Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-10-26
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miscellaneous.
GOVERNOR GLICg recently received FROM
Land Commissioner Mcfarland at WASH.
ington certified copy of Glands granted
to the State of Kansas by. the aetr OF Mareh
3, ls6S, for the Use and beneftof the Atchi-
son, Topeka q Santa Ee Railroad COM.
pany," as taken from tic books in the In
terror Department. As State Agent CraH-
ford, who is engaged in prosecuting this
rlaims of the State before Secretary Teller,
takes grounds in his brief that this com.
pany has already had patentsto more land
than it is entitled to under said grant from
Congress, it is not thought probable. that
the Governor will certify or make a deed
70 any of the lands embodied in this list,
embracing lS7, 900 acres, until the claim is
adjusted by the,S-cretaryy anc-it Is deter.
mined whether or not the company is en-
titled to these lands by its grant.
THE recent reunion of. Veterans. at Lcav.
rnworth was q grand n ffhir for the old sol.
diers, who met from all parts of the Missouri
Nalleys and around the camp-fires talked
over the scenes. and fhcidents connected
with their former campaigns. = was es.
timated that twenty five thousand strangers
veterans and their families and friends
were present, and the procession of veter.
ans, many of the regiments being under
command of their old officers, reminded
those present or The days OF WARS
slarums." The heavy rain of the last day
cast damper upon unemployment, but al.
together the reunion was a grand success,
aud an occasion1ong, TO he surrendered.
The Grand bod9e of the 4naependent
Order of Odd Fellows held it's annual ses.
sion in Topeka, commencing on the 9th.
The report of the Grand Master showed
that there had been 029 Invitations during
the year, and III Lodges In the State. The
officers elected for the ensuing year are:
/ ID. b. Long, of Ellsworth, Grand Master;
II. n. Frazier, of Clay Center, Deputy
Grand Master; T. c. Frazer, Of Coffey.
vile, Grand sWardeu; s. F. Burdett, oil
Leavenworth, Grand Secretary l.. Mayo,
of Leayenworth, Grand Treasurer; Isaac
Sharp, Of Council Grove, Grand Repre-.
sentatiSe-5 80, ...s--.r.s.l.i
AN unknown man was shot and killed al
Paola, the other night, by Mollie Black, the
proprietress a atnotorious house. She
said the man attempted ID force, .hiS way
into the house and She shot him to protect
herself.) He died without speaking, and
there vas nc. explapatiop- of the affair
other than than the one the woman and the
inpat& IL fhe}hStlse gafe.f\ q Fklf
1HEofisaofSsF. Buraette. Graad secre
tary Pf tho d1nd boage. H.sO.EO. F.s il
Leavenworth, was fedentiy broken into
and robbed of ftR dollRrs@ n So A
THE report hAfs e axesnof 81. John hst
purchased kealibins interesk id Nsu
| Mexico is denied.
ABUNDANCE of rain.
SIDNEY DIf.fpN, President of the UniUI
Pacific Railrdeh Company, recently noti
| fled the RailrdM Commissioners that tn,
Union Pacific Railway Company haC
ceased to operate Me Solomonp Efafsroad
and will hereafter tefpsep recognise an,
responsibility as to the,rst<s Oh areedafpol
that road. This notice was the result O
the recent decision in the Beloit case. -
The other evening a fire broke out II
Endicott's foundry and machine shop VI
Girard, totally destroying tho moulding
room, engine and the wagon shop of E. q
Butler. Total loss about $4,000; partially
insured.
HE Santa Fe shops, at Topeka, emplo,
about six hdslfed aktiA ~ EI
SUNDAY ~ ttRlath. as ;Msssrs. Gus
Skoles and Charles Achternacht. of Wv
nndotte, were returning on foot from tn,
UqP DEPOT I'D Ransas City, where they
as Acop hitteS. had been relieving dele
gate 70 the Rtilrpad Conductors Conven
ti6h, upon reaching the wyandott,
bridge, about half-past ten O'Clock, they
were attacked and held up by four robbers
who fobUed Shclesrofa eold--rSatch aut
seven hutdred dollars, fncheyAheS had -ccf
Lsatea Tor tAs purpose Of giving a hanGps
to the Conductors; The robbers escaped
-slfght prospects of detection.
The eight-year-oldv son, of, s s. Snyde,
fell from a railroad bridge, recently, a
Topeka, and was badly injured.
An Engiishman who appeared TO be
stock4nan, with a, woman, supposed TO b
hts sister. md man as herdsr. rScentl,
appeared At Caldwell. and inter STAYING d
short time departed. SHbseausntiy ths
man was found dead neafs the state ifne
having been murdered. Circunistanes
tfroAgly painted % the woman and herde
as tie guilty. Parties, aud they we're or
rested The Englishman had quits q sun
Of money with him, of which he had beei
robbed The parties were jailed At 'Wieh;
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FoErovrns h a n a Of. uoxtoa,ca N sp1e
in Kansas during the week ended Octobe
s. 1873: stablished-Wa tson, Shawne
County, George II. Watson. postmaster
observation-disclosures Pawnee County.