Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-02
The Coyote News.
Dugout, Kansas, Feb

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It is rumored out here that Charley
Lobdel1 has repudiated Cy Leland.
This is remarkable only from the fact
that while Charley was a citizen of
Lane county he has been known to
live for days on cow-chips and lizards.
Saturday. for the first time in his
experience, the editor succeeded in
shooting prairie dog. We did not
kill him, however. He was already
dead. The day before he had eaten a
New York Life insurance policy and
had met up with Webb McNal1 in the
sand-hills.
Monday morning while sitting at
his desk the editor was aroused from a
profound reverie by a commotion at
the cross roads. The excitement was
soon explained, however, when it was
learned that Charley Curtis was in
town, and was amusing a crowd of
small boys by trying to convince them
that he had ever really been asked to
move into another district in order to
give few republicans a chance to
vote for him for congress.
Old Speck, one of Jim Whistler's
chief cream separators, out on the
Pratt rancho, has a double-headed
calf, and in that respect the calf cor
rectly represents Jim's politics. Be
fore his wife Jim has always been a
staunch democrat, but when the ranch
owner dropped in occasionally Jim has
leaned considerably the other way.
Therefore, it was natural that Jim
should name one of the heads BRYAN
and the other Mckinley; but therein
lies more trouble than Jim knows what
to do with. The calf, or rather the
calves, has developed into one of the
worst specimens of billy-goat known
to rancho life, and Jim has not been
able to enter the barn lot for more than
a week. Jim is now offering to make
present of the concern to any one
who will tell him which it was, Bryan
or Mckinley, that used him as a tar
get for battering-ram, knocked him
off the milk stool, and caused him to
lose four pounds of good creamery
butter.
All the success of Bill Dukes this
year has not entirely changed his pol
itices. Bill is one of those fellows who
can never realize that the other fellow
is the best man until they have been
knocked down the third time. Bill,
like his father, has become accustonl-
ed to the name of Cypublican, and
being considerably set in his ways, it
appeared too much like something
new to him to be called anything else.
While Bill insisted that he would vote
nothing but the Popu1ist ticket, and
had come in to town church on two or
three occasions and got up in meeting
and told how it was easier to serve the
Lord this year than ever before, yet
Bill declared that he must find some
way to vote for Populist on Cypnb-
lican ticket. He couldn't see for the
life of him how the name at the head
of the ticket could make any difference
as long as he intended to vote for the
right man. But Bill is changed; in
fact he is entirely changed, and Dea-
con Powers says when Bill come up to
the election for school director they
hadt to tie him to keep him from voting
twice. Bill came to town the other
day to get Maria some new school books
and pay his taxes, insure his new
house, add little to his deposit, get
some more shoes for the children, get
4 new dress for Mrs. Dukes and get
rettrns from the last car of shoats.