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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
a. A. R. Attention,

Headquarters Eldred Post No. ia, De-
partment of Kansas, Grand Army of
the Republic.
GENERAL ORDER No. 1, SERIES OF 1883.
The thirtieth day of May of each year
has been set apart as a Memorial day
for those deceased soldiers who offered
their lives in defense Of the national
union. BY general order of our Com
mander-in-chief and also of the Com
mander of the Department of Kansas,
each post of the Grand Army Of the
Republic, is recommended and directed
ito attend divine service in a body on
the Sunday preceding Memorial day as
a fitting preparation for the solemn
duties of that day."
In obedience to these orders Eldred
Post will assemble at the court house
on Sunday May 9th, at fifteen minutes
before eleven O'Clock, and march to the
place of worship where the services will
be under the direction of Comrade
McElroy, assisted by Rev. Sanderson,
Rev. Cain, Elder Embry and Rev. Hahn.
BY the kindness of Comrade III. c.
Thompson, Thompson's opera house
will be used for the occasion.
All soldiers of that Grand Army from
which we take our name, are invited to
meet with the post, and all persons are
requested to attend the services.
o. G. HOWE, Commander.
j. W. UPPERMAN, Adjutant.
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Mr.. Long Rants!

Chester /. Long was the attraction at
the republican club meeting last Friday
evening and we understand that he
sailed off into a sea almost unknown
to him and ran into breakers that an
older and more experienced politician
might haYe avoided. He of course at
tempted to wave the bloody shirt, but
this effort was even fruitless, for the
WORKOUT garment would not flop. His
most extraordinary and truthful state
ment was his announcement that the
first mission of the republican party
was to have and maintain a strong GEN.
trail government. while the main point
with the democrats was to keep up a
strong local government.
We are willing to accept this as the
definition of the objects of the two par
ties and should Mr.. Long ever canvass
this district as candidate for state
senator we are inclined to think he will
find hundreds of voters who will not
touch him on account of his favoring
centralized government. What the peo-
pie of this county want Is Just as little
machine government" as possible:
they want to reserve aud exercise every
right that they have not surrendered to
the national government; they are op-
posed to Capitalization which Is a full
cousin to monopoly; they are opposed
to paternalism in government affairs
and believe that the state and minor
municipalities are competent to care
for themselves in all matters of local
interest.
OF course Mr.. Long preached protec
ton, because his republican teachers
have so instructed him; but that does
not make it right. He referred to the
dark days of sixty-to-sixty-fve when
his party was saving the country, be-
cause he had heard some one else talk
hat way. not that he knows anything
Of the issues then involved, for he was
then in bibs and dresses. He yelled
himself hoarse for Blaine because some
of his ideal republican leaders are for
Blaine. He used his silver-tongued
oiatorY, learned by listening to Missouri
democratic speakers, but he prostituted
even this accomplishment in the fool
ish effort to awaken enthusiasm for
party that is living only in the past,
party that is being deserted by the
thousands, party that is standing
with one foot IN the grave and that viii
he entirely buried at the November
election.
Mr.. Long is a nice, pleasant gentle
man, but he is an infant when it
comes to making political speeches;
and it is not likely that he will be soon
given another opportunity to speak to
the Logan club.
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A Direct Line to Wichita.

