Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-04-03


Police Judge, II. III. Hardy. ................ 75
Councilman, J. W. McNeal. ................. 123
J. n. Logan. ..-.-........... 1Uo
G. g. Taliaferro. ........... 20
Ii. ant. ~
+John Rogers was on both tickets and re-
ceived 354 votes.
Scattering votes: For councilmen, J. Deal 3.
p. A. Simmons l, G. Gilmore l, John Higgins l..
For police judge, Mrs. Z. Yant, 2.
1t may not be of particular interest
now, but as part of the history Of this
city, we will briefly chronicle the events
connected with this last municipal
fight.
To begin with, then, a number of cit
liens interested in the prosperity of this
city, and anxious for the completion of
the proposed sugarworks and water
works, issued a call for mass conven-
tion at the courthouse for Wednesday
evening, March 9th. About one hun
dred citizens responded to the call. E.
p. Caruthers was elected cha irman and
D. VanSlyke secretary of the meeting.
After those present had had an oppor-
tunity for consultation, L. F. Pearson
was nominated for mayor by acclama-
ton. r. NJ. Woodward was nomina-
ted for police Judge In the same way.
Nominations for councilmen were then
called for and about twenty names were
submitted and from these the Citizens
ticket as elected was made up. There
was no objection then and the general
sentiment was that the men selected
were we'll suited for the position to
which the people were willing to assign
them.
Thursday, the Cresset was published
and demanded different ticket from
the one nominated, it styling the Citi-
zens' ticket as the INDEX ticket. That
paper also demanded that the sugar.
works waterworks proposition be again
submitted to the people. Accordingly,
caucus was held at the Cresset office
Thursday night, when it was decided to
get up another convention and the fol-
lowing call was prepared and signed,
and on Friday printed and circulated /:
MASS CONVENTION.
Believing that the best interests of
this city Will be SubServed by having an
opposition ticket in the fed for city
officers, a mass convention is called to
be held at the courthouse on this, Fri
day, evening. at O'Clock, for the pur-
pose of placing in nomination a full
ticket to be voted for at the coming city
election, to be composed of men whose
personal fitness for the various offices
is well known. Ladies' are especially
invited.
H. Yant. w. III. McCague.
J. Il. Vaughn. a. l.. Noble.
T. G Cutlip. Jas. Boutwell,.
D. w. Young. b. r. Burney.
B. L. Woodland. Henry burst.
A. Il. Wilkins. HarveyD. Records.
E. M. Byerley. Henry Morgan.
John Higgins. j. w. McNeal
Andrew Jackson Jones.
The mass convention was held accor-
ding to programme. j. w. McNeal
was elected chairman and E. M. Dyer
ley secretary. After a painful delay.
it was decided to endorse part of the
Citizens ticket, Mr.. Pearson for mayor
and Messrs. Thompson and Schmidt for
cOuncllmen, and nominate three new
men for cOuncilmen. These were Jas.
n. Deal, Frank Holmes and E. II. Nix
on. MessrS. Nixon and Deal declined
emphatically to allow their names to
be used on a ticket in opposition to the
regular ticket. Mr.. Holmes was out of
the state and so his wishes could not
be ascertalned.
Being once more at sea, there were
va riOuc concentrations ubop don, ,;l-.
the men induced half dozen innocent
women to get up ticket, and Eve-like.
they ate the fruit and said it was good,
and proceeded to give slices of it TO the
several Adams who they nominated as
the Ladies Ticket"
The balance of the story is briefly but
elegantly related in the table OF election
returns published in this column.
OF the ladies who did vote, fully
three-fourths favored the regular ticket
which was elected. The lowest man on
the regular ticket, Mr.. DeLisIe, received
clear majority of 124 over the strong
est man on the Ladies' ticket, Mr.. Nc
Neal. The hard fight was made on Mr..
DeLisle, and his victory is therefore
the mory satisfactory.
The city officers elected are all sober,
temperate, Industrious and progressive
citizens, in whose hands the interests
of this city will not suffer, in our opin-
ion. They are clearly the choice of a
large majority OF the people, who should
now encourage them in every laudable
undertaking. If this is done, we pre-
dict that no one will have occasion to
regret their election.
Call on Cook & Palmer for farm and
city loans, %
Last Friday, scaffold used by the
carpenters who were building Eli. C.
Benedict's house, west of town one mile
and half, broke down and precipitated
to the ground Ed Winters, John Brown.
I. NJ. Kidd and NJ. w. Hunter. All
were more or less bruised, but Mr.. Hun
ter Jared the worst, his left arm being
broken between the elbow and wrist.
Mr.. Brown was also hurt considerably
and was unable to leave his room for
several days. Mr.. Kidd's back was
strained, but be was up Saturday.
Medicine Lodge has coming sculp-
tor in the person of A. s. McClearey.
He has been ;S,oing some creditable bold
relief work in marble and. has also coz.
manded admiration for job of mold
ing that he has on exhibition. Art con-
nOisseurs who have examined Mr.. Me-
Clearey's work say that he undoubtedly
has the elements of a genius. Since he
was mere child he has taken an inter-
est in designing and engraving on wood
and stone and his friends have many