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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20
PUBLICATION OF SUMMONS.
First pubI,shed June %. Iso4.

f1EBL DuDlle0eQ JUNO ~, lct1.
State of Kansas: To Milton W. Hopper. Char
investment Company (lncorporated1 and
b. A. Burr.
You are hereby notified that you have been
sued by the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection
and Insurance Company, Plaintiff.
This summons is to require you 70 answer
the petition filed by said plaintiff In the clerks
of the oath judicial district court OF the state
of Kansas, in and for Barber county, Kansas.
on or before the the LIST day of August, 1924, or
said petition will be taken as true and judy
tain mortgage, executed and delivered March
1st, 1882 by the said Milton W. Hopper and
Charlotte E. Hopper, on the following lenda
and tenements situated In said county OF Ear
lows. to-wit: The east half OF the northwest
fourth and the west half of the northeast
fourth of section No. twelve in township No.
thirty, south of range eleven. west OF the 6th
r. NJ. and containing one hundred and sixty
acres more or less by United States survey
thereof. to secure the payment Of the sum Of
100000 with interest thereon and recorded IN
the Office of the register of deeds In said coun-
" in vol. 4 at page "a, and the prayer Of said
petition is that defendants and each Of them.
err barred and foreclosed OF all interest. right.
lien and equity of redemption 10. to or on said
lands and tencnents. and that said lands may
be sold according to law, without appraiee-
ment, and proceeds of such sale be brought
INTO court and applied To the payment OF the
claim of said plaintiff with the accruing inter-
est thereon, and the costs OF this action, and
for such other and further relief In the prem
Uses as may be jusr. lawful and equitable.
witness my hand and the seal of said court,
said county OF Barber. this 18th day OF June,
1884, AUG. SCHMIDT.
lI-s.I Clerk.
HESS JOHNSON. Attorneys for plaintie.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20
q. A. r. Resolutions.

at a regular meeting of Eldred Post,
No. ia, held at their hall on June 9th,
it was unanimously
Resolved, That the thanks of this
Post is hereby unanimously and hearth
ly rendered to the members OF the
churches, Sunday schools and citizens
for their attendance and liberal patron
age and assistance on Memorial day
and to all those who contributed flow
ers and conyeyances to the grave yard;
to the young ladies and gentlemen for
voluntary music; to the band; to the
young ladies composing the decoration
committee; to the speakers; to the pro
prietors of the opera house for reduced
price Of hall, and to all others who con-
tributed to the success of the occasion
and especially to the INDEX for pub
fishing the sermon of Comrade Elder
Nation, at the request of the old SOL
diers. and that we Will ever hold each
and everyone in greatful remembrance.
JOE OWENS, Commander.
Cresset please copy.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20
PHIL HITS.
A Special Offer.
L ID.

Of the many populist exchanges com
ing to our Office, none spends so much
money to get the suppressed Washing
ton news before its readers as the Non
c9nformIst. Yes, suppressed news.
What the plutocratic papers have been
careful TO keep their readers from find
ing out, the two tireless correspond
ents of the Nonconformist have dug up
and sent the paper for the benefit OF its
thousands of readers. Many secret
has thus leaked out that the plutocracy
never meant that the common worka-
day people should know.
We have made special arrangements
whereby we can send the Monochrome
ist and the INDEX from now until JAN
uary !, 1895. for One Dollar.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20
We understand that the post-ofice
at Sun City will be re-established on or
about July 1st.
ncKinIey at Ottawa.

vacation combining rest and instruction
is offered by Chatauqua assembly. Forest Park
Ottawa. Kansas, June 18th to 9th You don't
have to travel many miles to reach it either.
Santa Fe Route will take you there quickly,
cheap comfortably. Rate of fare for round
trip is only 1913. Tickets on sale IL to 31st.
limited TO June 30th. While every day of the
assembly will be good. care has been taken to
obtain special attractions for Grand Army day
June 21st. Gov. Mckinley Of Ohio. has agreed
to deliver the chief Grafton, and others. In
quire of w. o. Horr, agent, Santa Fe.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20
DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION.

