Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1909-10-06

County Abstract company have
contracted to erect a real estate
office building in Mr.. Bragg's lot
west of T. F. Gallagher's livery
barn on Kansas avenue east. The
present small frame building will
be removed. The new building
Will be 2ox4o, one story and will
be constructed out of concrete
blocks. Fred Bowen is now at
work making the blocks.
R. M. Smith bought a nice cot
tage at Geuda Springs last week.
Mr.. Smith and family expect to
spend their summers there and con.
cluded to buy property on account
OF the small supply of houses and
spare hotel accommodations at the
little summer resort. Geuda has
a future before it. Within a short
time it promises to be thriving
little city. Capital is coming in
rapidly and a building boom has
begun. People are just beginning
to learn OF the great medicinal
qualities Of the Geuda water.
The Swenson Land Company of
Chicago, owning vast tracts of the
Toyah Valley Texas land, sent
five men to this city last week to
work up a delegation of men to go
to the Toyah Valley to look over
some of the company's PROPOSE
tions, and several responded to the
offer Of free transportation to and
fro. The men who represented the
company at this place were H. B.
Hicks of Chicago, Paul Barclay,
E. E. Barclay, and Henry Swenson
of Balmorhea, Texas, and w. S.
and Charles Peck of Attica, who
have recently purchased land in the
Toyah Valley. On Wednesday
night Stereopticon views of Texas
lands were given in front of the
Higgins building and one of the
men told the people all about the
wonderful possibilities of the
southern country. 1t has come to-
our notice a number of times that
most any country can be made to
look nice on canvas, and orators
and writers can become eloquent,
but the cold, stern fact remains that
this outfit is batting for suckers.
The Index was invited last week
to ,utE g. LIS i.tlis5iief5 i.tli sg5ief5 bat W. found
better use for our space. A man
who is looking for good land at
price worth the money can find it
right here in Barber county.
Erastus Painter and Walter
Swinton of Lake city township
were in the city last Thursday to
consult County Attorney Field.
They were cutting wood for ]. R.
Quick who left the country with
out paying them. Quick contract
ed with A. ]. Hargis to clear a lot
Of timber land and employed
Messrs. Painter and Swinton to do
the work. He left Lake City on
Saturday, September Goth, telling
his men that he was going to Kan
sas City to buy stump puller, and
before going he borrowed $40 from
Mr.. Painter, representing to him
that he lacked that much Of hav-
ing sufficient money to pay for it.
When he got to Wichita he collect
ted everything due him from Mr..
Hargis and then wrote to Mr..
Painter that he was going tc leave
the country and would not be back
that he (Painter) could gather
up his old traps and get out of
them what he could. About all
he had was an ole tent and few
old tools worth at the most about
SO. He owes Mr.. Painter over
$50, Mr.. Swinton about $40 and
he has other unpaid bills in and
near Lake City. Mr.. Quick lived
in this city last winter and was
regarded as an honest man and the
men who worked for him had per-
feet confidence in him. There
should be law to handle such
swindlers.
W.F Gardner Of Lake City town.
ship was attending to business affairs in
the city last Thursday.
The ladies Of the Presbyterian mis-
sionary society will give a tea, with a
musical and literary program on We'd
nesday today. at the home Of Mrs. w.
r. Forsyth. Program will begin prompt
ly at 3 o'clock. Everybody invited.
The new water filters recently put IN
| the school house are giving excellent