Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-10-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

has already cost the State $3.50, 600, and the
interest paid and to be paid on the bonds
issued 1or Its construction, 1t is asserted, will
bring the total cost of the East wing up to
$40, 49, The new or West wing when COM
pleted VIII cost $3O5, 600; it is built by direct
tax The West wing is the most modern and
handsome In Its appearance, more convenient
in its arrangements, and is In every way
better building, and completed at one-third
the cost of the East wing.
Col. N. 8. Goss win leave for Central Amer
lea in November, to be absent till next May.
His time will be spent when there in his fav-
orite way, of hunting for and collecting speci-
mems OF rare birds and preparing them to
bring to Kansas.
7. M. Lane, defendant in the case of Carter
vs.. Lane, just tried in the District Court at
Wichita, was recently arrested for perjury on
complaint of Hannah Carter.
The following charters were fled with the
Secretary of State lately: Ottawa Board of
Trade, Ottawa, Franklin county; Reno Immi-
grafton Company, capital stock, So, 1000; Jeffer-
son County Mutual Aid Association, at Oska-
loosa; Citizens Bank of Sebatha, Nemaha
county, capitakstock, $4,000.
In May last, man and woman took rooms
in fashionable boarding house in Atchison,
and were known as Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. War
rem of Lincoln, Neb. Nothing definite was
learned of the man. but he gave his business
as claim adjuster of the Burlington and Mis-
souri, and Kansas City, Fort Scott and Gulf
railroads, with headquarters at Omaha. Both
dressed well, the woman extravagantly. It
now transpires that they were frauds. The
woman is a widow, Mrs. r. H. Mclean of
Council Bluffs, Ia, who was rescued from
suicide at the death Of her spouse by Warren,
and lived with him as his wife, he waiting for
divorce from his wife, woman now left
destitute with four children in Wichita. War
rem swindled a man at Omaha of SIS, 600, be-
sides being engaged in other little ''irregulari-
ties" of a similar nature. They have skipped
for Oregon.
The Grand Lodge /. o. o. F. elected officers
for the ensuing year, as follows. G. NJ, E. s.
Bertram, Council Grove; D. G. NJ, j. D. Blair,
Hiawatha; G. w., j. d. Long, Ellsworth; G.
s., s. =. Burdette, Leavenworth; G. T., L.
Mayo, Leavenworth. j. NJ. Price, of Atchi-
son, was reelected Grand Representative to
the Grand Lodge A resolution doing away
with the practice of charging members fee
for drawing letter from one lodge and de-
posting it in another, was passed.
Shawnee County is entitled to the premium
for having the most absent minded citizen.
Recently he drove to Topeka, hitched his team,
and left to attend to some business design
ing soon to return and take care of the same,
but forgetting all about the act, he walked
home, permitting his team to remain in that
position until early the next morning when
they were found and recognized by an &C
qualntance. And this, too, in community
that boasts ofhaving suppressed saloons.
The first train over the Leavenworth, Tope-
ka d Southwestern Railroad consisted of
engine No. IL, and passenger coach No. /. The
coach is very good one, though not equal in
beauty to the Santa Fe cars. The engine is
light, not being much larger than Little
Buttercup," and is not remarkable for beauty
or, apparently, for strength.
Postoffice changes in Kansas during the
week ending October 1st 1882: Established
-Dentonia, Jewell County, Thomas Inks,
postmaster. scontinued-Fenwick,R epub-
lie County; Ferris, Sedgwick County; Hol-
yoke, Ellsworth County; Marak, Brown Coun-
ty; Oak Ridge, Elk County. Postmasters APP
pointed-Buda, Ness County, Ephriam Nc
Glotherin; Providence, Butler County, John
Dunnell.
The Grand Master of the 1. o. o. F., has de-
cided that brother is liable to expulsion for
selling whisky. 1t is violation of the laws
of the land.
Two Atchison County farmers lately went
into the city to chastise barber. They first
got drunk and then their team ran away with
and severely bruised them and their wives
were also badly hurt, and policeman in at
tempting to stop the team was knocked sense
less.
Kansas is gradually acquiring quite repu-
tation as a cotton and silk State. The South
ern tier of counties has, within the past few
years, grown several bales of cotton, while
other localities have produced considerable
silk.
Mr.. David Mulvane, whose horses were
stolen near Rossville last week, has, after a
long search, found them in Nebraska, and
caught one of the thieves, who is now in Jail.
Several Shawnee County boys, who were out
hunting watermelons, found the remains of a
dead man in an unoccupied house. The only
clue to his identity was an old envelope
in his pocket marked "R. W. Dodge, Topeka,
Kansas" Appearances indicated that he had
been dead nearly week.
The explosion of lamp caused a fire in the
residence of T. L. Ryan, on Market street, In
Leayenworth. Most of the furniture was
saved, but the house was badly damaged.
The State Sunday School Convention closed
q very interesting session of three days at
Lawrence last week. Over $50 delegates were
present.
The amount paid by the Odd Fellows of the
State for relief during the year has been s12,-
576.79. The total amount of benefits paid
since the organization of the Funeral Aid
Association of the same Order, is as follows
Class A, Isl deaths, s214, S6S.OO; Class B, So
deaths, s79. 679.OO; Class c, 8 deaths, s975.OO.
Total 1926, $1,000.
The Secretary of the State Board of Agricul-
ture has issued the following summary of his
forthcoming crop report, giving the product
of the principal crops; Winter wheat for
the year 1882 400, 745 acres, yielding 49, 943, 1895
bushels; spring wheat, 137 ,522 acres, 1,791 ,44e
bushels; corn, 4,441,s96 acres, Isl, OO5, 72G
bushels; rye, 24,662 acres, 4, 1856, 400 bushels;
oats, 529, 234 acres, q, 946, 2S4 bushels.
Fred. P. Brown, son of Hon. John w.
Brown, of Auburn, Shawnee County, while
hauling hay to feed his cattle, was coming
down a. steep hill when some of the harness