Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-09-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS

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demand 70 quit, except at the dancing
Pla',Orh' "here toe managers said they
would contest the legality of stopning
them.
The closing day of the Interstate Tam.
perance Camp Meeting at Merriam Park,
near Kansas City, was largely attended.
Ex-Governor st. John made the leading
address of the day.
| Col. E. B. WHITMAN, prominent IN the
pioneer days of Kansas, died recently in
Cambridge, Mass.
WHILE farmer by the name of wvcofY
vas eating his dinner at a restanra,,t In
Wichita the other day, Winchester rife
in the hands of Mr.. Winch, in a grnsmitb
shop adjoining, was discharged. The hall
passed through two partitions, striking
Mr.. Wycof in the back of the head ercir.
cling his skull and coming out lust above
his eye. The doctors said the wound was
not necessarily fatal.
PRESIDENT HERMAN with other of;c;a1s
of the st. Louis, Fort Scott & wichita
Railroad, were lately looking over the
ground with view to the early extension
OF their line southwesterly from Wichita.
1t is thought very liberal aid will be voted
by the townships in Sedgewick County. in
aid of the enterprise through which the road
will pass.
The body of an unknown man was found
thirteen miles southeast of Abilene recent
! ly, and the Coroner's inquest failed 70 iden.
tify him. The body was in an advanced
J stage of decomposition, with a bullet hole
through the head and three in the breast.
o. I. THURMAND, who a week or two
since shot and killed a cattle boss named
Smith at Camp Supply in quarrel about
range, fed to Wichita, where he surren-
dered to the Sheriff of Sedgwick County.
Thurmand is a native of Southern Texas,
and hardly more than boy in age. He
had been the foreman of the New York
! Cattle ComPany's ranch, and Smith was
the foreman of another ranch. Thurmand
claimed he killed the man in self defence.
He went to Dodge to give himself up, but
finding no United States Marshal, and
threats of lynching being made by the
friends of Smith, he proceeded to Wichita.
EFFORTS are being made to raise an en-
dowment fund for Emporia College.
A YOUNG man by the name of w. H.
Whistler, residing near Parsons, was
frightfully gored by mad cow a few days
ago. His back was terribly lacerated.
JULIA ECKLEs, a colored girl, confined in
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of Mr.. Albright, attempted to commit sui
eide by spreading some salve left in her
possession by the County Physician on
bread, in the same manner as butter, and
eating it. She had no more than finished
her lunch, when she told the other inmates
of what she had done, who at once gave
the alarm to the turnkey, when physician
was promptly called and her life saved.
HEAVY immigration has already COM
menced to flow into the State, and it is be-
lieved that the immigration this fall and
next spring will be very large. The State
Is remarkably prosperous and the develop
ment alike in towns and the country is
rapid and substantial. Farm lands es-
pecially are in great demand and rapidly
increasing in value. 1t is believed that the
increase in the value of such property dur
ing the past year will aggregate fully fifty
per cent for the entire State. The growth
of stock raising, manufacturing and COM
mercial business of the State keeps pace
with It's astonishing agricultural develop
ments.
The following charters were filed with
the Secretary of State recently: Green
field Cemetery Association, Washington
County; Cartwright Society of the Wichita
District, Southwest Kansas Conference of
the NJ. f. Church; Gate City Cooperative,
Rendering, Fertilizing and Packing Asso-
citation of Kansas City, Wyandotte County;
Leavenworth Union Depot and Railroad
Company, capital stock S150,OOO.
WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN, who Travelled
through Kansas for several years buying
old iron, rags ETC., some months ago drew
draft, while in Topeka, upon a Kansas
Gity firm, for Sl43.3S, putting up car load
Of iron and rags collateral, which he had
previously sold and got pay for. He got
the draft cashed at Topeka bank and ''lit
out" Detectives were put after him and
he was recently captured.
THE Eighth Kansas Infantry will hold a
regimental reunion at Leavenworth on the
second day of the State Soldiers reunion,
October IL. The surviving members of the
regiment are requested to send their names
and addresses to Chas. w. Rust, Secretary,
at Atchison.
BILL HART and man named Wilson,
employees of the Omnibus Company at To-
peka, were recently arrested for stealing a
valise frsm passenger, the contents be-
ing valued at 500.
ONE morning last week all the wheat,
oats and millet belonging to the Parsons
Town Company at their ground in the
northwest part of that city were entirely
consumed by fire. 1t was evidently the
work of an incendiary, as no residence or
building or habitation of any kind is near.
Loss 800. The Town Company offered
reward of so for the apprehension of the
supposed incendary.
LEAvENwoRTH is preparinp for the re-
union.
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the other morning in the air shaft at the
Penitentiary by plumb-bob which fell on
his head. This is the first accident which
has happened at the shaft.
JOHN EcKLE, German, aged sixty-one,
of Leavenworth City, recently committed
suicide by taking rat poison. While in
Kansas City in 1873 he was injured about
the head by fall, since which time he had
never been in his right mind, especially
while drinking. His act was said to be
induced by jealousy.
FAIR-wEEK all along the line.
THE parents of Flora Mccoy, a colored
girl of Topeka, aged nine years, went to
church, leaving Flora and little sister
alone at home. A defective lamp sat on
the table, and the little girl went to sleep;
her head fell on the lamp, the oil poured
over her, ignited her clothing and burned
, her terribly.
RECENTLY Concord coach, containing
thirty passengers, was upset at the gate of
the Leavenworth fair grounds while rec
turning from game of baseball, and CITY
Clerk Shepherd and young Mckinley were
seriously injured, the former, it was feared,
fatally.
CRoP reports from all parts of Kansas
are good Notwithstanding the extreme dry
weather.
Two Large, portly, fine looking gentle
men" recently stopped at the EIdridge
. House in Lawrence, and after properly
/ fixing themselves up, went to the National