Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-02-15
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

sioners protesting against their decision in
| The Newton and other cases, and after the
! decision reafiirming their former decision,
/ ne wrote another letter in which he plainly
4 lntimated that the decision would stop all
railroad building in the State, and that his
| company twill appeal from the injustice
done them by the decision to the people Of
4 the State and the courts" A CORES
] pendent says: Practically it blocks the
work of the Railroad Commissioners in
/ fixing rates for the several railroads OF
Kansas, until the matter of the constitu.
| tionality of the law and the powers of the
4 Board of Commissioners are determined
/ in the courts, which may be a year OF
more"
LAST year the City of Russell issued
bonds TO the extent of ten thousand dollar.
| for the purpose of testing the arid lands OF
that section for water by the artesian well
process. Since then the well has beer
driven nine hundred feet, and contains
4 seven hundred feet of water. In response
to a petition from the citizens of Russell.
! Mr.. Hanback, has introduced bill
in Congress asking an appropriation of ter
! thousand dollars, to be expended under
the supervision OF the Secretary Of the
| Interior, for continuing the work. If sue
] cessful, it is thought it will revolutionizt
Northwestern Kansas and give life to
vast amount OF country now in need OF
irrigation.
c. c. CARSON, of Douglas County, was
recently found dead in the. road neal
Lawrence. There were no marks ofviolence,
and heart disease was supposed 70 be the
cause of his death.
A COLONY of seven hundred MehAonites,
represented by three bishops, recently
! purchased land in Reno County.
CITIZENS of AtchisOn recently organized
a Law and Order League with tie follow
ing officers: w. W. Guthrie, President;
DIR. ". L. Challiss, &. B. White, DIR. j. NJ.
Linley and H. N. Jewett, vice-Presidents;
J. T. Allensworth, Secretary; c. Weber,
Treasurer; and the President and Score.
tary, II. NJ. CLANCY, John Pagan and E. V.
| Fowler, Executive Committee. The or.
ganization resolved "that we, the Prohibi.
! tionists and law-abiding citizens Of Atchi
son, do hereby declare our unalterable de.
termination TO uphold the laws of our State.
and now and hereafter to use everyihonor.
able means to compel those who are violat-
Ing to obey them.
The School Fund Commissioners report
the following investments of funds up tc
! January &c: Permanent School Fund, -,
| I14,6I3.16; University Permanent Fund,
| s72,O42.9O; Normal School Permanent
Fund, SJ4 SO. The funds under control OF
the Commissioners are fully invested an6
they will, therefore, not be able to make
! further purchases prior to July /, 1884
when they expect large additional pay.
ments from principal on land sales, ano
from bonds now held, maturing June anc
| July /. In the meantime the County Su
perintendent will be duly notified when the
Commissioners are ready TO make further
investments.
HENRY AUGsTEIN, who murdered his
uncle and cousin and seriously wounded
his aunt and another cousin, near Laporte
Ind, on the night of December 81, 1889, wal
recently arrested on a farm in Northwest
ern Kansas and taken back to Indiana
He had been traced for three years by
detectives, but had been in Kansas only
about three months, coming to this Stat,
from Iowa. He had previously been il
California and the Western Territories
where he went 10y the name of William
Strothers. He was finally traced through
his correspondence with a woman at Ne
| pOnSebs III. luefe seemed 70 Dc no QOuDt
Of his guilt.
MOSES TAYLOR, (colored), of Wyandotte,
recently beat his wife so severely that she
subsequently died. He then left but wal
afterwards ARRESTED.
In pursuance to the call of the National
Committee for National Convention al
Pittsburgh, Pa, May 81, the National Pro
hibition Protection party is being organ
81. l.
is proposed to extend the organization t.
other counties. 1t is also proposed to senc
delegates to the Pittsburgh Convention.
The State Historical Society at Topeka
is DESTROYS of receiving copies of all Kan.
sas publications of every description
books, pamphlets, circulars, city direc
tories, city ordinances, school reports
school and college catalogues, reports o;
societies of all kinds, sermons, oratiori
and addresses-everything which relates t.
Kansas, of recent issue, or. of old date.
IN a quarrel over the right to enter 6
shanty owned by n. d. Stark, at Topeka, {
negro man named Bonner was recently
shot in the leg by Stark. Bonner retired
but returned to the conflict and made ar
assault upon the door with an an AK wheI
Stark routed his enemy without firing &
gun.
The following Kansas Postmasters wer,
recently appointed: Benjamin McElroy
Frankfort; N. a. Yeager, Augusta; George
Hayck, Ellsworth.
CHARLES SIMMONS, who was recently
killed in Shawnee County, by falling from {
load of hay, was an Euglishman, twenty
three years old, and said TO have been the
last member of the family, on his father's
side, so that the lineage is now extinct
His widowed mother and her sister, who
are both old and childless, are said to be
the only survivors of their family, so thai
on their death two families will become ex
tinct.
FROM letters received by the friend.
of ]. G. Osgood, the Topeka merchant who
was found dead in his hotel some time
since, il is evident he committed suicide
The day before his death Osgood wrote
two letters to Eastern parties, one to the
firm for whom he was working and another
to lady at Boston, who is keeping his lit
tie girl, telling them that he had long con
templated suicide, and that the time hac
come for him to commit the deed.
The grounding saw his shadow.
AUGUST BoNDI, Of Salina, has been ap
pointed member of the State Board Of
Charitable Institutions to fill the vacancy
occasioned 10y the death of Hon. James
Martin.
Mr.. FLANDERS, seventy years OF age, o;
Shawnee County, was recently attacked by
a mad COW which knocked him down. He
succeeded in crawling under a fence and
alarming the neighbors. The COW was Sc
cured, although very ferocious, and soor
died will all the symptoms of hydrophobia
but when she was bitten the owner had not
the least idea.
IT seemed to be settled that Judge Nc
Crazy, the new Solicitor of the Santa Fe
Road, would have his Office at Kansas City
CHAMPION VAUGHAN, once one of the
most brilliant newspaper men Of Kansas
and editor Of one of the Leavenwortb