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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12
SENATORIAL CIRCUS.

That senatorial convention at Cold
water last week must have been a great
convention. The Coldwater Review of
last week had the following items re-
lating to it:
Circuses and side shows would not now in.
terest the people of Coldwater When in need
of amusements-of the above character the re.
publican senatorial committee just call a con.
vention and engage w. T. Walker, of Haruer
and X. NJ. Painter, of Meade, to act in the ca
pacity of clowns, and Sample, of Barber. rs
ringmaster. The aggregation is then complete
The boys who drank the beer, smoked the
cigars and took the money of certain strong
adherent TO the cause of candidate Emerson 10
gain front seats and cheer when Emerson s1-
peared or his name was mentioned, showed
their ingratitude and disloyalty by Justify
cheering Long whenever occasion presented
Itself. Yea, verify, the lot of the man who
hopes to buy applause is very hard.
Notwithstanding the fact that Chester |.
Long was nominated by the ''scrappers'' con-
vention, held in this city last Monday. he is.
no doubt, the most capable and best fitted man
offered as sacrifice. He is fair lawyer. a
good speaker, perfect gentleman, and withal
handsome as Apollo, and twill take good
democrat to defeat him; but good democrat
IL takes and good democrat twill be.
The way in which ringmaster Sample cracked
the political whip and compelled chief clowns
Painter and Walker to dance and raise their
statesnan-like voices in getting off funny Jokes
and ludicrous puns in Mondays compilation OF
aggregations was really astonishing. The Re-
view would respectfully refer this trio to the
Kansas legislature and urge the house to Sc
cure them for its neat session. Tickets would
sell rapidly at premium.
And the COldwater Star took occasion
to tell a few things about the conven-
ton:
Delegate Mccartney, of Ashland, came about
as near summing up tho republican senatorial
convention in as few words as any of them.
He said: "Gentleman, there is no name for it
il is just simply Infamous"
The republican delegates at the senatorial
convention were not satisfied with a war of
words, but had to engage in fistic encounter.
John j. Shields, CT Ashland. was struck ter
riilc blow over the eye by one of the delegates.
that completely fioored him and besides i...-
him with very black eve -
IL u" Inter, of Meade Center. put bimse,t
on record as being the windiest man in the COO.
atorlal convention. He got off the same old
gags ne did last year on the democrats, and
"neneVer there was lull in the convention he
was always on his feet with his mouth open.
he protested to he an old soldier, of which he
was proud, and claimed to be as pure repub-
hcan as ever trampled the green grass of earth.
After the convention was over he again showed
his superiority to the other delegates by stow
ing away more bug-juice than the best of them.
which according to his own theories were DEM
ocradc symptoms. Painter. you are bird.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12

a Kansas preacher, named Madden
now IN Pennsylvania, preaching prOhi-
bltion, came near getting mobbed the
other night. In Pittsburg, at temper
ance meeting, speaking of the Johns
town horror, he said! II was in Johns
town when the flood occurred, but man
aged through my own energy and per-
severance to escape the flood. Those
who had not done so left warning six
hours old go unheeded, waited, were
drowned and went to hell" Persons
present who bad friends in the flood
jumped up and proposed to hang the
Kansan, and but for the interference OF
cool-headed people he might have had a
taste of Topeka life.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12
This week we have carefully read our


This week we have carefully read our
exchanges from Larned, Hutchinson,
Pratt, Greensburg, Meade, Ashland,
Coldwater, Kingman, Wichita, Win
field, Wellington, Anthony, Harper and
Attica to find out what was going on in
those places, and we are vel! satisfied
that not one of the cities mentioned is
prospecting better than Medicine Lodge.
Not one of them can show industries in
course of construction that will equal,
in Importance, the improvements that
are being made here. Not one men
toned pretends to have better crops sur
rounding it and not one claims to have
any unusual activity just now. Our
reading confirms reports made here dali
ly by travelling men who visit the cities
mentioned. They all say that Medicine
Lodge and Barber county are on the
high road to prosperity, and that this
fact is well known and commented on
away from here. In this connection we
may mention that the state papers have
nearly every one mentioned the sugar
plant, the gypsum factory, creamery,
new school building, ETC., boiling down
the articles that have appeared in this
paper during the past six weeks.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12
The Hemp-smokers of Africa.

