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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
The Old and the New.

The old city council met last Wednes-
day evening and allowed bills of cleo
ton expenses and canyassed the cleo
ton returns. Before the council ad-
Journed sine die, j. b. Gano rendered
his resignation as city marshal which
was accepted. Immediately after the
acceptance of the resignation Jim
treated the the crowd to cigars-a thing
by the way, which would seem to us
out of style for an outgoing officer. But
jim, we suppose, wanted to demon
strate that barring his feet, there was
nothing small about him and the cigars
were smoked IN the same good spirit
they were given. The president of the
council, I. l.. Lindley was called to the
chair and on motion of G. l.. Bramwell.
the retiring mayor, "a vote of thanks was
given Mr.. Gano for the use of his office,
lights, ETC.. during the past two years.
After the vote was canvassed and the
result declared, the new officers, with
exception of j. p. Hall and E. B. No
BILE, were sworn in by ex-Mayor Bran
well and the new council met and ad-
journed until Monday evening April
9Th.
MONDAY EVENING.
The object Of the meeting Monday
evening was to appoint officers for the
ensuing year. After deliberatlon by
the mayor and council in A. l.. Mobiles
Office, the following officers were ap-
pointed:
City marshal-G. w. Stevens.
Superintendent water works dicth-
Mart Updegraff.
Superintendent of water works-W.
Chase.
City clerk-Wm. Palmer.
City treasurer-John Higgins.
City attOrney-G. NJ. Martin.
The following standing committees
were then appointed:
Dltch-Shaw, Hall and Burnett.
Waterworks-Noble and Lindiey
Cemetery-Lindley and Noble.
Streets and Allies-Hall, Burnett and
Shaw.
The council adjourned until Tuesday
evening to transact further business.
TUESDAY EVENING.
The council met and approved the
following bonds: j. l.. Brady, police
Judge, in the sum of $500; VIM. Palm
er, city clerk, in the sum of $500; G. w.
Stevens. city marshal and street COM
missioner, in the sum of $500.
John Higgins informed the mayor
yesterday that he would refuse to quail
lily as city treasurer and Miss Carrie
Carmichael was appointed and confirm
ed: The council then adjourned sub
ject to call of the mayor.
The new council is already beginning
to discover that it is not an easy thing
TO please everybody and since the ap-
pointments Monday evening each coun-
Gilman and the mayor has had his
share of public censure. Many of the
voters who supported the Citizens tick
ct, claim to have done so because they
were promised change i'm all the mu-
nicipal offices; their expectations were
net fulfilled, hence the kick. The coun.
ell argues that, in two instances, the
changing of officers would rebound
detrimental to the city. Here the mat
ter rests: one thing Is sure-there is no
glory In being city mayor or council
man.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

DR.. Prices Cream Baking Powder
Awarded Gold Medal lEidwiaisr Fair. San Francisco.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

Largest and best stock of foot
wear in the city at Woodward's.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
BARBER COUNTY INDEX,
WEDNESDAY,, APR. 10, 1895.

A. T. & s. F. K. r. TIME CARD.
EASTERN connection leaves. =. .......l: 40 D. m
kiowa and Panhandle connection, and ali
points in Texas, leaves ..... 10 90 a. nm
Eastern connection, arrives. 10 D. IN.
ktowa and Panhandle connection and South
ern mail, arrives. ...................b:OO u. IN
All trains run daily except Sunday: only one
train; leaves at 1916, arrives 500.
w.O. HORR, Local Agent.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10
Mammoth Bronze Turkey Eggs!

