The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-05-19
Something About the Home of
a Noted People,
FAME Of MEDICINE LODGE
Statesmen, Lawyers and FL
nanCierS Dwell There.

gorgeous plcturesqueness and general
abandon Of the canons: It may be the
wonderfully healthful air-I do not Know
CT care, but something makes Medicine
Lodge and Barber county give famous
men and women into Kansas and the
nation
The cause-whatever It fs-has lifted
Chester T. Long, the country lawyer Of
dozen years ago, 60 the seats OF the
mighty" and made him power In state
and nation. IL has taken jerry Simpson.
the town marshal Of not many years
ago. and made him famous from one end
CT the country 70 the other. It has been
responsible for the transition of Tom
3IcNeal. the country editor. 70 the WI
and sage OF Kansas. It has furnished
ambition and inspiration 20 q Young man
who sojour1ed q few months here not
SO long ego. brleGess barrister and
made hin one Of the noted mea Of cca-
Eress; an authority on finance and q
Republican lea1er-Jesse Ovarstreet Of
Indiana II has resulted IN the growth
81 The struggling young man. Ersr law
ser and then country bank cashier,
Joseph W. 1cNeal To president VI The
greatest financial institution south II
Wichita IL has made another yolns
embryonic Observation-Disclosures Q. Chand-
Ier-t0 rise from q part and laser the
head Of a little state bank le-e 20 be
head Of the biggest string Of banks ln
Eansas-eiEht IN nuuber-t0 be president
Of the State Bankers association and
Of big national bank OF wichita. h
has Witnessed the inception OF the career
Of a demeute5 woman. heroine Of the
hatchet ard her ultimate notorlety ali
over the country
These are a few Of the results some
thing il nature must be responsible for.
What Is it,
Medicine Lodge with its few hundred
people is bounded on the north oy hills.
on the east By more huls. on the west
by csnous and on the south by Inc
Medicine river valley, fair % behold
Nesting away In the clef-s ana valleys
thus formed. Is one OF the mosr beauti-
ful Httle sites God and nature ever in
tended for the habitation of man Re
plete with its Indian lore and legend.
the townsite could not IS better chosen.
From the northwest adown between
canons ana hills comes the Medicine
river Also from the northwest. parallel
canons. tumhles Elm creek Just 20 the
west rises the great gypsum huls, with
rifrs of canons here and there; over TO
the east are hills ard tablelands and
fields and pastures. Just few hundred
feet to the north of the junction OF the
streams lies Medicine Lodge On ridge
which divides the town into east ana
west runs Main street. high and dry.
The town is scattered. yet all are not
straggling. Ravages of boom and euff-
ering have been obliterated. Business
block and house have been rebuIdei
and refitted and repainted. The town.
with is pretty cattages, IT'S freshly
painted and whitewashed fences. its
spreading elnns and locust IS fair indeed
70 look upon
1t is said that IN the ancient day the
indians whose habitat was Barber
county. wild and picturesque and rugged
then as now. recognized the beautiful
site OF the junction Of Medicine river
and Elm creek Either at certain times
O. the year, these aborigines came and
planted their tspees. made medicine"
MS and the fact that the water Of
the Medicine river was believed 70 have
medicinal qualities. gave the river it's
name The ANIMAL sojournings here then
gave the place the name OF Medicine
Lodge. out OK that grew the towns
name
The Iitrle town has a population Of per
haps 10o3 Il is the county seat Of Bar
Der county. and as the county IS a cattle
section of the state, so the town IS. al
ways has been and always Hil Zee a Cit