Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-08-17
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

| lpon the net proceeds of the sales ofpublie
/ lands for the year ending June 30, 1889. for
4 which amount a draft would be forwarded
I In due course of business, payable to the
| order OF the Governor. VIZ
THERE is to be an encampment hid at
Parsons from August 21st to 9th, when ft
is said the question, (which Is the better
remedy for the evils Of the liquor traffic
| legislation or prohibition" viii be dis.
cussed by the ablest temperance orators in
the country. 1t is thought large crowd
will attend. Bands of music, choral socie.
ties, singers and many other attractions
will be provided to add interest to the oc.
casion. The citizens of Parsons are pre-
pairing to entertain on a large scale, and
arrangements will be made to accommo-
date on the grounds all who wish to camp
out.
The monthly crop reports to Major Sims,
Secretary of the State Agricultural Board,
all concur that no such oats were ever
raised before, and that the corn promises
an immense yield. All in all, Kansas
takes the lead in prosperity this year.
CHARTERS were filed with the Secretary
of State recently for the Oklahoma Foun-
dry and Manufacturing Company, by d.
L. Payne and his associates; Leavenworth
Loan and Trust Company, capital stock,
800, 900; the Chicago, Iowa & Kansas Rail-
road Company. The purpose of the latter
corporation is to build a road from point
near Gage County, Neb., to Salina, and also
two branches of the same.
A KANSAS CITY saloon keeper in order to
evade the Missouri Sunday Law, erected a
tent few feet from the State line, on the
Kansas side, and with force of bar-tenders
commenced to deal out liquors on Sunday.
The Sheriff of Wyandotte County bagged
the party and put them in jail. The saloon
keeper was fined 800 and costs and his
assistants were let off by paying the costs.
THE Railroad Commissioners recently
received a request from Col. Edward
Hatch, Post Commander Of Fort Riley,
asking that depot be established at that
place. Accompanying the request was
statement showing that within the last
! year between !, 800 and 1900 people took
passage to and from that point; nearly
5000, 900 pounds of public freight and about
| 1000 animals were received.
DURING late storm the Lindell Hotel at
Mcpherson was struck by lightning and
considerably damaged.
The other night party of about twenty
young men of Lindsborg, in order to
brighten a barber of that town, who was
accused of whipping his wife, took him to
an elevator with rope tied around his
neck, and treated him pretty roughly. The
barber thought he had a close shave.
AN Anti-HOrse Thief Protective Associa-
ton has been organized in Wilson County.
KANSAS returns for 1883, 3715, 900 horses
f1- s..
inhabitants; 1900, 900 cattle, being one and
one-half cattle per inhabitant; 3,362 pianos,
or one for every 800 people.
A DELEGATE convention of the colored
men of Kansas was held at Emporia last
week for the purpose of selecting delegates
to the National Convention of Colored Men
to be held at Louisville, KY, on the oath Of
| September. The attendance was compare
lively meager; therefore, after passing a
resolution pledging themselves hereafter
to support those only whom they believed,
first, to be honest, second, to be competent,
and third, those who are willing to give to
those of the colored race who are COM
| petent an equal chance with themselves in
the political arena, the convention ad.
| journed to meet in Lawrence, August 80,
to appoint delegates to Louisville.
LEGAL steps were taken the other day al
! Wyandotte to cause the arrest of one
James Mcpherson, who is at the present
time said to be somewhere In Colorado, on
a charge of embezzlement. 1t is said that
Mrs. Isemen of Wyandotte placed house
and lot, located in Western Kansas I'm the
hands of McPhearson, to be sold for the
sum of $3.50. He disposed of the property
for $50, went to Wyandotte, and stated to
Airs. Izeman that he had sold the house and
lot at the desired price and had invested
the money in cattle. Subsequent develop
ments led Mrs. 1zeman to believe that Nc
Phearson had not invested the money for
her but had appropriated it to his own use
and left. A requisition will propably be
issued for him.
MRS. GRIFFITH, the wife of Kinsley
physician while on her way East, recently
left her pocketbook containing a draft for
so and one for S25 with two tickets to st.
Louis on the seat of the car when she
stepped from the train at Kansas City
She notified the police of the fact and the
officers traced the pocketbook to woman
named Murphy who was on the train. She
was arrested and the draft for so returned
to Mrs. Griffith. The st. Louis tickets and
who disappeared.
THE number of idiotic persons in th'
State, as returned by the several County
Assessors to the Secretary of the State
Board of Agriculture, is 1872.
1T is proposed to hold State reunion of
Veterans either at Topeka or Leavenwortt
during the fall. Major Anderson thinks
that one will undoubtedly be held.
a. TN--nA Il Dill
Company filed its charter and became a
corporation under the laws of the State re
rently. The company proposes to build q
narrow guage road from Elwood, Doniphar
County, through Doniphan, Atchison, Jack.
son, jefferson, Shawnee, Douglas, Franklin
Anderson, Allen, Neosho, Crawford and
Cherokee Counties to the Missouri line.
Capital stock, s, 800 900.
TwENTY-FoUR acres of wheat on the Rey.
ner farm, in Mcpherson County, yielded
nearly forty-four bushels per acre, the total
yield being 1857 bushels. The yield last
| year on the same ground was only thirty.
six bushels. '"t
MAD DOGS are reported numerous.
TIE Railroad Commissioners have for.
hidden any officer on the Board to apply for
railroad passes. m
On the first of September prairie chicken.
will be illegally ripe"
A LITTLE son 1.-TWO years old) of Mr.. VIII.
liam Bradford, of Usage City, while play.
ing in his fathers stable the other day, fell
from buggy and his head catching between
the spokes of a wheel his neck was broken.
1t was his only remaining child being three
he had lost within week, and the seventh
lost altogether. Mrs. Bradford at the time
was lying too i'll to realize the great mis-
| fortune that had befallen the family.
SIX dogs were killed last week in Kansas
City, Kansas, with symptoms of hydro
| phobia.
EVERYTHING at the Secretary's Office Of
the Western National Fair Association in.
dictates that the exposition at Bismarck,
the first week Of September will be more
attractive and as great q success as ever
before. The BOARD il Dushin0 thinOu Nth