Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-04-25
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

AAE OhuCA daAioACkIAttB the Once or u. y.
Internal Revenue collector from Leaven-
worth to Topeka has been countermanded.
and for the present the Office will remain
where it Is. -
KANSAS Mennonites are making arrange
ments TO furnish transportation and support
for one hundred and twenty-five families of
Asiatic Mennonites, who are now at KhIwa
These people went to their present location,
which is very undesirable one, in ODE
dience TO prophecy, that the world would
come TO an end I'm 1885, and that final disso-
tuition would take place from there. They
are now well nigh destitute. but funds will
be sent them almost Immediately, and they
are expected 10 be here in few months.
ARCHIE WILLIAMS is In washington and
has notified Attorney General johnson that
he will appear for the State in the Foster
case now before the United States Supreme
Court lie will make a motion to advance
the case for an early hearing this term of
court, which will be granted on account of
its peculiar nature and its being a State
case. The new attorney appointed by
Judge Prescott in Fosters place Is perform
ing his duties and has closed up all the
saloons in Salina- There is a question as to
the legality of all this, which will not be
settled until the United States Supreme
Court either Ovenules or sustains the order
of tire Kansas Supreme Court In the
meantime there is much feeling In Salina
over the matter, the citizens taking sides.
Foster Is already in the field for reelection,
asking the people TO sustain him I'm his
course.
AT meeting of Presbytery, at Topeka.
on the Stl, WyandOtte was chosen as the
place Of the next meeting. on the first Tues,
day Of October. The Presbytery voted In
favor of adopting the revised book Of dis
cipline.
AT the Wyandotte basket factory recently,
James Regus lost three fingers from his left
hand and one finger from his right hand
through being caught in the machinery.
Ex-GOvERNoR ST. JOHN was at Bloom
ingtOn, ILL.,, recently, inaugurating the Pro-
hibition campaign in Illinois.
The report of the Wyandotte poor farm
shows that there are nineteen paupers on
the farm. Out Of this number four are able
to work some, while the balance are totally
disabled The produce raised on the farm,
not consumed on the premises, amounted to
S26695, which sum was turned into the
County Treasury. The expenses were con-
siderably more than the receipts.
UNITED STATES MARsIIAL b. F. SIMr-
SON, of Topeka, recently received a telegram
y, "A
stating that he had arrested three men who
had one thousand dollars I'm counterfeit five
dollar bills on their person. They are Of
the new issue, and the gang had passed sew.
eral of them in Atchison.
TIE grand lodge of the cOlored Masons
of the State of Kansas held very interest.
ing session of their order Mt Parsons. Lead
ing cOlOred MasOns from all parts of tn,
State were in attendance as delegates.
WARDEN JONES, of the State Peniten-
tiary, made to the State his report for the
month of March. His statement shows ex-
penseS for that period to the amount of ST.
491.6l. The receipts were SS,164.12, leav.
ing balance of S667.52, which was turned
into the Treasury.
THE Santa Fe depot at Topeka had a
narrow escape from burning down on the
night of the 18th, fire being discovered inside
the wainscoting, which was quickly ex-
tinguished.
A MAN was found locked up in box-car
at North Topeka. On being searched at the
police station, he was found dressed in sey.
eral suits of clothes and carried revolver
and two TazOrs. He refused to give any eX.
PLANTATION of himself.
SOME ladies in charge of "Engleside" al
Topeka have sent to England for twenty
servant girls.
A MAJORITY Of each of the delegations
elected from Leavenworth and adjoining
Counties to the Republican State Conven-
ton is for Blaine,
THE following named railway companies
are now asking right of way through the
Indian Territory: The Kansas City, Fort
Scott K Gulf, the Texas, Oklahoma x Gulf,
the Atchison, Topeka X Santa Fe, the Fort
Worth * DenisOn and the Gulf, Colorado &
Santa Fe.
GOVERNOR CLICK has appointed TheO.
dore a. Hurd, of LeavenwOrth, Associate
Justice OF the Supreme Court, vice ID. J.
Brewer, who was recently appointed Judge
of the Eighth United States Circuit. Mr..
Hurd Is native of Duchess County, New
York. and has been a prominent Democrat
and lawyer of the State since 1859.
THE first liquor case at Atchison occu.
pied three weeks, when il was announced
that eleven men had been secured towards
making up the jury.
WYANDOTTE's baseball nine have been
arrested for misunderstanding.
THE name of the pOst-Oflice at Laura.
Mcpherson County, has been cha nged &c
of boy i'm the colOred school at Wyandotte.
was recently whipped by colored man for
his cruel treatment of his weaker school,
mates. Flanders drew a knife on the man,
but was beaten off with brick. n
THE Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail-
road Company has concluded to comply with
the suggestions of the State Board of Rail-
road Commissioners i'm regard to a passen-
ger train between Topeka and LeavehwOrth
over their branch line, the LeavenwOrth,
Topeka & Southern.
RICHARD LANSING, a well-known German
farmer, was recently placed on trial charged
with perjury by Frederick Stackman, anoth.
er well-kn0wn citizen of Wichita In the
trial Dir. Hansing was acquitted. His at
torneys have now begun suit for him, in the
District Court, against Frederick Stackman
for 100000 damages for malicious prosecu-
ton. Mr.. Stackman was absent from home
In California. Attachment proceedings were
also begun, and large amount of Stack
mans property in Wichita was attached.
WILLIAM STEWART, of Armourdale, q
Township Treasurer disappeared
quietly the other day. Since his defalcation
became known vigilance committee was
and he became possessed of din
vision Of dangling from telegraph pole
FISH eggs are wanted for the Arkansas.
THE Eastern Kansas District Medical so
ciety held its annual meeting at Topeka on
the 9Th.
HoN. DAVID J. BREWER, Associate Jus
tice Of the Supreme Court OF Kansas, ten.
dered his resignation to Governor Click oil
the 10Th at Topeka, and was sworn in as
United States Circuit Judge of the Eighth
Judicial Circuit, the oath being admins
tered by Judge Foster of the United States
District Bench. Judge Brewer left for Lit
tie Rock, Ark, where he will hold his first
term of court "a
THE remains of Mrs. Annie Kirk, who
killed herself recently in Topeka, were taken
to Havensville for interment
EIGHT prisoners escaped from tire Topeka
city Jail the other morning by breaking
hole through the wall.
A REPORT from Frankfort says the spring
wheat acreage over Northern Kansas has
been reduced about forty per cent. below
last year crop. The reduction In price Is
the chief cause.
FRANK MCCAIN, a telegraph repalrer,