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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26
POPULATION OF KANSAS.
1"s on'ciAi Figures as Furnished BY tn
Census Offipe.

The Official Figures as Furnished By the
Census Ohioe.
TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. I4-The Secre-
tary OF State has received from Wash.
lngton the official census returna riv-
Ing the population of Kansas by counties.
The returns show that Wyandott is the
most populous county in the State with
o.. 1877 inhabitants. There are two coun.
ties in the State with less than l, 600 in.
naoisants-Morton and Garfeld-which
nave county officers and are forced to
keep up an organization, Twelve conn
ties have less than 1000 inhabitant. II
Is probable that at the coming session
OF the Legislature the smaller counties
will be relieved of the necessity of
keeping up their county governments
ana made parts OF other counties Some
OF them Will tight the change and 9TH
ers will favor it. Following is the pon-
uiation OF the various counties in the
State as shown by the official cansus.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26
A had Case.

WICHITA. Kan, Nov. 1z--It is dis
covered, as 1t Is stated tere, that Robert
hsnion, who has ccaarge of the schools
as ArkaIon' tsn miles west and Mrs.
'onn Wsit1el the wife of an agent for .
MONEY ylosning company, had left town e
ges0er. The husband of the missing wo2S-As-
An returned after a weeks absence and
discovered that his residence had been
broken into and his valuables stolen.
and that his Office had also been visited
by burglars and the safe blown open
and robbed of 81, 600 in cash and notes
for larger sum.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26

ITS THE SCHOOL MA'AM O. sAssAFRAsrn
while Carrie was preparing that rousing
dinner.
"Cephas told it" he said. in answer to
her repeated question.
well, it is not the least bit true"
she informed him. "I'd neoer marry
Cephas Bludsoel'
Then the big, honest boy found ex-
preston for his love at last. and he was
electrified by the sweetness of her an
sWer. ARTHUR G. GRIssoM
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26
A LUCKY BLIZZARD.
The Story Of a Glad Thanksgiving
at Rose Ranch.

len the long
p a m pa gras s S
was green, Rose
ranch was one
of the prettiest
little places in
a / l North ern
Texas; but now
that it was sere
and dead, Rose
T a n ch looked
glum and drear
under the pallid
November sky.
Somehow the
appear a nee of
things had an
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26
MEDICINE LODGE KANSAS. WEDNESDAY NoVEMBER 26 1870
THE DAY OF GIVING.

N the amber days
of autumn, when
the mallows blush
and glow,
And the ambient
upper oce an"
holds a crystal
hint Of snow,
Comes an hour OF
tender fe cling
W b en- ch arity
holds sway,
And the world Is
gently thoughtful
on the Nations
Giving Day.
Then the 1ocund-
visaged pumpkin
gives its wealth
Of toothsome gold,
SandWiched 'tWixt
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26
Barber County Officers.
POSTAL

PostofFce atMedicine Lodge open from A NJ
- pm. Sundays one hour on arrival OF mail.
oney order, open A. NJ. TO D p. NJ. Satur,
days p o. open until a. NJ. Eastern mali
CLOSES promptly at a. NJ.
n. A. BROWN, Assistant.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26

small Boy Papa, what does mo
notonous' mean?" Father (wearily)-
Wat till your mother begins to talk
dress with your aunt. my boy; then
youli realize the full meaning Of the
word. y
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26

name. You are living lie to the name
you do wear. True Blue-a fne-pointed
sarcasm on ripe scoundrel Here, take
this money, that you may not start pen
niless, and go. You are branded as a
thief and never wish to see your face
again" Thus spoke my uncle, Judge
Obediah Peppergrass, to me on Thanks
giving eve two years ago.
Hes not a thief and you can not
prove your accusationr' exclaimed my
warm-hearted cousin Cherry, enthusias-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26

my motto, sir, Is Never say die,
And it's good one, don't you think7s
well, don't think So"
'gndeedi Who are your
Pm funeral director. ."-Jsdgs.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26

