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Iron County register., 1889-03-07
PROFIT IN TURKEYS.
How to Raise Good Birds with the Least
Trouble and Expense.

How to Raise Good Birds with the Least
Trouble and Expense.
Turkey raising is not so difficult as
many suppose. Experience is the best
guide, and the better plan is to begin
on a small scale and increase as ex-
perience is acquired. Get good stock
at the start. Three good bronze tur-
keys will, under any thing like favor
able conditions. be more profitable than
twice that number of the common
breeds. Feed we'll and make comfort
able, so as to get eggs early. AS a rule
the earlier-hatched turkeys will prove
the most profitable. Turn down an old
barrel or box in the corner of the
fence; throw little brush over it so as
to make kind of hiding place, and
put in little loose straw or hay. This
will, in a majority of cases, save hunt
ing the nests.
When it is desired to get the largest
number of eggs, take the first lots and
set them under a common hen, putting
not more than thirteen eggs under
each. Take pains to have the nests
comfortable, and arranged so that the
other hens can not bother. If set early
see that food and water are placed con-
venient, so that the hens will not be
obliged to leave the nests too long,
running the risk of the eggs getting
chilled.
The young turkeys will not need food
for day after they are Matched, and
the first two or three meals should
be of chopped boiled eggs. Then
little corn can be added and then
cracked wheat, ground oats or millet
seed and some cracked corn. Curd is
not only one of the best. but on most
farms one of the cheapest foods that
can be used.
1t is important that the young tur-
KEYS be kept warm and dry. When
ever there is rain or heavy dew they
must be kept up until the grass is dry.
At other times the freer range they
can have the better. After they get a
start to grow, a feed night and morn
ing is all they will need, if they can
have the run of the farm.
Turkeys do not bear confinement so
we'll as chickens. If allowed to run
they will pick up the greater part OF
their living and can thus be raised at
a less cost. Good coops should be
provided for shelter and for feeding
while young, without being disturbed
by the older poultry.-Cor. ST. Louis
Republic.
Iron County register., 1889-03-07
NThen I NAV helm yuuSn

"Not in charity. For, base as Williams
friends would tell you that am, could not
bear the thought that he was laid to rest by
other hands than mine.''
perhaps I could purchase some little
trinkets that belonged to him!" Harry
said. blushing at the policy of his sugges-
ton.
'TWould your the woman asked, eager
ly. "Now, there's his watch and chain.
I meant to sell them, and the secondhand
dealers give so little for such things"
AS she spoke, she took from a drawer a
massive gold watch to which was attached
the very chain Harry had so long been
seeking. must write to the governor for
some more money. Harry thou ught, as he took
the precious bauble in his hand.
"They are worth two hundred dollars"
the woman said, "but shall be thankful
if you will give me a hundred and fifty for
them'
"No," Harry said; ait IS not time to
take advantage of your necessity, here is
the amount in full.''
The prize was his. He fastened back to
the two young men, and to Platt's intense
satisfaction dismissed him and left him free
to prosecute that glorious career in the far
West he SO gushingly assured them would
crown his efforts for reformation.
Iron County register., 1889-03-07

iner could under any circumstances cry, !
should be inclined to assert that something
suspiciously like tear glistened in his
eyes.
AYE, the poor boysl Walter is the only
one who is left of them. Lionel died at Get
tysburg, Alfred never got over the wounds
he received at Charlottesville, Charles"
There, there! That will do. Sull 1
should have thought that Walter, with his
strong Southern chivalry, would not have
allowed his sister to earn her bread in the
land of the Philistines''
"Daniel Winthrop, am ashamed of you!
Walter could not help her. He is learning
the law at Richmond, and guess, poor boy,
it is IS much as he can do to help himself.
And want you to remember, Daniel, much
as you may sneer at Southern chivalry, that
if the two young people had not sold the es-
tate, when land was down to almost moth
ing an acre, to pay the claims Alphonse Le-
croix's heirs made for money they asserted
he had advanced their father, they might
now have a home over their head.n
"Alphonse Lecroix ~ Winthrop ejae-
ulated. $50 the hand of that man comes
in this trouble also? Say. mother, Kate
Frobisham isn't such a bad girl after III. !"
"Well, dear, what can we doa~
"That is just what want to talk over
with you. The fact is, I've got IN ilea.
Martha"
"Sakes alive, Daniel, what is afs
fro RI COHIRsUxDl
Iron County register., 1889-03-07
A freshet on the south branch o