The state convention. by direction of the
state central committee, will assemble on the
3rd of July in representative hail at the CAPT.
tol, in the city Of Topeka, for the purpose of
nominating complete state ticket. The rep
resentation at such convention from each
county will be the same as it was in 1897.
would suggest that conventions be called
at the earliest convenient date, and IL conven-
lent, nominate at such convention an entire
county ticket, so that the necessity of calling
two conventions m ay be obviated, and the ex-
pense and trouble of holding two county con-
yentions will be unnecessary.
w. G. JONES Chairman
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20
Democratic Mass Convention.

A mass meeting OF the democrats of
Barber coanty is hereby called to meet
at the court house in Medicine Lodge,
on Saturday, June % 1894, at 2 o'clock,
for the purpose of selecting three dele
gates to the state convention called to
meet in Topeka, July 3rd, and three
delegates to the congressional conven-
ton called to meet in Hutchinson,
Aug. 9Th, and to transact such other
business as may properly come before
the meeting.
II. A. BURNETT, Chairman.
w. G.. BRIsTow, Sec'y.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20

liked my neat little cottage, and bought
me out. | told my wife then, we would
go to land where air, sunshine and
water at least were free, and we could
have grass OF our own to step on. So
[ came to Kansas. Not having money
enough to buy clear farm. bought a
mortgage and farm. Times were
flush then, money plenty and rejoined
in my newfound liberty. 1 raised q
crop; it was wonderful; / paid off part
OF my mortgage, improved my farm, and
desiring to have nice home gave a
second mortgage for small sum, and
wife and were happy in our prairie
home. The next two years crops were
not quite so good but we had accum.
ulated considerable stock, our mortgage
was not yet due, and all looked bright
ahead. Next year, put out tre-
mendous crop, and hired help, run store
bills on time, and prepared to make a
raise" [ raised the most wonderful
corn crop ever saw, and met with the
most wonderful price ever saw, s and
10 cents per bushel. l sold little to
tide me over, mortgaged my personal
ty to get hogs, run larger bills, and fed
out my corn. had magnificent pork
ers, but when struck the market the
bottom was out. | had no choice;
they had to go. l paid my store bill,
paid my interest, left some floating
debts unpaid and let my taxes run over
The next year | run off more stock. L
sold wheat, but though fewer of these
articles crowded the market prices
still sank. Almost before / realized,
the value was knocked out of every
thing l had. Money could not be had,
the mortgage was pressing hard. Then
l turned populist in go and they said
caused the panic; But knew they lied
There was money in the banks. |
had horses, hogs and cows, but
the collateral value was knocked out
OF them. Icould not get enough on
them to tide me over. And if did, /
did not see any way 20 make 2 pei cent
month to pay back. Well to make
long story short, for you we all travel
ed the same road. l received notice
yesterday from my eastern partner to
please keep off the grass" as he was
sole owner now. He had the land and
| had the experience. Today a fool
asked me. to vote the old ticket once
more. l told HIM if he insulted me
again l would lay him on the grass.
From the way the hounds of plutocracy
pursue me, surmise they want me to
keep off the EARTH" but Mr. Editor, l
am here to stay; am standing on my
ground; am at bay. have no home
to fight for, but have a principle;
Live, and let liyen for which l will
lay down my life. Duty to my wife
and babies demand 1t. And Mr.. Editor,
if the people of Kansas could realize
what do, see what / have seen, go
through the mill have gone through,
and rub the dust out of their eyes. the
republican tools of plutocracy would
be sent to place SO hot they would be
glad to find some nice cool grass to put
their parched hOofs on.
PHIL HITS.
PS. | received letter from Joe by
the last mail. He is in Pennsylvania
yet, in jail, because he caught the arm
of a Pinkerton thug to keep him from
Draining his oldest boy with club,
while they were on the sidewalk quiet
Iy watching a sudden riot that occurred
in the street. Great heavens, what are
we coming to! L. ii.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20

