Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-12-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

The new process g-ist mill of Upham & Co.,
OF Blue Rapids, burned one day last week.
Loss reported to be 100000; insurance,
$4,000
State Senator Johntz, Representatives Bur-
ton, Hoffman and Martin, have sent circular
of invitation TO the members OF the next
Legislature to meet in Abilene, December Ii,
for the purpose of considering the subject of
railway legislation. A large number of MEM
bers have already promised to attend.
A mob of colored boys, numbering one hun
dred or more, attacked VIM. Campbell,
boiler maker in the Santa Fe shops, at Topeka,
one night last week, and but for the entire
police force would have killed and torn him
to pieces. Campbell was well filed with bad
whisky, an wlnle passing along Fourth street
after dark he met colored girl and knocked
her down, and she lay quivering in the gutter
a long while, as though dead. The colored
boys organized and seemed determined to
take him away from the officer who had ar
rested him and kill him. They did succeed in
battering him up badly, but by des crate fight
ing the officers finally got Campbell in jail and
locked him up.
Postoffice changes in Kansas during the
week ending November %, 1882: Estab-
Weyant, Postmaster. Postmasters appointed
Air, Lyon county, James Pollock; Bethel,
Marion county, o. Chester Alspaugh; Brooks,
Wilson county, NJ. A. Brooks; Collyer, Trego
county, o. T. Kirkland; Lacrosse, Rush coun-
ty, Edwin +. Brour; Milan, Sumner county,
H. L. Benedict; New Lancaster, Miami coun.
ty, w. J. Montgomery; Odee, Meade county,
John Cranston; Prospect, Republic county,
Geo. w. Harris. Observation-Disclosures,
Mitchell county; Emmett, Brown county;
Herald, Sedgwick county; Reeker, Anderson
county; Shinn, Graham county; Sugarloaf,
Rocks county; Thomas, Barton county.
There is IA family in Cedar township. Cowley
county, which resided among the Indians in
the Territory during the summer, and are now
said to be dying off one by one with loath-
some disease called ''black scurvy." The fam.
lily consisted OF q man, his wife and seven
children. Two of the children died before the
family left the Territory, and two have died
since. The other three are down with the
disease, and one of them, it Is thought, is sure
to die soon. Those who have died fingered IL
great suffering. calling for water and Other
attentions, which there were none to give.
The family is reported to be destitute and
unable to secure proper assistance and med.
zeal attention.
DR.. Wilhelm, sorghum sugar expert, be
lieves that Kansas has wonderful advantages
in the raising of sorghum cane; that its eli
mate and soil are peculiarly adapted to cane
cultivation, and that the cane raised in thii
State is superior to that of any other section.
It's cultivation is simple and the profits are
large, and with a proper market the Kansas
farmer can raise no better crop than that o.
sorghum sugar cane.
The New Englanders of Atchison held theii
third annual reunion recently, which was quit,
largely attended. About two hundred sat dOwr
to dinner. Senator ingalls, presided, and toasti
were responded to bya number of prominent
citizens.
New coal veins are being discovered in tn,
State about every week.
The little girl Emma Evans that was re-
Gently the subject of dispute in the court al
Leavenw Orth, and which was taken from the
Sisters and awarded to its grandmother, hal
arrived in England safely.
Geo. H. Saunders and NJ l.. Stewart, OF
Newton, with their families have removed te
Van Buren,, Ark, where they expect to make
their future homes.
The Wyandotte people are agitating the
proposition to build new bridge over the Kav
at that place.
The fruit crop, that has been so bountiful in
WYsndotte county the past season, has been
SO completely drained by shippers that fruit o.
all kinds has advanced 100 per cent. in the
past few weeks.
The game and fish laws are not observed il
the State.
Kansas hay shipped to New Mexico ant
Colorado does not command very high price.
It'll reported that an effort will be made to
induce C. c. Wheeler, Of the Atchison, Topc
ka and Santa Fe Railroad, to act as arbitrator
of western pools, which he has heretofore de.
clined.
Preparations are being made to irrigate ar
enormous acreage Of land on the upper Arkan
sas next summer.
Prof. NJ. J. Simson, formerly of Kansas but
for some years past resident of San Fran
cisco and a member Of Rev. /. S. Kalloch'i
church choir in that city, has returned tt
Southern Kansas to reside.
Webb Wilder promises that volume two OF
the ''Annals of Kansas" will be Forthcoming
during 1888.
There are few towns in the State, according
to population, that can excel Lindsborg in
the purchase of wheat and broom corn.
The Indians of tSe Territory threaten u
scalp hunting parties from Kansas the first
time they are caught killing game on theil
lands.
A Topeka married woman lately held a raw.
hide argument with prominent citizen OF
that city, and other quiet, orderly citizens are
wondering who will be the next.
Owing to land frauds of startling magni
tude in connection with the Usage Indiar
lands i'm Kansas, the Commissioner of the
General Land Office has issued an order sus+
pending all cash entries made by single mer
since June %, 1881, where the lands lie within
the counties of Sumner, Harper, Kingmar
and Comanche.
A number of school districts in Western
Kansas are being disorganized.
Kansas streams are so low that nearly al
the fish have been taken out of them this fall
A number of towns in the Northwest are
prospecting for coal
Sergeant O'Neal who killed Sergeant Henry
last July at Fort Leavenworth, was recently
tried in the United States District Court al
Topeka and acquitted. He declared the killing