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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-09
II. NJ. BICKEL.

Mcpherson Republican: Certain
parties are making very bitter war on
Mr.. Bickel. We have known him for
several years and while we have oppos-
ed him politically we never said or
heard anything that reflected on his
private character. lie is a straight for
ward farmer with his own ideas in polit-
zeal matters-which we do not endorse.
But in business his fair dealing and
integrity are unquestioned. This is
his old home and here. if any where, his
true character is known.
We also personally know some of the
parties who are making the attack and
would be glad if we could speak as wei
or them as we can of Mr.. Bickel. We
believe that much of their luminosity
grows out of the fact that Mr.. Bickel
will not be a partner in the style of
business which they favor. lie had de-
feated certain schemes and hence this
Outcry against him."
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TIE FARMERS, TRUST

Ihe.convention to organize Farm
ers' Trust" was in session at Topeka
last Wednesday. Ex-Governor Butler
OF Nebraska, was made permanent
chairman. After discussing the need
OF the farmers combining for mutual
protection in disposing of their pro-
ducts, the convention engaged in a gem
eral brawl that could not have been
worse had it been an assemblage of
ward politicians.
Elk. Gov. Click was present as a spec
tator, and on being called ON to express
his views, he proceeded to give it as
his opinion that pools" could be pre-
vented by legislation.
Col. Allen, the originator of the farm
ers' trust movement. who appeared to
think that he owned the convention.
interrupted the speaker and asked:
what is tie difference between "a
monopoly and "a trust -"
Governor Click replied 10y saving he
was not mere TO instruct, but merely by
views.
Colonel Allen insisted upon an an
swer.
Governor Click then replied by say
ing: n monopoly is mean thing and
trust is meaner one"
At this juncture Colonel Allen sprung
eNcltedly TO the speakers stand and
said:
Governor Click. order you out OF
this convention. You are its enemy. =
IN 90 t.sa1 l..,E -
Allen still eXcitedly and very angrily
caught hold or Governor Click and or.
dered him 10 60 out of the convention.
Governor Click stood calmly and
without reply, and Colonel Allen con.
tinued shouting: Go out of this con.
vention. You are my enemy"
President Butler finally compelled
/ Colonel Allen to leave the stand. aDc
| Governor Click continued briefly. saw
ing that supply and demand con.
troiled the situation and he couldn't SEE
now this convention could overcome il
or any other organization, he was sorr,
10 say. Governor Click then said M
I was sorry for the excited interrtiptior
and hoped he had offended no one an,
thought that Colonel Allen would re
greet having taken Offense where IL wa,
wholly unintended. The governor theI
| retired amid applause.
President Butler then took occasio,
to rebuke Colonel Allen. and he did /
! vigorously and in a dignifed manner
telling him that he Allen was no NOR,
ON the noor than any other member o
the convention. and that so long as n,
! lButlerl had been elected president ~
the convention he meant 10 be presi
dent.
Several other delegates proceeded t,
lecture Allen. and he subsidized.
Tie convention then decided 70 most
pone permanent organization until mex
I November. \ committee was appoint
ed TO further consider the best plan 70
organization and the convention ad
journed.
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THE SOUTH.

DURING the last few days myriads Of
army worms have made their appearance
In the vicinity of Gainesville, Tex.
EIGHT hundred men working In the Pratt
mines near Birmingham, Ala, have struck
for continuance of the old scale of wages
THREE stills and five moonshiners were
captured in the last raid of United States
revenue officers in Clay and Cleburne
Counties, Ala.
Two farmers near OwensDoro KY, were
called from their houses by mob recently
and whipped severely, and then warned to
leave the county.
THE reported robbery of the mails near
Baltimore is denied by the postal authori-
ties.
BAD condition of affairs exists in
Lowndes County, Ala, growing out of the
recent lynching of negro murderer by
white mob. The negroes had been threat
ening vengeance and on the 4th the sheriff
arrested fifteen of them. On the way
back to Hayneville, the county seat, a con-
iii ensued and two white men were
wounded and several negroes killed. Fur
Their trouble was feared.
CROWD of excited Southerners burned
Senator ingalls, in effigy at Lebanon, Tenn,
recently.
OVER block of buildings in the center of
Sandersville, Ga, were destroyed by fire
the other night Loss, 100000.
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now gOrging the market but fruit is the
only thing that you can hear the resi-
dents speak OF and it is all they can
boast of. While they have plenty of
water to irrigate their gardens, the
streets and roads are about four inches
deep with dust. as the rainy season is
now past and cannot expect any more
until October, and when there comes a
gentle mountain breeze we get more
dust than Kansas could produce in one
half dozen sand storms. haven't seen
anything that is paying to the producer
yet. 1t costs them SIC per acre for
water TO irrigate their land and in nv
Judgment the product from the same
land will not exceed so per acre, which
would leave them Sper acre to have the
soil TILED. which is done with a pick
principally on account of rock, and /
will leave you to judge the net profits.
Though many of Kansas farmers are
heard to use the expression. I'm going
10 pull my freight" Oh thou happy
man of Kansas, grow not uneasy. for
thou art in the paradise of this king
dom; suffer not thvself to be led away
by the waving banner of other states
Tor when you reach them instead of the
glorious silken threads (of which your
own is madel they are found to be moth
ing more than starche,i paper which are
torn assunder by the first gale: content
myself oh thou man of Kansas and till
the soil which God has given thee and
great will be the reward thou shall re-
cieve. Then may l help YOU to sing
Kansas against the world. HOB.
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THE WORLD AT LARGE.
Summary of the Daily News
CONGRESS,

