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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-21
AGAINST RAILROAD TRUSTS.

Jay GouId's ssRaiIroad Trust" Scheme Can
Be Defeated By the Government Fore
closing It's Lien.
The National Economist prints
circular which has been prepared
for the purpose of exposing Jay
Gould-s gigantic scheme of forming a
railroad trust and showing the necessity
of having the Government take decided
steps toward the foreclosure of the Pa
cific railway bonds. All friendly papers
are requested to copy. and all Farmers
Alliances are requested to send letters
to their Congressmen and petitions to
CONGRESS and to the Attorney-General
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-21

"A French doctor has recently been
collecting statistics with regard to those
of his patients who complain of nervous
affections, with the result that he has
come to the conclusion that the prime
cause Of all the trouble is the practice
of reading in the train
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-21
LiabiIf-
ties.
This table will not agree with Brad

This table will not agree with Brad
streets because certain per cent. is
added for failures of q smaller amount
than that agency recognizes
After careful examination of these
tables the question must naturally pre-
sent itself to every honest man, twas it
necessary for 162, 900 business men to
pass through the horrors of bankruptcy
and suffer the torture which always
waits upon such conditions, or that 81
Sy0.v5ou. 90 Of hard earned uroperty
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-21
A Question Answered.

A correspondent submits the follow
ing:
JUDGE PEFFER:-If the Alliance thinks it
loan money on real estate, why would It not
be good policy for the state to do the same7
The permanent school fund carries an aver
age of $4,000 in cash in the State Treasury
at all times, awaiting investment in bonds and
the bonds not accessible Why not give this
to the land owners, say at 6 per cent. per
annum, as well as to bondholders? A number
of States do this.
There is no good reason in law or
morals why the land-holders should not
have the use of all idle money belong
ing to the State. But what good would
$500, 900 do where the indebtedness of
farms alone is $50, 900, 900? And why
talk 6 per cent when farming does not
pay per cent?
In all sincerity, dear friend, we say to
you that this money question will not
be settled until money is lent to needy
borrowers-all alike, at Just what it
costs to handle the money-same as
transportation. Any thing above that
gives to money value greater than
that of labor which produces the value
which money represents. The State
can not lend 6 or per cent. money to
its citizens at any less rate, and what
the people want is cheap money. Be
sides, the sovereign power of the Nation
alone should issue money.-Kansas
Farmer.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-21

The man who can tell the truth
when he goes fishing will do to trust
most anvwlere. --Rams nQE>-
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-21

Put bits of camphor gum in trunks
or drawers to prevent the mice from do
ing any injury.
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The Lines Drawn.


The lines are clearly drawn. There
is no reason for mistakes or misrepre-
sentation. 1t is plutocracy on one side
and the people on the other. Choose
you, to-day, whom you will serve. The
people are striving to gain their lost in
heritanee, the power behind the throne,
which has been ruthlessly stolen from
them. Which viii pay you best2 Hang
this question in the balance no longer.
Times mp. You hear the rumbling of
distant thunder and rising wind is
moving the tree-tops prophetic of a
coming storm. AS laundering peal after
peal Is rolled across the mountains and
plains the echo viii be distinctly heard,
"Down with tyranny" and as the voice
of many waters the shout will 60 up.
s'The people are free! America still
lives, the home of the free and the
brave. Colman's Rural World.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-21
THE INDEX
lis THE -
OFFICIAL ORGAN
OF THE
FARMERS ALLIANCE
-UF THE
SEVENTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
OF KANSAS.
TICIAL DIRECTORY.

,ssIDRST. BENJAMlN HARRISON
i.rrd sfatr. tcn turs, i........... p. B. Plumb
-.atrt. f.......... j. J. Ingalls,
.r Intr-... ,th Di-t.....S. x. Peters
- f 'uGj.i, Dist ......G W Mckay
.-r, :r.r 5sin District. Chester 1. Long
HlF We. .'Uih yI-JI., ..-..F X. ". HickCX
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CHUACHGs