1t is recommended that the delegates from
the several counties be selected before eatur.
day, July 18th and the secretaries or the con-
ventions or mass meetings are requested to
send credentials of the delegates to the secre-
tary of the congressional committee, Will Z.
Stoke, Great Bend. without delay
By order of Congressional committee.
Us. RICHARDSON, Chairman.
WILL E. STOKE, Sec'y.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20
Coll eQeiiiIl Items

Still dry.
Corn is still looking we'll.
Wheat cutting is still in progress.
John Chilcott began cutting Monday.
I'll. M. Perry and family spent Sun
day night at the residence of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Chllcott. MIR. Perry reports
things all right in the Strip.
John McGregor returned to pursue
his labors 10 the corn field. His crop IS
looking we'll.
KANSAS SUFFERER.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-06-20
Democratic Congressional convention.

WICHITA, KS, May 3and 1894 delegate
convention OF the democrats OF the Seveth
Congressional district, Of Kansas is hereby
called to meet at Hutchinson on Monday, Au-
gust 9th at o'clock, for the purpose of NOM
mating a candidate for congress for said dis
trict. The several codpties will be entitled to
the following delegates under this call:
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-10
Irrational Politicians.
uaa HIIA

The PosT-ISTELLIGENCER speaks OF the
Popuiists as the Irrational Party" and
dwells with force which is almost pa
thetic on the futility of attempting to
reason with its members. There is
great deal of truth IN what the PosT-
INTELLIeEscER says. There Is no one
more difficult to convince than the man
who 'knows it all" and yet who really
does not know enough to realize how
little he does know. There are many
people who have not even learned to
think, who fancy they have mastered the
most difficult questions in politics, in
philosophy. in religion and economics,
social and political. yet who do not
know enough about them to see diff
Guilty or to form an intelligent doubt.
These persons lay down the law
on their various hobbies with more
confidence than men of ability " no have
made the subjects the study OF lifetime.
There is no use in arguing with such per-
sons. They are sure that they are right,
and they are argument-proof. They will
have their way, and the wlsest pan Is
to let them alone. II they are
not fools by nature, they will,
when they get over their present fit.
see what blind idiots they have been and
settle down into moderate, rational men.
The Populists have more than their fair
share of these fanatics, so, in fact, has
every new and plausible theory, whether
of politics or philosophy or religion. They
are exceedingly wise-in their own
conceit-and look down with kind
Of compassion on the old fogies
who do not see things as they see them.
We venture TO say that Coxey has q
higher opinion of his financial ability and
OF his power to regulate the currency OF
his country and TO put business into a
healthy condition than has the fnancier
of the highest repat or the publieiss OF the
most extended knowledge aud the greatest
attainments IN the whole United States.
The vagaries of ignorance and conceit do
very great deal OF harm, and there is no
remedy for them. Time is the only cure.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-10

power OF life and death through the ballot
box to legislatures. courts. prosecutors
and Juries, they must abide the conse-
quences o. their own good or i'll Judgment
they cannot regain these delegated powers
except through the ballo: box; they can
not correct the bIunders committed 81 the
ballot box BY club or by crime. without
confessing they are unit for free govern
ment and do not deserve to be trusted with
the ballot.
The Tacoma Ledger stupidity lays the
blame Of lynch law upon ''our system"
Our system is all right, but is is not auto
matte and will not run itself. and the
people" who are too indolent or unprin-
cipled TO attend 10 their political business
and correct their blunders where they
made them, st the ballot box. but prefer 70
and make Judge Lynch the highest court
Of appeal, are unfit for free government,
are unworthy of free institutions. Such n
people, utterly lacking in self-restraint,
selfcommand, who devise laws and Judi
cial machinery with a mental reservation
TO review the judgments of courts and the
verdicts OF juries by mob on the village
green. and reverse the judgment of the
court and juries by numbering helples,
prisoner, instead of correcting their own
blunders at the ballot box, are not fit for
free government, are unworthy of the
ballot.
Judge Lynch is no { the highest court of
appeal except in those Of our states whose
civilization is most crude and primitive.
There is no Iynching in Great Britain, and
seldom in any of her colonies. Why?
Because the lynchers know that they will
not be permitted to pose as the people;
they are treated as law breakers, as persons
who endeavor to express their opinion that
there has been g miscarriage of justice by
breaking the Law and committing fright
full crime. Their ''opinion" and will has al
ready been expressed at the ballot box;
they can 60 there again and express their
will and opinion. but in the meantime no
people lit for free government through the
ballot box ever make Judge Lynch the
highest court of appeal because of real or
fancied miscarriage of justice.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-10
THE HEALTH oFFICER's DUTIES.

