Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-23
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

upon by scientific men as of great value. II
Is only partially quarried, but Is estimated
10 be about forty feet long. Some parties
recently mutilated il by breaking OF the
jaw and carrying it away. Squire Feather,
ON the information Of John Potts, issued
warrants for the arrest of State Veterinary
Surgeon Holcomb, Commissioners John 7.
White and Noble Barker, charging them
with the vandalism
THE Ellsworth, Mcpherson, Newton d
Southeastern Railway Company, with q
capital stock Of 81, 000, 900, has been incor-
pOrated under the laws of the State of Kan
sas. The company Is formed and Organized
| for the purpose of constructing aud Operating
| . standard gauge railroad and telegraph line
lIOm the City OF Ellsworth, in Els
worth County, in . southeasterly direc-
ton through the counties Of Ellsworth and
Mcpherson TO the City Of Mcpherson; thence
southeast through the counties Of McPher-
son, Harvey, Sedgwick and Butler to some
point in Butler County.
ADJUTANT GENERAL MOONLIGHT and
his assistant, Major Shreve, have completed
a new form of a blank for monthly returns
| Of the Kansas Sta'e Militia Each regiment
will be required to make report Of all the
companies to the Adjutant General each
month. The Adjutant General will then
know the exact condition of the State Mill
tia at any time.
PENNEY, MUD & Co., of Fredonia, have
made an additional complaint against the
St Louis d San Francisco Railway Com
pany. The firm claims excessive charges
on barb wire received by them in car load
lots, and also claim that the charges are far
in excess of the railroad company's own
schedule rates.
A BRUTAL negro, living near Topeka, in
/ q If hung hic LID
son recently until he thought he was dead
and then threw the body under the heels Of
horse. The boy revived, however and es-
capped.
The National Teachers Association meets
at Madison, Wis, July Is, 16, IL and Is,
and State Superintendent Speer reports that
Kansas will probably send a delegation of
one hundred and fifty teachers. A number
OF teachers from AtchisOn, Leavenworth,
Junction City, Wichita, Wellington, Beloit
Manhattan and other points in the State
have already made arrangements to go, and
have notified the State Superintendent of
| their intention.
THE following circulars were sent out by
General Manager Robinson, of the Santa Fe
road, recently: Mr.. ID. ii. Rhodes having
resigned the position of Superintendent of
the Western Division, is appointed Engi-
neer of the AtchiSOn, Topeka & Santa Fe
| Railway, to fill the vacancy caCsed by the
death of Mr.. George c. Lake. Mr.. c. VI.
Rathburn having resigned as Assistant SUI
perintendent of the Eastern Division, is ap-
pointed Superintendent of the Western
Division.
Mr.. G. b. SCHMIDT, Commissioner of I'M
migration, has returned from St Louis,
where he met thIrty-three farmers from
Lancaster County, Pa, who propose to re-
move To Kansas and locate OH the line Of
the Santa Fe. These people are in good
circumstances and are the descendants of a
colony of MennOnites who came to America
more than century and half ago. The
land they now own was transferred by Will
| liam Penn, and many of them live upon the
identical places purchased by their fore
| fathers.
THE boiler of engine No. 43, on the NJ
] Il. x T., at Parsons, exploded in the round
house of the Missouri Pacific at that place,
killing two men and wOunding several 9TH
ers, and completely demolishing four sec
| tons of the round house. The building was
large stone structure with slate roof, ca
| pable of holding fourteen engines The end
walls were blown down and the roof en-
tirely blown off, and the entire section was
one mass of ruins. The engine was an old
one and had been recently repaired, and
was undergoing tests when the explosion
| occurred. Loss about $4,000.
OLIVER LUDLUM, a drug clerk, who had
been arrested as a tramp at Topeka, sui
cided by taking morphine. On his person
were found papers showing that he stood
well in Texas, and other evidences of good
character and ability; also a memorandum
of the name of Mrs. NJ. J. Cuscck, of WITCH
ita, presumably sister.
DIR. HoLCoNB, State Veterinian, has Just
returned from the West lie with members
of the Sanitary Commission, White and
Harris, ordered to be killed fifteen horses
| in Ottawa County and twelve In Marion, all
afflicted with CHAMBERS. Dr. HOlcOmb re-
ports a farmer in Ottawa named Robinson
as dying with the same disease caught from
| the horses condemned on his place three
| in number. The disease was brought to his
| place by horse which the owner knew had
the CHAMBERS when it was sold. There Is
much indignation in the ncighbOrhOOd. Dr.
Holcomb and the two members of the Sani-
| tary Commission were arrested at the
instance of one man whose horses were
condemned and who had sold the same in
the vicinity. The charge was stealing fossil
remains. The case was dismissed and costs
assessed against the complainant, who
failed TO appear.
UNITED STATES MARSHAL WILLIAMS
ita, on the 18th, having in charge some
thirty odd Oklahoma boomers" arrested at
Fort Reno. The above officers also had in
custody the white man who murdered Run
ming Buffalo.
JOSEPH MOORE and John Foster appeared
before the District Court which convened on
the 18th at Salina, and both claimed to le-
! gally exercise the duties of County At
tOmey. After considerable argument by
counsel, Judge Prescott decided that Moore
was County Attorney, and that Foster, who
was recently Ousted by the State Supreme
Court, had not Senblance of authority to
claim the Office.
THE farm house of Hon. Joseph E Lo-
gan, near Effingham, AtchisOn County, was
burned recently. Mrs. Logan narrowly
escaped being burned to death. Loss,
! $500.
CHRIsT's HOSPITAL Topeka, was form
| ally opened OF the 18th i'm the presence of
large assembly. Addresses were made
by Bishop Vail, of the Episcopal Church ;
Rev. Cowles, of the Methodist Church; Rev.
McCabe. of the Presbyterian Church; Rev.
Blakesley, of the Congregational Church
| Rev. Leonard, of AtchisOn; Rev. Butler, of
Lawrence; 7. ID. Sweet of Topeka; and
Hon. Dwight Thacher, Of Lawrence.
EMIGRATION has commenced.
| Mr. r. G. FOSTER, an old citizen Of
| I1eavenwOrth County, residing about six
miles southeast of Leavenworth City, died
recently at the age of seventy-five years,
after long sickness. Mr.. Foster came to
Kansas I'm 1853.
LYMAN SCOTT. brother Of Lucien Scott,
President of the First National Bank, OF
Leavenworth, died recently. He was .
/ prominent business man of LeavenwOrth,
and during the war served ON General
Blunt's staff.
IT is estimated that the assessed value of
Kansas railroad property this year will ex-
coed that of last year from 81 500, 900 to
So, 00O, 900.
A LUNATIc named Williams, from Mar
shall County, recently escaped from the To
peka Insane Asylum.
A SPECIAL from Lawrence states that
the saloons of that city closed in Differences
to the prohibition law on the night Of
December % last, and not one charge has
been made for violation thereof in the city
until a few days since, when Oscar Byork-