Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1891-11-18

| CndhAsSitlnR udy.
For School books and supplies go to
the p. o. Book Store. 2O-tf
Monday night was cold. A pan of
water in the INDEX Office was frozen
solid.
Sellers, the jeweler, is selling watches
cheaper than ever was known. Call
and get prices. 26t4
The Willing Workers of the Christian
| church will meet with Mrs. A. Smith.
Wednesday afternoon. November 25th.
All subscribers who pay up what they
owe and renew for a year. in advance,
will get their receipts o January LIST i.
1893.
Washing Wanted-Mrs. =. Tucker.
at the Mckinney house, hear railroad.
wants washing. by week or dozen. Give
her trial 2lm2
The power wheel at the -four mill has
been broken for the past two weeks.
The new wheel. which had been expect
I'd for several days, arrived Sunday.
Mrs. Belle Brown and son, Master
Loren, departed, last Wednesday, for
Pueblo, Colo, where they will visit and
spend the winter with Mrs. BIS. sister
We introduce new styles as soon as
out. We quote the prices-the goods
do the talking. You will be proud of
the furniture you buy from John Hi0-
gins. 2Itf
The water ditch has contained no
water for more than week: The sug-
ar mill has shut down because the wa
ter in the lake is SO low it will not feed
the pumps.
w. II. Old, the second hand man,
keeps all kinds of repairs for stoves. If
you want new CRATE for your old
stove, he will furnish you at the lowest
price. lstf
Found-On public highway, in this
county, on Friday the 18th of Novem-
Der, purse containing money. The
owner can get his property by calling at
this office and paying for this notice.
w. II, McCague has bought the va
cant lot on the west of his residence
and the house and lot west of that.
This gives him ownership of the lots to
the west alley. He expects to make
improvements next spring.
Elsewhere we publish a letter from
Rev. Mr.. w. II. Farrell. We wish Mr..
Farrell and the mayor of Kiowa un-
bounded success in their fight against
The whisky element. But we think
there are few statements made by Mr..
Farrell that need explanation. AS we
understand the case, Mr.. Farrell made
complaint, employed attorneys to prose-
cute, and after the case was under
way the county attorney was called in.
The attorney examined the complaint,
and Immediately noticed that it was
| defective, inasmuch as no crime was
| charged. He suggested to the attOr-
neys in the case that the defect should
be remedied. They objected, and said
| they could make it stick. Mr.. DeGeer
knew they could not unless it was case
of great ignorance on the part Of the
| defense, and also on the part of the
magistrate. Mr.. DeGeer, as county
attorney, had the right to take charge of
the case land conduct it as he sawproper.
But this would have been dIscourteous
to the attorneys who had begun the
prosecution. 1t looked to Mr.. DeGeer
as though the defect was made inten-
tionally, and he reasoned with himself
that if he should take the case from the
| attorneys, and then fail to make 1t
stick, he would be charged with having
meddled in the case, and preventing
other attorneys from making it stick.
If he should be successful, there were
those ready to charge that he waited
till others had begun suit, and then
that he jumped in and took the case in
order to claim the credit for prosecut-
ing whisky cases. Looking at it thus,
Mr.. DeGeer would not conduct the case.
As he did not want to be charged with
throwing cold water on the suit, he
helped the attorneys all he could, but
without taking charge of the case. In
order to protect the county from having
costs to pay in suits that might be
brought ndiscriminately, by irrespon-
sible parties, at the iustigation of ir-
responsible lawyers, he objected to the
county being stuck for costs. Mr.. De-
Geer cannot be charged with insinceri-
ty in his efforts to prosecute the whisky
| element HIS record before and since
that time would brand such a state
ment as untrue. When any case is
properly begun, with sufficient evil
dence to warrant prosecution, Mr.. De-
Geer will give it all the encouragement nj
in his power.