"A freshet on the south branch of
the Potomac, near Romney, Hampshire
County, W. Va, some time ago. laid
open great Indian cemetery. Hun
dreds of skeletons have been found in
a good state of preservation. All were
lying on the left side. With the skele-
tons were found beads, arrow, spear
and tomahawk heads, and what is be-
lieved to have been Indian money,
made of bone and ivory. Some of the
beads were of bone, others of small
stones, and all were beautifully col
ored. Among the trinkets were many
bone fsh-hooks and copper articles
used by the Indians for some purpose
unknown at this day. The trinkets
were all perforated with very small
holes.
Iron County register., 1889-03-07
AN ORATOR DUPED.
How John Bright Once Upon . Time
Gave Away o Salmon.


Gave Away q Salmon.
A Scotch correspondent sends the
Fishing Gazette little anecdote relat-
ing to John Bright which may possess
some interest. II picked it up" he
says, ''at little Highland hotel, where
Mr.. Bright at one period of his life
used to stay for night when on an
angling excursion. One night he and
his party were returning after a day of
poor sport to all except himself, and
he had brace of fine salmon. By the
roadside, on a heap of stones, they
passed wretched-looking man, weep
ing, with his hands on his face, and all
in rags. In answer to Mr.. Bright's in
quiry, he told a piteous tale of starva-
tion at home, of sick wife, and five
hungry children. The Tribune put his
hand in his pocket, but, unluckily, had
no change. Never mind. take that
Offering salmon; it will at least make
a good dinner for you for once The
sequel was as follows: After washing
his hands Mr.. Bright was coming down
stairs to dinner, when girl happened
W DC CAooOlhS w uhC ldLuOt Wlbll d uu6
fish. That is my salmon said Mr..
Bright; I know him, for he was hooked
on the outside. Where did you get itp"
oh, just frae Sandy" said the simple
Scotch lassie. Mr.. Bright, looking
rather grim, forced his way into the
tap-room, where his lachrymose friend
sat with number of thirsty cronies,
recounting in full giee his adventure.
The four gilt stoup they'd gart him clatter,
And kirsen'd him wi reekin' water.
Sandy wasn't a bit abashed at the stern
face of the great orator, but had begun
a long explanatory statement, when
the glance of scorn which had often
times electrified Parliaments and
hushed mighty audiences instantly
silenced the man, and without word
Mr.. Bright left the astonished group
of revelers. Fishing Gazette (En-
gland).
Iron County register., 1889-03-07
A Trying Experience.

.sWhat is the worst experience you
ever underwent, COLONEL"
..The worstp Well. it occurred years
ago, when was q young man. ! was
a sailor then. and the vessel on which
I was working was wrecked. A barrel
half full OF whisky was floating about
and / clung to it, drifting in the icy
water for day and q night"
THAT was horrible"
Horrible? No name for it. I
couldn't keep the darned barrel in one
position long enough to open it,
Lincoln Journal.
Iron County register., 1889-03-07

An authentic silver dollar of the
Confederate States is valued by coin
collectors at thousand dollars. Only
few were coined before the Confed-
crate mint ran out of silver
Iron County register., 1889-03-07

One advantage with sugar NAPLES
is that, in the right kind of soil, good
income can be derived from the sugar.
Iron County register., 1889-03-07
CHAPTER xIv.-CoNr1s1YEp.

I Copragatsd, 1855, by the 4. NJ Ksllo1o N.,a..
paper Conpdny1
Iron County register., 1889-03-07
LOYAL AT LAST.
A Tale OF Love and Adventure In
the Late Civil War.
BY BERNARD ercSD1

AUTHOR OF "ELLES's SECRET" "FALLEs
AMONG THIEVES "MY LADY FANrAs
TICAL," AND OTHER STORIES
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18

