Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-04-19
IN COMMISSIONERS COURT.

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was fully up to the usual height. The
following are some of them:
| Fred Humphrey was permitted to re-
deem WI net & ii nwi ID "a II, without
interest.
The Episcopal church was given a
certificate of error for all taxes against
the lot on which they are preparing to
build church.
Selah & Hull were permitted to re-
deem lot 80 North Main ST., Medicine
Lodge, for $40.
R. II. Clay was given an assignment
to ct sw4 & WI set 26 SO "A, for S32.
j. l.. Cant was permitted to redeem
set sw4 section 5, and Ell nw4 sw4 nw3
81 13, for $40.
A. Rossi was permitted to redeem
lot 8, block 3S, and block D, Kiowa, for
S65.76.
III. K. Updegraff was given an as
signment to lots l to IL, inclusive,
block l, Cook, Standlford s. Co.'S, add,
Medicine Lodge, for So.
w. w. Stamford was given a certifi-
cate of error for S2l.66. tax on cattle
enormously assessed in Mlngona.
w. g. Afford was permitted to re-
| deem block Is Hurst's add, HaZelton,
for S95.
q. l.. Spring was permitted to re-
deem set % 33 10 for SLID. also ne4 n
81 10 for $l25.O5.
Conrad Baiers was granted an as
Segment to set SET 81 80 IL and net
net u ST net for SAL so.
J. M. Grouse was given a certificate
of error for S37 so. tax on cattle erro-
| neously assessed in NippawalIa.
| Peter Hoover was given an assign
ment to WI set net SET 80 80 IL for fiat
| tax.
Peter Hearn was given an assign
| ment to lot & sw4 nw4 "a 13, for $40.
j. B. Shanks was given an assign
ment to sw4 net nw4 set 33 13, for
S27.5O.
L. B. Lake was permitted to redeem
sw or % 81 IA, for $35 II.
Riley Lake was given an assignment
to all lots IN Lake City, Lakes 1st and
ZnQ aQ0ltlOn, TOR so.
j. G. Davis was given an assignment
to lots 40, Al. ~ s. %, ST 43 McClearey's
3rd add, Medicine Lodge, for SO.
l.. G. Golf was given an assignment
TO lots 10, II, II, block 1856, Kiowa, for
$3.50.
Mrs. Dorgan given an assignment to
lot 25 north Main ST., M. L., for Is.
John Wyer was given an assignment
to lots 2, 8. 4 & sw Or NV Or SO IL, for
$50.
Chester L. Long was given an assign
ment to lots 10, IL. block A, lots 10, IA.
l6, 10, 20, %, "a, 26, %, 80, 80, and 81 to
40, inclusive, block ID, Med. Lodge, for
ST per lot.
Other business transacted:
DR.. j. Il. Cushenbery was appointed
county health officer on salary of $40.
per annum.
j. w. Wyer was apr ointed clerk of
Nippawalla township to fill vacancy.
DR.. A. S. Cloud was appointed coun-
ty physician for the End commissioner
district. His yearly compensation will
lie S27 so.
Prof. j. E. Everett, of Kiowa, and
I. l.. Lindley were appointed to assist
the probate judge in examining the
treasurer's books next quarter.
DR.. w. FL. Moore was appointed ply
stefan for the first and third districts.
Salary, $40.
The Cresset was designated the Off
cial paper for the ensuing year, and
was awarded all of the county printing
Though the Board had made call fol
bids, and both the INDEX and the Cres'
set submitted one, both bids were re.
jected and the printing was awarded
the Cresset at rate agreed upon by
Messrs. Rankin and Nay and OTIS Lor.
ton, which was ninety-f five per cent OF
| legal and commercial rates. 1t seems t
US that the better way would have been
to permit the papers to submit new bidi
after the first ones were rejected, but
of course the republican majority Of
the Board decided that the plum must
go to the Cresset and that settled 1t
Our contract with the county expires
with the last day of this month, anl
we hope it may never again be our lo
to do work at such an unreasonably
low figure. During the past year W,
did the printing for fifteen and twenty
per cent of legal and customary rates
and if our labor is worth anything W.
have failed to realize the cost price.
The Board transacted some busine 81
with Messrs. Long, Ware and Bigger
relative to bond matters, but most o.
the time was devoted to tax compro
misses, much of which is here omitte,
on account of it's bulk.
See Woodward for New Orleans mo
! lasseS.
HIDEs-Hjghest cash price paid TO
! hides at Field Bros meat market.
Farm for sale.-Sharon Valley. In
, quire of A. s. Huff, Enon, Kansas.
The French Ne Plus Ultra visitin