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

ter, x. A. Nj, will occur tomorrow
Thursday, evening.
Jerry Simpson remembered the In
DEX with very choice piece of veni
son, part of the game killed by his
party in the Territory.
Flowing has been going on for the
past two weeks in this vicinity. Carry
the news TO Dakota where the Their
mometer is 400 below.
Faith, what is it? How it comes
It's effects and Works." will be the sub.
ject Of discourse, by Elder Nation, al
the Christian church next Sunday night
The public generally are invited.
Conductor Beers is on his regular run
and thinks that, the Lord and the Santa
Fe people being willing, he will stay
here awhile. He says that Medicine
Lodge suits HIM better than any other
town OH the road.
Judge Ellis went to Ashland Mon
day to hear an application to dissolve
the attachments in the Updyke q
Stone cases. +. Sample, for the cred
itors, has been devOting most of his
time lately to those cases.
The Sun City marble is creating con-
siderable excitement in Wichita and
Kansas City and requests are coming
in every day for specimens. Improperly
managed, there is fortune in the mar
bic lands around Sun City.
General G. S. Parrish, who has been
here for several weeks enjoying the So
ciety of his old comrades, Judge Carr
and Mayor Esmond, left for Kingman
yesterday. The general is brother-in-
law of Sunset" Cox, and has been a
big man in his time. Judge Carr is full
of "reminiscences of the general.
John L. Jesse, Jerry Simpson, l..
Munson, Ii. f. Witherspoon, NJ. and c..
Grouse and Harry Stone returned last
Friday from their two weeks trip
through the Territory on hunt. They
killed deer and 81 turkeys and other
small game and had lots of fun. They
did not look for claims in the Oklahoma
country and saw no boomers or soldiers.
The Panhandle Interstate, published
at LipscOmb, Texas, of the 18th, says;
~. T.. Swain returned, last Sunday.
from an absence OF several days, bring
ing with him bride in the person of
Miss Alice Freeman, who recently left,
with her father, to attend school at
Thorp Springs. The event was great
surprise to all our citizens. Mr.. and
Mrs. Swain have the best wishes of the
Interstate.
Now that the creamery is certain to
be built, 1T NAV be well to mention that
a Dickinson county farmer has sixteen
mich COWS, whose milk he sells to the
creamery, realizing $50 cash each
month, a monthly average of SIS per
head, besides rearing their calves and a
large number of swine on the milk after
the cream has been separated from 1t.
This any one can do with proper care
and management.
The pleasant little lady whom we all
knew as Miss Alice Freeman wrote to a
friend in this city, last week, that she
had run off from the school she was at
tending at Thorp's Springs, Texas, and
was married to young gentleman, the
assessor of Lipscomb county, Texas, a
Mr.. Swain. Alice was quite young,
but we have an idea that she will make
a good wife and with her many friends
here we hope that she has acted wisely
in her choice
The Kansas City Star is unquestion-
ably the cheapest and best evening
newspaper published in the west.
Though over 800 miles from here, ouI
people get it and read it when it is but
eighteen hours old and the news it con-
tains includes everything Of any impor-
lance that has occurred during the pre-
ceeding day in the civilized world. 1t
is cheap, too, but S4 per year or so cents
by the month. Read the advertisement
of the Star in this issue.
Sun City Union: "On last Wednes-
day evening there was organized in this
city, the Sun City Marble and Mining
company. The company was formed
to quarry and work marble. Capital
stock $1,000. The following officers
and directors were chosen: III. E. Van
Trees. president; G. Fl. Douglas, vice
president; j. ID. Youart. secretary; Ed.
Taylor, treasurer; 0. Z. Lamport,
George Neff and Frank A. Whitaker.
directors. 1t is the intention of the
company to commence work immedi.
ately."
Kingman feels confident of sor
ghum sugar plant. Senator Gillette's
company asks that the people of the
city and township subscribe $50 900 of
the necessary 10000 required to built
and equip the works, and $4,000 had
been secured up to last week. There
does not appear any difficulty in thu
way of building plant at any place II
the people will raise a third of tn,
amount of money necessary to build it
but in this little ''if'' IS the rub. For
eign capital is slow to take hold wher
local capital shows a want of conf
dence.
Sun City Union: "Died, Saturday
Jan. 9Th, 1889, Mrs. Jas. York, after sil
days of extreme suffering. caused BY
eryslpelis. Mrs York was one of those
women that every person could go t,
with assurance for assistance in times
of trouble. She was always kind and
affectionate mother and a loving daugh
ter and wife. Ever ready to do hel
share to make society what it ought t
be, she was truely lady. The heav,
blow that has thus fallen upon ne
mother, husband and children canno
be realized by the world, The Uniol
along with many others extend IN th.