Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-05-25
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the amount appropriated by Congress los
winter To- satisfy Judgments in favor Of IN,
Lee heirs against the Government of $50.
90 may te paid 10 these. heirs; but thai
/ S2',upJ should be impoundcd TO await the
decision as % the validity Of unpaid take.
now charged against tire estate OH the As
sessinent rolls.
The statement of the United State,
Treasurer showed gold, silver and United
states notes In the Treasury May Il as fol
lows; Gold coin aud bullion, SI9l ,05I sos,
silver dollars aud bullion, SOL ,sIi,2 87:
fractional silver coin, SIS. IGi, 40; United
States notes, SO, ~; total SS7o, J0a, G7T
ADvIcEs from the Cariso mining district
Western Texas, say immense deposits OF
chloride and horn silver have been discov.
cred In the section Of the country lying be-.
tween the Pecos River and the Rio Grande
The surface groupings 81 horn silver are
said TO he the richest on the Continent.
An Englishman named Charles Walker
recently committed suicide, by shooting, nj
the Union Depot Hotel at Kansas CITY
/ He was ON his way 20 visit brothers who
are i'm Colorado. He was undoubtedly in
sane.
A NEW counterfeit dve-dolIar gold coin
has made its appearance. IL purports "a
he coin of the United States, struck al
New Orleans in 1913, is heavy plated and
90, grains light.
y LATE firc in the southwest part Of Gin.
cinnati destroyed George &. Crawford's saw
mill and 10000 feet Of lumber. Mr..
Crnwford's loss was 100000; insurance
$4,000. Gordon & ROuse's loss $4,000;
insurance unknown.
The statement prepared by the Sixth
Auditor Of the Treasury show receipts of
tho PostOfiicc Department from July Ia
Deccmbcr ~, 1882, being the first two
quarters of the current fiscal wear, S92..
Wsi,2iO; expenditures for the same period,
S2O,GH,iij; leaving n surplus of - $50 ,j3i.
| 1T is reported that General Garcia's en-.
gagement with the Indians in Sonora has
demonstrated that the band Of renegade
| Apachcs Is much larger than heretofore
supposed. The general idea has been that
they numbered about seventy-five. Gen.
eral Garcia estimates the number IN
To 30. The country is most abrupt
and difficult Of access, and those who re.
member the Modoc war in the lava beds
will appreciate the difficult task before
General Crook. The Indians cannot be
starved out, because the mountains furnish
plenty Of game. IL is believed that it will
require mt loast six months to subdue these
Apaches.
lN an ARRAY with coal miners at Chatta.
nooga, Tenn, Bill Corners killed Chris
Duer and mortally wounded Doc Heaps.
"A mob OF negro miners had taken Corners
to lynch him.
BOILER exploded in the single mill of
John Guycr, NJ Naponcc, Ind, the other
day, killing Henry Archer, o. j. VAIL and
James Brundage, and seriously injtring
Joseph Guycr, John Guyer aud William
| Nicely.
THE issue % standard silver dollars for
the week ending May T. was Si6,JOJ; the
issue for the corresponding period last year
was Sl5l,5OO.
THE National Board II Health has i'm.
formed the local authorities at Memphis
that after June l they will have 10 b,-Sr the
expenses Of quarantine stations on the Mis-
sissippi river between New Orleans aud
Memphis.
THE wife of Senator Fair, OF Nevada, re
Gently obtained n divorce from the senator
who permitted tho suit TO go by default
The court awarded Mrs: Fair the custody
Of the children, the family residence i'm Sar
Francisco and -, 10000 in money and Gov
eminent bonds. ~
The cyclone that did so much damage al
Kansas City the 18th, or similar one
struck the town Of Oronogo, Mo-, about
twelve miles from Carthage, and com
plctely demolished the village. Georg,
Goodwin and Sadie Goodwin were instantly
killed, son OF George Goodwin died soor
after from injuries, and about thirty.fiv,
persons were injured. At Macon, Mo-, Mrs
John Clarkson, John Roth, Mrs Banta ant
Charles Ross were killed, and about twent,
persons injured. The destruction of prop
erty was great.
The Minister of the Treasury has warne,
the Panama Canal Company that the,
must pay the expense of keeping between
1000 and 1900 men on the isthmus to main
tain order. Tho Minister estimates tina
the cost thus imposed on the company dur
ing the fourteen years the contract grant
for the completion Of the canal will amour
to $I,O0O,OoO, and might even reach $40, 900,
90 or S19,OO0, 900. l.,.
1T Is estimated NJ the Treasury Depart
ment That the payments for the presen
month on account of pensions viii amour
to SG0,OO0,O00.
The wife Of Rev. Z. l.. Stoddard. recto
OF st. Johns Episcopal Church, at Jerse-
City, ~ j., was shot and killed the othe
day. She was busting the shelves in on
Of the closets, on one Of which was a pistol
which fell to the floor and was discharge
with the fatal result stated.
The other day a cyclone struck Sturgi:
Mich, destroying a portion of the tow
and killing Chauncey Gilmore and three G
his children. ltI..f-
ISrKLLrgEScE from different sections &
Virginia is 10 the effect that great damag
Is being done the young tobacco plants b
the tobacco iiy, and in many instances til
! farmers have had all the plants destroyed
The farmers are much discouraged.
Il IT "a thought the wheat harvest in Cal
fornia will be the greatest the State eve
before had The opinions are based on th
increased acreage and unusually propitiou
, weather this month, the steady light rain
alternated with warm sunny days whes
is ripenins slowly and the kernels Al
heavy. r-af-rei
-APAssKsGKR train OF the Pennsboro
IAnAtAsSH VIE 49, vas PtSSAPisetco tut
Hughes River at Pennsboro, W. Va, by
bridge giving way. Frank Foster, condu'
tor and John King, engineer, were suppose
20 have been killed. i~ a-I
inWuLAH THOMPSON, q brother Of Il
widely known Ben. Thompson, was latel
lodged In Jail at Galveston, Texas, to a
swer to the charge Of murder, committe
! in Aransas County, that State, in 1s6
He was tried m Kansas several years ag
Cor the rnnrderof . sheriff and acquitted.
I SECRETARY FoLcER has informed a
President that In order 10 carry into efes
the provisions Of the act 10 prevent the in
portation Of adulterated or spurious tea
II win be necessary to appoint assistant a