Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-12
HazeIton Items.

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E. S. Crumpacker was here last week
looking for location. He didn't have
to stay long to find it.
Mr. and Mrs G.. w. Simpson of Cher
okee, Ok, are visiting with their many
old friends here at this writing.
John Blanton has taken a position
with lumber company at Wichita and
has gone there to make his fortune.
Harry Black has for the third time
landed in Hazelton from old Kentucky
and it is our opinion that he Will stay
this time.
Claude Betty and Ralph Keller are
I spending few days at the st. Louis
fair. They expect to return about the
18th or later.
w. E. McCabe knows what one has
to pass through to get the third degree
in masonry. He tiled it last week and
came odt in pretty good shape.
j. C.B. Hargis didn't like the way
the people were bidding on his stuff
Saturday and called the sale off. LATE
Burger of Wellington did the talking
act and he is pretty good talker.
The Hazelton Coal and Lumber Co
are building on the block east Of the
postotlice. They make this move on
account of the danger of fire and the
! high rate OF insurance where they are
now located.
Mrs. NJ. A. Reynolds and Mrs IL. M.
Hastings left last week for a short visit
with Mrs. Reynolds son, near King
fisher; and from there Mrs. Hastings
will 90 to st. Louis to visit and see the
! fair.
About all of the property owners in
| blocks 81 and 46 in HaZelton haye sign
/ ed petition to get the mayor and
council to pass an ordinance preventing
any more wooden buildings being erect
ed on either of the blocks. 1t is good
move and will add value to every piece
of property on these blocks.
We had the pleasure of short visit
Saturday from Mr.. Nixon, but didn't
talk any politics during his short visit
Aside from his political ideas and
| practices E. ii. is pretty good fellow
and we hope to see the time when he
will see that he is wrong and try to re.
form.
Saturday was not a real good day for
candidates, still we had few in town,
to-wit: Ewell, Haun, Robinson, Mil
Ter, Cant, Kidd, Newkirk, Nixon, Lake,
Wilson, Warren, Gleason, Wheat and
possibly a few more but this will do for
one day. We didn't get to shake hands
with all of them nor did we get any CT
CARS, but we could see occasionally a
good many Harper county boys smok.
ing Barber county cigars.
We learned Saturday that Mr.. Lake
was circulating the report that Mr.
Robinson was really too young for his
office. We don't know that he is doing
this but if so, he ought to remember
that Mr.. Robinson was we'll enough
qualified that he taught three terms in
one district and it was offered to him
for the fourth. May be that this ISM
so, but if So certainly shows that MI
Robinson has some qualifications anG
perhaps on that line his record is equal
ly as good as Mr.. Lakes when he wa:
first elected. If we are going to hans
onto one man until some other come!
along with an equal amount of expert
ence it will soon be that we will have
to elect them for life. A second party
has poor chance to get experience
while the other fellow holds the Job
We noticed in last weeks Cresset
request fer Mr.. Ewell to please answer
But no place have we noticed where
Mr.. Nixon has even attempted to an
swer whether he endorses the last Kan
Sas legislature, nor has he stated why
he actually accepted that $125, mol
has he even attempted TO show by any
process of reason how it was right fol
him to have votes counted Tor hin
while none of the others got the beneh
OF those votes. Neither has he eve
tried so far as we know to put the vot
ers right as to what he would do if {
railroad law was to come before TIT
legislature. Neither does he say how
he stands on the present system of tax
Ing the farmers and letting the corpor
atoms get off for about half or less
/ There are just "a whole lot of question
Mr.. Nixon might answer and truth
ful answer to them would either cleo
or defeat him, and as he got into thu
game first he is the one that ought t.
answer first.