DA, .!S'T Preaching each sunday ut INN.
Dm. IlC at 30 y. IN, at the courthouse. -
day sC SpO. AT 10 O'clock, a m. Prayer meeul.. :
wedn s,ay even. ug OF each week. Rev: w. a
Cain, astOr. Residence on Cor. Lincoln Ave.
and Gerry streets.
OHRISrIAN.-Preach every Sunday at
~ II 1'clock, Il. m, and 80 p. m, by Elder
j. Y. ich olson. Prayer meeting every We'd
ncsda ul2nt. SUNDAY school at 10 O clock ~. IN.
every sunday. Pastors residence at the par
sOnag 4; study at the chapel.
ATE HDDlSr Observation-Disclosures every
Ax4 : indny at L 90 Al. M. Hrd 1880 p. IN sun
day sc ."ui every sunday Bt 10 Il. III. Prayer
meeti e. every Thursday evening at ~.
StrRn - invited. ID. W PHILLIPS, Pastor.
DIRE jBNTERIAN.--Serviccs every sunday at
4 / a. IN. and 80 p. m. Sunday school al
10 n. j h. NORTH. fhStor.
TPI COPAL. ST. Marks Lay services will
II be- held ~ Ir. Martins residence, sheldon
house second Avenue west every sunday
9p.m All are cordially invited to come.
CAl HOLIC CHURCH H- Services on 2ud
Sunda OF every month AT Sherlock's hall, al
IO:OOi u REV. BITTER Pastor.
nER tAN BAPTIST BEETHREN-Hold reg
VI ul -urNices at Miu-OuN, Barber county,
the second and fourth sundays in each month.
At Forrest school house on the second Sunday
Cedar Creek school house on the third sunday.
By Elders Shnmbcrger, Smith and Neher.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-21

The Washington (Kan.) Republican
says: ''The sentiment in favor of =
United Labor and Reform party is grow
ing with surprising rapidity. An or
ganization will shortly be effected. The
times are ripe for it. The welfare Of
the people and the perpetuity Of the
country demand it Eighteen hundred
and ninety-two is not far of, yet the
new party viii have gained such
strength ere that time that it viii tri-
umphantly march into power. This II
no idle boast The signs of the timea
foreshadow it
Nearly seven thousands pounds Of
altar Of roses were exported frem
Turkey last yeAr. worth es5o. 900. Es-
sence Of gersnium has been employed
tor adulteration, and the Turkish Gov
srnment has now forbidden the impoz.
tatien of this essepee.
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tiovernnent Control.

When the Government takes charge
of the telegraph system of the country,
it is estimated that the average cost Of
dispatch viii be about ten cents. Un-
der such system of Government owner
ship and control, the average citizen at
the cost of one dime might demand of
the signal service department a special
weather report; and then it might be
said that Uncle Sam kept his weather
representations on tap for all his
nephews and neices.-Industrial Age.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-21

DELPHIA LODGE, No. IiO, \. of p, meets on
doudHy evening of each " ek, at the X. OF r.
nai. Visiting knights in good standing lnNl-
, ed TO attend. I. =. MDLLOH, =. Y.
OTis LORrJN, *. of K. y =.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-01-21

n I, y LORRAINE CHAPTER, No. 80.
" Lis ~ iicgular Communications, first
ma ti..rd Monday evenings in each month.
Mrs EVA l.. MERKELL, W. NJ.
NANNIE V. O'BRYAN, sec.
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SOCIAL AND PERSONAL.

Joseph Cornell of San Diego is in the
city.
Senator Fred Cox left for Oregon last
evening.
Miss Leila J. Lindley is on visit to
friends in San Francisco.
Mrs. DIR. Thoma of Reno, New, is
visiting her mother, Mrs. Wilsey.
Misses Callie and Flora Vivian have
returned from visit to Pacific Grove.
Miss Lee Benford has returned from an
extended visit to Mrs. J. Sabin OF san
Francisco.
Miss Claire Bories has returned from a
visit to her sister, Mrs. r. Steinman of
Marysville.
T.. Z. Smith went over to Stockton yes
terday to see Sunol lower her record, but
had to come away before Marvin started
her.
G. P. Hall, the theatrical manager, who
was injured in the recent railroad acci-
dent at Webster Station, is rapidly inn
proving at his home in San Francisco.
Arrivals at the Golden Eagle Hotel yes
terday: a. G. Magnus, Chicago; A. c..
Chambers, Mrs. G. Kennedy, Stockton;
j. ID. Lanppe and wife, Antelope; c.
Goodyear, London; William Highly and
wife, Alameda; \. c. Dietz, Z. :. Culver,
Oakland; Robert b. Rotchild, III. d.
Gaskell. B. 4. Knight, f. Weber, A. r.
Pallons, /. Schranz, L. p. Britton, p. r.
P"Xter, san francisco; Louis Ham
burger, Chicago; S. A. Duffield, Salt
Lake; y. 5. Canney, New York: ). Nah
ler, Monroe, Wis; W. G. Lehman, Phila-
deIphia; G. Z. FreitaG, San Jose; Henry
l.. Stlch, ELK Grove; h. Cooke, England;
sam Heyman, II. Karney, san Fran
cisco; Mrs. a. @. Martell, Portland.
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asnuul gukt.tn a1n1uner.