A new and curious sect has recently
grown up in Africa, the Bena-Riamba or
''Sons of Hemp" society of hemp smok-
ers who, calling themselves friends" are
bound together by ties of mutual hospitality.
1t has had some new light thrown upon it
in the account of journey up the Kasai
by Charles SomervIlle Bateman: ''Its in
itiatory rites are profound and unfathom-
able mystery, and whether to describe it as
secret brotherhood a religion or society
for the propagation of RIGHTEOUSNESS, ! am
uncertain. So far as the smoking of lhiamba
(hemp) is concerned there can be no reason
bic doubt but that the Matchbox introduced
it primarily for the purpose of fraud, since
persons under the influence of that poison
Gus narcotic are temporarily insane, and
therefore at the mercyof the first cruel and
crafty trader that came across them" An
other authority, however, thinks that the
society grew out of a political revolution
among the Bashilenge people in 1870, when
the Progressist party broke down old COM
mercial barriers, and the custom of bhang
or hemp smoking was introduced from Fan
Zibar to become lone of the most baneful
institutions in Central Africa"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12
REDUCED FRE1GHT RATES.

One of the most important orders
ever promulgated by the board of rail-
road commissioners was handed down
last week, when the board e-affirmed
what is known as the Wichita rate de-
cision. 1t will compel the railroads to
put INTO effect, on July 1, tariff winch
will give the city of Wichita rates on
merchandise and manufactured articles
that will be 20 per cent. lower than they
are at the present time. This will be
of great advantage to Medicine Lodge.
for it will let our merchants buy at
Wichita, and save two-thirds of the
freight that they would have to pay
from Kansas City. In the matter of all
staple dry goods, groceries and proyis-
ions, Wichita is now ready, or will be,
in a few weeks, to compete with Kan
sas City, st. Joseph, ST. Louis, or Chi
cage; and il viii not be long until
Wichita viii be In position to supply
the southwest with every class of mer-
chandIse. The decision in question
practically puts Barbercounty 200 miles
DeaEer the wholesale markets, and we
therefore becomingly rejoice.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12
MOB LAW 1T TOPEKA

Last week, at Topeka, the capital of
| this peace-loving and law-obserying
commonwealth, murderer was public
ly lynched on the main thoroughfare,
and his body riddled with bullets. Half
of the population of the city took part
in the execution or encouraged it by
their presence. The officers were as
saulted and severely handled; the fine
jail building was badly damaged and
the maddened mob did what less civil
lied communities have been censured
| for doing.
The man lynched was a tramp and
burglar who said his name was Nat E.
Oliphant. Monday night he went to
the house of A. 7. Rodgers, a merchant
tailor, beset on robbery. Mr.. Rodgers
heard him in the building and engaged
in desperate encounter with him and
was mortally shot for his interference.
Mrs. Rodgers took part and husband
and wife were too much for the thief,
| and though he had shot them both,
neither, in the excitement, knew they
were hurt, and they let the rascal up
and permitted him to leaye the house.
Soon, however, they realized their con-
dition and officers were notified and
they arrested Oliphant while later.
He bore the imprints of Mrs. Rodgers
teeth on his hands, and when cornered,
confessed that he was engaged in the
horrible tragedy.
Mr.. Rodgers died at 8 o'clock Tues
day morning. His wife, though badly
wounded, will recover. Tuesday night
at 8 o'clock mob of several thousand
people surrounded the jail, and after
two hours hard work secured Ollphant
and hung him to telegraph pole on
Sixth street and Kansas avenue.
All this in Kansas-at the capital
where laws for the protection of life and
property are enacted In the very
shadow of the walls that protect the
governor In the city where sits in all
majesty the supreme court This &C.
CURED in Topeka, where was enacted
the abomlnable statute that pretends
to punish those guilty of murder--that
cowardly enactment that makes 1t pos
sible for the murderer to spend his days
in peace, protected by the state from
the vengeance of those who would glad
ly see him properly executed that the
doctrine of San eye for an eye and a
tooth for TOOTH might justly prevail.
Shame on the cowardly legislatures
that have refused to change the laws
relating to convictions for murder
That convicted murderer should be
sentenced to oneyear's imprisonment in
the penitentiary, and then, If the gov
ernor sees fit, that he should be hanged.
is child's play. No Kansas governor
has ever yet signed death warrant,
and to-day there are fifty murderers in
the penitentiary. Any one or every one
OF them could be executed if there were
In the executive department a man
with nerve enough to say so.
So long as the death penalty is not
lawfully enforced in Kansas, so long
will lynch law be practlced-so long
will this state be pointed at as the state
of outlaws, where mobs take possession
of the fairest cities and where even the
capital is the scene of an uprising of
people who are disguised with the weak
provisions made by the legislature for
punishment of murderers.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12
FOR STATE SENATOR.