}! Get out of my
sight! You pol
lutte the very at
mosphere with a
taint of your ras-
cality. Go! Go
before l forget
m y S e If a n d
strike you! You
are the only
member of the
Pep p erg s S
family that has
disgraced it by
cri in al a c.
tions, and 1 am
thankful you do
not bear its
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26
VOTE FOR GOVERNOR.

a Tsbulated Statement of the Vote Fon
Governor OF Kansas BY Counties
The following table. although not
official, gives the vote for Governor al
the late election:
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26

DELPHIA LODGE, No. 140, X. of p, meets on
Monday evening of each week, at the X. of p.
hall. Visiting Knights in good standing invi-
ted TO attend r. Q. MOLLoY, @. Q.
OTIs LORToN, X. of X. & ).
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26
TRUE BLUE.

a New England Thanksgiving
Story.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26

on the young lord and master of this do
main, and he felt glum and drear too
He stood on the front step of the little
white dwelling which he had built with
his own hands, and, leaned against one
OF the heavy doS,r-posts, scowling dis
mally.
What a big. strong, handsome fellow
John Ellsworth was! 1t was odd that
he had never M 9rriad beinr at laaa
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26
BE THANKFUL

That you are alive and in good health
and with good appetite for your
Thanksgiving dinner.
That while your affairs for the past
year have not gone as prosperously as
you could have desired they are still in
much better shape than they might
nave been,
That you live in this the grandest
era OF the worlds history day of liber-
ty OF human speech and conscience and
under Government so grand and free
that the humblest citizen goes about
his business with scarcely the knowl-
edge forced upon him that we have 2
Government at all.
'1 HAVE noticed one peculiar thing
about letters" said Galley.
What is that?''
why, the tales that are too fancifui
to be swallowed are most eagerly de
roured. "--Harper's Bazaar.
-Customer-'T thought YOU said vou
had no fresh fshG" Marketman-s.OnIv
enough to fill our orders" Customer.
Then what are all those you are sending
out? Marketman-s'Those are goino,
by express to Black Bass Lake. the
great fishing resort We supply ali the
hotels there. ..America.
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n II q LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 80.
VI liz NS Regular Communications, first
and third Monday evenings In each month.
Mrs. EVA l.. MERRELL, W. NJ.
NANNIE V. o. BRYAN, Sec.
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SOCIETIES.

Al. & A. NJ, Delta Lodge No. Il
~ Regular communications, first and
" third Saturday evenings in each
M month. All afiliating and non-afhli-
atinT mnscns in good standing, cordially in
vited tn attend FRANK BEERS, W. NJ.
H. NJ INGRAHAM, Secretary.
CYPRUS CHAPTER No. 90, r.. A. NJ, meets
IN Masonic Hall every 2d and 4th Thursday.
Visiting brethren cordially invited.
CHESTER l. LONG, II. p.
u n PHCK Sec'y.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-23

of lustrum, which for the information
of those whose facilities for q classical
education have been limited, we will ex-
plain to mean a period Of seven years,
Los Angeles will have population OF
two hundred and fifty thousand people,
with the most eclectic and splendid lines
of development known on earth. The
man who can buy for one thousand dol
lars now the city or country property
which will cost him ten to twenty thou
sand dollars five years from now, will be
standing around engaged in telling the
old chestnuts so familiar about Chicago
Just now. The HERALD ia inclined to
think that it's estimates OF our popu-
lation have lately been too conservative.
Ninety thousand for our present popula-
ton is eminently fair. Within the next
twelvemonth there will be an increase in
these figures that will surprise the Oldest
inhabitant. Our own impression is that
the lively and resctionary movemsn,
will begin about the middle of the com.
ing February.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-23