Capt. a. L. Freeman, of this city,
thinks that Medicine Lodge and Wichita
could work together and secure direct
line of railroad between the two places.
He estimates that the cost of a preIim-
mary survey, calling and carrying cleo
tons to vote bonds between the two
places would be $500 and he calculates
that subsidies to the amount of SlS0, 900
could be obtained; that the depot
grounds and right-ot-way would be
donated and that Wichita would give
$4,000 to the enterprise. His ideas
on the subject are worthy of careful
consideration by our people, and if they
are favorable to the proposition there is
no doubt but Wichita will be. The
intermediate territory is not traversed
by a railroad, and no doubt the people
along the proposed line would willingly
vote aid
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Johnnie and George King $40 acres instead of
140 acres.
r. A. Cross went to wichita Tuesday to trade
for property in that city. R. A. is rustler
from away back
One more week win complete the present
term of school in Hazelton.
We have been informed by good judges that
George King, southeast of here has so acres of
the finest wheat now out OF doors
Ed. Smith contemplates patronizing the
creamery when It starts up again. also o. p.
Ward. One by one they are coming over on
the right side.
George Spain, grandson Of L. NJ. Presneil,
accidentally shot himself last Thursday while
fooling with a loaded revolver The ball passed
through his right hand and entered the body
about two inches to the right and just below
ing very dangerous If not fatal wound. DIR.
at last reports the boy was doing well. We
children to play with.
Representative McNeal and Attorney George
Ellis were in Hazeiton this week, probably on
political business.
Rev. Burton has returned home and reports
Mrs. Sallee arrived here from Good Hope,
Ills. with her two children, to make her home
with that solid old democrat 8. N. Louden
They are brother and sister,
Arrangements are being made to fence our
cemetery. A good move in the right direction.
Attorneys Robinson, Mexican and Hopkin of
Kiowa, also F. III. Kirkpatrick. 8. H. Smith,
A. J. Bently. George C. Smith and H. G. Mann,
of Kiowa and L. Fawcett OF Attica, were in our
city Saturday. Their business here was law
SUIT brought from Kiowa on change and tried
before Esquire johnson. They have another
case here 10 be tried next Wednesday.
c. F. Blackburn returned from Pennsylvania
Saturday where he had spent the winter on a
visit, and he says Hazelton is good enough for
him.
e. t. Collins has moved his meat market into
the back room of the Harrington building
That building is now used for dry goods, gro
ceries and a butcher shop.
We saw some alfalfa yesterday that was
sown this spring and will now measure from
two to four inches in heigth. Remember this
is in drouthy Kansas where we saw it.
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Amber Items.

There is some excitement here over the dis
appearance of one of Mr.. Hughes little boys.
He was sent to herd his fathers cows last
Thursday and up to Sunday at noon had not
been heard from. AS the little fellow was only
or 10 years old it is not probable that he has
run away, but what has become of him is a
mystery.
Judging from the present turn out and inter
est taken in out Sunday school, it will be de-
cided success.
1t will soon be time for our annual school
election, and every voter should be present and
prepared to intelligently vote on the question
of building a new school house or on "trans-
mogrfying' the old one.
Our township assessor is through assessing
and have not heard one complaint. Every
body thinks he has done just as well as if he
had been a democrat.
There will be preaching by Rev. Cain at
AMBER school house Sunday, May Goth, at
IL o'clock a. M, and probably in the afternoon.
DAD.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
Special Rates

Agent Chase reports the following
special rate tickets that will be on sale
at the depot in this city:
st. Louis convention: One fare for
the round trip, on sale June End to 5th;
good going not later than June 5th; for
return passage 9th to 18th only.
Chicago convention: One fare round
trip; on sale June 10th to 10th; return
not later than June 18th.
German Baptist Meeting North Man
chester Ind: One fare for round trip;
on sale May 18th to 22nd; return not
later than June 5th.
Knights of Pythias, Cinclnnati: One
fare round trip; on sale June Sth to 18th;
return not later than June 10th.
A rate of one fare for round trip has
been:fixed for
Wichita Exposition, June 4th to eth.
Ottowa assembly, June 10Th to 3Oth.
Winfield assembly June 20 to July4.
Topeka assembly July 10th to 10th.
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Thirty Miles Disappear.

Thirty miles of country is big thing
TO disappear, but this distance has been
dropped out between Kansas City and
Chicago. How it happened is thus fig
ured out: The Chicago, Santa Fe&Cal-
ifornia Railway Is completed between
Kansas City and Chicago, and the dis
tance between the two cities is only 45S
miles measuring from Union Depot,
Kansas City, to Dearborn Station. Chi
cago. This is exactly thirty miles less
than by any of the old lines. so you have
to travel thirty miles less, your freight
has to be hauled thirty miles less, and
practically the Santa Fe has made thirty
miles disappear. A few years at this
rate and Kansas will be in New Eng
land 81
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Last year, the McAdoos sowed and
gathered 100 acres that averaged IA
bushels to the acre. This they sold at
$1.00 per bushel and they had the straw
left which they estimated as worth
S1.00 per acre. A lot of steers they fed
on this straw required no corn and sold
readily at the top market price for STALL
fed beef. They consider fax straw as
nutritious as unthreshed millet, as a
certain amount of seed will stay in the
straw after threshing.
The proper time to SOW according to
the experience of the Messrs. McAdoo,
who were engaged in the industry prior
to coming here from Missouri, is from
the 10th to the 25th of March. The
tighter and closer the soil the better, as
fax does not do well on sandy soil.
The preparation of the. ground for
fax is not as laborious as preparing it
for wheat, and good yields have come
from old corn ground that was thor
ouglY narrowed without plowIng.
Flax will stand three weeks after
getting ripe before it is necessary to cut
it. Usually it is ready to cut from the
middle of July to the LIST of August.
Any harvester will cut flax, as it should
not be bound in bundles, but laid out
in convenient-sized punches that it may
cure. If cut too early the bolls are
tough and the seed does not come out
readily.
AL separators are now provided with
lax selves and so there is no trouble
about getting it threshed out. The
straw is cared for the same as oats and
wheat.
The old idea was to raise fax for the
straw and fiber, but now the plant that
produces the most seed is the best.
And it appears to make no difference
where the seed was grown. The fax
sown here was originally from seed OBJ
tanned in Kansas City; but it does not
appear to run out" like wheat or corn.
Mr.. McAdoo cited the instance of a
gentleman near this city who, last year.
sowed a good acreage. but who only
realized 4 or 5 bushels to the acre. He
says the crop was sown too late-some-
time IN April or May. Had it been put
in in March, the yield would have been
good.
We viii watch this fax industry this
season and from time to time keep the
INDEX readers posted. If it is a sue
cess. and cotton and castor beans turn
out well, Barber county will soon have
the reputation of being the best ''all
around county, in Kansas. We know
what can be done with corn, oats.
wheat, millet, sugar cane and the ordl-
nary productions, and we have every
reason to believe that fax, cotton and
castor beans viii do as well
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16