know with perfect human knowledge
that Christ was and is the son Of God,
and that He lives now an enthusiastic
spirit OF power, perfectly en- rapport with
the Father, and capable of appearing as
an individual.
There are two kinds of human knowl-
edge (perhaDS more. One is the knowl-
edge Of perfect faith, which admits of no
doubt; such as we who have not Travelled
have of London OF Paris, which we have
not seen. The other is the knowledge of
our own senses; such as we have Of Chi
cago or New York, which v have Wis
tied and seen. This latter is T. J perfec-
ton of human knowledge, and Of things
pertaining to another existence or
future life, can only come to nOrtalS by
revelation, and | recogni2o-as Christ
taught-the lack OF convincing power OF
this kind Of evidence, except to those on
whom it is bestowed; for its recital is
more likely to excite unbelief than faith
because OF It's strangeneSS; and if it could
or should become universal or common
1t would have no more effect than the
many wonders which we see around us.
such as little seeds planted in the earth
springing into life and growing and eX-
panding; some into beautiful flowers,
some into fruit and some into magnifi-
cent proportions, and material useful to
mankind.
These wonders are just as much an
evidence Of the power and care OF an
Almighty God as any miracle or revela-
ton could be; and yet we look upon thenl
with comparative Indifference, and call
them natural. That miracles are possible,
and revelation Il reality, ! know by ex-
perience; but I would rather convince
your reason that Christianity is, and Of
absolute necessity musJ ba, true, than 20
convince your faith by an exhibition Of
miracles and revelation. Don't you
comprehend that it is the spirit in man
which makes him what he is. and that
the spirit Of Christ is the spirit of God?
The disparity in the conditions Of men
is natural and unavoidable, but God has
implanted III the hearts Of men desire
condition, and if in their efforts
to attain this they sometimes pass
beyond the bounds Of right and
become evil by infringing on the rights
OF others, don't be alarmed; and If Satan
sometimes gets into the churches and
creates discoro, don't be frightened: and
If Ito use exaggerated language) the man
who is usually saint sometimes becomes
a devil, have no fear; remember the Incl
dent where Christ said unto his beloved
disc;ple-Peter: Get thee behind me,
Satan. for thou seyoreSt not of the things
which be of God, but Cf the things which
be Of earth But Peter, though called
Satan. remained a beloved disciple and
preached the gospel OF his Master; so let
the sanity man repent of his misdeeds,
as he is sure to do, and let the churches
remain in the service of the Lord; and let
the workingmen continue their efforts
to improve their conditions: for good is
predominant in all, and Will prevail; for
all evil is, and Of absolute necessity must
be, subject to the Almighty"
OLD CRANK.
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TEERoR-srR1CKEN PEOPLE.
Suspected Revoiutionists SumnarfI

Suspected Revoiutionists Summarily
Disposed of.
RIO GRANDE CITY, Oct. 20.-On Sunday
morning on the Mexican side three men
were shot by Government forces under
command of General Lorenzo Garcia.
Two of them were cowboys who have
been working near Victoria, and who
incautiously crossed the river without
permit from the Mexican Consul on this
side. 1he other, Juan BaZan, an army
contractor, was suspected OF revoIu-
honary sentiments. General Garcia or
dered their peremptory execution. Many
families, terror-strlclIen, have fled to the
Texas side. Andrea Moreno Eunez of
this town, who got drunk, hired a cab
and distributed revolutionary circulars
on the streets, has been imprisoned by
order OF the United States Commissioner
III default OF 81, 600 bail. The whereabouts
Of the reVolutionist Cara and his little
band are unknown.
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Tryphena breaches to Old Crank.