W. 7. COLLINS, Adjt.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-10

F. M. SHELL, Co. SUPT.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06

condition and spoke words of hopea and
cheer to his stricken wife and daughter
Sometimes his mind wandered slightly
and went back to the days of long ago, re-
calling incidents of life and happiness in
the springtime of his life. he spoke, too.
of his absent son and his private 'secre-
tary, Mr.. Landis. whom he loved as a son,
and who, like his son, was speeding to his
bedside, all too hate. All through the
long night of his pain the dying statesman
had called and asked for the coming Of the
man who was flying eastward with all the
speed steam and steel could bring him.
but it was not to be. The shadow of, deat tn
was upon the fathers face when Otto
Gresham saw it He reached the bedside
too late. The Secretary of War tried to
arrange for a special train from Pitts
burg to bring the young man on, but as
the result proved, no flight could have
been swift enough TO cover the distance in
time.
Just before the physicians retired he
ceased speaking, though he appeared to be
conscious. Mrs Gresham sat at the bed
side smoothing his ferered brow and, occa-
sionally reading to him from Bible pas.
sages which he loved. AS the end ap-
preached his pulse became hardly per-
ceptible. Gradually his eyes glazed and
closed. Mrs. Gresham, with noble and
heroic fortitude. continued 20 read the
words of the gospel to her departing hls-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06

pledged anew their faith in common
country and common flag beside the
pallid shaft which marks the eternal
camping ground of fallen soldiers who
pined and died beside the great Northern
of merciless civil war. 1t was scene
long to be remembered, and may be re-
garded as the final epitaph upon the tomb
of sectional strife and sectional estrange-
ment.
At Cottage Grove avenue and Thirty
fifth street, then at the outskirts, but now
In the heart of this city, a stoekade was
built during the civil war and named
Camp Douglas, and there many thousands
Of Confederate prisoners were confined be-
tween the years 1862 and 1865. The men
held there under the restraints which be-
fall captives of war had spent their lives
in the balmy climate of the sunny South
and the lrigors of Northern winter told
upon them severely. AS a consequence
ZOO of them were liberated by death and
were buried in Oakwoods cemetery at
Cottage Grove avenue and Sixty-seventh
street. 1T was to the memory of these
thousands who died in n military prison
in an enemy's country that the monument
was dedicated by their comrades and op-
ponents in arms on the spot where they
lie buried. 1t is the first monument to
Confederate dead erected in the North.
the event was perhaps without parallel
in history. 1t does not appear that any
where else on the face of our round globe
within period of thirty years after the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06

band Her daughter and son-in- law
stood with bowed heads at the side of the
couch. At / :15 o'clock his breathing ceas-
ed: a peaceful shadow passed over his
pale countenance: his pulse flickered. and
the sorrowing family were in the pres
ence of death. One Of che nurses con-
veyed the news that the end had come to
the phy ysicians in the next room. and they
in turn brought 1t to the watchers in the
reception room. President Cleveland was
Immediately notified.
Pneumonia Causes Death.
Four weeks ago Mr.. Gresham was at
tackled with what was looked upon as a
light attack of pleurisy, but il refused to
yield to treatment, spread from one lung
membrane to the other, and finally devel-
oped into severe pneumonia. His eondi-
tion after that time was extremely criti-
cal. His heart action became cnfeebled.
requiring the constant administration Of
the most powerful heart stimulants. One
or the other of his physicians, Drs. John
son and Prentiss. or both, were constant
Jy with him. His pulse reached 100, and
1as ~ feeble that 1t could barely be
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06

field of peace, as the cortege of the dead
Secretary of State filed in through the
gates into the cemetery.
1t was a remarkably fitting climax to
the remarkable ceremonies which had
just closed that the remains of the man
who claimed the allegiance of both the
North and the South should be deposited
there, the keystone to the arch of re-ce-
mented friendship whose visible sign had
just been unveiled there. For as soldier
he had won the respect of those who
fought him; as a jurist he had gained the
love of the common people, and as Secre-
tary of State in Democratic administra-
ton he had commanded the support of the
people of the South as well as of the
North.
The special funeral train arrived from
Washington in the afternoon. The process
sion was formed, headed by the escort of
honor, consisting of the troops of all arms
from Fort Sheridan. These were follow
ed by the honorary pall-bearers, and next
came the funeral car with the active pail
bearers walking on either side. Next rode
the members of the late Secretary's family
and the Presidential party, and in the rear
of the cortege brought up the members
of the Loyal Legion, G. A. r. veterans,
judges of the courts. State and municipal
officers, civic societies and citizens. The
entire line of march was crowded with
people who respectfully barred their heads
as the cortege passed. Arriving ut the
cemetery chapel, the casket was removed
from the funeral car and borne within by
eight sergeants of marines.
The services conducted by the Rev. s.
j. Mcpherson, Of the Second Presby terian
Church, were impressive but simple, con-
sisting merely of scriptural readings.
There was a hymn by the choir and
prayer. The remains were temporarily
deposited in the receiving vault of the
cemetery. No salute was fred, the cere-
monies concluded with TAPS" The
train had been held and the Presidential
party returned to it and at once started
on the return trip to Washington.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06


