INDEX.
Without an effort being made to Sc
cure them, new subscribers are daily
coming in for the INDEX and we are
not only gratified at the number, but
we are particularly pleased with the
class Of people that are expressing a
desire to read first class county paper
Search and wife, charged with selling
liquor at Hazelton, were to have been
tried Monday, and County Attorney
Shannon went down to prosecute. A
continuance was taken until yesterday.
Monday night the accused escaped the
notice of the guards and left the coun-
try.
The Democrats of COmanche county
held their convention last Saturday and
nominated the following ticket: Rep
resentative, j. ii. Hudson; probate
judge, w. L. Kinder; district clerk, r.
+. Goddard; superintendent, Mrs Lottie
Hutchins; commissioner first district,
Vernon J. Miller.
n well-posted gentlemen from the
second commissioner district told
us this week that there was no
question about oliver Ewell being
elected over both Mr.. Stranathan and
Capt. Julian. 1t is fact that Mr.. Ew-
ell is the best qualified for the position
and he should be elected.
The public schools opened Monday
with an attendance of about $50, and
the scholars took hold with considera-
BILE interest. Mr.. Beeson and Mrs. De
Lisle have the Noble building. on North
Main street, while the four rooms at
the school house are presided over by
Misses. Burgess, McNeal, Taber and
Pursell.
Medicine Lodge should be divided
into two voting precincts. There will
be about 500 votes cast here and it will
require two days to count the votes if
the old gait of counting is preserved.
The county commissioners have author
ity to establish new precincts and the
people interested should see that the
city S divided.
Gen. y. Il. Johnson, of Topeka, came
N Mon3av-Gud remained until to-day,
lie was OF legal business. Last night
1t The opera house, he made a red-hot
Radical speech. much TO the delight of
his Republican admirers of this city. 1t
is only occasionally that the Republi-
cans of this town are happy, and last
night was one of the occasions.
c. ID. Nelson returned from Wichita.
last Thursday, where he had been a
witness before a L. 5. court for two
weeks. He announces that he will
make the race for representative and
all reports about him withdrawing are
premature. Mr.. Nelson knows many
people in this county and he will un.
questrOnably make a strong race.
The worst piece of road between this
city and Sun City is directly west of
town to the river, distance of two
miles and half. And the most dan
gerous bridge in the county that we
know of, is one mile and a half west,
over the gulch at the old Hardy place.
1t is the same bridge that cost the
township $50 for broken arm not a
great while ago.
A book of more than ordinary inter-
est, written by p. I. Barnum, entitled
wild Beasts, Birds and Reptiles of
the World, l." with 1.-The Story of their
Capture" is being canvassed for in
this county by John V. Fishburn, of
Sun City. He is one of the old settlers
of this county and our people can de-
pend on Mr.. Fishburn filling his con-
tracts according to agreement.
1t is suggested that at the colt show
on the Goth inst, that the sires of the
colts should be brought in and that the
colts of each sire should be put togeth-
er in the parade with the sire in the
lead. This suggestion is a good one
and we hope it will be carried out. 1t
is also suggested that the colts should
be classed into roadsters, draft and all
work. The procession will probably be
! given Immediately before noon.
There is to be picnic and barbecue
one mile south and half mile east of
Deerhead on Friday, Sept. 18th. Prizes
| are 70 be given the fastest horse and
the fastest foOt-racer. AmLsements of
all kinds, including sack-raeing, foot
racing, dancing, etc. The dance will