Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1884-05-09
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

REPoRrs from German immigration
agents Indicate considerable movement of
the people Of Westphalia, particularly from
the town of Olpe A quantity of Land has
been purchased In Lyon County. on the
Howard Branch Of the Santa Fe' and here
they will locate Eagle Creek on this road
has been changed 70 Olpe for the benefit Of
This settlement
A SPECIAL department OF immigration
has this season been organized by the ,Atchi-
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Company. Here
tofOre their work In the line of Immigration
has been chiefly confined to their landed in
terests in Kansas, but now they have under
taken special work, covering the whole
length of their line.
A STREET railway company with a capt.
tai stock Of $4,000 has been organized at
Parsons.
AT the meeting of the stockholders of
the Atchison, Topeka d Santa Fe Railroad
at Topeka on the oath the following Board
OF Directors was elected by vote of 44O,-
464 shares: ID. L. Burr, b. p. Cheney,
Thomas Nickefson, A w. Nickerson- G.. !.
Shame, Alden Speare, George Shattuck. w.
b. Strong, ahd A. E. TOuzalin, of Boston !:
c. X. Holiday, of Topeka; 8. A. Kent. of
Chicago; La Severy, of Emporia: b. F..
StringfellUw, of Atchison. Subsequently,
the Board of Directors elected the follow
ing officers: President, w. b. Strong: Vice
President, A. E TOuzalin; Chairman of the
Board, u. II. Cheney; Secretary and Treas
urer, II. Wilder; Assistant Secretary and
Treasurer, &. L. Goodwin; General Coun-
selOr, George w. McCrary; General Mana
ger and Chief Engineer, A. A. Robinson:
General Auditor. J. p. Whitehead; Auditor,
III. c. Clements; Transfer Agent, A. A.
Glazier
JOHN BUNTIN, some days ago, was in
jured by the cars at Topeka. 1t was charged
that he met with inhumanity after the acct
dent from the railroad people, hotels and
city authorities and from this neglect he
died The undertaken wrote to his father,
John NJ. Buntin, of Moscow, o., to learn
what disposition to make of the body. The
parent in a couple of letters spoke of the
wonderful things he had done i'm collecting
$40 for grasshOpper-ridden Kansas, and
thought Kansas ought to bury the body in
return, refusing to be responsible for a
cent The inhumanity of strangers towards
young Buntin seems TO be altogether over
Swallowed by the concentrated meanness of
his father.
THE Kansas delegation will 20 to Chicago
uninStructed, though il will be understood
that Blaine is their preference so long as
there is any hope of maintaining him.
When Blaine is given up, then it is hard to
tell who they would support, probably three
or four candidates. Blaine is the only unan-
imOus choice.
TIE Western Union Telegraph Company
has commenced TO put up another wire from
Topeka to Newton.
THE store of S. f. Richards, a merchant
at Wakefield, containing a stock of goods
valued at $4,000, was burglarized the other
night, the safe was blown open and the
store set on fire. The store, with the entire
stock Of goods, was destroyed. About two
hundred dollars i'm money was taken from
the safe by the burglars. The store and
contents were insured for $500.
THE st. Louis, Kansas City 4 Western
Railroad Company filed its articles of incor-
poratiOn at Topeka. The new road Is to
run from St Louis to Kansas City, and
from there to some point i'm Bates County.
Mo-, on the lire between Kansas and Mis-
souri,, thence through Pleasan.on and
EmpOria in Kansas, to Pueblo, Den
yer, Leadville and to a point on the
State line between Colorado and Utah.
The capital stock is placed at $50, OOO.-
600, and the directors for the first year
I'VE e. y. Siery. Clarence Holmes, Sen
L. II. II.
Clark, William Dale and Ii. VI. Davis. of
EmpOria; Hon. Charles FoStor, of Fostoria.
Ohio; l.. VI. Schlam and Calvin s. Brice, of
New York; Hon. j. w. Kcifer, of Spring
field, Ohio; Hon. Warner Miller, of Herk-
inner. New York, and Amos Townsend, of
Cleveland, Ohio. The charter provides that
the general offices of the company shall be
u Emp0riA-
WORK on he extension of tine st. Louis,
Fort Scott & Wichita Railroad from Wichita
to Anthony was being rapidly pushed. A
large force was at work upon the bridge
spanning the Arkansas River at Wichita
The company expected To reach Anthony by
September LIST.
A RACE was run at Mcpherson between
! man and horse, stakes one hundred dol
lars side, the man TO run ten miles before
the horse could make twenty. The nan
made his distance in eighty-One and a half
minutes, and the horse made fourteen and a
half miles in seventy-five minutes.
BGND elections were held recently m
Union and Greeley townships, Sedgwick
County, to vote aid to the Wichita, McTher-
son & Denver Railroad Company. BoDds
in the sum of $4,000 were voted i'm eNh
township, The vote stood four to one for
the bonds.
REPRESENTATIVE MORRILL, has secured
an allowance of pension for Mrs. Maria Rap
pelye. of Palermo, and Congressman Ander-
son obtained a like boon for Philip Gep-
hardt, of Independence.
A SERIOUS accident happened to Jacob j.
Wagner, of Topeka. He had for some time
been experimenting with q new fuse for
firing cannon, and expected soon 10 obtain
patent for his invention. He went out to
make some final experiment, and by an I'M
known accident the fuse failed to 20 off at
the expected moment. He undertook to
draw the charge to file down the
fuse, and by some mischance the
cartridge discharged just as the victims
right hand was in front of the muZZle of
completely off above the wrist and pieces of
il were found fifty feet away. A curious
feature of the accident was that the in
ventiOn was advertised as being perfectly
safe in the same papers tlIat contained an
account of the casualty.
ABOUT two o'clock on the morning of the
10Th Mrs. Proudft, wife of General J. K
Proudfit, of Wyandotte, arose from her bed,
while the family slept, and left the house.
When her absence was discovered, an hour
or so after, the most diligent search failed
to reveal her whereabouts. The search was
continued the next day with no better sue
seSS. Ii was feared that In fit OF tempo
rary insanity she had drowned herself in the
Missouri River.
SPRING is here at last.
PATENTS have been issued to Kansas in
ventors as follows: Jacob Hickenlooper,
Eureka, motor; Stephen ID. Njehaw, Pea
body, heel plate for boots and shoes; Calm
w. Pearson. Kansas City, pressure regulat-
ing valve.
THE motion made in the United States
Supreme Court to dismiss the supersedeas
and afS0m the proceedings of the lower
court in the Foster case seems to have been
a failure. Sufficient notice was not given
under the rules Of that tribunal.
JERRY HERNE received a sentence of enc
year at Topeka for passing counterfeit
money. His wife was in court and a pite-
CAS- scene was created.
A PENSION was recently granted George p.
Thomas, of Grand Center, through the eff
forts of Representative Hanback,.
In the trial of George Wilson, the man
charged with killing a cOlOred man in Kan