Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-14
Attest:
WRIT w. WALTON. Secretary.
miscellaneous.
/. L. REnDEN,
Chairman.

Miscellaneous.
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail.
road Company recently petitioned the
Board Of Railroad Commissioners for a
continuance of the rehearinS of the Great
Bend, Newton and Usage City cases, ask.
ing that the time be extended thirty DAYS.
The Commissioners after giving the matter
due consideration deci led TO grant the re.
quest, and that the tariff rates in force
'r.or to February ~ h should remain in
force, and the Board requested the railroad
during the said interim to cease taking any
further steps towards the segregation of
the branch lines from the main line. The
Railroad Company issued orders accord.
ingly and thus the matter stands, the rates
in force prior to February 10Th being
adopted from and after March 1st.
GEORGE ORR, the boy murderer of the
old blind man Trimble, was found guilty at
Paola, and has been sentenced to be hung.
He was taken to the Leavenworth peniten.
tiary. He is only seventeen years old.
Under the unwritten law of Kansas he will
not be hanged, but will b. imprisoned for
life.
The mouth and foot disease has broken
out among the cattle Of Woodson County,
and many cattle have air, ly died. The
Governor has telegraphed to the Commits.
sioner Of Agi iculture to SEED a surgeon.
SUNDAY, the lst, about four o'clock, the
Gulf House at Columbus, was discovered 60
be on fire. Tnose who FIRST reached the
building pronounced it the act OF an incen.
diary, as the smell of coal oil was very dis.
tinct and the location OF the fire with refer.
ence to the main building is very circu1n.
stantial to the view of incendiarism. In
the southwest part of the building and in
the second story, supposed to be room No.
q, when the building fell were discovered
the remains Of person which at this writ
ing is supposed'to be those of Joe Miller, OF
Baxter Springs. He took supper at the
Gulf House, and did not retire at the usual
hour and is missing. The loss of David
Paddleford, proprietor OF the Gulf House
will reach probably 5000; insurance, 81,
900.
AT New Castle, recently, a very serious
cutting ARRAY occurred. Carson Hicks. in
a spirit of fun, placed or hung a buffalo
robe in the hallway of the building in
which jolly crowd were dancing. Some
young ladies going to the door, saw the
robe, but not knowing what it was, were
badly scared. Dugan Jasper then said he
could whip the man who placed the robe
in the hall. Nothing more was then said
until the dance had closed, when young
Hicks went up to Jasper and said: "Did
you say you could whip the man who
placed that robs there?' Jasper replied
81 believe / said So" Hicks drew a knife
and cut Jasper, who then turned to run, and
was stabbed twice more In the back. Jas
per is dangerously burt. After the cut
ting, Hicks disappeared, but was captured
and in default of bail, has gone to Jail.
THE police of Topeka express their de-
termination to finally break up gambling.
SPRING is backward.
PETER BLooDsoL and George Blackmah
two colored men, were shot the other might
by Isaiah McClary, also colored, in his owr
house, just west of North Topeka. Black
man died in fifteen minutes. Two bullet,
were sent through his head. He ran a hun
dred yards and fell. Bloodsol was sho
through the left portion of the liver, anC
will die. McClary started after doing tn,
shooting to give himself up, but at a lat,
hour had not made his appearance, and {
| gang of police have started i'm search. Th,
trouble arose over McClary's wife, whC
has been rather thick with Blackman-fol
the past six months.
LIZZIE WEATHERBY, aged fourteen, wal
burned to death recently while attempting
to extinguish prairie fire.
PRoF. LEAvILL, of the North Topekl
schools, recently whipped the son of Mr.
Samuel Dolman, and Mr.. Dolman meeting
the school teacher on the street, returnec
the compliment by chastising him with {
rawhide. Both parties appealed to the Law
to decide which was TO blame.
1T was decided a. Topeka that the mex
meeting OF the Kansas Editorial Associa
ton should be held at Wyandotte, April 3
The association win make an excursion e
Florida, leaving Kansas City, April T. N.
children will be allowed to accompanv tbs
party.
Ex-Governor ST. JoaS delivered lee
tlre in Atchison one night recently.
A BILL has been reported favorably II
the House for the sale of the Kickapoo In
dams diminished reservation in Kansa,
and the removal of the tribe to the Indiar
Territory. The reservation contains 20.
DO acres, and it is proposed to allot tn,
land IN sevsralty to such Indians as choos.
to remain, the remainder Of the reservatio,
to be sold to settlers, at not less than eieht
dollars per acre.
| COMPLAINTS continue to reach the Ran
road Commissioners against the tariff O.
charges made by the Santa Fe Road.
DANIEL REED, passenger, was run owe,
by the cars on the Missouri Pacific at Otts
wa recently. He tried TO be sssmart. !,
tooiing with the brakes, when the accsdsn
happened, bis life u dsspairsd ct,