Harper Sentinel: 1.-The Sentinel places the
name of A. NJ. Van Laningham at its masthead
this week as its choice for state senator ON the
democratic ticket. If he will consent to make
the race we confidently believe he will be cleo
ted He is well and favorably known in this
county. having hosts of friends, and would
carry Harper county by about 400 majority
From what we know of Mr.. Van Lam
lngham, and what his friends say, he is
probably as good a man as there is in
the district for the position. AS we
understand it, he can get strong sup
port i'll Harper county where he filled
positions of honor and trust before he
moved to Clark county, and the proba-
bility is that he could get the majority
there that the Sentinel suggests. He
could probably carry Clark county, and
we have every reason to believe that he
could carry Barber county.
IT he wants the nomination., Mr.. Van
Laningham can probably get it.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12
FOUND IN A MOUND.
Helics or an Ancient Race Discovered
Northeastern Iowa

RELICS OF an Ancient Race Discovered in
Northeastern Iowa.
A very interesting archaeological discov-
cry has just been made near Floyd, north of
Waterloo, Ia, on the Cedar river For some
time past it has been known that several
ancient mounds were scattered along the
banks of the river, but, though it had been
excavated, nothing had been found except
lear Charles City. A few days ago work
was begun excavating the mounds at FLOYD.
The largest was circular in shape, thirty
feet in diameter and about two feet high.
1t was situated in a field and had been
plowed over for years. After digging down
about four feet the bones of five persons
were discovered. They were in a sit
ting posture and faced toward the north
A complete investigation showed that the
original excavation had been floored with a
layer of gravel, upon which the remains had
been placed. The earth was then packed
closely around them, another layer of gravel
placed above them and the mound placed
upon this. OF the remains nearly all the
bones were in good state of preservation,
even the bones of the fingers and toes being
intact The bones were evidently of three
males and one female aud one babe. One
OF the men appears to have been over six
feet high. The skeleton of the woman
was, however, of greater interest
from the fact that the skull measurements
showed that she belonged to one Of the low
est types of the human family, and expert
enced psychologists claim that In some re-
spects this skull seems to be lower in tho
scale than the celebrated .sNeanderthal,
specimen. The distance from the lower
portion of the nasal bone to the upper mar
gin of the eye cavities is only four cent?
meters, and the distance between the eve
sockets is only two and three-fourths cent?
meters.
The forehead is very low, and the inner
portions of the eyebrow ridges are quite
prominent. One Of the jaws contained sew
eral ell-preserved teeth. The teeth of the
babe were also preserved, but were very
small Its skull was quite thick. One of the
male skeletons shows the teeth very much
worn, in some instances clear down to the
jaw-bone. The earth had been packed so
closely around the skeletons that it was
with considerable difaculty that it could be
penetrated
There are several other mounds in that
vicinity which it Is proposed to open -, :.
Is expected that other r---,oins ., ,,a anu -
oai'uefs - be found. In the mounds
near Charles City, which were opened last
fall, remains of ancient pottery were found
with bones, but nothing of this sort was
found at Floyd
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12