In card written to the Kansas City
Star, Saturday, o. B. Hamilton, the
Meade Center, Kansas, banker, gives
the version of the American sugar COM
pany to the charge that it has used i'm
ported sugar to raise the standard of
the Kansas made and thus fraudulently
obtain bonds voted conditionally by
various counties. He admits the charge
that imported sugar was used, but de-
tends the action OF his company on the
ground that 1t was made necessary by
the poor quality of the cane raised in
Kansas. Most of the cane, he says, was
run simply for syrup, not having enough
sugar for granulatiOn, though the best
lots were run for sugar. This was gran
ulating slowly and it was suggested that
with a poor quality of juice no sugar
could be obtained without mixing i'm.
ported sugar with it, This was done
secretly, Mr. Hamilton says, for the rea-
son the company had enemies who did
not want to see it obtain the bonds
which 1t would if the product was salts
factory. Mr.. Hamilton considered this
perfectly legitimate and devotes consid-
cradle space In an attempt to show that
it was not intended to hOodwink the
people. Much of his card is devoted to
abuse of Willis &. Emerson, who, he
claims, exposed the concerns methods
for spite.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18

Even the republican newspapers, or
some of them, are beginning to acknowl-
edge that the soldier issue is dead. The
latest and most sensible thing we have
seen on the subject, is from the Phila-
delphia Telegraph, a republican paper.
That paper says: The soldier issue is
dead issue, as it ought to be in this
country, twenty-five years after the
close OF the great civil war. Almost a
generation of voters have grown up, to
whom that great conflict is but tradi-
ton, though patriotic one, the genu-
inc lessons of which there Is no danger
of their not remembering and profting
by IN any future time of public trial or
peril. But it is evident that the time
has fully come when the vast majority
of the people of this country do not pro-
rose to allow themselves to be preju-
diced and governed in The performance
of their great duty Of citizenship by the
fact that the candidate of one party or
the other held place in the ranks of
the Union army, while his opponent
perhaps did not do so. During nearly
all this period the soldier has pre-empt-
ted the vast majority of civil places of
honor, especially in republican states
and communities /; the debt of gratitude
has been most generously discharged {;
and while there Is still in the public
mind the very highest measure of re-
Spect for the citizen patriot who served
his country courageOnsly. faithfully and
well, it is recognized that there are 9TH
er claims in connection with the per-
Torrance of responsible public duties
which must be considered and met
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18

Prof. Shelton, of the state agricultural
college, having been directed by the re-
gents of that institution to investigate
the subject of irrigation in Western
Kansas, the professor spent several
weeks in the work, and in his report he
says: Except in the case of limited
tracts of land flanking large streams,
like the Arkansas, no general system of
irrigation is possible in Western Kan
sas. Water for use for this purpose on
an extended scale is wholly or in great
part wanting. Such streams as the
Smoky Hill, the CImarron, the Beaver,
the Solomon and their larger affluents
might furnish water for irrigation upon
a small scale, but the quantity of water
available for this purpose is sure to be
small during the season when it is most
needed. In the lower valleys where
water may be had by digging shallow
wells, it is doubtless possible TO prac-
tice irrigation upon considerable scale
by means of powerful pumps of the HUFF
fer pattern, but this is at present wholly
matter of speculation"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18
HazeIton Hannen,ncs

About so head of cattle altogether.
represents the loss in this vicinity this
fall. +. /. .Hazelton merchants are making
big preparations for the holiday trade,
judging from the quantity of holiday
goods they are displaying. B. F.
Leach, northwest of Hazelton, says he
has 100 bushels of corn for every days
work 1t took to raise his corn crop.
At dance at the residence of w. T.
Lucas five miles north of here, Friday
night, we understand that Jim Lucas
and Frank Croll gave an entertainment
that beats Uncle Toms CABIN. 1t con-
sisted in hammering each other with
chairs and such other furniture as was
convenient to get hold of. The teach
ers association for this end of Barber
county will meet in Haeelton Satul day,
Dec. 81, and anticipate an entertaining
and profitable meeting. :. Mr.. /. Ray,
formerly OF this county but at present a
resident of Illinois, dropped in on us
Saturday to look after his farm. He is
almost persuaded to move back here.
1t is pretty hard to wean a man from
Barber county after he once tries it for
year. The best financial showing
that has ever been made at any of our
quarterly conferences was made Satur-
day evening. They were ahead of the
demands on the preachers salary.
Rev. Gillian, of Harper, conducted the
quarterly meeting services Sunday and
preached very able sermon to a good
congregation. If he ever comes this
this way again he may expect a full
house. for everybody was pleased with
him Sunday. The calculation Is for
the Sunday school to have Christmas
tree Ill the church on Christmas eve.
The children are already happy in an
ticipation of it. L F. Flowers talks
of leaving Hazelton for trip to Cali
fornia in sholt time /. A man passed
through Hazelton. Saturday, on his way
from the Indian Territory. He had
killed nine deer and a few turkeys. an a
had nothing but a six-shooter to do it
with. What might he have done had
he been armed with a Winchester rife.
w. C.. A,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18

