Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1890-11-26
LOCAL NEWS.

Henry burst has located at Pueblo,
Colorado.
w. w. Standiford came in from En-
glewood last Wednesday.
County Attorney Cameron is taking
hunt IN the Cherokee Strip.
Anything from necktie to a fall
suit, at the lowest prices at Books. 10
Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow, at
the Byerley building, by the Willing
Workers.
John Wilt returned Monday from
trip to Cowley county. He is more than
ever satisfied with Barber county.
Coldwater, in Comanche county, has
had tour papers for several years. Re
Gently the fifth was started there.
The latest, tenderest and best beef
at the Central meat market, opposite
LIST National bank.
Rev. North is conducting prOtract-
sed meeting at the Presbyterian church
1t Will continue all week, and perhaps
longer.
The case against young Garland was
trled in the district court Wednesday,
and he was found not guilty. We pre-
dlcted such a verdict at the time of his
arrest.
Miss Lydia Robe probably left here
this morning for visit to New YORK.
She is one of our most popular young
ladies, and we wish her pleasant visit
and speedy return.
Our band has moved its headquarters
across the street, to the room recently
occupied by Dave Gregg, next to Sing
ers's shop. John wants to know what
he has has done to merit such punish
ment.
Rev. Monroe, of the Methodist
church, is holding protracted meet
ing at the Pleasant Valley school house.
He is having good audiences, and 1t is
thought many conversions will be
made.
Remember the Willing Workers of
ithe Christian church will give Thanks
giving dinner tomorrow. Families
can get good dinner, at less expense,
and with no work or worry, than they
could get at home.
Try 12-pound sack of Weber's new
Graham Flour. Also try his new corn
meal. For sale at the mill or at Bur-
nett's store. Any article bought at the
mill will be delivered free of charge to
any part of town. %
Prof. Wiley, state chemist, is here,
looking at the process of sugar making.
He has ordered an inquiry to be made
in regard to the actual number of acres
of cane and beets delivered to our
sugar mill this year.
There are now about sixty Indian pO-
lice patroling the northern part of the
Cherokee Strip, making war on hunters
and seeing that 10 cattlemen remove
any of the improvements from the
ranges. No buildings or fences are al
lowed to be removed. Our hunters will
take notice.
Nearly every county in the state
oI.; 10 TO have banner township. We
rotn-.., nix Barber county entitled to
80 III. M ~, and Cedar is the town
ohin TLo ato g. governor was; Will
snip Inc 'oCe loi -. Robinson, 3;
lite, 81; Humphrey, l., "aod COO
Roundup precinct comes in
ond as follows: Willis, 80; Hump. NeS'
II; Robinson, l.
The annual meeting of the Barber
Counfv nrixin,r DO RI ond A ur,ouIt,,ral
Association Will be held in the secre-
tary's Office at Kiowa, on Tuesday af
ternoon, December 9th, for the election
Of officers and three directors. Every
person interested in the development
# Barber county is invited to attend.
". f. Smith, Secretary.
Wichita Beacon: I'D. r. Streeter, of
Kiowa, one of the best known cattle
men in the Cherokee Strip, Is at the
Carey to-day, on his return from bus
mess trip to Kansas City. d. r. is one
of the victims of the late landslide,
having been defeated by Farmer Land
is for the Office of district clerk of Bar
Der county"
Beacon: The law department of
the Garfield University, it is thought,
will come to life in the Sedgwick block
about the first of the MONTH" We
don't exactly know what the above
means, but we know that there are peo
,pie i'm this vicinity who are infested in
Garfield university. We hope the little
spark of life left in the institution may
vet be famed into great flame.
Little Carl Aber is about as happy as
"a kid of his size can be, and he is just
sabout the right size to realize pure hap
xiness. His brother Bert, now in New
Mexico, sent him by express, burro.
W. web arrived Monday, and Carl has
hea,. leading his prize around town, ex-
bibIth V j. to his friends. He brought
A. 70 the iNDEx Office, for us to get its
n;cture. b VA our machine is set for larg'
or game. VIE animal will not weigh
more than 30 pounds.
The rank gro with of wheat in South
ern Kansas, this winter is giving some
farmers a little mleasiness, but those
who have stock TO turn on 1t are not al
all worried. Others who are not sc
fortunate are afraid it will grow toC
high and Joint, and in that event u j
likely to be damaged by hard freezes
The Hessian fly has not appeared IL
this county. and our best farmers art
not afraid of the wheat growing tot
much.
Cresset: ben E. Kies, formerly a
IN, rchant of the city, but now editor o.
tho Kansas Commoner, is mentioned
for state printer. We are in favor o
Nv r. Musgrove, editor of the Index