Speaking of the case of tardy attendance
upon man suffering from a broken leg,
which was commented upon by the Posi-
ISrELLIeEscER in its issue of yesterday.
Health Officer Palmer states that it
Is no part of his duty to attend
emergency cases." that, though he is
in the habit of responding in such cases
when called upon, he does not feel that it
is incumbent upon him to provide a sub
stitute to perform such gratuitous serv-
ices when he leaves the city; and that 1t
is the legal duty of the county to care
for unfortunates who, because of accident
or for some other reason, UNEXPECTEDLY
require the immediate services of a physi-
cian- For such emergencies the county
theory of his official duties is correct, it is
the duty of nobody in particular to care
for such sufferers.
Such a state of affairs in an enlightened
community is disgraceful. If provision
has been made for medical attendance in
been neglected. II a question exists
between the city and county
as to which should provide such attend
anoe, the question had better be settled as
promptly as possible. The duties of the
health officer should be so clearly defined
that there can be no doubt as to what they
are.
The police department unquestionably
acts On the theory that it is part of the
Official duty of the city physician to at
tend such cases as that commented upon.
DR.. Palmer contends that it is no part of
his Official duty. This question cannot be
settled too promptly. 1t should be some
body's official duty to render these serv-
ices, and that somebody should clearly
understand that IL is his duty.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-10
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The Workingman's Wlfe. translated
by Hettie E. Miller from the German OF
E. A. Weeks & Co., Chicago. Like very
many of the romances written IN other
languages it suffers in the translation. TOR
the translator, instead OF rendering the
story freely into English, has adopted
literal translation of many OF the peculiar
modes of expression used In the original,
which have served only to weaken the
English version. The story deals with the
labor problem, but from the point OF view
opposed TO the one now so frequently pre-
scented to the public, and illustrates the
misery that is so often brought about oy
irresponsible demagogues in their efforts
TO bring about different stats OF affairs
through the medium of strikes. Notwith-
standing the faulty translation, the book
is well worth reading.
"Wah-kee-nah and Her People" by
James G. Strong. brevet brigadier general
veteran reserve corps, II. s. a, IS pub
lished by G. p. Putnam's Sons, New York
and London. The story is short history
of the North American Indians since the
days of Pocahontas, and dwells largely
upon the life of his heroine, who was
Yakima Indian, and who at much risk to
herself performed many acts OF friendship
TO the whites in the early days of the set
tlement of this state. While 1t VIII Dc
have had very much TO complain
of in their intercourse with the whites,
yet not every one who has been at all
thrown among the red men will agre ewith
Gen. Strong in his estimate OF their char
acter. He takes the highly poetic view of
them with which everybody is familiar
who has read the worksof anhes Fenimore
Cooper, rather than the more practical
view held by men whose lives have been
spent on the borders. Gen. Strong makes
many practical suggestions and has writ
ten his story in q highly interesting
manner.
Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York
and London, have issued another volume
in their Questions of the Day" series
called Canadian Independence, Annexa-
ton and British Imperial Federation" by
James Douglas. Mr.. Douglas is Cana
dian who has had exceptional opportuni-
ties of studying this subject in this
country as well as in Canada, and seems
to have made the most of his opportuni-
ties. In the present essay the question is
presented in a thoughtful and forcible
manner, and should be read by all on
both sides OF the border who take any in
terest in the annexation question. How
ever much his readers may disagree with
him in his conclusions, and many Will dis
agree with him, they cannot but be i'm
pressed with his views and will gain new
light on many of the details of the sub
iect. which should have the serious atien-
ton of all thoughtful men. Mr. Douglas
argues that for many reasons, which he
ably sets forth, a political union would
not be advantageous for either country,
but that commercial union in the fullest
sense would rebound 10 the ultimate good
of both.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-10

