Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-30
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

THE report of ]. d. Snoddy as referee OF
Cohen VS.. the Fort Scott & Wichita Rail
way, was filed recently in the District Court
Of Bourbon county, and the attorneys of the
road opposed a motion to confirm the finding
on the ground that 1t is unwarranted
and extraordinary. Cohen owned three
hundred acres of land in this county through
which an old railroad bed lay. The land
was mortgaged to b. Files, who held posses
sion at the time the Fort Scott 4 Wichita
Railroad applied for the right of way,
having succeeded to the right of the old
road-bed. The right of way through Cohen
farm was procured from Files condi-
tionally, and the road was built thereon.
Cohen redeemed the land and got possess
ion, and sued the road for the value of the
roadbed and the track the company had put
thereon, besides ordinary damages upon the
claim that the company was trespasSer and
the road as completed was a part of the
realty. j. ID. Snoddy was chosen referee last
fall. His report sustains the claim of the
plaintiff in full and awards him SIG, 900. The
entire tract Of land is worth only about So
900. The railroads attorneys, MeSsrs.
Blair & Perry, j. III. Richards and j. III
Sale, object to the confirmation of the find
ing. J. ID. McCleverty is employed by the
plaintiff.
POsT-oFFICE changes I'm Kansas during
the week ending May 10, 1884: Estab-
lished-BOyle, Jefferson County, Newton A.
Huey, Postmaster; Inman, Mcpherson
County, Christian Aschnfan, Postmaster
observation-disclosures, Graham County;
Seabury, Ness County. Name Changed
-DOmus, Ness County, to Highpoint Post
masters Appointed-Mount Liberty. Reno
County, George w. Archer; Rotterdam. Os-
borne County, Christian ii. Wollers.
ISAAC LAMBERT, a soap manufacturer of
Parsons, while working i'm his factory the
other day, became very warm, and went to
Stake his thirst from what he supposed to be
pitcher Of water, but what proved instead
to be a mixture for flavoring soap, composed
Of oil of bitter almonds and prussic acid.
He was Immediately Frustrated, but it was
thought he would recover.
A FAMILY named Murry were recently
seriously poisoned at Topeka by eating
bread bought at a bakery. In some unac
cOuntable manner rat poison had got into
the dough.
THE expenditures at the State Peniten-
tiary for the month ended April 80, accord
ing to Warden Jones' monthly statement
were S15,625.12. of which amount S517.15
was for the new water works and 81, 3S9. 90
for the macadam road from LeaveDwOrth to
the penitentiary; the receipts from all
sources, SS,O5l.55. The coal statement
shows that 1860 bushels of coal were
supplied to State institutions during the
month, and 26,5S4 bushels were sold to
private parties and corporations, making a
total of Al, 453 bushels,
FRANK SUFFER-, prominent jeweler OF
AtchisOn, met with a serious accident while
lighting an alcohol lamp preparatory 'foI
work the other day. 1t exploded from an
unknown cause. The skin and flesh of his
left hand was burned to a crisp, while his
face was burned in shocking manner.
WHILE on the target range west of Fort
LeavenwOrth, recently, Private Costello of
Il troop, Seventh Cavalry, was accidentally
shot and instantly killed. He was engaged
in marking for rifiemen practicing on the
range, and it is supposed he came up out of
the trap too soon to mark and was killed by
the balls of the marksmen. Costello left a
wife and three children.
In the District Court at Topeka a per
petual injunction was granted, restraining
the collection of tax levied to pay ful
sewers already laid in that city. The
amount Of scrip issued in payment for this
work and now outstanding was about $40.
900. This decision, the justice of which,
under the law, Is not questioned, is looked
upon as misfortune to the city, as the
health of the people Is thereby placed ID
jeopardy.
The following charters were recently fle0
with the Secretary of State: The First
Evangelic Lutheran Immanuers Church OF
Russell County; Bavarian Cemetery AssO
citation, of Bavaria Saline County; Boaro
of Trade, Hutchinson. Kas.; Long Island
Cemetery Association, Long Island, Philips
County; Public Cemetery Association, Kan
Sas Center, Rice County.
A CRAZY man named Cole caused little
excitement at the Union Pacific Hotel in
North Topeka. He insisted that a lady
bOarder was his wife and that she hac
ruined his family, and with a pistol and
knife attempted to execute vengeance upon
her. He was seized by the landlord, how.
ever, and tragedy was prevented.
THE mails bring into the post-office a.
Fort Scott large number OF letters al.
dressed to l.. l.. johnson, in response 10 an
advertisement appearing in many Eastern
Canadian and Southern papers, ptitp6rtihs
to be letter from johnson setting forth the
value of certain egg incubator Informa.
ton Is furnished by the postmaster that there
IS not now and never has been any such per.
son as l.. l.. johnson i'm that city, and any
statements i'm reference to egg hatchers OF
egg incubators, purDOrting to have beer
written from Fort Scott by said Johnson, are
fictitious and fraudulent.
THE eighteenth annual session of the
State Medical Society of Kansas, was
opened in the Court House at WyandOttt
ON the Goth, by the President, DIR. ID. w.
StOrmont, of Topeka, who called the meet
ing to order. Papers were read by DR.
Schenck and DIR. Fryer, the latter exhibiting
a female patient of his upon whom he had
operated, illustrating his views OH diseases
of the eye.
AT meeting of the Board of Directors of
the st. Louis, Fort Scott x Wichita Railroad
company i'm Fort Scott recently resolutions
were passed removing the accounts of the
company from the First National bank of
Fort Scott, of which the Treasurer of the
company, w. Chenault, is President, to the
Bank of Fort Scott, and appointing w. s
Kent, Of the auditing department, cashier.
with authority to receive and disburse the
funds of the company.
An extra freight on the Missouri Pacific
from LeavenwOrth ran into the river near
Nine Mile Creek, mile and a half below
the Pacific Junction, on the 18th. The
rains had caused heavy rise in the creek
and washed out four hundred yards OF
track and the bridge. The train had almost
arrived at the break when the rails spread
the engine before it could be stopped run
ming into the river and the cars piling on
top of each other, killing two car loads OF
cattle. The train men jumped and saved
themselves.
CYCLONE caves are useful.
THE banking house of Donnell, Lawson &
Simpson, whose failure presupposed losses
10 the State of Kansas, have made natter
safe for the State and the numerOusschool
districts for which the firm was fiscal agent
and there will be no loss to either.
THE trial of Isaac McClary, charged with
the murder of Robert Bledsoe, terminated
in q verdict of acquittal at Topeka. Nc
Clary was a colOred man and killed two
negroes whom he suspected of undue inti
macy with his wife.
JUSTIN ISGERsoI.I, an old resident OF
IIcavenworth, died i'm that city the Other
day. lie had long been prominent i'm pub
lie matters.
The Chase County Agricultural Society
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