Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-11
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

Leavenworth snail speedily harmonize
their differences in regard to the location
Of the public building and cease the
wrangle now in progress, work will not ~.
commenced this year, as Secretary
Polger seems inclined TO let~fbe
matter drift until existing com.
plications are reconciled, and it is further
stated that Senator Plumb feels he dis.
charged his entire duty in securing the an.
preparation, and positively declines to take
sides i'm TIE matter of location, or tn no
mixed up in the local quarrel of Leaven.
worth.
AT the various stations along the line ot
the Kansas Pacific shade trees are being
planted.
CORN is coming up nicely in Southern
Kansas.
The dead body of a strange man was
found by some boys the other morning,
about two miles east of Topeka, beside the
track of the u. p. Railroad. In his right
hand he clasped a revolver, and through
the head was a bullet-hole, indicating that
death had been caused by suicide.
EARNEST l.. PALMER, of Grand Junction,
Colorado, has contributed to the State His
torical Society journal containing an &C.
/ tbuHl VI tue OL Tie lltu hdnSas
Volunteer Cavalry, Company "A, +" from the
mastering in, July 8, 1861, to April %
1864. 1t also contains sketches of the prin
cipal battles in which the company was
engaged, together with a roster of the com.
pany, list of promotions, transfers, dis
charges, designations, assertions, killed and
wounded in action, and death from disease
A NUMBER of Kansas men, mostly OF
Topeka, made purchase about one veal
ago of 5000 acres of pine lands in Arkan
sas at a uniform price of twenty-five cent:
an acre. They have recently concluded {
sale of $1,000 acres to a Chicago firm a.
S2.3 per acre. The syndicate will realize q
net profit of $4,000 in the transaction, ant
still retains 1000 acres of the land, which
is among the finest timber tracts in tn.
State.
NEAR Sabetha last week the little deat
and dumb son Of Joel Pratt set fire to tn,
barn, and, being unable to call assistance
was burned to death. His mother being
alone, attempted to rescue him and wa.
also fatally burned. Several hundred bush
els OF grain, three horses, two buggies anG
farming implements were also burned.
THEODORE WEICHZELBAUM, q brewer O.
| Ogden, has fled a claim with the Secretary
of State for So, 900 damages to his property
and business from the effects of the Pro
hibitory Law. The claim is filed subject K
the decision of the United States Suprem,
Court upon the constitutionality of tn,
law.
Mas. GREELEY, of Salina, and Mis-,
White, of Chicago, were lately robbed a
Austin, Texas, of lot of valuable clothing
| alY-xy OF,
the robbers then forged Mrs Greeley's in
dorsement to check and skipped. Tn,
thieves were pursued to Galveston and cap
tured.
ONE night last week George Andrews
while on his way from Rulo, Neb., to Gar
nett, was knocked down and robbed of S3O
on the Military Reservation north of Leav
enworth
PosToFFICE changes in Kansas durin,
the week ending April 21st, 1888: Estab
iished-Fleta, Morris County, Davi,
Clark, postmaster; Click, Comanch
County, John H. Hays, postmaster; Redd
Norton County, Mary c. Rule, postmis
tress. Name changed-Rich, Anderson
County, to Equity.
MARGARET LINvILLE, a young lady o
good character and high standing in tn,
cncl where she was, known, committee
suicide at Topeka recently by cutting he
throat with a razor. No cause, except pos
sibly fear of going insane, could be givel
for the rash deed. She had a sister in tn,
Asylum, and had been heard to say Iatel,
that she would rather kill herself than e,
crazy.
GOVERNOR CLICK and Attorney-Genera
| Johnston hox-o - A.
purpose of comforting with. Judge Jerr,
Black regarding the retention of Judg,
Black in the proposed Union Pacific Rail
road cases.
In the northern part of the State mao
dogs have become quite troublesome o
late.
Four large framed cases of Confederat.
money were deposited in the State Histor
ical Society recently by f. A. Hornbeck
| There ars ninety-seven bills, the denomi
nations ranging all the way from five cent
to 500.
! UNDER the head "Amusements," Wy
andotte reporter states that the Washing
ton avenue pond is being filled up.
A MEETING of the Directors of the For
| Scott Driving Association was held recently
to arrange for n spring meeting to be hello
MSy "a, - and 20. The Secretary reported
that at a meeting of the Secretaries of the
! Driving Associations of Fort Scott, Ne
vada, Parsons and Springfield, the follow
ing were the dates for holding spring meet
ings around the circuit of the Missouri anC
Kansas Trotting Association: Parsons
May II, Is and 10; Fort Scott, May 81, ,;
and 20; Nevada, May 81, June and =
| Springfield, second week i'm June.
JOHN UPDEGRAFF, a brakeman on the
| Santa Fe Road, met with an accident re
/ Gently that cost him leg. Just after leav
ing Cedar Junction, he fell from the traiI
aud half a dozen cars passed over one
of his limbs, cutting it entirely off. Being
a plucky fellow, and full of nerve, h,
dragged himself back to the station, and
waited there until the west-bound passen
| ger train came along and took him back t.
his home at Topeka.
Four negro women were arrested at To
peka last week for shoplifting. When cap
tured they were making the rounds on q
pretended shopping expedition, and il
their possession the officers found shoes
| gloves, ribbons, ladies' collars. flowers anC
other articles of wearing apparel.
NINE miles of water mains have been laiC
Il IN wichita.
| MAY parties are now in order.
AT least one member of the Legislature
last winter took enough money with him to
"tide over" the session. s. j. Carter, o.
Coffey, did not draw his pay until a few
| days ago.
THE State Historical Society has received
from Mrs. Lille NJ. Bissell, of Ottawa, the
sword, silken sash and army papers of hel
/ husband, the late Julius p. Bissell, who
was Second Lieutenant of Company C
Twenty-frst Regiment Wisconsin Volun
teers during the war.
In the District Court at Lawrence last
week, Judge Stephens sentenced five liquor
dealers to pay fine of 500 each and cost.
AT Cimarron, j. ID. Johnson got full Of
fighting whisky and shot Paul Herzog.
FARMERS in Coffee County are shipping
| seed corn to Ohio. 7a.
| EXCELLENT nine lumbar is shinnad fro,~