Now that Harrison has thrown down
the hyp0eritical mask, and advises a
revision and reduction of the tariff, we
are waiting to hear his party call him a
free-trader. No matter how short the
step toward free-trade, according to re-
publican orators, it is in the wrong di-
rection. The whole truth is that the
republicans were astonished at the sue
cess of their silly cry of protection last
year, and they now see that the game
cannot be played much longer, and thew
must hedge. The republican party is
four years behind current events.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18
No. 1440
First published Dec. Is, 1889.
SHERIFFS SALE.

In the District Court of the oath Judicial Dis
trict, sitting in and for the county of
Barber, in the state of Kansas
William F. Leonard Plaintiff,
versus
Horace l.. Croxton and Croxton,
his wife. Samuel Croxton and -
CroXtOn, his wife, Defendants
Q1 virtue of an order of sale, issued to me-
~ out of said district court, in the above en-.
titled action, l will, on
SATURDAY, THE 18TH DAY OF JANUARY
A. d., 1890, at two O'Clock 2. NJ, of said day. at
the front door of the courthouse, in the CITY of
medicine Lodge, in the county of Barber in
the state OF Kansas, offer at public sale and
sell 10 the highest and best bidder for cash in
hand, all the following described real epe -
tO-wit: lie, \
The west half of the southeast uuarte1r ca
the northeast quarter of the southeas. real q
ter OF section thirty, C30, in townships - =
TWO, l52l, south, of range thirteen, 03) WI 1f
the 6th +. NJ, lying and situate in the county
OF Barber and state of Kansas
The above described real estate is fakeu q
the property OF said defendants, and isidirect-
ed by said order of sale to be sold and will bo
SOLD without appraisement, to satisfy said or
der of sale.
1884 GEO w ATEVENs
sheriff of Barber county, Kans
Cunningham & LaheY, Attorneys.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18

Edward Bellamv, the author of"Look-
ing Backward" that strange novel that
pictures what society may be in two
centuries from now, is the recognized
head and champion of the school of nat
ionalists, a party that proposes radical
reforms for this government. When
questioned, lately, as to the specific OBJ
iects of the movement, Mr.. Bellamy
said; First, we want naturalization
of all railroads. We propose that the
government shall take charge of the
properties and shall pay over to the
present security holders such dividends
on just valuation of property as may be
earned. Secondly, the naturalization
of the telegraph and telephone systems
IN the same or some other practical
manner. The English government pur-
chased the telegraph system outright.
Congress could easily decide the mat
ter. Thirdly, the naturalization of the
coal mining business of the country, to
the end that all mines may be worked
continuously to their full capacity-coal
to be furnished to consumers at cost,
and miners steadily and humanely en-
ployed. 40 class of men is so damnably
dealt with IS cqal miners, and there is
no class of employers who Treat the pub
Tic so rapaciously as the coal barons.
Then we propose that the postofice de-
partment of the government shall cum
troll the express business of the country.
On the same principal the cities and
towns of the countFy should take charge,
as municipal functions, of heating, run
ming and lighting of the street GERS and
all methods of rapid transit
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18
NO. 1861. FIRST Publication Dec Is. 1889,
PUBLICATION NOTICE