Memorial Day in Chicago was like moth
ing in the history Of nations. 1t sent in
the same line the victor and the vanquish-
cd, each with garlands for its own army
of dead, with the uncounted thousands
from the heart of the city to Oakwoods
cheering for the memory of heroes, Of
friend or foe. 1t was the first time since
the first shot that warriors from the
North and cavaliers from the South for
got entirely revengeful bitterness by such
a kind Of public demonstration of unity.
It marked an epoch. The multitudes heard
upon the same winds plaudits for the men
who died for their country and the yell
which led the hardest and bravest enemy
that ever faced fire. They stood with
barred heads in the presence of 5000
graves of victims of their own Douglas
prison or shouted in salvos of patriotism
at the sight of the thinned ranks hunting
the humble mounds marked by a flag.
It was this unique feature that brought
to the city a crowd which barely found
standing room in the stretch of territory
dedicated to the ceremony.
Thursday the surviving veterans of the
two mighty armies which for four long
years faced each other in bloody strife
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06
w. @. iGKESnAM DEAD.
SECRETARYNO OF STATE PASSES
AWAY IN WASHINGTON.
An 'the Family Present Except OtSo,
She eon-Heroic Life and Character
sof,the Man-He Dies the Victim of
sOverwork.


Walter Quinton Gresham, Secretary of
State, died of pneumonia Tuesday morn
ing at 1:15 o'clock at the Arlington Hotel
in Washington. All hope of his recovery
was practically abandoned when a sinking
spell occurred shortly before q o'clock
Monday evening. The most powerful
heart stimulants known to medical sci
ence, nitro glycerine and digitslis, were
injected periodically, and an infusion Of
normal saline solution was made through
an opened vein in the arm. He recovered
slightly, but owing to severe rigors short
ly before IL o'clock he began TO fail rap
idly, and his vitality began be ebb. The
three physicians saw that the end was
near, and at u O'Clock withdrew to the
ante-room, leaving in the sick chamber
only the members of his family, Mrs.
Gresham, her daughter, Mrs. Andrews,
and son-in-law, Mr.. Andrews, and the
nurses.
Up to that time he had been conscious
and talked ut intervals. His words were
full of bravery. He fully appreciated hiss
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06
The Lions Grab.

1t will be England's next move to cult.
vate an impression that the Monroe doc
trine is a theory and not a condition.
Washington Star.
The savage is not far beneath the skin
of this Christian nation. The instinct
that leads England to enter up judgment
without arbitration, to refuse Mediate
and to chAstise the quaking antagonist is
the instinct of the aborigine.-C Chicago
Post.
England's osnduct in the Nicaragua
matter is arrogant and ,cowardly, but it
is characteristic. 1t is the course she has
always taken in dealing with small ma
tions. She is n swaggerer and bully ex-
cept when the other party Is n country of
her own ize.-Globe- Democrat.
If this method of procedure should take
place between two individuals, one a big
man and the other little boy, we should
apply epithets to the big man that would
not be ilattering. Why should not the
same pnethods of justice exist between ma
tions as between individuals ?---Boston
Globe.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06

shadow of the monument just dedicated
in honor of the valor of those who had
given their lives for the Confederate
cause.
1t was most remarkable juxtaposition.
In the early hours of the day Federals
and Confederates had joined in the unveil-
ing of a monument to the 5000 Confed-
crates who had died in the military prison
at Camp Douglas; the ex-Confederate
Association had strewn on the graves of
the Union soldiers buried there mass of
flowers brought from the ground over
which they had fought less than genera
tion ago, and the Union veterans had plac-
ed upon the graves of their fallen COM
rades in the other cemeteries about the
city the flowers which grow in our own
latitude. Almost the echoes of the volley
fired over the Confederate burying ground
by the first regiment of State militia and
of the bugle blare could be heard and
TAPS" were still sounding, and the smoke
from their rifles was still floating over the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06
Utah's New Constitution.

