Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-12-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

barn had been fired by an incendiary. The
barn, valued at $500, was DESTROYED, to-
gether with one span of fine mules, valued
at 500: four head of farm horses, valued
at 800; 1000 bushels of corn, worth 800, at
the lowest price; a Durham bull, valued at
$500; 40 bushels of oats; one Surrey road
wagon, $3.50; one single seat buggy, SO;
mower and reaper, SO; thirty-five tons of
hay, 500: together with all the tools har-
ness, lumber, etc, valued at 800; eight fat
hogs, worth $50, besides some minor losses.
He only had an insurance of $500.
SEVERAL Kansans, it is said, have an eye
upon the Office of Surveyor General of
Arizona, recently made vacant by the
death of the late incumbent.
A COLoRED man named Smith, who was
working on the Santa Fe's construction
train at Tecumseh, was recently fatally in
jured by train passing over him. He had
a wife and six children.
ALL along the line of the Santa Fe Rail-
way, from EmpOria to the west line OF the
State, active steps have been taken by the
settlers to secure their rights under the
recent decisions of Land Commissioner
Mcfarland, restoring over one million acres
of land to the public domain. 1t was re-
ported that at the Larned Land Office, in
one week, nearly sixteen thousand acres of
these indemnity lands were filed upon in
one locality, the greater portion of which
has been by parties for actual settlement.
The Supreme Court decided recently that
a city in Kansas can levy an occupation
tax for the purpose of raising necessary
revenue funds with which to pay running
expenses. The decision was rendered by
Judge Brewer on case entitled City of
Newton ct al. VS.. T. b. Atchison ct al,
error from Harvey County, in which the
! judgment of the lower court was reversed.
JUDGE MARTIN, of the District Court at
Atchison, rendered decision recently on
what is known as the viaduct Casa suit
brought by the City of Atchison against
the Missouri Pacific and Santa Fe Railroad
Companies, to compel them to erect and
maintain a viaduct across their tracks ON
Sixth street, that city. The case had been
watched with great interest throughout as
determining the rights of cities to order
| the construction of such viaducts. The
Judge decided that while the Legislature
has power to confer upon cities this right
to pass ordinances respecting such bridges,
it had not done so, and hence the motion
for a mandamus to compel the companies
to construct the viaduct was denied.
One night recently aftera Santa Fe train
had gotten ten miles out of Newton, it was
discovered that Jerry Cone, brakeman.
was missing. The conductor telegraphed
to Newton, where search was at once insti-
tuted for the missing man. He was found
beside the track terribly mangled. He said
that as the train pulled out he attempted to
board the sleeper, but missed his footing
and fell, one car passing over him. One
leg was so badly injured that amputation
/ below the knee was necessary. His right
arm was broken in several places and his
| skull fractured. 1t was thought he would
| die.
MRS. ISAAC HAWKINS, living in the north
| part of Wichita. was recently fatally
burned by her clothes taking fire. She was
burning trash in her garden at the time,
and her clothes took fire from the burning
! pile. After great suffering she died. Mrs.
Hawkins was one of the early settlers of
Sedgwick County.
w. e. JONES, Warden of the Penitsntiary,
made his settlement with the State recent
| lv for the month of November, turning into
the Treasury as the amount of earnings for
the month, 81 .S33.02, and drawing out for
expenses the sum of $1,000, leaving bal
ance to the credit of theState of 81 ,S33.O3.
THE State Imbecile Asylum at Lawrence
took fire the other night. After the fire was
extinguished and the Superintendent, Mr..
Green, had retired he heard noise as II
glass was being broken out of the front
! part of the building. He went to look out.
and while there three shots were fired at
him. Investigation showed that the door
| of Trix 70 haH m
crushed in and things generally demolished.
Mr.. Green went To Topeka to get Governor
Click to offer a reward for the party.
TOPEKA celebrated its twenty ninth ami.
versary recently with a social and banquet,
at which the pioneer settlers told their ex.
| perience and talked over old times.
FORTY-Two wax casts of apples exhibited
at the recent State Fair were placed in po.
sition recently i'm the rooms of the State
Department of Agriculture at Topeka. The
casts are all painted and striped very nat.
urally, and, it is said, present a beautiful
appearance, true to nature.
A COLORED laborer named Smith, was
recently badly mangled by being run over
by train of cars on the Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe road, west of Lawrence.
FRANK PALMER, an engineer on the Pa.
cific, between Parsons and Sedalia, was
seriously cut at the Belmont House in Par.
sons by u drunken negro named Navasola.
the other night. The would-be murderer
fled.
j. S. JEwETT, of Sedgwick County, re.
Gently took to Wichita twelve sweet pota-
toes that e;ghed just one bushel, or fifty.
six pounds.
MAYOR WILSON and City Marshal Coch.
ran, of Topeka, have resigned.
The trial of s. d. Witt, at Sedan, ended
in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first
degree. He was charged with the murder
of G. Barnhart last September. He was
sentenced to death but took an appeal tC
the Supreme Court.
THE barn of Mr.. Groutman, of Shawnee
County, wars burned recently, with five
horses and seven hundred bushels of oats.
BURGLARS recently attempted to enter
the store of Goldsmith Bros, in Topeka.
when young man who sleeps i'm the store
aud believes in the "shot gun policy" in
such cases, fired at the intruders, one OF
whom carried away ball in his leg-at
least that was the young mans story.
KANSAS continues to boom.
A KANSAS CITY Times correspondent,
whohas passed through large portions oil
Harvey, Sedgwick, Marion and Mcpherson
Counties, says: This year Mcpherson lead:
in wheat with 3,O00,00O bushels. while Sedg
wick County leads in corn with a crop oil
G,OO0, 900 bushels. There were innumerable
acres of fall vheat sown in the four coun
ties, exceeding any previous year. Wheat
generally is looking well.
THE City Council of Topeka recently in
structed the Board of Health To prosecute
all practicing physicians flilhS to report
all cases of contagious. and pestilential
diseases.
The two-year-old daughter Of Mr.. ShOppa
; OF Pittslurg, recently drank some cOncen
trated I've and died in great agony.
As Albert Eckers was going to the Santa
Fe depot at Topeka Mt an early hour ,hs