The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1879-09-05
! Kansas STATE MEMS.

TIN defaulting City Clert of Iesyea y
worth, Fred. NJ. Spalding, returned home
the evening of the 2lst, and was immedi.
ately arrested. On the sd he was admitted
to bail in the sum of $4,000. Since his
downfall his wife has been Frustrated, and a
sad termination of the affair was her death
before Spalding reached home in the even
ing, after being released from confinement.
AT Kansas City, this State tbs night Of
the 21st, VIM. Rankin was fatally stabbed in
the stomach by Georgl Wellsdorf, IA fellow
Workman. L. q 49,
AT Irving an old man named Kline, lately
from Illinois, was discovered by his son
about ii O'Clock on the s2sd hanging TO a
tree. Life was extinct. He had not been
missed from the house over half IN hour
when he was found. Financial difficulties
caused the s,Iicide.tg 3 = YS IN < Z,
w. L. MCCLURE and Henry Bedford,
contestants of a land claimin Barbour COun-
ty, quarreled on the Goth about the cutting
of timber on the land in dispute. Bedford,
with some companions, went to Medicine
Lodge Post-ofiice after the difficulty, Ac-
Clure following in an hour or two, was shot
with revolver by Bedford just as the for
mer entered the door, one ball severing the
jugular vein of the neck, and another in
| flicting mortal wound in the side, a third
shot missing its mark. Bedford was ar
rested.
a LITTLE child, daughter Of Register OF
Deeds Crowder of Leayepworth, was at
tackled on the I'D BY . large dog, and 50
severely bitten and mangled that all hopes Of
her recovery were given up. afie-
A RENCONTRE took place at Hays City on
the 2lst between John G. Tracey and his late
partner, Connel Henry, in which the latter
i. fired three shots at the former, but missed
his mark each time.
A MAN named Charles Smith was caught
in the tumbling-shaft of a threshing- machine
at Winfield on the I'D, and mutilated in a
horrible manner.
on the 9th Harry Scott, while out with
others i'm pursuit of hOrse-thieyes, acci-
| dentalIy shot himself with Il navy revolver in
camp on the Rattlesnakc, about 20 miles
southwest of Kinsley. The ball entered his
abdomen and passed through his body, but
! it was thought he would recover.
JOHN WYNNE, a miner at Usage, was
crushed by a heavy piece OF earth falling
from the roof of Il mine on the 18th, and sea
riolisly if not fatally injured.
AUGUST 18th, 26th and 9th were the days
set some time ago for the State Board of En-:
amincrs to examine applicants for State Ger.
tifcates, and the Board accordingly met in
the Senate Chamber ut Topeka on the date
first named. The candidates i'm attendance
and applying for certificates We're: A. c.
Baker. Oswego; W. Il. Di.nOn, Topeka;
Jessie Hodkins, Leayenworth: .. A. Hol.
Ell: Nellie Y. Johnson, Topeka; Rhoda l..
Phillips, Salina; u. Ridgeway, Cedar Point
G. Y. Roog>. Holton: Enos T.. Weida,
Atclison County: c. +. Ncsbit, Bazaar, and
NJ. Il. Baker, Burlingame.
KANSAS NOW ranks. in railroad mileage, III
the twelfth State in the Union. In 1861
| there We're ~ miles of railway i'm this State
in 1870 there We're 1901 mites: in'1SI6 there
were 2 ,ss3S miles: and in March, 1879. there
were 9, AS - miles. The aggregate, at the
close of the present year, will be 1900 miles.
THE following po>t-oiliee changes in this
State took place during the week ending Au.
gust 23: Name Changed-Ten Mile, Cloud
| County, to Maysyille. Po>tma>ters APP
pointed-Bismarck, Wabaunsce County, ,JO-
seph Trcu: Chalk Mound, Wabaunsee, Sam
uel A. Gould; Dexter, Cowley, Matthias
Hoyt; Rocky Hill, Lincoln, Hugh w. Ora.
ham. Trad. ..H|.
A HERDER by the name of johnson was
!, lynched IN Jewell County, on the 9th, for
committing an outrage on 5-year-old girl.
The child's father had previously beaten him
almost to death.
QUITE fire occurred in Altoona, Wilson
County, lately. Among other things burn
ed. was the hall used by the MasOns, ODD
Fellows, and Good Templars.
The preliminary examination of Fred NJ
/ Spalding, eX-City Clerk of Leavenworth,
charged with defaulting to the amount o.
I between $4,000 and S1,010, took place OF
the 9th before the Police Justice, and at it:
! close that official took the matter under ad'
| yisement. The defense claim that Spaldins
as City Clerk was not authorized by any law
to receive moneys which, i'm all cases, should
| be paid direct into the City Treasury, an(
while they do not deny that Spalding failed
! to account for the missing amount, they pu
! in the plea that he can't be held as guilty o.
embezzlement, as the reception of none!
was not one of the duties of his Office. tn,
following day the Justice gave his decision
in the matter and bound Spalding over t.
appear for trial at the next term Of the Dis
trict Court, bail being fixed in the sum o.
! $4,000 which was given. The trial ma,
possibly come off next month, but it is rap
idly getting to be the general opinion tha
Spalding will not be convicted.
THE bonds in Jewell County in aid Of thu
Council Bluffs Railroad were carried by al.
mosta solid yote on the 2sth. -
Z The County Commissioner Jewel
County refused to obcyAa writ Of uaandamu:
from the Supreme Court ordering them t.
rccanvass the vote held OH the 30th Of July
and will have to answer.
\ PETITION is in circulation asking fol
the organization of a new county, a mile
square, viz: taking four townships Of
Sumner, four off Sedswick, six off King
man, and two off Harper.