CONGRESs.
IN the Senate on May I, ut the conclusion
OF the morning business, Senator Stewards
Silver Coinage resolution was adopted and thu
bill passed appropriating SlOnOO for public
building at Empora, Kan. According 70 pre-
yious notice, Senator Ingalls, then ad-
dressed the Senate in reply 10 the speech
OF Senator voorhees, delivered some davs
previous. Senator Eustis spoke briefly in re-
ply 10 charges made by ingalls, against the
South Adjourned. In the House the Senate
bill passed granting right OF way through the
Indian Territory TO the Kansas City & Pacific
Railroad Debate on the Tariff bill was then
resumed and continued until adjournment.
AFTER routine business Oh the "a the
Senate went into executive session. When the
doors were opened the bill passed appropriate
Ing SlOOOOO for a public building at Atchison
Kan After further debate on the Land For
fixture bill IL went over. The Senate then
passed 1Oi pension bills in forty-six minutes
The Dill 70 amend the Interstate Commerce
law was reported from committee. The bill
passed authorizing the sale of the Fort Sed0-
wick military reservation in Colorado and Ne
braska TO actual settlers. The Tariff debate
took up the whole day in the House.
IL The Senate on the Sd among the bills
reported by committees was the bill 70 place
General Pleasanton on the retired hist with the
rank of Colonel Mr.. Stewart introduced a bill
10 execute the stpulations of the new Chinese
treaty. . The Senate then resumed considera-
ton OF the Land Grant Forfeiture bill, which
after debate, was laid aside and the Animal
Industry Bureau bill taken up Sem
ators Vest and Plumb. in discussing the
bill took opportunity 70 scorch the cattle pool
OF Chicago, which they characterized as arbftra-
~ in fixing prices of cattle that were ruinous
10 cattle raisers OF the West Adjourned until
Monday After adopting the conference re-
port on the joint resolution accepting the invl-
tation by the United States to take part in the
French exhibition at Paris In 1884, the House
took up the Tariff bill and debate continued I'M
til adjournment.
THE Senate was not in session on The 9Th.
lin the House the Committee on Elections
reported In the California election contest of
Lynch VS.. Vandever, unanimously confirming
Nandever in his seat. After disposing Of pri-
vate business debate on the Tariff bill was
resumed and continued until recess At the
evening session twenty-seven pension bills
passed.
THE Senate was not in session on the 9Th.
THE tariff debate occupied the attention of
the House during the day and at times was
somewhat acrimonious.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-09
IN A NUTSBELL-

