Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-02-05
LOCAL NEWS.

Go to Henry Morgan for your farm
loans. IL
Chas. ID. Nelson and wife are visiting
IN Reno county.
Remember the immigration meeting
Saturday afternoon.
Cook 81 Palmer give lowest rates on
farm and city loans. %
About half of the families in this city
want girls for general housework."
Judge McCanless has moved back in
to his building east of the INDEX office.
Ladies can do well to buy cloak of
us now, away below first cost. >. Y. ~
f. 81
John Hutchins, engineer at the school
building, is dangerously sick with pneu-
monia.
See Il. l.. Lindley, manager, for year
~ interest farm loans; also short time
chattel loans.
Attorney Sample is senior counsel in
the defense of Dr. Sombart, the Cold
water murderer.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
lst National bank.
Burnett prides himself on having the
finest stock Of teas ever brought to this
CITY. TRY sample order. 81
Attorney Jones went to Nashville,
Kansas, yesterday, to try law suit.
From there he expected to go to Wichita.
Unquestionably the best line of new
shoes for men and women ever shown
in this town just opened at Burnett's.
On account of the sickness of a juror,
Judge Ellis had to adjourn the murder
trial at Anthony, last week, until this
week.
Riley Lake shipped % broke mules to
Kansas City, last Saturday night. If
NE did not find a good market there he
expected TO re-ship to Memphis.
/ Moss Hamilton IS at home again. lie
\ as on the street, last Saturday. 1t is
presumed that he has arranged his
financial matters with his creditors.
Several townships in Harper county
were to have voted yesterday The second
time on the proposition to grant aid to
the Hutchinson, Oklahoma and Gulf
railroad.
The fourth quarterly meeting of Lake
City circuit, NJ. +. church, will be held
at Lake City, Monday, February 18th.
Presiding elder Hodgson will preach at
1880 p. m. All are invited TO attend.
Nv. ii. Farrell, pastor.
The INDEX is in receipt of an invita-
-1ion TO attend grand calico ball, to be
given by the young men of Kiowa, in
,Iampbell's opera house, Friday even
Bng, February 18th. The committees
having the affair i'll charge are active
young men.
w. 1. Crawford, who was with Gun
-ningham Bros. Il Co. two years, arrived
there from Astoria, Oregon, last week.
He is now located at Astoria, connected
with the Astoria Packing Co., a firm
!. that packs salmon exclusively, their an
-nual packing amounting to nearly mil
7lion tons. Mr.. Crawford brought along
samples of salmon steaks, packed, that
cwere very fine.
J Correspondents of the In DEX should
not devote any portion of their letter:
TO running down the county and writing
things that might keep people from
coming here aud looking over the coun.
" for themselves. We will not publish
such matter There is no objection t.
lrlticlsing the condition of affairs that
bxists all over the country; but it is not
necessary to advertise to the world that
times are harder in Barber county than
elsewhere.
Johnson Mounsey, the Englishmar
who has been living since last May on
ithe Rye VanSlyke place, last week
through Cook Il Palmer, purchased the
Ed. Ayers place of 24O acres, 81 miles
AsOuthwest of town, paying $40 per acre
Mr. Mounsey has large and interest
'ng family of sons and daughters and
ne has many friends in the old country
NhO expect To come out here and locate
lie will pursue general farming, but
will make a specially Of raising hogs.
The Medicine Lodge postonice fight
rs net settled yet, and no man knows
whether AXline, VanSlyke or Hardy
Eill be appointed. Senator ingalls,
wrote letter the other day to John
&Jpperman, in which he said that Con
-ressman Peters had decided to recon-
END the appointments of VansiVke and
the usages of the department woTt
Flowed and there were no charges N
iersonal or official misconduct against
him. he would likely be appointed. But
Ne friends of Axline do not consider thC
litter settled, nor do the friends OF
,rdy. The old soldier element still
ge faith in the appointment of Com
Hardy; but when it was learned
fall that promises would work a.
as appointments with the old sol
element. Hardy stock went below
II we were betting we would picl
hSlyke OF Axline,