Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-01-23

1 A. .. u. w. Friday night. Work
will be done.
District Clerk Holmes was at Topeka
this week.
Attorney Lahey was up in Pratt
county this week.
Viii. Wheat is now running the Star
livery barn. in this city.
DR.. Karr reports nine-pound boy for
Mr.. and Mrs. S. l.. Allen.
Frank Long is acting court stenog-
rapher, at Ashland, this week.
John Lewellyn will open up restau-
rant next door TO the postoffice.
J. E. Truitt, accompanied by his wife,
returned from Kansas City, Monday.
F. NJ. Fleming, of Montrose. Mo-, a
brother of Commissioner Flening, was
here Monday.
The young folks will give german at
Thompson's opera house Friday even
ing, the 18th.
Z. d. Cunningham returned from
Kansas City, Topeka and other eastern
points this week.
A marriage license was issued on the
10Th to NJ. L. Klink and Miss Nettle
Alice Smith, both of Hazelton.
Judge Edwards, on the 21st, issued
marriage license to Jacob Mertes and
Miss Carrie r. Follmer, both of Sun
City.
The Ladies Aid society of the Bap-
fist church will meet with Mrs. Gran
vile Morris tomorrow, Thursday, at
3p. m.
For ExCHANGE-A1l or part of
good livery outfit. and other stock. for
unincumbered land. II. l.. SHANNON,
Medicine Lodge. 35
If there is to he any Singing matches
at the temperance meetings, we hope
that the dates will be so arranged that
the INDEX will get scoop on the
item.
An eastern gentleman, interested in
Barber county, has written for ruling
prices on cora, oats, wheat and hay.
Good corn sells here for % cents; oats
for % cents; wheat 70 cents; prairie hay,
loose. 81 per ton; baled. from So to So.
Commissioners Fleming and Strana-
than met Monday and organized the
new board by electing Judge Fleming
as chairman. They transacted some
business that had been laid over, and
| adjourned until the regular meeting in |
April.
Sam. Northcraft is confined to his
bed and the chances for his recovery are
not flattering. His is broken ccnsti-
tuition, put in that condition by his own
recklessness and we do not know of
more terrible example of the effects of
tampering with poisons.
AT the Sam Ferguson sale, last Sat
urday, the following prices were OBJ
tanned by Auctioneer O'Bryan: 6 shoats
s. each; 6 at 1910 each; two-year-old
steers, S17.05; 4 yearling steers, 1915;
calves, $l2.55; heifers, 500; 2 two
year old heifers. $11.O5: l COW, SIT so;
COW, SIZES; ! heifer, $12.S5; l COW,
SIT; pony, S27.SO pony mare, $40 Is;
l two-year-old pony colt, $3.50.
f. w. Henkins returned home last
Friday. We are glad to hear that he IS
doing well at Lamar, for there is no
more deserving man in any business.
He is honest, Industrious and accom-
modating and here, where he lived for
several years, Lige Henkins' word is as
good as his bond and both are above
par. We cannot say as much for some
other ex-cItizens of Medicine Lodge
who went west.
Representative Carter, on Saturday,
introduced a petition from 217 citizens
asking for the passage of a law enabling
Medicine Lodge township to vote bonds
for sugar works He also presented a
| petition of the citizens of Barber coun-
ty asking the enactment of such laws
as will give abstractors access to public
records under such conditions as to not
interfere with the business of the regis
| ter of deeds or injure the records. In
explanation of this last petition, we
may state that it was not circulated by
the abstractors of this county because
! they had any kick" coming to them,
but at the request of their less fortunate
brethren in other counties. Register
Hall and our local abstractors have no
trouble among themselves.
Everybody admits the necessity of a
good system of waterworks; every prop
erty owner would rejoice to have insur-
ance rates reduced; every citizen will
be glad to have pure, cheap water for
domestic use; but the question is
whether to vote $50, 900 in bonds at this
time would secure water supply. We
believe that nothing can be gained by
voting the bonds now, and we believe
that by next fall, if the ditch is put in
shape, that we will know whether it
can be relied on the entire year. So
far as our part of the tax is concerned,
it would be very small; but we believe
we voice the sentiments of a majority
of the property owners when we sug-
gest that the vote on the bonds should
he postponed or the proposition should
be defeated.
The cattle market in Kansas City,
last Saturday was described by the Star
as follows: Cattle were 5(0l5c high
er. Receipts were very light The
i speculative shippers took most of the
steers, and they paid almost anything
asked, evidently expecting light runs
next week. The general impression
among commission men here is that
supplies will continue large. They say
the cattle are in the country to come
and they may as well come now as any
lime, as they do not see much prospect
for Improvement. 1t is probable, how