Mr.. blanchard, Of Chicago, in short
speech of a few days ago, said more to
show up the evils of high tariff system
than others have done in labored speech
es and ponderous volumes. Mr.. Blanch-
ard is refreshing sample of aprotected
operator who is willing to tell the truth
and shame demOniac majesty, and furn-
ishes a beautiful illustration of the ut
ter selfishness that governs the bene-
iciaries of a high protected tariff. II
am high tariff on lumber, but low tariff
on cotton, iron, wool, leather, glass, etc.
| will tell you why. I own timber land
and sell stumpage; besides l operate
largely myself, and this tariff puts
money into my pocket. l get 50 per
1000 for my stumpage and 50 per LOCO
for my boards. have just sold $780,
600 feet Of lumber. Now 81 thousand
on 100000 feet is just $4,000. That
is the difference TO me between high
tariff and free lumber. l am high tariff
on lumber, l am. This blessed tariff,
they tell us, is all for the benfiet of the
American laborer. What do you sup
pose | did with the $4,000? Divide it
among my workingmen? Not bit of
it. l put it right into this calf-skin
wallet, did. Of all my workingmen l
am the ollyprOtected American laborer.
Wages depend upon the supply and de-
mand my friends, and not on taxes.
When you see two after one boss, wages
are low, but when you see two bosses
after one man wages are high; and that
is the whole of 1.-THE theory, principal
and practice
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-09

TERENCE MULLEN, who served eighteen
months FOR trying to steal the body of
President Lincoln, has been placed ia the
Santa Fe, n. NJ, penitentiary for defraud-
lug the Government Of land.
NEBRASKA Democrats held their State
convention at Omaha on the I'd. Delegates
were instructed for Cleveland.
The Iowa Democratic State convention
was held at Dubuque on the 81. The dele
CATION was solid for Cleveland.
The Illinois Republican convention.
which met at Springfield on the I'd, in-
dorsed Judge Gresham for the Presidency.
The brewery employees OF st. Louis have
decided not TO strikcagainst the employers
nor TO do any thing that will give the latter
chance 20 act against the union.
TIE celebrated case between the Pull
man and Wagner Car Companies in regard
20 the vestiblue trains, has been decided by
Judges Gresham and BIodgett at Chicago
In favor OF the Pullman Company, enjoiu-
ing the Wagner Company from a further
use of these cars.
WILLIAM CARSON, son OF the famous
kit Carson. shot and killed a man at
Fort Garland, Col, iE self-defense recent
~, the man attacking him with bowie
knife.
ALEXANDER SULLIVAN, counsel for the
striking Burlington engineers and hremen,
says thai the report circulated that the
20" strike had been declared OF, was
without foundation. There wiIl be no such
action taken. be said. until after the in
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SHERIFF'S SALE.
W. r. ROUSE,
County Clerk.

STATE OF KANSAS
BARBER COUNTY. 90
In the District court of Barber county, state
Of Kansas.
G. B. Currie, plaintiff,
versus
WI. EStiil, III. j. Estill and John
Ramsey, defendants.
- ted, issued out CO the District Court of Bar
Der county, Kansas, in the above entitled
action, 1, George w. Stevens, sheriff of said
county, will on
SATURDAY, JUNE I'd,
A. D., 1883, between the hours of nine o'clock
in the forenoon, and five o'clock I'm the after
noon of said day, at the front door of the
Barber county, Kansas, offer for sale, at pub
lie auction. to the highest bidder, for cash in
hand, all the right, title, intecest, claim and
estate whatsoever of the said defendants w
j. Estill. II. j. Estill and John Ramsey, in and
TO the following described lands and tene-
ments, to-wit:
Lot No. two (2), on Spring street, in Fried
ley's revised addition to the city of Medicine
Lodge, lsss strip sixteen ll6l feet wide, off of
the north side of said lot, and running the en-
tire length of the said lot, from east to west.
Taken as the property of said defendants,
w. j. Esull, II. J. Estll and John Ramsey,
i'll favor of said plaintiff, for the sum of Two
Hundred Dollars, $500 00l with interest at the
rate of twelve per cent. per annum from the
18th day of January, 1885, and the further sum
of Nine Dollars and FortyFiye .Cents $50 45),
as costs of suit; and the further sum of Three
Dollars 50 OOl as costs on this order of sale;
together with the costs and expenses of this
sale.
Given under my hand at my Office in the city
Of Medicine Lodge, this, the 10Th day of April,
A, ID. 1883.
GEORGE w. STEVENS,
40 Sheriff of Barber County, Kansas.
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GENERAL.

