Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-18

ahy lehce been removed or destroyer,
j ~ one of the civil suits by the Gov
eminent against Captain Howgate, al
Washington, Chief Justice Carter recently
decided that where property had been at
tacbed by the Government which it was
alleged had been sold by Howgate to Other
parties, although the deed was not record
ed, the transfer was valid. The decision
was adverse &c the Government.
PAYMAsTER WATSON, United States
army, who was reported as having been
recently robbed on the Southern Pacific
Railroad, near Fort Worth, Texas, OF
I sl1,OOO, which he was taking to Fort Davis
70 pay troops, turns out to be defaulter.
ond has confessed that he was not robbed
ana that the whole transaction was fraud
70 cover his short accounts with the Gov
eminent, He has been ordered to turn over
the balance OF the funds in his hands &c
Chief Paymaster Terrell and settle his ac-
counts. WATSON Is under arrest at San
I Antonio and will be Immediately tried by
4 Court Martial. Women and wine ere said
10 be the cause OF his trouble. ...I
The employment OF four thousand
/ Chinese upon the Northern Pacific Rail
road in British Columbia is giving signs of
trouble. The cry against the Chinese is
greatly heightened by the knowledge Of
the fact that one Chinese firm i'm Victoria
has $4,000 in savings mostly from Chinese
railroad workmen. Other Chinese firms
have lesser sums. almost every dollar of
which goes to China, impoverishing the
Province. The question of prohibiting
Chinese emigration is being agitated.
JUDGE VAN WAGONER, of the St. Louis
Criminal Court. lately charged the Grand
Jury that IL the law against dueling had
! been violated il was their duty to indict the
Offenders, and added: @The day has gone
by when this sSmi-borbarian custom can
be either tolerated, or vitalized. into re-
SPectabnity, and the offender deserves no
more mercy than any other criminal
This charge was the result Of a late chal-
lenge between two attorneys Of that city.
RUMoRs were recently circulating at FL
Paso. Texas, of a disaster to General Crooks
command that lately crossed into Mexico
after the Apaches. -.i-..t
A YOUNG nun in the Herschel, Ga, con
vent who appealed to the Pope TO be re.
leased from her vows, has had her prayer
granted and returned to her family.
REPORTS from Texas say that sheen
sheariug is about completed, and that the
tothi clip Of the State will be much lighter
this year than last. ai..la gEmS. rls..f +.
The Commissioners OF tho General Land
Office has received complaints from the
Postofice Department that cattle herders
in Nebraska have recently enclosed with
fence for grazing purposes a large tract of
pablic land, and thereby cut off important
mail routes. Measures are abont to be
taken that will result in breaking up this
unlawful practice Of fencing public lands,
practice which has lately grown to be a
serious evil.
1T is estimated Mt the Postoffice Depart.
ment that under the recent change, in COM
putting the commissions of fourth-class
postmasters, ap expenditure of $6O0,OOo
more than would have been required under
the old law will be necessary. 1t VIII be
necessary TO settle the accounts of fourth.
class officers up TO October 1st when the
two-cent postal law goes into operation.
GEORGE GAVIN, after serving as Sec.
Rotary 10 the Board Of Police Commits.
sioners of st. Louis for over twenty years,
was suspended recently, pending the exam.
nation Of his books, on suspicion of being
a defaulter. He has disappeared. His
shortage, SO far Us known, is said to be
only about 500, which he could easily have
paid. and which, no doubt, was the result
OF careless bookkeeping.
A HURRICANE recently swept over the
Lehigh and Wyoming Valleys in Pennsyl-
vania, which was said b. be- the severest
ever known in that section. Trees in the
woods were moved down like grass. The
wind and rain beat so hard against the
windows Of passenger trains that passen-
gers had to place the cushions of seats
against them TO prevent their being blown
in. The engineer on one train TO avoid
wreck Ivy falling trees, reduced the speed
To coal train time. Much damage was done
To ears and railroad tracks by falling trees.
MosT Of the business part of the town of
Forney, Texas, burned recently. Loss
about 200; insurance 1000.
GRIMES e. Co.'S mill at Vermontville,
Mich, burned the other morning, and two
or three men, including the proprietor, were
burned 20 death.
the third trial at Dublin of Timothy
Kelley, charged with participation in the
murder, resulted in his
conviction and he was sentenced to be
hanged June 4.
Al NeheIdi oneIluahS heauqudrVeTS tne
rumored disaster to General Crook is not
credited. M. i'.
THE other morning an accident occurred
on the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha Railroad, four miles east of Nor.
folk, Neb., by which q freight train was
wrecked at the bridge, which had been
undermined by heavy rain storm during
the night. Six freight cars and the engine
were completely demolished. The engineer,
Sam Reed, was perhaps fatally injured
and brakeman Pheasant killed. ,....