PRECISELY what good is effected by
such trips as that which Miss Nellie
BLY, has nearly completed around the
world it would puzzle any one to say.
In her interview with San Francisco
reporter at Lathrop she admitted that
she was fifteen days behind, ascribine
the delay to defective schedules. II
Jules Verne had not covered the whole
field twenty years ago, in Around the
World in Eighty Days." with
infinitely more vivacity, dash,
amplitude and knowledge than Nellie
can hope to throw into her trashy pro-
ductions, there might be some sense in
the matter. 1t may be recondite way
of trying to sell Nellie's inexpressi-
bly, dull and trashy book, THE
Mystery of Central Park" of
which a public not altogether insane
yet have probably not bought a half a
dozen copies. Perhaps Nellie has been
incubating second book. If 30, it is to
be hoped that it may not prove to be
quite as dull as her last. The World will
doubtless go into the jubilate business
on Nellie's entire failure to do what she
started out to do. Even if she had sue
ceeded we do not see what the whole
thing would have amounted to. As a
blank-be-blanked failure it seems to be
the little end of nothing whitfield down
very fine. It is great waste of oppor-
tunities that Roland Reed did not hit on
this method of getting rid of one or two
OF his obtrusive widows. By proposing
to start in opposite directions, to meet
somewhere in the antipodes, the thing
could have been managed like charm.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-23

ness man of Shabbona, DeK alb county.
this State, who spent some DAYS in the
afflicted districts, says: .'However hard
the landsharks and other interested par.
ties may try to keep the truth from the
people OF this country, they cannot long
be successful. The successive failures
for four years OF crops have reduced
those even formerly well-to- do to a con-
dition OF the sorest distress. Manv
thousands OF families are entirely with
out means OF any kind. They lack the
wherewithal to purchase the necessaries
of life.
"In Miner county they have no -four.
the staple OF life being background corn
meal, and there is noticeable insuffici-
ency of that. Every farm is mortgaged.
in many cases for more than sale under
present prices would realize. Most of
| the stock has been levied Oh and sold by
the Sheriff at public auction. The
ridiculously low prices obtained are
eloquent not only OF the starving con-
dition OF the cattle, but of the scarcity of
means IN the community COWS fetching
as low as five dollars apiece, horses
eight and ten dollars, while sheep and
pigs are almost unstable, there being
nothing to feed them with. Women and
children bear evidences of the hardships
they have undergone in their pinched
and meagre faces. In many instances they
are quite unprovided with clothing with
which to withstand the rigors of win.
ter, what they now have being in a
ragged and worn out condition,
Flour is most needed, especially in
Kingsbury and Miner counties. CLOTHING
for women and children, and provisions
of any kind just now wonld be Godsend
to thousands who are in a semi-starving
condition. Unless relief is given with q
liberal hand this winter in South Dakota,
you will hear of many deaths from starva.
ton, and the reports will undoubtedly
have foundation in fact"
Mrs. A. G. Cleveland, of Edmonds
South Dakota, confirms Paxton's story
This lady is now in Minneapolis, where
she is making an heroic effort in behalf
of the sufferers,
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-23
The canvass made for the new CT

The canvass made for the new City
Directory by all the usual standards ol
comparison would indicate that the
population of Los Angeles is at least
ninety thousand souls. We do not be.
lieve that there is in this city today any
intelligent man who desires to exaggerate
anything. For two years we have been
taking the backwater of both Eastern
and Pacific Coast depreciatory lying.
Our position reminds us of thing we
have often seen in Kansas and Nebraska
in half dozen midwinter trips we have
made to the East in the last three or
four years, and that is windbreak, with
half hundred half starved cattle in the
lee of some long pile of staked logs.
They looked as if they were ready to sub.
NIT to any fate that might befall. The
people of Los Angeles are just now pretty
much in that position, with the
difference that they don't give
d-m what view any kind Of people
hold Of them. They know that, inside
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-23
SILVER IN AND.
Probability that the Bank of ENG
land Will lssue Notes.