LATER advlces concerning the attack by
natives on the expedition of the German
explorers Kund and Tappenbeck, in the in
terror OF the Cameroons country, show that
seven members OF the expedition were
killed and thirty wounded. The explorers
lost all their journals and collections
HUGHES BROS, wholesale dry goods,
Toronto, Ont, have suspended payment.
Their Liabilities are $4,000. The Bank of
Commerce was a creditor for S25O,0O0 and
$Sl, COO was due firms in Great Britain.
THE London and Liverpool branches of
the National League have declared their
confidence in MIR Parnen, and say they
will disregard the Papal rescript.
A REPORT Is current in Vienna that the
Austrian Government is about to ask the
delegations TO grant an extra credit of $751;
100000.
MAJOR PoPoFF, who was convicted OF
embezzling funds belonging to the Bull
garian War OfiOe, has been sentenced to
four years. penal servitude. Nj. Boneff and
the other prisoners implicated in the defal.
cation were each sentenced to terms of i'm
prisonment varying from five to twelve
months.
CHIEF JUSTICE GAIT, at Toronto, Ont,
recently, in granting the application for
writ of habeas corpus in the case of Morse,
wanted in Rochester, n. Y, for attempted
murder, expressed the opinion that teie-
gram from an American officer was not
sufficient authority upon which to arrest a
criminal under the Extradition act.
THE Fisheries treaty has been ratified by
Canada.
AN explosion Of gas occurred recently in
tunnel in course of construction near Mes
siua, Sicily. Six workmen were killed and
many more fatally injured. Sc veral of whom
1adf in drvsp A.
time Of the accident go workmen were in
the tunnel
TIE Emperor OF Germany was so much
improved on the 4th that his physicians
announced that no more bulletins would be
issued unless he took a relapse.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's reportl for the
seven days ended May numbered for the
United States, 2O9; Canada, %; total, 234;
compared with 22S the previous week and
1S2 the corresponding week of last year.
MUNICIPAL elections were held through
out France on the 9th. In Nantes twenty
four Conservatives and nine Republicans
were returned, replacing twenty-four Re-
publicans and nine Conservatives. In the
Javel quarter Of Paris. Chauvier (Revolu-
tionarv- Socialist) was elected.
A DISPATCH from Mandaiay says that
British force had surprised a body OF
Dacoits near that place and that ia the
fight which eusued two officers and two
privates were killed.
THE Sultan has agreed 70 submit the diff
ferences between his Government and the
United States Government to an arbitra-
ton court, the Moorish Government promis-
ing that no time shall be specified for pay
ment Of personal or individual claims,
debts or amounts due on credit
BUSINESS was active on the London Stock
Exchange during the week ended MAY 3
American railroad securities had improved,
mining shares being excited. The Berlin
Bourse was dull, but improved toward the
end OF the week. At Frankfort the money
market was quiet
TIE Newfoundland Legislature has
passed the bill accepting the Fisheries
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-09

Noble Prentis: Zone OF the freaks
of nature that newspaper man runs
up against every once in a while in
his travels, is the man who thinks that
a newspaper should pitch into" some
body all the time. lie would make the
newspaper a sort of smut mill for every
body To dump their suspicious. ill-feel-
ing and slanderous gossip into. In
nine cases ont OF ten, these fellows are
cowardly, and would not make their
complaints against any man TO his face,
but they would rejoice to see the news
paper man peddle out their miserable
yarns for them The time for such bust
ness, happily has gone by. The news
paper man is not quite as big fool as
some people he encounters imagine, and
so the slanderOus stories seldom get in
to print.
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TIE EAST.

