Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-03-21
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

TEE jury rendered their verdict in the
Foster case, ct Topeka, in favor OF the
State. Their verdict suspends Foster from
his Office as County Attorney. Judge Pres
colt, of the District Court, will appoint
under the law an attorney for the unex-
pirsd term. The principal charge as
proved against Foster was corruptly re-
fusing to prosecute liquor sellers when in
formation had been made and witnesses
names furnished. According to the
ruling Of the Chief Justice there are no
grounds left for an appeal to the United
States Supreme Court, and the present &C.
ton is final.
AT the Inter Ocean Mills, in North To-
peka, Jake Kizer, a young man Of twenty
one, was caught on q shaft in the lower
part of the mill, and was badly beaten
against the side of q wheat bin. He had
gone down to throw OF belt and In some
way was caught by his waist on the shaft.
When discovered he was senseless, his
feet beaten tn a shapeless mass, three ribs
were broken and his bowels were injured.
He was carried to the house of the head
miller, where he soon died.
A GENTLEMAN named-T. ]. Richardson.
daughter Ellie, young lady about twenty
one years Of age, left st. Louis recently for
their Western home. About four years ago
Eftie left home, the result of some sudden
girlish freak, and notwithstanding the most
persistent, assiduous search upon the part
OF her parents. her whereabouts
remained undiscovered. Her father sold
his property in Parsons in order
to obtain money with which to prosecute
the search, but his efforts were unsuccess-
ful. Some days ago he received q letter
from friend which stated that his daughter
was in st. Louis, where the parent found
her. She had married, but after living
with her husband for time had secured .
separation. The girl was willing to go
home. and accompanied her father cheer.
fully.
SUNDAY evening the 9th, the large two
story brick school house that was erected
last fall at Sigel Station, on the Carbonate
branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, about
nine miles from Lawrence, was DESTROYED
by fire. Loss, $4,000; insurance 81, 200. The
nre Is supposed to be the work of tramps.
who in some way obtained entrance to sleep
in the building.
AFTER mouths Of delay, caused bv a
haw found in the Appropriation bill for the
Indlan schools, through the efforts of DIR.
James Marvin, Superintendent of the
school at Lawrence, a new appropriation
has been run through both Houses, and
work has again begun on the new build.
ings. Four hundred little red men are ex.
pected at Lawrence by July /.
The officers of the United States Land
Ofice, at Topeka, are advertising and will
sell on the 4th of April twelve hundred
acres of land belonging to the Kickapoo In.
dian Reservation. The sale will take place
at the Old Mission farm in Atchison
County, near Muscotah, where the lands
are situated.
HE most disastrous fire that ever oc.
CURED in Pittsburgh broke out at o O'Clock
on the 9th in frame row on the east side
OF Broadway in Veetle's drug store. A
heavy gale blew up from the east Eight
buildings burned. The loss on stocks and
buildings was thirty thousand dollars. In.
surance light.
GOVERNOR CLICK recently refused to
honor requisition presented by G. W.
Coie' oil the st. Louis Merchants Detective
Association, for the return of a swindler.
THE dead body of John Beck, a native of
Switzerland, who resided about six miles
east of Salina, was discovered recently.
The discovery was made by some parties
VINO were intent upon visiting the deceased
with view to purchasing some cattle, of
which be was the owner. He was a man
| apparently about sixty years of age and
one OF the pioneers of the county. He had
acquired considerable property, and cir
cumstances tend strongly to show that the
deceased was the victim of a foul murder.
A long cash in the back of the neck was the
olly wound. There was no clue to the per-
petrator or perpetrators of the outrage.
The City Council of Oswego has ordered
the keepers of billiard-halls in that city to
remove the frosting from windows and
screens from the doors.
The fire which occurred at Cottonwood
Falls last spring has proven good event
for that place. Although the burned dis.
trict Is not yet covered with new buildings,
the amount expended in buildings during
the time since the fire exceeds greatly tho
value of the buildings burned.
JOHN r. FEM, of Welda, fled a com.
plant recently with the Board of Railroad
| Commissioners, stating that he was
charged $500 for a shipment made from
Girard over the Southern Kansas Railway
to Welda, Anderson County, after the
company had agreed to make his shipment
for $1,000. He asks the Railroad Commits.
sioners to investigate the matter.
STATE papers are heralding the fact that
the time for tree-planting is at hand.
THE State penitentiary is to be lighted by
electricity.
The Railroad Rerielo publishes the fol.
lowing interesting statement showing the
| mileage of the railroads and extensions
built in Kansas during the past year st.
Louis, Fort Scott & Wichita, Wichita to FL
! Dorado, 81; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe,
Wichita to Walnut, 2l.S; Atchison, Topeka
& Santa Fe, Emporia branch, 45 s.; Kansas
Southern, Chanute 10 Walnut, %; Manhattan
& Blue Valley, to Garrison, 4.e. Total,
1878.
A VETERINARY surgeon has been dis.
| patched from Washington to Woodson
County to examine and report upon the
cattle foot and mouth disease which has
made its appearance in that section of the
State.
SAMUEL TRYER, the murderer of John
Pennington and wife in Marshall County,
February D, wa! captured in Seward
County, Neb., by Allen McClay and Sheriff
| Brown.
OBJ FELLOWS recently met in Emporia.
The most destructive fire in thehistory OF
Edwards County originated about ter
miles west of Kinsley, caused by loco
motive of the Atchison, Topeka g. Santa
Fe Railroad, and burning q number ni
ranches and dwellings and destroyir =
st ok, grain and life. Mrs. George W
Matheny, highly respected lady, was
burned to death in trying to save her hons
and "a number of people narrowly escape
with their lives.
The counsel for County Attorney Foster
lately convicted of Official dereliction Al
Topeka, have filed a petition in the Su
preme Court for a new trial.
IHE Gaylord Creamery made It's first
churning on the 10th, turning out six hrn
dred pounds # butte the first day.