PROM 0It1ty that thc "hhA W H1AS =
land Will Issue Notes.
LONDON, January 22.-Further inqui-
ries were prosecuted this afternoon
among financial authorities in regard to
the plan of issuing pound notes by the
Bank of England. The prevailing
opinion seemed to be that the present
report was based on the renewal of the
old story that Goschen, Chancellor Of
the Exchequer, intends to introduce q
bill in Parliament granting the bank
authority to issue pound notes. How.
ever, there are indications which
would seem to justify the conclusion
that Goschen really contemplates intro
ducing measure of that description dur
ing the Parliamentary recess. The
Treasury authorities have had frequent
conferences with the leading bankers ol
the metropolis touching the advisability
of authorizing the issue of notes of small
denominations. In these conferences the
question of issuing notes of the value o1
ten shillings, as we'll as one pound, has
been under discussion, and the under.
standing is that in case such notes are
issued they are to be made redeemable
in silver coin. Another significant fac
is that in view of the likelihood of legis
lation of the character indicated, the
mint has greatly reduced the coinage O
gold ten shilling pieces.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-23

THERE is no use of kicking against the
pricks, and the people of Los Angeles
may as we'll admit that this is the coldest
and perhaps the wettest winter ever
known in this section. OF course, cold
here is relative term; but, neverthe-
lese, with the thinned blood which soon
characterizes people living in q semi
tropical climate the inconvenience suf.
fered is often great. OF course degree
of cold which leaves the tuberose, hello.
trope and other delicate flowers, and the
orange and lemon hanging on the trees,
all in the open air, unframed, is not ex
cessive. The banana and palm, dis
tinctively tropical fruits, also hold their
own remarkably we'll. But it is year
that will be long remembered, and will
set the standard for severity for decades
on decades to come.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-23
WE NOTICE that the Board of Supay

WE NOTICE that the Board of Super
visors of San Luis Obispo county, in
their advertisement for printing the
County Delinquent Tax List, ask for bids
for three weeks or four Insertions. 1t
might be worth while for the Los Ange-
les Board to take counsel in this matter.
In their personal practice nearly all our
leading attorneys, where the period of
publication is three weeks, order four
weekly insertions. We have not the
slightest desire to see the bill swelled
for the county delinquent advertising,
but five minutes talk with Hon. S. NJ
White, Judge Henry M. Smith, or some
other lawyer of approved learning and
judgment, might save trouble. We
note in other counties of the State. to
make everything sure, the Supervisors
are ordering four insertions.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-23

HENRY M. STANLEY is rapidly becom-
ing bigger man than Emperor William
himself, with whom he condescended to
exchange compliments on emerging from
the Dark Continent. A summary of this
mans life discounts the stories to be
found in the Arabian Nights entertain.
ment. The careers of Willard and Stan
ley show that nothing is unattainable to
capable newspaper man. Both, a few
years ago, were obscure reporters on
papers that did not count for much out
side of the narrow orbit in which they
were published. Willard achieved a CO.
lossal fortune, standing at one time with
the Jay Goulds and the Vanderbilts in
the estimates of his wealth. The great
panic precipitated in Northern Pacific
securities ruined him, but he never lost
his grip. He is again at the perihelion
of fortune, and this time probably to
stay there. Ten years ago Stanley was
held in very little repute. James Cor
don Bennett, of the New York Herald,
and the London Telegraph sent Stanley
to Africa, and today he counts in the
actual space allotted to him in the press
of the world ahead of any monarch in
Christendom or in the world. He has
not amassed the enormous fortune
which Willard has piled up, but there is
little doubt that Stanley, also, will be-
come prodigiously wealthy. The only
man who rivals him from a journalistic
standpoint-tha is to say, in the ability
to earn money-is Monsieur de Blowitz,
the Paris correspondent of the London
Times, who receives an income of fifty
thousand dollars year, with country
villa, q gorgeous city residence and an
allowance for extra service which would
paralyze one of the German potentates.
In addition to his ability to command
any remuneration he might desire, Stan
ley cannot fail to realize an immense
fortune from the sales of his forthcoming
book.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-23
ColOred Petitioners.

