Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-04
KANSAS STATE NEWS

unanimously reelected by vote Of over
$4,000 shares Of the company,s stood.
After the new Board had been organ;zed
Hon. Oliver Ames, of Boston, offered his
resignation, stating that pressure of other
b=stness necessitated IT, and thereupor A
Z. Touzalin was unanimously elected In fill
the vacancy. The following officers we're
then elected: W. B. Strong, President. a.
E. Touzalin, Vice. President; c. c. Wheeler.
General Manager; Edward Wilder. Score.
tary and Treasurer; George L. Goodwin.
Assistant Secretary and Treasurer: S. l..
Thorndyke, Comptroller; John p. White.
head, General Auditor; J. +. Goddard.
General Traffic Manager; H. c. Clements.
Auditor; A S. johnson, Land Commits.
sioner; A. b. Robinson, Chief Engineer.
The police Of Atchisea-were some time
since notified to look out for a young woman
named Clara Wilson, who is insane and
whose mania runs to incendiarism. She
became violently insane while at the resi-
dence of DR.. s. A. Richmond, at st. Joseph.
and was incarcerated in the Buchanan
County Asylum. In a short time she was
taken to her home in Bethany, No., where,
after burning some property, she disap-
Peared from that vicinity, but in a letter
written by her toithe prosecuting attorney
Of Bethany she threatened to take his life
and burn the half of Atchison; hence the
notification to the police. The stalls at the
fair grounds in the latter city were burned,
and the watchman said by a woman.
Search was made and the woman was
found and put in jail, 1t became certain
that several destructive fires could be
traced TO her. She is said to be a large,
well developed, handsome girl, but is un-
mistakably of unsound mind.
"A SON OF Mr.. Reaman, who resides west
OF Maple City, started out on his pony
lately in the direction of Chautauqua
County to look up some stray stock, and
when about fifteen miles from home--out
upon the open prairie-he discovered a
prairie fire about quarter of mile OFF.
The wind was blowing perfect gale, and
before he had time to decide what course to
pursue the fire was almost upon him, and
his only chance for escape was o-beat a
hasty retreat, so he headed his pony to-
wards little creek some five or six miles
distant, and applied the whip and spur.
The fire gained upon him, and just before
reaching the stream his nearly exhausted
pony stumbled and fell. The lad rolled
into "buffalo wallow," and escaped with
some severe burns, but the pony was
oui neu 10 oeath' z ada fEf
MRS. MARY r. PALMER has been ap-
pointed Postmistress at st. Marys, vice
Luther r. Palmer, deceased, who was ap.
pointed December %, 1882. The salary at.
tached to this office is 81 200 per annum.
md f,v,1,r 4 a
inst. Mrs. Palmer was recommended to
succeed her husband by 80 of the leading
citizens of the county in which the Post
office is situated, as well as by the Repre-,
sentative in Congress from the District.
REV. j. CoMsToCK, a Second Advent
preacher, was arrested last week at Ton.
ganoxie, charged with an outrageous as.
sault upon thirteen-year-old daughter OF
Mr.. Anderson, of Reno township. After o
hearing he was committed for trial and
sent to the county jail at Leavenworth. .
Il. III. SAGER, City Clerk of Wyandotte,
disappeared recently under suspicious cir.
cumstances. An article was published re.
garding alleged crookedness in his official
affairs, and stating that it was currently
rumored that he had by means of false war.
rants and dummy pay rolls swindled the city
out OF a large amount of money. He denied
the charges, but a committee was appointed
to investigate, and this investigation was
in progress at the time Sager was last seen.
In the United States District Court at
Topeka Judge Foster announced that the
Department of Justice was out of funds
with hich to pay witnesses, but that they
could get from the Clerk certificates of ser.
vice, During the day the banks and brokers
of Topeka discounted these claims, usually
ut the rate of ten per cent per annum for
eighteen months. go ss.,.1
KANSAS, like California, Nevada and
Colorado, is going into irrigation. West.
ern Kansas is almost a-tleseFt Oh account
of lack of rainfall, but with a good system
Of irrigation it will, probably, surpass the
eastern end of the State in fertility.
A CHARTER was filed last week for the
Western Kansas Agricultural Fair Asso-
place of business Hays City. -.a
WICHITA people are getting ready to Gel
citrate the Fourth of July in a becoming
The Governor recently received draft
from the United States Treasury fei
70, 02o.49, the amount i'm full of the claim
Of the State against the General Govern
ment for five per cent on the sale of Potta.
Tatomie lands. -,..,a.. $50. .t.....,
ONE HUNDRED German families have
organized a colony in New York and will
move to Kansas.
IT is reported that Captain Dave Payne
will take to the lecture field. -..s r.
In the United States Court at Topeka last
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holland, for embezzlement of Government
to one year in Che penitentiary;
VIM. Smith, for stealing from person on
he Fort Leayenworth Military Reserva.
lion, one yedr; John Ross, for selling
liquor without taking out special tax
stamp, thirty daysin jail and to pay a fine
IF 500; Alex. Ross, same offensA same
Inc; J. W. Osborne, making and, passing
counterfeit coin, one year; = Hogshead.
'obbing the Oswego Postoffice and stealing
/ United States mail sack, one year on each
:ount. iai. - l-@- -i-r ...isa .irt-.
HON. S. r. PETERS will deliver. the aid.
iress to the Grand Army of the Republic,
Vt Wichita on Decoration Day, the SOth of
Nay, ,+ .,-..,,s rt,f...,
FIFTY-FQUR new buildings have been put
up in Columbus, Cherokee County, this
ipring, with others under contract. - =
DrvERsrFiED farming is what viii win.
A WIND storm passed near Hutchinson
'ecently which did considerable damage.
After tearing dowrs a lot of barns, wind
nils, etc, it struck a house occupied by an
I'D man and'hiswife nawed Anderson, and
ore it into thousand pieces, injuring both
occupants quite seriously Mrs. Anderson
vas blown into tree forty feet from tina
louse. Another house near by was treated
IS badly, and a young lady had leg
broken. Mr.. Anderson may die of his in.
uries. ,!g sT-i'ta SIS -r4-s-f ,r
The cornerstone of st. Andrews tEpis.
,opaD Church at Nickerseu was laid one
lay last week by. Bishop Vol.
BLACK bass are plentiful in some of our
Kansas streams.
WIN. STARK, a farmer who lived near
'rairie City, Douglas County, was burned
o death recently while fighting a prairie
Ire. His house and forty-tons of hay were
'lso destroyed. The fire originated from
ome ashes left along the roadside by some