For week ending May 18th, 1888,
as reported by Bronson Il Houchin
abstracters and conveyancers. Medicine
Lodge, Kansas.
n Z Jones to VIM Kiger lot 20 Nc
Cleareys End add to Medicine
Lodge 8 45O
F 5 Hammond to w III McCague
4 lots in Hammond add to Medi-
cine Lodge ITO
G G Shawver to II Fl Hardy 4 lots
bursts add to Medicine Lodge 1
Z A Geppert to G S Dunning lots
1,3, 5, 2 Freidley add to Medi-
cine Lodge $500
F A Whitaker to o ] Corliss lots
3. Sun City 500
III f VanTrees to Carrie HaZtell
lot 80 Graham & Reynolds add
A w Calvin to Maggie Calvin 100
acres 8 and 10-32-l0 1000
N J Follett to G NJ Clark part
16-34-lO 100
VIC Campbell to Emma Speck
800 3-35-10 300
G G Henry to Agnes Henry 100 a
26-34-10 1900
] " Copper to L NJ Spencer so a
2234-11 600
H A Rogers guardian to L w Bis
hey so 1922 400
Geo s Hooker to L W Bisbey sOa
1922 400
A n Davis to c E Barwise 100 a
L A Dennison to G E Barwick 100
a3l 80 IL 5000
o A Johnson to A S Woods 100 a
20-32-12 $500
A w Rogers to VIM Leonard $50
a 29-33-l2 5000
S Lytle to L Nilsson 100 "a and
35-34-13 .I4OO
Annie Davis to C Z Barwise 100
80. 32-13 100
L A Dennison to C E Barwise $40
1918 5000
o A johnson to A S Woods 100 a
A sharff to S R Hymew 16O a 1S-
l. Altland to Thrall & Elsea 100 a w
L Davis to Lawrence & Leroy 100
31-3l-14 $500
NJ Levin to j NJ Hamilton 100 a
1884 1000
Robt j. Bishop to ] M Hamilton
$50 a so and 1884 1900
G b Miller to NJ Hamilton 800 a
1894 1000
E b Pfost to A S Woods 100 a
1924 $500
A D Adams to A S Woods 100 a
0 A johnson to A s Woods 100 a
l5-33-14 1000
0 A Johnson to A S Woods 16O
1924 5000
o A Johnson to A S Woods 100 a
1894 5000
o A Johnson to A S Woods 800 a
1924 97OO
0 A Johnson to 4 s Woods loo a
So and 32-33-14 5000
o a a J johnson to A S Woods 100 49,.
G w Rasure to A S Woods 100 a
27-32-l4 1000
G w Rasure to A S Woods $50 a
25-33-14 and 2-34-14 $500
l. Z Nantz to w Hendricks 100
IA and 25-34-14 1900
G E Meyers to e II Mason 100 a
2-33-14 1000
E E Thomas to H G Allen 100 a
% and 23-33-l5 1850
j s McClain to Nolan & Jones 100
o. 1915 $500
q w Rasure to J. M. Hamilton
$50 a "a and 25-33-15 5000
j II Jones to A S Woods 800 a IL
and 1333l5 1000
A S Johnson to A y Woods 100 a
16-33-15 32O0
G w Rasure to A S Woods 100 a
22-32-l5 $500
L IIMarkowitz to D Block, 16O a
IL S3-15 1900
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
KANSAS EXCURSIONS.

