Barbour County index., 1884-02-01
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lHE Kansas .MlllerS' Association met at
Topeka recently and elected the following
officers: c. b. Hoffman, President; G. F.
dargress; Vice President; w. j. ID. Bower.
iock, Treasurer; Robert Atkinson, Secre-
sary; Executive Committee-C. b. Hoffman.
J. l.. Shellabarger and w. II. Childs. The
salary Of the Secretary of the insurance
company was fixed at $500 per year. A
lengthy report from the Secretary of the
Alllers' Fire Insurance Company showed
mat; aside from the Sl55 00) taken
We nave the assurance of $4,000 more
IN the near future. We feel safe in saving
that II the work Of this company he
pushed as it should be we will have issued
between $4,000 and $4,000 by the time
:he company is one year old. During the
sight months of our existence we have had
40 loss, which speaks well for Kansss mill
interests"
THE Commissioner of the General Land
office submitted to the Secretary of the
Interior papers in relation to the adjust
ment of grant of public lands to the State
of Kansas forthe Atchison, Topeka & Santa
Fe Company, together with a complete
record OF the case while before the Interior
Department, and an exhaustive opinion of
:he question involved. His conclusion was
that the State of Kansas be called upon to
request the Atchison, Topeka g. Santa Fe
railroad Company to return to the United
States by proper deed the relinquishment
Or conveyance from the lands last certified
20 the State as indemnity its use of the
lands equal to II, 16O acres, certified in ex.
eess OF the total area of and numbered sec.
hons in the granted limits, of 4O, O,9J0 acres.
certified in excess from or on account of
'ands south of the road i'm the granted
limits in common with the Missouri, Kan.
'as q Texas Railroad Company, and 10 ,O69
acres north of the road which passed to the
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Com
pany, for which the Atchison, Topeka g.
santa Fe Railroad Company has received
indemnity in the 60, $50 acres.
THE Kansas Wool Growers Association
met at Topeka on the 18th, and elected the
following officers: President, II. Clifford,
0f Russell; Vice President at Large, A. It.
Eaton, OF Russell; Vice President, c. A.
Morton, of Beloit; Secretary, j. B. Lawton,
d kinsley; Corresponding Secretary and
reasurer, s. s. OFT, of Topeka; Executive
Committee, J. s. Codding, of Louisville.
Robert Lay, of Eureka, and G.. II. wads.
a resolution favoring restoration Of the
tariff on wool; also asking the Railroad
Commissioners of the State for a readius..
ment of freight rates within the State SO
that the labor connection with the wool in.
;erests may be fairly paid, and to the end
that capital invested therein be not of
necessity withdrawn from that branch of
Industry.
JAMES FIELD and wife, of Grand Rapids,
Mich, were recently induced by a fellow to
come to Kansas and purchase a farm which
The fellow claimed to own. The swindler
came with them TO Atchison, where he sue.
ceeded In getting $500 from Field when he
disappeared.
GET ready for the spring planting.
1T is stated that A. I. Redden, Chairman
Of the Republican State Central Commit
Tee, will call meeting of the committee at
the Windsor Hotel in Topeka on Wednes-
lay, February 6, at three O'Clock d. m, for
the purpose of providing for State Con-
vention to select delegates to the Republi-
can National Convention to be held in
Chicago in June, and for the transaction of
any other business.
TnE annual meeting of the State Histor-
teal Society was held in Topeka on the even
ing OF the 10Th. Judge Emery delivered
the annual address. Several life members
were admitted.
A STREET railway company has been or.
ganized at Leavenworth to run from the
city to Fort Leavenworth.
JAMES CoURMoDE, living on a farm ad.
joining Governor Clicks, in Atchisou
County went rabbit hunting the other morn.
ing, and, while aiming and making a shot.
the gun exploded, driving the breech Din
of his weapon into his rig t eye, tearing il
out, while the other was severely burned
from powder. He will go blind entirely as
a result.
DEWITT c. ToPE, young married man,
who had been employed in the Insane Asy.
lum at Topeka, but discharged some weeks
since, committed suicide in that city sever.
al days ago by taking morphine.
ATcHIsoN has commenced TO close sa.
looms. There were over forty wholesale
and retail liquor houses in that city.
WYANDoTTE was considerably excited re.
Gently by the discovery that grave robbers
were making descents upon her cemeteries.
The ghouls were detected and chased on
one night before securing any bodies. They
Ned across the State line into Missouri
BERSARD DoSSKLLY was supposed to b
fatally rushed while handling ice the other
day, in the river near Armstrong.
hR- T. z. EwINo, formerly proprietor of
the Kansas Former, lost his residence and
household effects by hrs at Highland, n
G, recently.
IT Il stated than the Kansas and Nissour,
Bridge Co., at Leavenworth. has paid ns
taxes to the county since 1875, ana new
ewes the county taxes to the amount ol
$5ls5704L