Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-09

"nO" oOOue '"O HicS OuI from Fulton, the
prisoner jumped from the train through
window. Shipmanran to the rearoftbe train
and jumped of and started in pursuit. Sleyot
was overtaken about two miles from, the
railroad, rearrested and taken back in a
wagon. Both man were badly hurt from
the effects of their fearless exit from the
train.
THE little town of Reno. in Lsavenworth
County, recently had big social sensation
'or small town. A girl thirteen wears
old, the daughter Of well-to-do farmer,
eloPed with another farmer thirty.five
years of age. The couple had been sus-
pected of intimacy, but the difference in
their ages dispelled all suspicious. Before
the couple left the man obtained Ave hun
dred dollars from a neighbor, and the girl
tapped her papa's pocket-book to the ex-
tent of eighty five dollars.
The city of Great Bend recently fled a
complaint against the Atchison, Toneka G.
Santa Fe Railroad that ''the rates charged
for freight over the said railroad to said city
and from other points, are unjust, and UNI
reasonable, and that the charges made for
services performed on the said road are ex-
cessive," and asking the Railroad Commits
sioners TO Investigate the matter.
WILLIAM RUFr1Ax, a colored porter. was
shot, one night recently, in a Kansas City,
Kansas, gambling house, by George Will
son, gambler. Wilson AID a companion,
when intoxicated entered the house after
it had been closed, and the porter turned
up the gas TO see who the parties were.
They turned the gas off, and the porter
again lighted ii, when some words passed,
and Wilson drew his revolver and fired.
The first shot flew wide of the mark; the
second took effect in Ruffian's left breast,
who closed with his assailant 1t was a
desperate fight in close quarters, and Ruff
fan, though badly wounded, succeeded in
wrestling the revolver from Wilson's grasp,
whose companion fled, leaving the two to
fight il out. The porter held Wilson until
an officer arrived. Rufiian died the next
day. and Wilson was locked Up in the wy.
andotte Jail . ....g,- t.-.
A SERIOUS shooting affair took place at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, in Topeka, the
other morning. John Goodwin, q porter,
went through the dining-roon. with a
bucket of coal and dropped some on the
floor. Milby Parnell, head cook, ordered
him to pick it up and not be very long
about performing the act or there would be
trouble in that neighborhood. Goodwin re-
torted that he would obey Parnell when he
got ready and not minute sooner. Then
they came together in fist fight. Goodwin
knocked Parnen down, when the head
waiter appeared on the scene and separated
them. Goodwin went out into the office,
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Parnell followed with his revolver and
shot Goodwin, inflicting probably fatal
wound. Both parties were colored. Par
nell was Jailed. -.'
THE officers of the United States Land
Office at Topeka have issued a notice that,
Gin accordance with instructions from the
Commissioner of the General Land Office,
all vacant, unappropriated lands in the
limits between the ten and twenty miles Of
the withdrawal for the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe Railroad Company, subject to
disposal at the land office at Topeka, will
be restored to the mass of public lands
subject to presumption, homestead and
timber culture entry, on and after the oath
day of November, 1885" 1t is said the
Land Offices at Wichita and Larned will
issue similar notices. The lands embraced
in this restoration will not be subject to
private entry. .ftt H-
A SPECIAL to the st. Louis Globe Demo.
crdt stated that month or more ago the
Governor of Missouri received information
that six persons residing near and having
their headquarters in the vicinity of Wich-
ita, Kas., had formed themselves into q
band for the purpose of making a bank.
rObbing and train-wrecking raid into Mis-.
sonri. The bank at California was reported
to be the victim, the robbers had in view.
1t was also part of their plan, if it should
prove necessary to the success of their mis-.
sion, to engage in train-wrecking. The
Governor having become informed of their
plans and purposes, sent a detective to
Kansas to watch their movements and
learn what he could regarding the proposed
undertaking. The detective, after reaching
Kansas, managed to become a member of
the gang, and by securing the confidence of
the leader, to learn the whole plot. He re-
ported what he had learned to Governor
Crittenden and the bank was notified. For
some reason the would-be robbers became
suspicious and the plan was abandoned.
The identity of the woman who was
found murdered on Sheridan's drive on the
Fort Leavenworth Reservation, about three
weeks ago, has been established. Her
name was Sarah Osburn, and she was last
seen in company with man known as
"Dutch Lewis" 1t is said, she was un-
doubtedly murdered, but by whom is still a
mystery.
A COMPLAINT was filed with the Board of
Railroad Commissioners the other day
against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Company by the Mayor and City Council
&C Newton, in which the railroad is charged
with extorting excessive and unreasonable
rates for transporting freight to and from
Newton over its lines of road. The griev-
ances and complaint are similar TO those in
the case of Beloit against the Union Pacific
and Missouri Pacific Companies. ii- ~
A YOUNG man by the name of Hutching.
ton was arrested Mt Topeka recently on the
charge of having committed forgery at
Neosho Falls against DR.. J. G. Morgan for
sixty-two dollars, by signing Morgan's name
TO a check and drawing that amount Of
money from the bank. Hutchington was in
the employ of Morgan as drug clerk at
the time Of the alleged forgery. .,. ...,.....
PARSONS is now a city,.
ONE of the bears in Hartzell Park, at To-
peka, got loose the other day. The creature
was about half starved, and being of very
ugly disposition was an unpleasant Gus.
toner to meet, but Mr.. Wilson did meet
the brute in the road, was attacked and
badly used up. A young man went to Will
sons assistance and shot the bear.
MCMAHON, who was shot at Armourdelc
while attempting TO get his son out OF dis.
reputable company, died few days after
the shooting. The Coroner's'jury rendered
a verdict TO the effect that the fatal shot
was fired by Daniel Mcmahon, son of tn.
deceased.
The Governor recently appointed E. n.
Allen and c. r. Tanner Justices of the
Peace for Hamilton County.
WILLIAM TAYLOR, administrator of thc
estate of Silas Taylor, deceased, fled suit
recently IN the District Court, at WAN
dotte, against the Kansas City, Fort Scott
& Gull Railroad TO recover damages in the
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