win be begun again by the santa Re Route
and this time they will take In all points in
Kansas reached by this line from Lawrence,
west. nc One Fare for Round Trip. Sec
Dates: March n, April 4. April 10. May
o, Nay N, June q. June 10, Isss. These
Tickets will be good 40 Days. You can be- 10
days going and days returning, and can stop
at any pOintin Kansas ON the Santa Fc lines.
when the place 20 which you buy "A ticket can
be reached by more than one of the Santa Fc
direct lines, or by the Southern Kansas,
choice OF route will be given. For tickets for
any Of the above dates. see your nearest agent.
Half.price does not occur every day, and with
these advantages has mover occurred before.
GEO. 7. NICHOLSON.
GenI Passenger and Ticket agent, A. T. 4 s.
y. n. H.. Topeka, Kansas. 40
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q. A. McCLEAREY. II. M.
East Barber Items.


We have had plenty Of rain out this way of
late and are having some fine growing wealth
er now, and this has been fine spring for set
ting fruit and forest trees.
Our Sunday schools arc booming.
Measels are prevailing in the locality of
center View, some pupils having had to quit
school.
Miss Annie McGregory seems to know how
to conduct school. She halls from the south
part Of the county.
T. Lieurance's mother and sister, from Ohio,
ara now visiting him. They will probably re-
main all summer
Grandpa and Grandma Wilt have a daughter
and son-in-law from Iowa, visiting them, Lewis
Harrison and family. Mrs. H. is quite low
with that much dreaded disease, consumption.
aud came here to be under the treatment of
her motheg who is a physician.
Mrs. Joseph Eyens, who has been quite low
for some time, we are glad to learn is some
better.
J. A. Lyon has taken his cattle up on Bear
creek to summer.
Bob Hope is farming for p. Dewitt this
season
Old Father Gates is making a cowboy Of
himself.
Miss Addie Collins. closed her eight months
school down on Little Drtftwood last Friday.
Miss Addie is one of the most successful teach
ers in the county. She is now visiting her old
friends in Center View vicinity.
After sunday school last Sunday. May 9th,
Ed. w. N. McMurtrey delivered fine dis
course to an attentive audience at Center View.
Ed. McMurtrey. an evangelist, Will preach
at the Walstad school house on the first sun
day in June at IL O'Clock a. m, and AT the
Center View school house at O'Clock .. m.
jerry Simpson has returned from his visit m
jackson county. He says money is Ioanipg Ar
The enormous rate of from to 10 per cent Der
month up there. What win be the conee-
quence?
Our last items shoulc have read Ed. Hem
bree instead OF EmfrY. ARGus.
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Flax in Barber County.

Before now the INDEX has mentioned
that flax raising had been successfully
tried in Barber county, and it appears
that this season the farmers of McAdoo
township are giving this crop fair
trial. From d. F. McAdoo, who was
IN town last Saturday, we learned that
in McAdoo township, in the north
western part of the county, more than
500 acres of flax have been sown this
year as follows;
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Haxelton Happenings.

The city council met Monday night and APP
pointed W. l. Peck clerk and Jesse Seaman
treasurer Two good selections.
Rev. Iyiei s little boy, aged about six years.
was bitten by rattle srake Wednesday and
when his father got TO him he had killed the
snake ana was trying to pull the rattles OF.
Dr. SHILLING was called and has got him all right
for more snakes
In our last, the crop report should have read
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16
Attention. Patriarehs.

All members of Ensign Encampment,
No. 81, are requested to meet at their
hall on Friday evening, May 18th, at
O'Clock, sharp. Work in the Patri-
archal degree. Visiting Patriarchs in
vited. Nv order of the a.. p.
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LOCAL NEWS.

rxAMINE YOUR TITLE you may need
u correction ana We are prepared 70 DO TINS
work md guarantee correctness and sausinc-
ilnn. INONaON 3 HOuCmIN. w
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Pasture To Let.