The Utah constitutional convention pro-
vided for 10 lieutenant governor in the
list of State officers. Utah should provide
for such an emergency SO that when tho
people elect officials representing one par
ty or policy there will he some one to slip
in when a Governor dies and carry on the
work as il was begun.-Chicag0 Inter
Ocean.
A glance at the new constitution which
is TO be submitted to the people of Utah
in November win suffice to show what a
tremendous advance is in store for wom-
anhood in that territory when it shall be-
come State. Not only Is the Federal
statute prohibiting polygamy confirmed,
but woman suffrage is established at one
sweep.-Chicago Herald.
The constitution which is to he submit
ted TO the people of Utah in November
prohibits polygany, as do all the States;
ii provides for woman suffrage, rs does
Wyoming: it does away with the grand
jury system, as does Michigan. and it does
not provide for lieutenant governor, in
which il is like Delaware, Alabama, Ar
kansas, Georgia. Maine and some other
States. 1t incorporates some new fea-
tures in trials by jury, providing for petit
Juries OF eight persons, six of whom can
render n verdict, except in criminal cases,
when unanimous verdict is required to
convict. The constitution provides for a
school system that is comprehensive, and
if well carried out win give the new State
n high rank in educational matters.-Chi-
cago Record.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06

himself lamed for life. with an impaired
constitution.
Judge Gresham was a candidate for the
Republican nomination for President In
both 1884 and 1883. In 1883 he received
Ill votes on the first ballot; his vote rose
TO 123 on the third ballot, and then dwin-
died TO so on the eighth and last. The
Peoples party in convention at Omaha
July. 1892, practically offered Judge
Gresham its presidential nomination,
which he refused. Judge Gresham was
considered the ideal candidate by the Pop
ulists because of his lifelong opposition to
tyranny, oppression and injustice of any
sort.
Judge Gresbam's final departure from
the party at whose birth he had assisted
came in the last campaign. He announced
his intention of voting for Mr.. Cleveland
in letter dated Oct. %, 1892, and nd
dressed to Major Bluford Wilson, who
was solicitor of the treasury under Grant
After Mr.. Clevelapd's election Judge
Gresham was offered the premiership OF
the cabinet and accepted. He was ap-
pointed Secretary Of State March 4. l6D3,
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06
YOUTHFUL SOLDIERS.
loGrowing Movement to Establish Mil
itary Drill in the Schools.

The movement lately inaugurated to
train boys in the public schools in military
tactics is meeting with great success. The
boys have named themselves the Ameri
can Guard, and those of New York and
Brooklyn on Memorial Day paraded to
,the number of 10000.
'All over the country the military drill
movement is meeting with favor, and the
schools in most of the cities. as well as in
Inany of the smaller towns are getting
into line in favor of the innovation. The
que stion has become one of national ms
portance, and has already been taken up
in Congress, as well as in the Legislatures
ef most of the States. The Grand Army
OF the Republic is really behind the move
ment to give some soldierly discipline to
the lads in the public schools throughout
the country.
although the national movement is a
new one, military instruction in the pub
lie schools has long been practiced in
some cities. In Boston the system has
BEEN thoroughly worked out, probably,
and there the Boston School Regiment"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06

numbers about 1 800 uniformed boys. In
New York and Brooklyn the movement is
making rapid strides. The American
Guas,l has been formed from the battal-
ions of the public schools, and each bat
talon has its number and place in line.
As in Boston, they turn eut on special
holidays, and have been the feature of
more than one big parade of real soldiers.
In Washington, Cincinnati, Columbus,
Des Moines, Omaha and scores of other
smaller esties and towns the idea is max
ing Roadway.
That military drill is popular among the
schoolboys 10 evident to anyone who soas
the lads at @srill They willingly give up
part Of their play hour to take part in it.
and the composition for officers positions
is keen. One has but TO look at the air of
pride with which these youngsters wear
their neat little uniforms to appreciate
their feelings. In most of the schools only
the larger companies are uniformed and
equipped, and there are one or two COM
nanies composed Of fhe smaller and un-
trained boys, which correspond to drill
squad, from which the ranks of the regu.
lar companies are recruited.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06