moral felicity Of q true marriage she has
nothing7 Why should she expect any
thing better? Il WAS not nominated in
the bond. Such woman IS no more en-
titled 70 pronounce "marriags failure"
than if she had married chronic drunk-
ard In face Of the protest OF her friends
and finds out that his intellectually Is
limited 10 the inspired utterances and
quotations Of an alcoholic trance
Marriage. like business. is failure or
success, pretty much as the men and
women who engage in it act from high
motives or low. Incapacity and immor-
atty make a failure Of marriage even As it
will, as rule, wreck business career.
An able clergyman of Springfield, Mass.
In recent sermon, said:
Every man. be he costerrnonger or q
clergyman, who marries on wholly made
ouate means, and has family. OF which
he lays the burden on the honest and the
frugal, Is criminal against society.
When q man marries before he has enough
10 maintain his wife and children, he II
little better than selfish scamp"
This plain. fresh talk from the pulpit Is
a sound view, and people who approach
marriage In the spirit Of honesty, pru-
dence, affection, sobriety and capacity for
self-sacrlfice and forbearance on both sides
viii not End Il failure any more than .
competent man who does business on the
square" finds commercial career fail
ure. Marriage is Ike any other high rela-
ton and duty of life; 1t il q success or =
failure pretty much ss men and women
make IL. If they start on both sides
equipped with affection, with good sense
and prudence, with respect for the rela-
tiol as one of noble companionship, the
sublimated, voIatiiized friendship We call
love. they are not likely to trouble the di-
vorce courts; they are likely to be very
much happier and better and more useful
folk than If they did not marry, but it
shonid never be forgotten that single
life is "blessedness" compared with low,
mean, non-spIritual, worldly or purely
cattle marriage.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-10
Proud OF GOV. McGraw.


Gov. John II. McGraw is giving Wash
ingtou national reputation by fearlessly
saying that the law, the poor mans only
safeguard. must be obeyed and respected.
The order TO investigate the lynching at
Colfax and vigorously prosecute the
iynehers is correct. HIS action in the
Commonwealth demonstrating trouble met
with approval from all thinking people.
John II. MeGraw is not q demagoeus fish,
ing for the nnthinking hobo vote. He
wants law, order and justice, and that can
only be secured by use of reason, not by
violence, riot and bioodshed. Capital,
manufacturers, farmers. good citizens and
business men will come to Washington
and locate when they feel sure the riot,
anarchist, curse-capital. hreak-the-law
gang will be kept down. We are proud
Of Gov. John II. McGraw; We know him !;
threats cannot scare him. He will give
Washington a good name among business
men, good citizens, honest industrious
workingmen all over the land.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-10

I'VE have no hesitation in pronouncing
Senator Gray's expurgated reports of the
proceedings of his investigating commit
lee at Washington City unsatisfactory"
says the Boston Herald, Ind, which adds:
"Open those doors" $50 long as they
are closed. says the Boston Post. DEM,
''the senate itself is placed in false posi-
ton before the people" The Chicago
Record, Ind. tells the senate that unless it
desires to deprive itself of that part of
the public confidence which it still re-
tains. 1t will promptly turn about and
take an entirely different course respect
cret session." says the Lynchburg News,
Dem
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-10

When mornings light arst that's the gray OF
dawn,
And sleepIess eyes tel lay Is here
And all the world Is stirring into Hfs
Taea Is the time MAS you, dear.
when noontime comes, and brings IS hour Of
rest
From busy tot. 50 full OF care and fear:
When man needs she solace al a smile
Then IL the time miss zen. dear.
When twilight falls. AMI eli the world 10 still
When echoes come from far and near
Aad signing wiads lall weary souls 10 rssl
Then is the time miss ron, dear.
through every moment OF the Laying dsy
- 8oag, wiGaous your words OF ehesr.
Aud wheR. a. night, kneel me down 10 prayer
Then Is the tine miss you, dear.
-BrAcs FAdfaes