a son is employed on the Price-raid-
books, and another is stenographer for
Judge Holt at a thousand per annum.
The Horton Family-A. H. Horton is
chief justice of the supreme court of
Kansas. The legislature appropriates
Sl,2O0 per year. for pay of his stenogr;-
pller. He lays the stenographer off,
two months each year-the vacation
months-and a daughter draws $500
for those two months. This has been
done during the years 1884, 1885. 1886.
1887 and 1888, and will be done this wear
probably. Comment is unnecessary.
The Admire Family. V. Admire is
receiver of public monies at Kingfsher.
"Woodie" is in the governors Office.
He was not soldier.
The Kellogg Family-L. B. Kellogg
is attorney general. His wife is his
chief clerk at $500 per year. Her
brother is In the state auditors Office.
He was not soldier, that we know OF.
A son of the attorney general has re-
tired from the office.
The Fox Family-O. W. Fox is in the
adjutant generals Office. His son is in
the secretary of states Office.
And so we might continue, but space
forbids. We have given enough. how
ever, to show that the reform is neces-
sary in the appointment to office OF
whole families" Where families do
not control, a little coterie of politicians
force the appointment of their friends,
often regardless of worth.
Let US begin and have just a little
bit of civil service REFORM"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12

Time is weaving a web of circum-
stantial evidence around Patrick Ea-
gan, the Irish leader, that will eyentu-
ally show him up as connected with the
disappearance of the funds of the Clan
na-Gael, and the murder of DR.. Cronin.
Eagan is the bosom friend of Alexan-
Ger Sullivan, and it is believed that
these two are responsible for the diver
sion Of the money raised for suffering
Ireland into the channel of the repub-
lican campaign fund. Eagan has been
rewarded by the administration with
the Peru mission, and it is said that
Mr.. Harrison is alarmed lest his ap-
pointee be extradlted, and brought
home for trial. It was not for fun alone
that the Irish-Americans worked for
the republican party last tall. We look
for Ford's Irish World to be inyestiga-
ted next. Then q dirty nest will be dis
covered.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12


rhe Garden City Sentinel, in describ-
ing the great Amazon irrigating ditch,
near that place, which it denOunces as
a great swindle. says that it runs up
hill and down, according to the lay of
the land, and that if it is ever made to
accomplish the purpose for which it
was alleged 10 be designed, the work on
it is really just begun. In view Of the
fact that the problem OF how to make
water run up hill has never been solved
and the improbability that the ditch
will ever be completed, the Sentinel adj
vises the farmers who gave their notes
in aid of the enterprise, to demand their
return by the company that holds them.
The Sentinel makes a bFoad hint of
Doodle in the scheme, and it does look
like it at this distance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12

New York World Statistics of the
senior class at Yale show that 55 favor
free trade, 43 are pr0tectionists, while
Is desire reform in the present tariff.
The Importance of these figures may
not seem so great to some people as the
fact that three of the seniors object to
dancing. One of them says that lie
does mot see why hugging set to mu-
sic differs from sofa squeezing" What
ever may be the value of the seniors
opinions on political economy, there is
no doubt that the above remark on
dancing is expert testimony"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12
GETTING A LlviNas
How . WeIl-to-Do Chicago Woman Add
tn EIalr Incnrr,a