In the District Court of Barber county Kansas
onedley Darlington, Plaintiff,
versus
Nancy j. Turner, Reuben Turner
william Rathburn and Laura Rath-
burn, Landers q Couch, ID. f. Lam
ders, e. Couch, Addie C. Couch
isaac n. Cady, Charles Pond James
w. Pond and Pond Bros Def'ts
Inc above named ID. +. Landers, Isaac NJ
Sady, Charles Pond, James W. Pond Pond
Brothers, Nancy j. Turner and Reuben Turner
are hereby notified that they have been sued
Dy the above named plaintiff. in the district
Court OF BARRIER county, state Of Kansas and
Inat unless they answer the petition of said
plalndln against them. filed in said action. in
the once OF the clerk of said court by the eth
Hay Oh February, 1890, said petition will be Ia.
ken as true, and Judgment will be rendered i'm
SAID action in favor of said plaintiff and gainst
said defendants. for the sum of Fifteen HIM
dred Dollars, tH,500l, with interest thereon.
from the first day of October, 1886, at the rate,
or IL per cent. per annum, and for the sale of
me following real estate, lying and situate in,
the county OF Barber, and state of Kansas
to-wlt; The south half of the southwest oIlar-
Ter or section twenty-six, (26); the south half
oI the southeast quarter of section twenfy-
seven, ga, and the northeast quarter OF seq
tlon thlrty'four. (34), and the southeast ousr-
Ter OF section thrty-fOur, GA, all in townehiu
th1rty-one, (3lJ, range fifteen, Q5L west and to,
sell the same without appraisement under an
order of sale, to satisfy said sum OF money
interest. taxes on land, and costs of said action,
IN accordance with the prayer of said petitIOn
SCHOONQNER g. COATES,
U-o~ Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Attest: FRANZ HOLMES, Clerk
BY ;, J.. ALLEN, Deputy.
ochoohoVer Coates. Att'Ys. wichita, Kans.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18

Kilrain's case came I'D at Purvis.
Miss, saturday. The jury acquitted
lin of prize fighting but found him
guilty of assault and battery and as
sessed his punishment at two months
in Jail and fine of $500. He appealed
and was released on $1,000 bail. AS
Kllrain did not assault or batter Sulli-
van, it was not fair that he should be
found guilty. AS Sullivan did punch
Jake, cave in his ribs, black his eyes
and knock him silly, he should be fined
S2O,0 900 and imprisoned about 20 years.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18

The government commission, sent
out to confer with the Cherokees about
selling the strip, failed to get any def
mite answer, and left for Washington
last week. after getting into a row with
the committee appointed by the Chero-
KEGS. The latter committee asked the
government committee a lot of ques-
tions which the latter did not see fit to
answer; the Cherokees charged the
lady stenographer with classifying the
records. the government commission
wrote notes calling the Cherokee COM
missioners, individually and collective
lY. liars.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18
/. First Published Dec. IS. 1850.
SHERTFR,S SATP

In the District Court of the 24th Judicial Dis
trlct, sitting in and for the county of
Barber, in the state of Kansas
William F. Leonard, Plaintiff,
T. Josie NJ. l.. Hargis, Defendant
BY virtue of an order of sale issuad 60 -.
u out OF said District court. in the shovo
entitled action. WILL on "'o'e
SAIU hDAY. THE 18TH DAY OF JANUARY
a D.. 1890. at two o'clock Z. M OF safd daw
at the front door of the courthouse in the -,
OF Medicine Lodge, in the county of p CITY
III the state OF Kansas, offer at public rDer,
sell, 10 the highest and best bidd~ SAFE, ana
to-wit: 4oed real estate,
of the southwest anr the southeast quarter
and lot one m ons -.rter of section six, (6).
the nerthwest az, @n the northeast quarter Of
In tOwnshin ,Iarter of section seven, IN all
fifteen. a. thirty-One. (3l south of range
situate y, west of the 9th p. NJ. lying and
Kar III the county of Barber and state of
Sas
Inc above described real estate is taken az
the property of said defendants, and is directed
Dy SAID order of sale to be sold, and will be
der of SALE N -
oU3 GEO. w. STEVENS,
Sheriff of Barber County, Kans
Cunningham & Lahey, Attorneys.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18

While AL the excitement and charges
Of fraud exist in connection with the
sorghum sugar business in the western
counties of this state. one truth is ac-
knowledged by all men: There was nc
fraud practiced in getting the 50O,OOC
pounds of sugar at Medicine Lodge.
The works here were owned and opera.
ted by men who had no occasion to
cover up anything, or make an extra.
ordinary showing for the purpose OF
getting further municipal aid.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-12-18

The widow of the late jefferson Da-
Wis says that she will not accept dona-
tions of money or other property from
the admirers of her late husband; but
she suggests that those who desire to
assist in good cause may subscribe to
the capital stock of the Davis Land
Company, an organization started to
buy up lot of land owned by Mr.. Da-
Wis, in Arkansas and Mississippi.