Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-03-26
Ice cream social tomorrow night.

Eldred & Charles will ship Z loads of
cattle tonight.
Cook 81 Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. %
Lorraine Chapter No. 80, o. E. s., will
have a special meeting rext Monday
night.
r. NJ. and Henry Sparks shipped two
carloads OF cattle Saturday night. Col.
Eldred sent out two loads on the same
train.
Attorney Denton and j. b. Gano are
away taking dispositions in the damage
suit instituted against the Santa Fe
railroad by the widow of Jerry Zeller.
Rev. r. Sanderson has been located
by the NJ. E. conference at Halstad and
DIR. Phillips will come to Medicine
Lodge. We have not yet learned where
DR.. Phillips was formerly located.
The falling Of the arch of the bake
oven at the gypsum works will delay
Mr.. Best in shipping lot of finishing
plaster for which he took orders i'll Kan
sas City. last week. However, the de-
lay will be but few days.
A letter received this week, at this
office, from L. a. McClearey, announces
that he is doing well with his hotel at
Richmond, Texas. He is well pleased
with the country and the people, and
his family like their new home.
Fourteen kegs of beer were received
at Kiowa last Saturday, the day after
the Cresset had closed the joints. The
closing only occurred in the magma
ton of the Cresset. When it says they
were closed, it admits they were there.
Why not close them for keeps?
Tue ladies of the Eastern Star will
give a Manhattan Social at their hall
on Thursday evening, April Sd. Good
music; all kinds of amusements provi-
ded for old and young. The public cor
daily invited. Admission, adults 25
cents; children 10 cents. Doors open
at 7:30 p. In.
II. E. Kathrens and wife will leave,
Monday, for Jackson county, Kansas,
to visit his father, whom he has not
seen for twelve years. They will 60 to
Winfield IN a buggy, visit relations
at that place, and there take the train
for HOlton, a niece accompanying them.
Mrs. Ash, who lives near Kiowa, is i'll
the city with her daughter, aged about
twelve years, for the purpose of having
Drs. Moore and Burney attend dislo-
cation of the girls shoulder. More than
four weeks ago the girl fell from horse
and dislocated her right shoulder. 1t
was set, but in spite of bandages, Slip
ped out. 1t is thought the arm is now
improving.
Il. Gilmore, of st. Louis, Mo-, and
Z. J. Thayer, of lola, Kansas, partners
to-day, looking after site for -four
ing mill. Mr.. Thayer is brother-ln-
law of Eli G. Benedict, of the Medicine
Lodge stock farm. He and Mayor
Pearson are showing the visitors around
to-day.
The Knights of Pythias are making
great preparations for their ball, to &C.
cur April 18th. The opera house will
be handsomely decorated; the foyer in
the east end will be elegantly carpeted
and curtained, and provided with ia
bles for ladies and gentlemen who pre-
fer euchre or. high five to dancing. Ad-
jacent to the ball room will be num-
Der of dressing rooms. Bristow will
get up the supper, which he promises
will be the best spread in the history OF
the city.
Wellington Standard John b. Fair
field, of Sharon, Barber county, was In
the city Tuesday, in search of a truant
son, who left the parental homestead
last Sunday night with his fathers best
horse. He is supposed to have gone to
| the Strip by way of Caldwell, and Mr.
Fairfield went down TO that city next
morning in search of the young man
He is fifteen years of age, with light
hair, blue eyes. good clothes, and rides
a white pony branded H2. Mr.. Fair
lltlu ID NCIy lIluCn WI ONCl Ills uc-
palture, as he IS an only son, and he
fears some accident may befall him."
The protest of stockmen and farmers
published in this issue, is not against
cattle that are taxable being summered
IN this county but it is against cattle
being driven here from the surrounding
herd-law counties, to eat up our grass
without paying cent of taxes in the
| county. 1t has been common custom
to drive cattle from Sedgwick, Sumner,
Harper and other eastern counties un-
der herd-law restrictions, with no free
range, to Barber county. When the
| township assessors would attempt tC
list the cattle, the owners would show
that on March 1st they were held and
assessed in some other county. Cattle
driven here from the Indian Territory
may be assessed at any time. The tax.
payers opt west are not to be blamed
for protesting.