Any person wishing pasture for any
kind of stock, will do well to enquire of
w. II. Hogard, Of Valley Township or
address him at Isabel, Barber county,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16

TiARM LOANS In the best companies. with
Il the privilege OF paying part Of the principal
at any time In sums OF tlOO or any multiple OF
the same. BRONSON a HOUCHIN. 40
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A BsTRACTs or TITLE to any property in
n Barber county. We have the most perfect
and complete set OF abstract books in the coun-
~, corrected up 10 date BRONSON HoUcHIN
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List Of LetfAra.

THE following letters remain uncalled for al
J. the p0soffiee in Medicine Lodge, for the
week ending May IL. 1888. In calling for them
please state that they are advertised.
Chas. COUNSEL, Mr.. Judge Tay.
Mont Taylor.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-16

Five pounds of Arbuckle's coffee for
Sl.0O at Standiford, Youmans & Eldred,
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FARM LOANS.

WE HAVE Private Eastern Money to Loan
in Barber County.
EDWARDS & NOBLE. Attorneys.
Office over First National Bank. Medicine
Lodge, Kansas. 80
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Davis 8 DAVIS have an elegant line
of straw hats, 80
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For week ending May 18th, 1888,
as reported by Bronson Il Houchin
abstracters and conveyancers. Medicine
Lodge, Kansas.
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Democratic Central Committee.

r. l.. O'BRYAN, CHAIRMAN.
AUG. SCHMIDT. SECRETARY.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-28
Il. 60. Excursions,

The following special excursion rates
are announced by the Baltimore IL Ohio
and the Columbus & Cincinnati Midland
r. X. Companies
Cincinnati Centennial Exposition, July
4 to October 81, 1888. Low excursion
rates will be made from all points in Ohio.
Ohio Centennial, at Columbus. Septem-
Der 4 to October 10. Round trip excur-
sion tickets will be sold on September
to October 10.
For the opening of the Ohio Centennial,
at Columbus, September 4, round trip
excursion tickets will be sold to Columbus
at one cent per mile.
National Eucampment Of the Grand
Army of the Republic, at Columbus, Ohio,
September 10 to IA. Round trip tickets
good for return passage to September 19, at
the low rate of one cent per mile. Parties
from a distance, by depositing their tickets
with the JoinV agency, can nave iiinlt lor
return passage extended thirty days.
Patriarcbies Militant, l. o. o. F., meets
at Cincinnati on July 81 to %. Round
trip tickets will be sold on July 81 to %,
inclusive, good for return passage until
July 80, at one fare for the round trip.
West Virginia Exposition and State Fair
will be held at Wheeling, W. Va, August
q to 81. Rate, one fare for the round
trip, from Newark and intermediate STA
tions
Moundsville Camp Meeting, August 10
to 81 Rev. Sam Jones will be present
from 10th 10 23d. Rev. Sam Small from
the 23d to the 9th. Tickets will be sold
at low excursion rates.
Burr's Mills Camp Meeting, August 13
10 49, Round trip tickets will be sold at
low excursion rates.
Guernsey County Fair, at Washington,
O., September 90 to %. Rate, one fare and
and third from GAINESVILLE, Cambridge
and intermediate stations to Campbells.
Muskiugum County Fair, at Evansville,
O., August % to 81. Rate, a fare and a
third IRON Newark, Cambridge and inter-
mediate stations.
Tri.State Fair, at Toledo, August 26 to
81. Rate, one fare for round trip from
Ssudusky, Mansfield, Attica and interme-
diate points.
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THE COUNTY ROADS.

The Engineer sill at Work Gathering Up
Data As to Their Condition.
County Engineer Smith is still going
over the roads in the flooded districts with
full force Of assistants, and expects to
have detailed information as to the condi-
ton Of the various througbfsres for pre-
sentation to the Board of Commissioners
It next Wednesdays special session. The
Board will likely be in session all during
that day, aud will take such action as
will result in putting tha roads in some
ching like their former condition.
The people throughout the county,
damaged by the flood, arc all hard at work
in the attempt to bring order out OF chaos,
and good deal Of progress has been made.
The cash donations distributed by the
Board of Commissioners and by the Special
Elm Grove Committee have gone far IN
aiding this work, but still, with
all the help obtainable, there is necessity
for much more, and in the absence Of
If anything like an adequate sum Of
money, the progress will be slow. The
special committee of citizens of Elm Grove
has been of great value to the people OF
that town and its immediate vicinity. The
committee has received about $500 in cash,
from the business men and people Of the
city generally, among the contributions
being one of $3.50 from Mr.. Anton Rey-
mann. This money has enabled many
people, otherwise helpless, to do something
towards again getting on their feet and
making q new start in the world.