Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-10-20
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Just how the late accident at Salem, on the |
Santa Fe Road occurred seems not to be def |
nitely known. That switch had been mis- |
placed is the sole and only knowledge any one |
seems to have. By whom, is the question. |
Ed Campbell, the young man who is held re- |
sponsible, says that he had not touched the |
lever-in fact was not within five or six feet
OF ii when the "Cannon BalI'' dashed by him |
and struck the other train. This he claims
can be proven. His fellow-trainmen say he
was one of the most trusty brakemen on the
road, and seem to exhonerate him from any
criminal carelessness
The report of the State Auditor for the fiscal
year ending June Goth, 1852, shows that the
State debt has not been reduced in the last
two years, and remains in the sum of 81, ISL
975. OF this amount SOL 800 natures July LIST,
1888, and $1S9,675 July LIST, 1884. OF these
bonds the State owns in its several trust funds
SIZE, $50, and in addition has the sum of $21,-
714.S In cash in the Treasury for investment
for the benefit of the Sinking Fund The in
vestment in bonds belonging to the Sinking
Fund amounts to 1918, 125, and cash in the
Treasury 21,714S7, being a total of $780,
SS9.S1 available resources to redeem the bonds
of the State that mature in 1888 and 1884.
The total County debt is IS, 1896, 1914; total
Township debt, 50, 250, 317; City debt, 50, 1922
459; School District debt, s2,OS2, 475, making
total debt-State, County, City, Township,
and School District-July /, 1872, S15, 653,-
99472. This is an increase in the last two
years In the aggregate debt of $473, 415, or 8
per cent. In the same period of time the tax
able property of the State has increased 16
per cent.
The remains of Harry Holiday, the bag
gag man killed at Salem, were taken to Kan
sas City for interment, accompanied by the
grief-stricken wife, the sorrowing mother,
Col. Rossington, and other relatives and
friends On the same day Mr.. Frank Holiday,
brother OF the unfortunate young man
killed, was married to Miss Annie Bosworth,
OF Topeka. The wedding was quiet on ac-
count of the family bereavement. The moth
er had come from her home in Iowa to attend
the wedding, and fate decreed that she should
attend the marriage of one son and the
funeral of the other.
A dwelling house in Lowell small town
about four miles East of Baxter Springs, was
destroyed by fire lately. The house was the
property of Mr. Rosecrans, who was absent
from home at the time. Mrs. Rosecrans and
her Oldest daughter, aged IL, succeeded in
getting out of the building, when the daugh-
ter again entered and rushed up stairs for her
younger sister, aged years. She had sue
ceeded in reaching the child, and was bringing
it to the head of the stairway, when the floor
gave way. precipitating them both into the
burning wreck below. Nothing but the
charred and blackened trunk of the eldest girl
was found in the ruins, her limbs having been
entirely consumed. The little girl was also
burned to ashes.
There is now on the books of the Auditor of
State, charged to the several Counties the
sum of S37, 1854, proceeds of the sales of
school land which is a total loss to the school
fund because of the defalcation of County
Treasurers. The Auditor believes that the
present method of sales of school lands is
costing the permanent school fund $4,000
annually more than it need to under a system
he has heretofore suggested, and that the
Legislature is criminally negligent when ii
fails to correct the abuse.
ID. w. Woodland, member of the Board of
County Commissioners of Harvey County, has
brought suit against the editor of the hide
pendent for libel in charging that the Com
missioner was drunk at late County Conven-
ton.
Gov. st. John has appointed j. j. L. Jones,
Of Clay County, Notary Public.
The following charters were filed with the
Secretary of State recently: The Topeka EN-
ployes' Protective Association Capital
stock, $4,000. Purposes To operate and
conduct cooperative store and purchase and
sell merchandise of all kinds; also the Au-
gusta Gold and Silver Mining Company, CAPT
tai stock, 100000.
Chas. Smith, the mail carrier between Sa-
betha and Netawaka, has been arrested for
| robbing the mails. He confessed to having
opened for many weeks, almost every letter
that came into his possession in any manner.
He was bound over in the United States
Courts under bond for proper appearance.
Among the biographical sketches recently
received into the collections of the State His
torical Society is that of Gen. George w.
Dcitzler, now of San Francisco. Gen. Deitzler
writes the Secretary of the Historical Society
that he proposes to write a history of the First
Kansas Regiment, of which he was Colonel.
The st. Joseph and Western Railroad Com
| pany are putting in new bridge across the
4 Blue at Marysville. About fifty men are at
/ work on the structure. The old bridge has
| been removed from the foundation and erected
as a temporary bridge while the new one is
being completed.
! Mrs. Wade, of Topeka, while ca her way to
church stepped on a loose board n the side
! walk and falling broke her wris. She is 6
years old.
A runaway team in Atchison County threw
Miss Sophia Harding to the ground with so
much force and inficting such injuries that
her recovery was theughtdoubtful.
There are ass coGvic.s in the Military Prison
at Fort Leavenworth.
! The East wing OF the State Capital building
has already cost the State s45O,OO0, and the
/ interest paid and to be paid on the bonds
issued for its construction, it Is asserted, will
/ bring the total cost of the East wing up to
/ 1910, 13S. The new or West wing when COM
pleted win cost 1906, 900; 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 a
! better building, and completed at one-third
the cost of the East wing
! The County Commissioners of Harvey Coun-
( ty have submitted to the people proposition
for the construction of $40, 900 Court House.
! lady stepped of the train at Abiline, re-