Strong. While reviewing the parade Gov.
Morton was overcome by the heat and
tainted.
The services at Grants tomb were un-
der the auspices of u. $. Grant Post, G..
A. r., and included a memorial address by
Gov. Mckinley of Ohio. Contributing
to make this affair noteworthy, the United
States cruiser Cincinnati was anchored in
the river near by, by order of the Secre-
tary of the Navy, and fred salutes. The
statue in Battery Park of John Ericsson.
the designer of the monitor, was adorned
with flowers in honor of his distinguished
services for the Union cause.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06
P1zskEn nsfhs
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Opinions OF Gresham.

The administration of the State Depart
ment under Secretary Gresham win be
regarded by the historian of the future as
equal to any.-Milwaukee Journal.
In each Of three fields-war, the bench
and the cabinet, as soldier, jurist and sec
retary-he attained distinct and endur-
ing fame.-Grand Rapids Democrat
One of his best characteristics was hos
tility to the growth of corporation infu-
ence in political affairs, and to this was
due most of his strength with the masses.
Buffalo Express.
Personally Mr.. Gresham was probably
the most democratic man that ever occu-
pied the State Department. He was more
accessible than any of his clerks.-St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
While Gresham won no especial distinc-
ton in either cabinet, he was a painstak-
ing and conscientious official, and deserv-
ed more credit than the country has ac-
corded him.-St. Louis Globe-D Democrat.
Republicans cannot but believe that his
uncertainty of political faith was unfor-
tunate and that he was in error when he
cast his lot with the Cleveland admins
tration, but he can be credited with hon.
esty and desire to do his duty.-Duluth
News-Tribune.
A man has died who has deserved well
of his fellow citizens. The Secretary of
State was brave soldier and just Judge
In his later career many of his country
men find things to disapprove, and find
other things that stamp him with the same
patriotism that won him fame in bygone
years.-Pittsburg Commercial Gazette.
There are those who were closely at
tached to Secretary Gresham and who
were cemented to him by years of per-
sonal friendship, who will feel that q
light has gone out of their lives, and that
grief has come in to sit where hope of the
future of the dead statesman had held its
place and JOY at his success was genuine
and the outgrowth of appreciation and
true sympathy.-NewA Albany Ledger.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06
The Russian Saucezc.

If Japan was about one-fourth the size
of Russia the latter wouldn't be offering
it any advice.-Chicago Tribune
Japan, like Cuba, may not have the
sympathy of the United States Govern
ment, but both have the cordial sympathy
and good will of the American people
New York Advertiser.
Russia is inclined TO crow over That it
regards as diplomatic victory in forcing
Japan 10 agree not to demand any of the
Chinese mainland. 1t is hard to see
wherein the victory lies, for Japan was
clearly made the victim of bulldozing by
three of the most powerful nations of the
world.-Kansas City Star.
Russia's tender regard for "those prin-
ciples on which rests the concert of civil
lied nations" and her agonized fear lest
Japan, by violating them, should imperii
the progress of civilization in the East,
almost make one forget the part Russia
took in the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Poland and
her more recent treatment Of the Jews
New York Times.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-06-06
Notes of Current Events.

Two big claims against the Stanford es-
tate have been compromised.
Frank Scott, dry goods merchant, fall
ed at Leayenworth, Kan, for 81, 800.
A young socialist, charged with writing
threatening letters to the King Of Saxony,
Is under arrest at Dresden.
The body Of the son of Pastor Davis. Of
Sodus Point x. Y, was found in Sedus
bay, as predicted by fortune teller.
The Guatemalan Government has made
rcparation for It's treatment of Argle, the
American whom Il jlbtyeatcd In prison,