Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-25
tx MSAS, STATE NEWS

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STHk Gran& comnandery of Knights
1enplas of Kansas held itsannual session
in ropsin lastweek atwhich officers WERE
elected De follows: a Ham. Waters. Grand
Commander; Jacob Dewitt, Deputy Grand
Commander; Burton Z. Langdon, Grand
Generalissimo; Henry G. Cook, Grand Cap
tain General; j. G.. Dougherty, Grand Pre-
late; John j. Buck, Grand Senior Warden;
Mathew ii. Miller, Grand Junior Warden;
Christian Beck, Grand Treasurer; John II.
Brown. Grand Recorder; G.. w, Hunt,
Grand Standurd-B Bearer; Chas. A. Morris,
Grand Sword Bearer; A. A. Careys Grand
Warden; Robert Edwards, Grand Sentinel.
A special committee; was, cfeated toseclrel
rates to the National Conelaye at San
Francisco in June. 1t was ascertained'
that about 800 Knights would attend from
Kansas Sir Knight +. J. Anderson was
appointed Chairman Of the Committee to
secure rates to San Francisco. Emporia
was selected as the place for holding the
ne: annual copclaye. e' - s'f'
CAPTAIN Moss, Vice-President of the
Soldiers and Sailors Association of the
West, at Topeka, has received from Gen.
eral Marmaduke an official communication
inviting the members of the Association to
attend the next annual reunion of the iex-
Confederate Society, which win take place
ut jefferson City, Mo-, August 18th and
| 10Th, lSs;i. reply, Captain Moss said the
communication would be laid before tie
committee at their next meeting, and that
the committee will possibly designate one
or more of its members who will attend
officially on the occasion indicated.
PosToFFICE changes in Kansas during
the week ending May >, 1888: Estab-
lished.-Cicero, Sumner County, William
Hedrick, Postmaster; FIRMS, Graham
County, Abram Van Wyck, Postmaster;
Welcome, Rocks County, Dewitt G. Brown,
Postmaster. DISCRIMINATORY Ora
ham County; Herdrup, Allen County
Name changed.-Bradford, Rocks County,,
to Sugar Loaf. KS q 3 >1,tit4 -
joHN HARRIS, late proprietor ef the de-
funet 7Olathe Bank, was lately arrested on
! threeNvarrants'c charging enibezzlcment He
made an effort TO obtain. ii,-but.nnCicr-
standing that other complaints of tie same
| nature would follow, abandoned the effort
and went to Jail. The feeling against him
by depositors was anything but amiable
THE body of John Wilson was found the
other morning hanging to a tree near Sc
dan. From papers found with his body,
| and from oral evidence given at the in
! quest, there was no doubt it was a case of
| suicide, and that the deceased mad been
| contemplating the act for some time He
had carried the rope in his pocket some two
weeks, and had told his wife that she would
| get up some morning and find him hanging
LATER reports from the tornado that re.
Gently swept through portion of Wyan.
dotte County addto the damage to property
and show that the destruction commenced
at Turner, on the line of the Atchison, To.
peka 80 Santa Fe road, where wide swatll
was moved through a piece of heavy tim.
Der. NJ. X. Barbcr's barn was blown down;
loss $500. f. T.. Pettigo's barn was also
blown to atoms, causing loss of 500 C.
s. Shue's building was damaged S115. j.
Meyer left bis five children in the house
alone; the building. which was double
block, blew entirely from over them but
none were injured; loss, including furni
ture, 400. Mr.. Dudley's residence wa.
blown down and consumed by fire, which
caught from the stove. Mr.. Reed (whose
wife was killed. was badly hurt, also. his
| four children. F
| SwINDIERS in some parts of the State
play new game upon uns,specting farm
ers. They watch for estray notices, and a,
soon as they hear of a case where a farmer
has taken up an estray of any kind, one o
them visits the place, looks at the animal
and decides that it does not belong to him
He goes away and gives minute descrip
ton of the animal to a confederate, WIN
goes TO the farmer and repeats the descrip
ton. This generally satisfies the farmer
that the last caller is the owner. After
looking at the animal the fellow begins to
talk about the difficulty of getting it home
and finally offers to sell it to the farmer
very cheap. II the farmer buys he is
"sold."
AT Girard p. Y. Moss asked Frank Fo
meyer to take a glass of cider, which the
latter refused. This led to words and final
ly blows, when Moss procured his pistol
and meeting Foneger, shot and seriously
wounded him. Moss was arrested.
We. BEDFORD attempted suicide recent
ly, at Atchison, by jumping from the bridge
into the Missouri River. He was rescued
and taken to the police station and placed
In cell He was crazy with drink, and
endeavored to butt his brains out against
| the walls and iron doors. In an unknown
manner he obtained a rusty knife with
| which he attempted to take his life again
| stabbing himself in the breast three times
inflicting serious wounds.
! The other night A. Gorham, the stage
carpenter at Crawford's Opera House in
Topeka, went on a spree, and in his mean
! behring's wandered up into the second gal
lery of the theater. From there he gfel
over onto the parquet chairs below, a dis
| lance of thirty feet. Strange to. say, he
was not killed instantly, thorgh his injuries
are of so serious a nature that his recovery
was considered doubtful.
ALL the uplands in the State, including
the high and dry ridges, are being enclosed
with wire fences. Pasture lands are be
coming valuable.
JOHNNIE DAY, the five-year old son of G.
w. Day, of Kingman County, it is said
herded one hundred head of cattle all last
winter, when IL was weather fit forcattle
to Craze. The little fellow rode rnuls
cracked his whip and filled the place of q
man.
A FIRE. In Atchison recently destroyed
the residence of Mrs. Amanda Tilghman
being the old landmark known as the Epis
copal parsonage. The cause was supposed
to be from an exploding lamp in thekitch
i en-. A high wind prevented the saving OF
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about 5000; insured for 81, 200.
Picnic lemonade will soon be ripe.
A NUMBER of localities in the State are
said to be overrun with lot of sample mer
selling groceries to the farmers at greatly
reduced rates, payable in cash on delivery
| from the car. They take large orders, and
the farmers often find out after it is toe
late that they had paid from fifteen tc
twenty per cent more for an inferior article
than they would have paid for good arti
4 Gle nearer home.
ELI HoNEYwELL's barn near haywood
Wyandotte County, was struck by light
ming the other afternoon and completely
destroyed. Two valuable mules which
were in tina barn at the time were killed.
/ THE Presbyterian Church of Atchison has
. s. 900 organ.
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