to Her Income.
mere are in this world, writes Ed r.
Fr1tchard in the Arkansaw Traveller, a
great many ways of getting-I don't say
earning, you will Observes living. The
following incident was related to me the
other day by friend who vouched for il
being strictly true. 1t is as follows:
One day last summer poorly dressed
woman made her appearance at one of the
SWEETEST boarding houses on Wabash av-
enue, and, telling pitiful story of destitu-
ton and need, asked for the food scraps, the
daily Ieavings of the table. AS the board
lng-house was one where the boarders did
not tolerate warmed-over grub, and as the
lady who kept it was kind hearted person.
she told the woman to come each day and
she would give her what she asked for
Inc woman mumbled her thanks and de-
parted. On the following day she made her
appearance and was given q large basket
ful Of food; and so for months she contin-
ued to come daily and always went away
fullhanded. But one day it so happened
that when the kind-hearted landlady was
filling her basket for her, the agent from
whom she rented the house happened to call
for the rent. He eyed the beggar woman
keenly as she stood waiting for her basket
to be filled, but said nothing until she had
taken her departure. Then he turned to
the lady OF the house and said:
"Do you know that womanl"
"No," replied the landlady. "I do not
know her name. But she is very poor and
have been giving her the leavings of my
table for long time. She seems to be very
glad to get even that
'Well," replied the agent, 'srll tell you
something that, evidently, you don't know
That poor beggar woman is your landlady f"
MY landladyl" echoed the woman in as
Constituent. "What do you meanm
"Just what l say" coolly replied the
agent "She is your landlady; to put it
plainly, she owns this property, and l, as
her agent, turn over to her each month the
rent which you pay to me for this house.
She has two other pieces Of property be-
sides this, that know of, and she and her
husband are worth not less than forty thou
sand dollars"
"Her husband'' exclaimed the now horri-
ned clearinghouse keeper. 81 did not
know she had husband; she told me she
had none"
"Quite likely" responded the agent, "but
happen to know that she has a husband.
and big strapping fellow he is, too. He is
a section boss on the Alton road and is get
ting good wages. They, mean this wonl-
an and her husband, keep boardin house
themselves, and this grub that you have SO
kindly been giving to her has gone long
ways toward feeding her own boarders,
who, being only section hands on the rail-
road, are not, perhaps, so hard to please as
are yours. Butt concluded the agent.
laughing, shaving seen me here, don't
think she will trouble you any more. u
And he was right. She never showed up
at that clearinghouse again,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12

The railroad commissioners last week
reaflirmed their decision ordering re-
duced freight rates for the city of Wich-
tia on merchandise and manufactured
articles. The reduction is equal to
about 20 per cent. and establishes the
same rates for Wichita as are given to
Missouri river points. 1t establishes a
precedentwhich will result in the same
rates being extended to many other cit
les, numerous applications having al
ready been made
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12

IL is not safe to carry life insurance
in any company o. association not auth
orized to do business =. this state. a
case came up recently atLyndon, where
a man named Albert Williamson died.
lie was insured in the Masonic BenevO-
lent association, of central Illinois, To-
Gated at Nation. The association of
fcers now refuse to pay the loss, taking
the position that as they were prohibit
ed from doing business in Kansas, they
are not liable for the loss, though they
did accept the premiums. We venture
the assertion that the Mattoon CON
pany will be in serious trouble in very
short time.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12

n late investigation has revealed a
shameful abuse of the civil service law
in New York city. Examinations, con-
Quoted by republican partisans, are
shown to have been tarces educated
men were hired to stand examinations
for ignorant applicants for appoint.
ment, and certificates were sold out.
right to ofiice-seekers. Like the liquor
prohibitory law, the civil service law
appears to have been enacted to encour.
age false swearing and deception.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12

The cattle market was active, and
five cents higher, at Kansas City, Mon
day, though the best 1872 pound steers
sold for but 81. Feeders and stockers
brought S3.17; cows and heifers 1926
to 1925. Hogs were five cents higher,
and closed strong, selling from S4.15 for
35O-pOunders, to $3.50 for the. light
Meights-nnder 200.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12

Judge Hilton, executor of the estate
OF the late A. L. Stewart, managed to
steal the entire business, between ten
and fifteen millions Of dollars, and now
he has the ''gall'' to claim that the wild
ow owed him million dollars when she
died. He was given a million by Stew
art, but not satisfied, he stole the bal
aDpa
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