had been feeling rather glum ever
since the failure of my equalizing
crusade, and Tryphena had looked at me
compassionately several times; finally
she spoke in this way:
''Oid Crank! l have noticed that you
are fretting a good deal over what ap
pears To me to be very trifling matter.
\ Du get an idea that the world would be
better if the conditions OF people were
more nearly equal, and in your child
like simplicity you imagine that few
woris rightly Administered will set the
whole matter right, and because the
words do not have the effect which you
desire you are disappointed and melan-
cAoly. Did 1t never occur to you that
possibly the world may be just as good
as tbs Almighty devised ii as il would be
ii you could have control, and fashion 1t in
accordance with your puny understand
ing? And have you not observed, that
Notwithstanding the immense realm
through which mans intellect can roam,
and over which he can exercise his
powers, there are certain laws and limits
which he cannot overruIe or pass be-
yond?
"To illustrate my idea, l will suppose
that you and others imagine that the
world would be more beautiful if all the
trees growing on its surface were exactly
the same size. Now it is possible for hu-
man power TO select millions of trees OF
nearly the same size, and it is possible for
human power 10 destroy the balance of
the trees, and human power could plant
the selected trees in nearly the same quail
ity of soil, and human power could culti-
Nate those trees with equal care; but hui
man power could not make those trees re-
main Of the same size; their natural
growth would make them unequal, and
human power could not prevent it. TO
IL - Snlf
cannot make human beings and their
conditions and surroundings equal, any
easier than they could make the trees OF
the forest equal in size and appearance.
''If all the wealth in the world could be
distributed equally among mankind il
would not remain equal any longer than
trees of the same size when planted would
remain equal in size; consequently, if il
were a benefit 10 the world. it would be
but temporary, and would count fol
nothing in the ages.
There is principle which has existed
in the conscience of mankind ever since
man wasereated, and which was preached
in fun nearly nineteen hundred years
ago. which would if acted universally
and which will eventually prove an an
tidote for ali the ills on earth, which are
caused by disparity of conditions and
surroundings, and that principle is Chris
tianity. That this spirit which was like
q grain of mustard-seed when Christ first
preached il. is growing and spreading
much faster than its ardent believers sur
mise, is apparent to me; for they whc
have banded themselves together in sects
scarcely look for it outside of their or
carnations: while l can recognize il:
practice by atheists. and skeptics, and by
The heathen, just the same as do by tn,
noted divine who makes it his life work
to teach it.
s'There never was an age Of the worlC
or time in all of the past when appeal:
for aid from those in distress, caused by
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TIE COLFAX WRECKERS.
Strong Probability That the Right
Men Are in Jail.
AL. Roberts Alleges That His Brother
JeR Did the Job-A Belief That
He Helped to Do 1t.

Miss Mabel Ingersoll of Colfax,
young woman with whom Al. Roberts,
one of the railroad wreck suspects, has
been keeping company, was brought to
this city yesterday. 1t is thought that
possibly Roberts may have made state
ments to her regarding the wreck and
who was concerned in it.
This youth Roberts is the one who re-
Gently eloped from Colfax with young
girl, but was overtaken on the road to
Auburn by her father, who spoiled the
excursion. He is said to be a rattle
Drained fellow who would be apt to en-
gage in wild adventures if sufficiently en-
couraged by others.
The clawbar used in extracting the
spikes from the rail which caused the
wreck is now said to have been the prop
erty of Roberts, who constructed 1t from
long drill.
Some of the trainmen, it is said, have
identified one of the brothers as man
whom they saw at the scene OF the
wreck just after it occurred, although he
claims to have been in bed a halfmile
away. He admits that he was aroused
by the crash but Superintendent
Wright declares the trainmen say there
was no crash, and not enough noise made
TO be heard that distance, especially as n
high hill intervened between the spot and
the Roberts place.
On Monday Detective Smith sent the
the following telegram to Fourth and
Townsend streets:
"Alibi of Campbell and John Roberts
seems clear. l still adhere to my original
theory. that Al and Jeff did the work"
The Roberts boys admit that the claw
bar and wrench used in taking up the
rail belonged once to them, but add that
the tools were stolen from their ranch
over year ago. Messrs. Towne and
Fillmore and Fabins all believe that the
right men have been taken.
a prominent railroad official here last
night informed q RECORD-UNIoN re-
porter that there was little doubt that the
right parties are Ill custody. He said
that Al Roberts accused his brother jeff
of having done the deed, which fact
points stitfly to the accused as guilty,
whether the other is or not.
1T is at least a satisfaction to feel"
said he ''that, whatever we may be able
to prove, the men who wrecked the train
are not at large. So long as there was an
uncertainty on this point both the COM
pany and the travelling public could not
help feeling uneasy, for they could not
tell where nor when the rascals would
strike again.
Whatever the motive may have been
for wrecking the train-whether malice.
robbery, or otherwise-that will doubt
less be known in course of time, but we
have no fear that the men who did the
work viii repeat their act, for l am sure
we have them"
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IN FOR VAGRANCY.
a Protege of the Dive-Keepers Landed
Behind the Bars.