w AsHINaToN, January 22.-The COM
mittee appointed by the National Afro
American League Convention, recently
held in Chicago, to present to the Ex-
ecutive and to Congress petition for the
enactment of legislation to secure to the
colored people their rights under the
constitution, will call on President Har-
rison tomorrow morning with petition.
The petition details the outrages in the
South, the suppression of the colored
vote, etc. 1t also asks for the passage of
the Blair Educational bill. and sets forth
the lamentaple lack of educational facil-
tiles in different sections of the South.
Similar petitions will be presented in the
Senate and House.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-23
A Noble Russian Murderer.

New YoRK, January 22.-Mary Petra
kovst, handsome young Russian girl,
was shot and killed this afternoon by a
young Russian named Michael Popoff.
He was in love with the girl and wanted
to marry her, but she refused on account
OF his shiftless habits. The murderer
comes OF wealthy family in high
standing in Russia. His parents died
two years ago. He became a spend
thrift and squandered the most of his
fortune in less than two years. He then
came to this country and since then has
been living on the remnants of his for
tune.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-23
MINERS CONSOLIDATING.
Two Labor Organizations MergAn,
Into One.


Into One.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, January pa con-
vention of the National Miners Progress
sive Union and National District Assem-
bly, of Miners Knights of Labor, was held
here today. The proposed plan of consol-
idation of the two organizations and new
rules were approved by both conventions,
after a lengthy debate. A joint nt-convention
will meet tomorrow. These two organ
izations comprise large majority of the
miners of Iowa, Missouri, illinois, In
diana, Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsyl-
vania. The membership aggregates
20, 900 men, and it is claimed to be con-
stantly and rapidly increasing. If the
convention reaches harmonious conclu-
sion tomorrow, both the present
bodies will dissolve and merge into
new organization. President Mcbride,
Of the Union, today urged concerted &C.
ton to be taken, looking toward in
creased wages and the adoption of the
eight hour day.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-23
THURSDAY, JANUARY ss, 1890.
stand BY Your Home Products.

stand by Your Home PRODUCTS
Perhaps nothing amuses Easterners
aadforeigners so much as the senseless
way in which Californians undervalue
their home products. This State has
long been noted for its excellent wines,
the northern and central counties having
the supremacy in dry and the southern
counties in ports. The writer well re-
members having been met by the late
Mr.. Vail, who had extensive connections
in England, where he had lived for
years, and who exhibited letter which
he had just received from Liverpool
acknowledging the receipt of shipment
of Los Angeles port wine. The Liver
pool correspondent added to his en-
comiums the statement that if Mr.. Vail
could ship as per sample, he desired an
immediate consignment of e10. 900 worth
of the port of which he was such an appre-
ciative connoisseur. Of course it was i'm
possible to get that quantity of sound
port together at once, although if We
realized our true mission we would be
getting ready to ship million pounds
worth of such wines in the near future.
Who can get any really fine Los An
geles brandy? And vet the Messrs. Rose.
Baldwin, Shorb and others, have been
manufacturing 1t for years in this county
and shipping it to the four corners of the
world. We defy any one to get drink
of good, mellow native brandy in Los
Angeles. Instead of insisting upon hav-
ing good home article, the poor Los
Angeles ninny walks up to bar, pays
twenty-five cents for drink of high
wines favored with oil of cognac, swal-
lows the vile compound and feels like
kicking himself for a week thereafter.
1t is high time that this wretched trav-
esty should be stopped. We ought to
patronize our home products, from beer
to brandy, if we drink at all. Not to do
SO is to show that we really do not SYM
psthize with the mission of Los Angeles
and Southern California, which is to
replace conventional fraud, which has
run long time, with something genuine
and wholesome.
Let us give over shams and pretenses.
The man who puts the popular brands of
champagne in his gullet poisons himself,
while Hennessy and Martel filled fresh
from the jug into the old bottles would
give Priam new sort of agony. at the
dead of night or any other hour.