Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-02
Miscellaneous.


Q, next, to agree upon equitable freight
rates upon all roads in the State is accepted.
Miscellaneous.
ARMoURDALE was the scene of a bloody
affair on the 51st, in which Thomas
Mcmahon was shot and probably mortally
wounded. McMahon's son was at a beer
garden with disreputable company and
the father went there to get him away.
Three shots soon followed, and Mcmahon
fell. 1t was thought that young Mcmahon
shot at a young man named Johnson, OF
whom he was jealous, and one of the shots
took effect upon his father.
SUNDAY, the 21st, some four or five miles
from Junction City, Robert Swartz. aged
fourteen, accidentally shot and killed Ellis
worth Durbin, aged seventeen. A party OF
four or five from town camped out over
night, and in the morning started for q
days hunt, with the above result.
GOVERNOR CLICK recently addressed q
letter to State Agent Crawford, at Wash
ington, directing his attention to the fact
that of the grant of $4,000 acres of public
land made by Congress in 1862 to the Kan
sas Agricultural College, the State ha;
selected and has had secured to it 50 ,313. >;
acres, leaving yet due the State 1854
acres. The Governor requests Mr.. Craw
ford to ascertain the condition of these
lands and see whether the remainder car
not he secured for the State, or the Agri
cultural College that is entitled to this
grant. The delay, even if the deficiency is
finally made up, must result in the selec
ton of very inferior lands on account oil
the good land being taken up so rapidly
If good lands could be selected soon the
deficiency would be worth SAC, 900 to $50, 00t
for the Agricultural College.
IN the United States District Court, al
Leavenworth, Adolph OFT, a Kansas City
liquor dealer, was tried upon the charge OF
carrying on the business without having
paid the special tax to the Government
The defendant sent packages of liquor
from his business house in Kansas City, by
express to Chanute, the packages addressed
to himself, and at the same time sent
tickets to various persons there, authoriz
ing them to receive the packages on tn,
payment TO the express agent of the
amount due on each. Defendants attorney
moved to set the verdict aside, and upor
agreement the case was certified to the
United States Circuit Court at Topeka.
A SPECIAL to the Kansas City Time.
from Chanute, the 22d., says: "About
eight o'clock to night a wildly sensational
shooting scrape took place OH the street il
this city, when Rantz Waters, a well-knowI
young man of the city, shot and fatally
wounded r. j. Barley, who for some tim,
had been paying much attention to Mis-,
Waters, against the wishes of her parent,
and brother. 1t has been rumored here fol
some time that Barley had made som,
pretty damaging remarks about Mis-,
Waters, but of this there seems to be no di
rect evidence. At any rate young Water,
believed that Barkley had maligned hi.
sister, and tonight he met the latter on tn,
street with some companions in front o.
Jeffris's store. Waters passed Barley
and then turning, without a word pulled
out revolver and shot Barley through
the back, inflicting wound which will re
suit in death in few hours.D
LAST, February quite a sensation wal
created in Leavenworth by the discovery
Of the body of John .Heigle, a grocer, in
| pool of blood in the rear part of his store
bis head terribly beaten and his throat GU
/ from ear to ear. Several arrests wer,
made at the time, but the crime could b,
/ fastened on no one, and the unraveling o
the mystery was almost given up. Recent
/ ly, however, a prisoner confined in tn,
| county jail confessed to another prisoner
both colored, that he committed the muir
der and robbed the store of eighty-five dol
lars. The murderer's name is Davis
Davis is under sentence of one year fc
| robbery, and Hunt, who told on him, &
under a ten years sentence.
FATTES the Thanksgiving turkey.
The General Conference of the Evan
gelical Lutheran Conference, in session II
New York, resolved to give the Kansa
Conference the privilege of dividing it.
territory, and toform a Missouri Confer
ence during the next four years, with tn
consent of the bishops.
WHEN the celebrated Marriage Aid Asso
citation case of Topeka, in which John II
Knox and others were defendants, CAM
up in the United States District Court q
Leavenworth the other day, a motion Z.
quash the indictment was sustained b,
the Court and the notorious case came to
sudden close.
THE people of Labette County are trou
bled with horse thieves.
A LIVELY scene was enacted in the Dis
trict Court of Shawnee County, at Topeka
the other day, growing out of divorce suit
the attorneys in which INDUCED in sucl
heightened language towards each othe-
that the Court absorbed a portion of tb
fees by filming the three attorneys re-
spectively, twenty-five, twenty-five an,
zen dollars.
TIE Western Branch of the Womenh
Foreign Missionary Society met at Topeki
On the 18th, and continued in session sev
sral days. Delegates were present from al
parts Of the West.
WINTER wheat in Southern Kansas Is re
ported to be looking better than ever be
fore.
RECENTLY Ira Arnold, a young MAJ
eighteen years Of age, was digging sand IL
Douglas County, when he met his dealt
In horrible manner. He was at work below
= high ledge, and in his work he undermined
Eha sand and stone above him, which cam.
dcsTn, burying him completely. When hi,
body was recovered it was lifeless.
TIE Women's Foreign Missionary As,o
citation closed its Convention at Topeka OF
the nd The discussions covered a wild.
range, and were conducted with marked
ability.
PRoF. Snow, of the State University, ha,
received from Western Kansas q box CON
tanning the skeleton Of q rhinoceros, the
under jaw OF = mastodon, and two deerr FL