Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-04-27
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

State Militia. The bin went through. fsntb
Houses al right, and passed out of the
Chief Clerks hands into the enrolling de-
partment, from which he received a recent
for the same, but that was the last seen of
The bill until some days ago, when inter
ested parties went to get the augmentation
and it was learned the bill had never been
seen or signed by the Governor. A dill
gent search was instituted, and in a pile of
waste paper behind the desk in the Chief
Clerks Office the bill was found, remaining
as it was when it went to the enrolling de-
partment. The Chief Clerk had receipt for
the bill, and the question now is who was
70 blame for such blunders?
A. ]. HoIsINGToN, President of the State
Editorial Association issues a circular
to the following effect: 1.-THE regular semi
annual meeting of the A. v. E.vA. occurs
by previous arrangement on May 18th, at
Newton. The annual meeting for May 9th
only two days earlier-at Winfield
within our own territory. Many of our
members have expressed a desire 10 attend
the meeting of the State Association.
Furthermore, the State Association has ar.
ranged for an excursion to Chihuahua. Old
Mexico, and several of our members desire
to go. Therefore, it is deemed to be wise
for ourselves and proper courtesy toward
our brethren of the State Association to
adjourn our semi!aifnaal meeting at New.
ton from May llth to June 18th, which adj.
journment is hereby. ordered. And we
urge all members of the A. V. E. A. to at
tend the State Association meeting at Win.
beld and arrange to go on the excursion to
Old Mexico.v ---.
INaLeavenworth one day last week a sol.
dier went into Harris pawnbroker shop
and asked to see pistol. The clerk exhib.
tied several, but the soldier did not seem
pleased with them. The clerk then got hie
own pistol and, showed it to him, at the
same time cautiOning him that it was
loaded. The soldier took it, cooked it, and
pointed it at his left breast and fred. After
firing the pistol he threw it on the floor
without saying word. The ball only in
fiicted a flesh wound but considerably
sobered up the blue coat, who had been on
spree. .f.,.i-f,
The Attorney General has so often OF
late had his attention called tethe so-called
benevolent Insurance. sche1nes that are in.
vading the State that he will give them an
investigationto discover how legitimate and
how honest they are. Since the Marriage
Aid Society was found to be nothing more
nor less than a gigantic swindling institu
ton, people have become suspicious that
all other corporations flying under the
name OF "benevolent" are similar in THEN
intent and purposes. '.''f '' %" 49,
. EVERY farmer and capitalist i'm the West
is interested in some way in the subject OF
stock. In Kansas the indications are that
the State will ultimately become a greater
stock raising than farming region. The
returns 20 the state Board of Agriculture
show constant addition To the number of
stock held, and rapid rise in the value OF
such animals, indicating that the quality
lis improving as the number increases.
REPORTS to the Land Department of the
Atehison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, or
the condition of the winter wheat along its
line of road are that the wheat prospects
are good; the reports show them generally
better than at the same time last year, and
the crop of 1882 was the best ever harvested
in the State. Early planting is in the most
satisfactory condition, and the area of win.
ter-killed is not large--in some counties
none is reported.
PosToFFCE changes in Kansas during the
week ending April :, 1888: Established
Fred, Marion County, Edward W. Ste.
| phens, Postmaster. Discontinued-Esth
I Rush County; Jay Eau, Republic County /:
Gillespie, Cloud County. Name changed
| Fulda, Chatauqua County, to Wauneta.
THIEVES endeavored to enter the resi-.
dence of G. C. Burnes, Mayor-elect of
-Atchison, lately, but were scared away by
the colored Waterman firing at them.
The State Superintendent of Public In.
struction is preparing a course of study to
be followed by County Normal Institutions
this summer. He has also sent out his an.
nual supply of blanks to County Superin.
tendentS, on which they will make up and
| return their annual reports.
THE following Kansans, through the as.
sistance of Congressman Anderson. have
secured the, allowance of pension claims {:
Robert Brisbie, of Smith Center; John d.
Hall, of Osborne; Percy l.. Cobb, of Buffalo
/ Park; A. W. Davidson, of Concordia; ]. A.
Bumman, of Covert, and Ii. G.. Clark, of
l. Atchison.
LAST week, while John Macteltin, car.
penter, was working at the head of the
sugar-factory elevator in Leavenworth, he
dropped an iron wrench which fell four
stories and struck Charles Faw6iree on the
! head, knocking him into the elevator where
! he fell three stories and struck a brick floor,
4 killing him instantly.
, A CHARTER was filed last week for the
Cleveland College Association, of Kinginan
County. The object'o of this corporation is
/ to "build and maintain a college for the
purpose of acquiring the sciences and Ian.
.guages." str. 9ff tail -aa-... y
4 COL INGERSoLL writes that he cannot de
! liver the annual address before the Literary
Societies of the State University in June
1t is thought Senator Lamar, of Mississippi
viii be invited 10 deliver the address. Il
I The dwellings of Seebold &5yHagan,oh
\ brewers, of Atchison, were burned last
week. Most of the furniture was saved
The neighbering extensive. ice. house.
caught and were burned to the ground.
THE stories published of the ravages O,
smallpox at Galena and Empire City yer,
: much exaggerated. There were severa.
t'rcases in those towns, but it appears no cpl
demic. - IgYHI giH.ft.y dffE 1.,
t. THB lawyers and witnesses who appear
in court at Wyandotte are so interestin;
that jurors go to sleep while trials are il
progress. '..'' 'if hli -
THE corn crop is being put in rapidly
A DETECTIVE for the Santa Fe road mac,
the arrest Mt Topeka the other night Of
man calling himself +. Wilkie, who used t
be an employee of the St. Louis, ,Matel
Works Company, and is said to be wante,
there for embezzIement to the amount O
$500. HIS right name is Fred w. Filkie
He was taken to st. Louis. = 3rG 70
FOUR United, States prisoners name,
James Mckay, Thomas Kelcher, Charlie
Ayers and John Logan, charged with rob
bing the mails in Usage County and sen
from Topeka to Leavenworth for safe keep
ing, were not safely kept, but escaped from
Jail in the latter city one night last
IT rs estimated that there are about Ill,
600 old soldiers in Kansas and about 20, 90
soldiers widows and orphans. b,.,;
THE final arrangements for the location
of the Indian School at 1 au-,-o,,..o ha 70 Doc,