Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-11-07

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Chase thinks that this season will be an
unusually pleasant one.
After all, the Democrats have lost
nothing in Barber county. The present
representative, probate judge, district
clerk, county superintendent and coun-
ty attorney are Republicans.
Vote for n paper mill. We have the
water and the material for pulp and
there is no reason why we may not
make as much money with paper mill
as can be made out of one in Massachu-
sets.
I Col. Snoddy did not enlighten Medi-
cine Lodge audience during the cam
paign, though he was billed to appear
on no less than six different occasions.
1t is said that the Colonel is a good
campaigner.
Vote for a creamery. 1t will pay the
farmers around Medicine Lodge to ell
courage this enterprise. Every dollar
obtained from butter or cheese shipped
away from here is clear gain. A cream
cry is worth all the elections.
Especial attention is called to the ex-
pose of spiritualism published on the
first page of this paper. II will, in a
measure, if read, have the effect of di-
verting the minds of defeated polite
ians from their bad luck. Read it, any
way.
Kiowa Herald: Mr.. James Thomp-
son, the gentlemanly driver and trainer
of w. +. Campbell's elegant stable of
horses, done much towards making our
fair a success. He kindly received
horses owned by different citizens and
drove them in their races to win. We
like courtesy and manhood, and Mr..
Thompson is justly entitled to the good
will and esteem of our citizens"
The probability is that postoffice in
spector will be sent to investigate a case
of held-back mail that lately occurred
at an Office in this county. 1t was an
official letter from the postofIice depart
meDt, and in addition TO being held for
nearly week, the envelope shows I'M
mistakable signs of having been opened.
Fortunately, duplicates of the docu-
ments contained in the letter had been
mailed to another person and so no
great harm was done.
If there is one thing that Medicine
Lodge needs more than another, it is
decent telegraph service. During the
two national conventions and the re-
cent election we have been as poorly
of as if we were hundred miles from
railroad. This city made up the
purse required by the telegraph com
pany for the bulletins, and never was
poorer service given the people. Why
will the great and good Santa Fe rail-
road treat its patrons that way?
The rush of campaign work is over.
and we are better prepared than ever to
do job printing in first-class style and
on short notice. Look over your
stock and see if you are in need of bill
heads, statements, cards, letter heads.
note heads, envelopes, price lists, meal
tickets, dray tickets, real estate price
4 lists, bargain circulars, or in fact any,
thing that you need in the printing
line. We have magnificent stock of
stationery and we want to print it up.
During the canvass just closed, the
INDEX endeavOred to be fair with the
candidates on the opposition ticket and
we believe that no reasonable man can
find fault with our course. We used ar
gument instead of gush, and we pre-
ferred To point out the many good quail
tiles of the Democratic nominees rath-
er than the bad qualities of their oppo-
nents. One thing is certain: The fate
OF the nation did not depend on Barber
county. The country will move along,
We will all be neighbOrs and we should
be happy.
Suckers are not all dead. The outfit
that watched the INDEX office last Sun
day in the hope of catching ON to the
extras that were never issued OF never
intended TO be issued, are to-day wiser
men. And it may be set down as a
! fact that this office never has issued
and never will issue any clandestine cir
: eulars, letters or extras. What we do
we do openly and above board; when
! we want to publish anything about can.
didates or political affairs, the matter
will always be found in the regular is.
sue of the INDIES.
Caldwell Journal: Medicine Lodge
: is now in the list of Kansas towns which
have water works. The difference be-
tween Medicine Lodge and other Kan.
sas towns is this: Medicine Lodge has
her own water works which are good
and cheap, while the other towns hayt
somebody else's works, which are al.
most worthless and very expensive
: Medicine Lodge has fine system OF
water works, but it also affords M
enormous water power and consequent.
ly she can offer inducements to manu-
facturers. The people of the Lodge are
r conservative, but they get there just
the same"
There promises to be shaking up Of
some parties who have been working {
land game in this county, for quite
awhile. The other day, a young mar
L came in to see il his land notice haC
come in for publication. We asked hin
for the numbers and he could not tel
1 the section, township or range. Thei
r we asked him which direction it wa
7 from a certain point and he could no
E ,ell. ana then lac admitted that he haG
a never been on the land; but that lie bat
, Jeen told about it by person who wa
= attending to getting his proof through
such cases AZ that Is what causes can
! celsd entries and TIE visits ofspecial in
speetors. Honesty is the best policy.