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110 ninth; A roan to advance Must have a, chance, So Judge not by appearance, But by the perseverance. BANDELIER is one of the principal au- thorities upon the route covered by Coro- nado. He vsrith General Simpson and Major Powell, agree that the troops first got into Kansas through Barber County. The old chroniclers teU of meeting some Indians before reaching the river St. Peter and Paul's, so it is here assumed that there was a vUiage located on the Medi- cine Lodge river, at the Junction of another stream. Those who have seen the beautiful country sur- rounding this town and consider the numerous water courses near by, cannot but admit that in all proba- bility here was the first of the Quivira villages seen in the province. Its location is about sixty miles from the Arkansas river. The derivation of names usually have a significance. Why have wt- a Medicine Lodge and a river of the same name'r There is no