Behind the Bars.
Officer Lowell last night arrested for
vagrancy a white-skinned youth who
has been a hanger-on about the dives for
some time past. He gave the name of
John Wilson, but it is not likely his pals
viii recognize the name.
Soon after his arrest Googy Welch, who
runs the notorious Rosebud" dive on L
street, appeared at the Police Station and
offered to deposit q $50 check as bail for
Mr.. Wilson" but Night Clerk Clark re-
fused to accept the slip Of paper, and de-
manded the cash before he would allow
the prisoner to go.
At midnight Wilson'S fellow-toughs
were out rustiing for bail for him, and it
is quite likely he did not spend the entire
night in Jail.
There are a number more fellows about
the dives who should be taken in as va
grants. The highest ambition that some
of these creatures have is to be trainers"
for negro sloggerS-to rub them down,
fan them, and be bottle-holders for them
in their prize fights. They are disgrace
to the community.
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The Searles VIII.

BosToN, Oct. 20.-In the Supreme Court
this morning SOLOMON Lincoln said to
Judge knowlton that he could not be in
attendance tomorrow, because the Searles
VIII case would begin again at Salem, and
continue the whole week. This would
seem to indicate that the case will not be
settled out OF count.
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City omcials sent to Jail.

LOUISVILLE, Oct. 20.-Judge Looney
sent Mayor Al Berry and members of the
City Council to Newport Jail to-day for
refusing TO obey ali order of the Court to
use lights furnished by the Newport Gas
Company, as ordered to do by the Court.
The officials Of the city were declared in
contempt and were sent to jail for six
months, or until further order of the
Co1Irt
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.)ilIlples.
a 81 x.2as Z 3. z :.

The old idea of 10 years ago was that facial
.ruptions were due to blood humor," for
which they gave potash Thus ali tho old Sarsa-
arillas contain potash, a most Objectionable ard
rastic mineral, that instead OF decreasing.
ct;;ally creates more eruptions. You have no
iced this when taking other sarssparillas than
oy's. 1t is however now known that the stom-
ca, the blood creating power, is the seat of all
itiatng or cleansing operations. A stomach
logged by Indigestion or constipation, vitates
the blood, result pimplcs. A clean stomach ard
heathful digestion prlrifes il and they disappear
Thus joys Vegetable SarsaparillG is compounded
after the modern idea to regulate the bowels and
stimulate the digestion. The eiIecti is immediate
ana most satisfactory. A short testimonial tc
contrast the action Of the potash SarSaparillas
aad joys modern vegetable preparation Mrs
c. D. Stuart, of 400 Hayes St. s. F., writes: al
have for years had indigestion, 1 tried popular
SoTsaparilla but it actually caused more pimplc:
to break out on my face. Hearing that Joys wa
later preparation and acted differently, triec
it and the pimples Immediately disappeared "
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Forcing a Road to Make Repairs.

TOPEKA (Kas.), Oct. 20.-The Attorney
General to-day filed petition in the Su-
preme Court asking for a writ Of man
damus to compel the Union Pacific Rail
road Company to relay the Kansas Cen
trail branch with steel rails before the first
of January next
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shooting scrape at Rio Vista.

A telephone message TO the RECORD
UNION from Rio Vista last evening stated
that Ed. johnson had been shot in the
arm during drunken row there. The
injury was so severe that his arm had to
be amputated below the elbow.
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Mistaken for q neer-

NEVADA, Oct. 20.-Chris. Jephson, a
at Relief Hill, while hunt
ing on the south side of the Yuba River
tins morning, was mistaken for deer by
his companion and shot in the neck. 1t is
feared the wound will result fatally.
The record-union., 1891-10-21

Dr. II. A. Mort, United States Gov
ernment Chemist, says: Royal Baking
Powder is undoubtedly the purest and
most reliable baking powder offered to
the public. 1t is absolutely pure"