Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-11-03
PROSPERITY" ITEMS.

Labor unions gain in strength which
is evidence of better times.-Mnlyane
Policy Sheet
Africa asks Chancellor Snow to kill
the locusts.
John Sheyman points out the benefits
of McKinley's policy, but he doesn't
say where he got few of his millions
on salary that, he says, cannot, and
has not, supported him in Washing
ton.
The people roared on the govern
ment deal with the u. p. Syndicate
and they now offer only eight millions
more. AS prosperous" as we are
that is mere pocket money. Come
again.
A dispatch from Bruidsla, Italy
says: Great excitement prevailed at
the Greek capital on Monday. Sever
al hundred volunteers invaded many
of the shops of that city and seized
clothing and food, and a general riot
prevailed. The rioters defended their
conduct on the ground that they were
cold and hungry.
There was devastating cyclone in
India on the 26th. Wheat is up IL
Russell Sage threatened another u.
p. syndicate and of course, the old
gang Immediately took him in.
A telegram from FIT. Worth, Texas,
says: Cotton is lower than at any
time since 1894, and yet last year the
crop was almost a failure in America,
and the Worlds supply was 1900, 900
bales short. Cotton is being held
rather than sold at present prices.
John Saukes, 1s years of age, was
arrested Tuesday night by the police
on the charge of vagrancy. This
morning in police court he was ar
raigned before Police Judge Atchison.
He was young man of medium size,
brown eyes, even features. and his
hair needed the friendly service of
barber. AS he walked into police
court he shook his head to push back
the long hair from in front of his eyes,
as football players clear their vision
after scrimmage. His clothes were
shabby and he was not the most pre-
possessing individual to be imagined.
He was asked if he was guilty of the
charge.
''No sir, am not a vagrant," said
he.
"Where are you from?"
81 live in South Chicago"
"Where were you going?''
81 was trying to get work"
"Why did you stop ii Topeka?"
Because 1 thought could get work
here"
"What if you hadn't got work."
81 should have gone on to the next
town and tried there. I havn't COM
mitted any crime, and paid for every-
thing got"
81 am not going to fine anybody
just because he is out of money and is
trying to get work." said Judge Atch-
ison. Now you try to get work, and if
you don't succeed go somewhere else,
You will be discharged
"Thank you sir" replied the young
man as he picked mp his old hat and
walked out of the court room. Saukel
says he is Polander.
Speci1 Oaicer Dan Wyatt of the Fos-
ter Humane society received several
complaints from persons living near
fourteenth and Taylor streets that
John Mcdonald, an old colored man,
was starving a horse to death. This
morning he went to the house. He
found an ole black horse which from
all appearances was nearly starved.
His hide was covered with bruises and
sores and the bones seemed nearly
bursting through the flesh. The own
er of the animal was confined to his
bed with dropsy and asthma. eyes"
said the old man, ''the horse is nearly
starved, but what can 1 do? 1 am
nearly as bad in way of food as the
horse. I have been confined to my
bed and have been suffering for three
months. My wife has been struggl-
ing to make enough to keep us.
would be glad if you would have the
horse shot and taken away" The
sick man could hardly talk he was so
weak. The house is small one and
eight people live in the two small
rooms. Officer Hapgood has been no.
titled and will kill the animal and re-
move it. Nobody has thought of doing
anything for the old colored man. II
seems a sick and starving horse
arouses more indignation in some
breasts than sick and starving man.
The Mulyane Policy sheet of Tope-
ka is In horrible agony over the tenn
perauce. question. After trying to
pull the leg of the temperance ele-
ment for months; heapiug abuse on
the heed of governor Leedy and the
Populist police commissioners of To-
peka, and pretending that the temper
ance problem was the great and vital
issue in the Shawnee county cam