Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-11-16
Miscellaneous.

HE Board OF Railroad Commissioners
recently received petition asking them to
compel the Kansas City, Lawrence &
Southern Kansas Railroad Company tc
build depot and side-tracks on their line
of road between Oxford and Winfield.
The reports of County Superintendent
to the State Superintendent Of Public In
struction show rapid increase in school
children of the State. Sedgwick County
has an increase of over twelve hundred
school children, Pottawatomie County
about six hundred, and other counties kept
we'll in line.
ONE night recently a young man by the
name of Henry Rice. who lived near the
Santa Fe shops, in Topeka, deserted
young wife and has not been heard from
since. She thinks he has gone to Michigan,
but don't know that to be fact. They had
been married about six months, and quar-.
relied continually. The night he went away
both retired as usual. After she had gone
to sleep Rice chloroformed her, then tool
all the jewelry she had, sixty-two dollars
In money that belonged to her and de
parted. She slept until nearly clever
O'Clock the next day, and was greatly sur.
prised to discover what had happened.
She said this was the second time he had
deserted her.
HE other day a young man named
Deloss, hailing from Canada, attempted
suicide at North Topeka. He got off the
train, looked for work for awhile, Their
went out of town up the Union Pacific
track near powder house and took poison,
intending to kill himself. He was found
and his life saved. He expressed sincere
gratitude at his deliverance, and seemed
to take a much more cheerful view of life
and of the world.
WILLIAM ANDERSON, son of Justice An
derson, of Wyandotte, was recently killed
while switching cars at small station near
the Nebraska line.
THERE are three hundred and seventy.
i've Baptist Churches in Kansas, with
total membership of twenty thousand.
HE Adjutant General of the ARMY, i'm his
annual report, says the Military Prison al
Fort Leavenworth is successful institution,
under excellent management, and its Gov.
ernor is recommended for promotion with
increased pay. -
FALL wheat looks well.
GOVERNOR CLICK recently received let.
ter from Secretary of State Frelinghuysen,
of the United States had advised the De.
Partment that no information had been re-
ceived of any law or action by the Imperial
German Government excluding from the
mails OF the Empire publications relating
TO the public lands of the United States.
MORE business is reported as now BEING
done IN the Government Land Office in
wichita than at any time during the past
two years. large number of settlements
are being made in the Chicaskia Valley. in
hlngman and Harper Counties.
GENERAL. c. c. AUGUR arrived at Fort
Leavenworth on November l, and assumed
command of the Department of the Missouri.
CAPTAIN PAYNE and his companions. who
were indicted in the United States District
court at Leavenworth for conspiracy
against the Government in their attempt To
settle the Oklahoma lands of the Indian
Territory, returned to their homes Al
wichita, after being released upou their
own recognizance. Payne saws that tbev
are anxious and ready for trial. and that
they viii raise the question as to whetbe,
the Oklahoma lands are Indian countrv or
public domain when the cases are triad
In this way they hope to settle the question
In court.
GENERAL ]. B. WEAVER, Of Iowa, re-
Gently made Greenba speech at wicbita
TIE Grand Legion A. o. u. w r.c.,,I,-
In session at Topeka, elected the foi.
lowing officers: J. r. McMullen. WINFIELD
" -; La . Sage, Emporia, V. G. c.; d.
A. hili' winfield, L. g. c.; J. A. Mont
gomery' Lawrence, G. M; z. NJ. Ford.
EmPoria' .. X; c. F. Scouten, waterville.
:. t. d. A Needham, Topeka, G. s. B.:
n w. Deiamoert, Harper, G. s. w; George
w. Hughes, Topeka, G. ]. w; J. @. Shsl-
aon' Arkansas City, G. G.; W. A. Mathews.
Iopeka, .. I. The next meeting of the
Srand Legion is TO be held at Lawrence.
TEE other morning young swede was
found lying dead on the front porch Of the
residence OF another Swede named John
know him.