TIE New York Metal Exchange was a
scene Of wild excitement on the 1st, the
price of TIN leading the way in a disastrous
depreciation.
The second National Republican anti.
saloon convention was held in the hall of
the Cooper Institute, New York, on the 2d.
delegates from all the States being in at
ten1ance.'
WILLIAM j. PIPARD, an old member of
the New York Stock Exchange, shot him.
self in a Brooklyn hotel the other dav.
CONNECTICUT Democrats met at Hartford
on the 2d. The platform reafirmed the
National platform of 1854 and indorsed the
Administral ion.
PENNSYLVANIA Prohibitionists met at
Harrisburg on thu ID.
The New York Board of Alderman has
passed resolutions requesting Governor
Hill not to approve the High-License bill
passed by the Legislature, because as
tx measure 1t was inequitable and on
other grounds.
THE Independent German riflemen OF
New York have sent to the Empress of Ger
many 1000 marks for the relief of the flood
victims.
THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts has
confirmed the sentence of Mrs. Robinson,
the Wholesale poisoner
BURGLARS entered SHARK Twain's" house
at Hartford, Conn, the other night and
stole his shoes, two overcoats, some nap
kin rings and other small articles.
The New York Sun of the Sd had a SEN
sational dispatch from Berlin statlnz that
Germany was on the verge Of a Socialist
revolution.
A WELL attended meeting was held at
Cooper Union, New York, on the 4th.
Resolutions were passed UNFOLDING Mayor
Hewitt's position on the flag question.
The Progressive Labor party, formed at
New York in opposition to the Henry
George party, has been dissolved by its
general committee on resolutions declaring
that it had accomplished its object with
the aid of the withdrawal of Henry George
from his party.
The Philadelphia Times of the 9Th pub
lished letter from New York stating that
arrangements were consummated by which
Hon. James g. Blaine would be a candi-
date for the Republican nomination to the
Presidency.
CAR load Of dynamite exploded on the
Reading railroad at Locust Gap, six miles
from Shamokin, Pa, on the 9Th. Seven
teen houses were blown down and set
on fire, eight persons being killed and
thirty injured, many seriously. The train
had broken intwo and as the sections were
brought together again the humping caused
the dynamite TO explode
JUDGE FINLETTER, at the request OF coun-
sci for John w. Kelley, has granted an
extension OF sixty days in the time for the
inspection OF the Kelley motor recently
ordered by the court.
THE strikers at the Edgar Thomson steel
works at Pittsburgh, Pa, have declared
the strike of.
The Dartmouth College (N. II. faculty
have decided that the students must drop
football and baseball or general athletics
because OF the excessive amount of time
and money required TO conduct them all
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-05-09

Everything quiet, plenty of rain and
farmers jubiIant. Phil Butcher has a
large boil on the back of his neck which
looks like it would feel very uncomtort-
able. VIII Wheat's fishing party that
vas 10 have come off last week was a
''phiZ.". =. Mrs. Ellen Butcher has gone
on short visit to see her sister who
lives in Miami county,. .Wess Chad
wick got quite a severe strain by tall
ing an old cow out OF a quigmire.. -.
The Amber Sunday school has been re-
vived again this spring with James
Church as superintendent and s. a.
EuTgasOn as assistant. There Will lie
preaching at Pleasant Valley the 1st,
Sunday in June. at ii O'Clock a. m, by
Rev. Kimbell of Sawyer. The subject
will be Circumcision" DAD.
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4 cutting and needed rebuke was re
Gently administered TO the Il am better
than Thou" class of refoTmers who
seek on every occasion TO air their vir
tues and self-importance. II was in Il
sermon by the Rev III. Price Collier in
which he gave his ideas of temperance
and teetotalism, saying that those who
do not think intOXicants necessary to
their health should, without annOunc-
ing their intentions or parading their
reformation, just simply quit drinking.
Then" said the preacher, lit would
be so refreshing, it would so cheer the
world TO come across a little band of
teetotalers that were not DULLES, and
who did not think that all their sins and
shortcomings were atoned for because
they were teetOtaleFs. 1t will be de-
lightful to see two or three men who
DO not drink, and yet do not brag about
it, and have meetings and professions
and uniforms to celebrate their virtue
in this one respect, though they may be
profane and cruel and unl,ind in other
matters"
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LIBBY PRISON LIFE,
Strange Pictures Presented in the Lofts of
the Famous Bastife.

Strange Pictures Presented in the Lofts of
the Famous Bastiie.
From the story of the celebrated escape
from Libby in the Century we quote the fol-
lowing: AT night the six largo lofts pre-
sented strange war-pictures, over which a
single tallow-candle wcpt copious and
greasy tears that ran down over the petri-
tied loaf of corn-bread, Bordcn's condensed
milk can, or bottle in which it was set, and
where it struggled on until taps when the
guards, with unconscious irony, shouted
Lights" ut which signal it usually disap-
pearcd amid a shower of boots and such
other missiles as were at hand. The
sleepers covered the six floors, lying In
ranks, head to head and foot to foot, like
PROSTATE lines Of battle. For the general
good. and to preserve something like mill
tary precision, these ranks Especially when
cold weather compelled them to lie close
for better warmth) were subdivided into
convenient squads under charge of cap
tain, who was invested with authority to
see that every man lay spoon fashion,
"No consideration of personal con
venience was permitted to interfere with
the general comfort Of the squad Thus,
when the hard floor could no longer be en-
dured on the right subsequently, by the
thin men-the captain gave the command !:
Attention, Squad Number Fourl Prepare
to spoon! One-two-spoonp And the
whole squad Topped over on the left side %