Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-05-02

Representative Hunter of Illinois on
Monday introduced bill disappearing
and annulIing the agreement ma &c
between the United States commiss-
ioner and the Southern Ute Indians
made November 10, 1855.
A man with n lot of iron nickles and
n horse shoe magnet has been making
"A good living working Leavenworth
slot gambling machines for a week or
two. With the magnet he can direct
the nickles just where he wishes.
In the Prussian diet Monday the
bill providing for the establishment
Of chambers of agriculture was dis
cussed. Count Won IIeyden, minister
of agriculture. said the position of
husbandry in Prussia was so serious
that it needed earnest attention. Dur
ing the past decade, he added. the
mortgages on farms had increased by
one and One-half millions annually,
and two or three millions during the
past two years.
Mr.. Camp and Mr.. Nixon. his con-
tractor, had an interview with Secre-
tary Herbert Monday, relative to the
final trial and acceptance of the bat
tleship of Indiana. The constructors
have reported the vessel ready for
trial and are anxious TO have her ac-
cepted so they may abtain their mon
cy. The inspection board however,
is strongly opposed to making. the trial
at this time, holding that the vessel is
so incomplete that the test would not
! be conclusive.
Sergeant-at-arms Snow of the house
Thursday took precautionary steps
for the protection of the big cash
! lockers containing the pay of con-
! gressmen during the coming influx of
| the COXeyites. Captain Garden of the
! capitol police, at Mr. SHOWS request,
stationed an armed officer outside the
| door of the office throughout the day.
| Another officer will sleep alongside
the huge safe throughout the night.
| The supply of cash will be reduced to
the bare necessity of the Office.
II was learned from reliable source
at Little Rock, Ark. Thursday, that
fifteen deaths from smallpox had oc-
CURED in TeXarkana the proceeding
day, and the total number of cases is
ninety-eight. The situation is more
alarming than has been reported. The
epidemic is still confined to the col
Ored people and they are making fran
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new cases developed Thursday and
there were three deaths, making the
total number of fatal cases eighteen.
Surgeon General Wyman Of the Ma
rinc Service has received a cablegram
! from London stating that the cholera
has made its appearance at Lisbon
and in the Austrian provinces of Gal
icia. DR. sWyman at once cabled the
| United States consul general at Lis
| bon and received return cable stat
ing the epidemic was cholcraine. that
no deaths lad yet occurred and that
vessels clearing from that port were
receiving clean bills of health. DIR.
| Wyman also ordered Surgeon Irwin.
now in Paris TO proceed at once to Gal
icia and report to him as to the chole-
ia conditions.
In the district court of Shawnee
county, Kan. Tuesday, Judge Hazcn
rendered IL decision maintaining the
right of the grand lodge of Odd Eel
lows TO levy a tax for the support of
the De Boissierc home in Franklin
county. The case has been pending
for some time, and is of interest not
only to the Odd Fellows, but to the
! members of all secret Socie ties in Kan
saS, The De BOiSSiere home was the
gift of a wealthy Frcnchman formerly
residing at Silllville. who recently
died while on "a visit to his native land.
His long residence in Kansas and his
activity in the work of the Odd Eel
lows fraternity are we'll known. IIis
interest in the fraternity prompted
him to donate his farm to the order
and to begin the erection of buildin9
thereon designed as home for orphan
children of his fellow craftsmen. IL
order to complete the building and
provide revenue for conducting the
home the grand lodge voted to levy Il
per capita tax of 81. 80 on all Odd Eel
lows in the state. The Hutchinson
lodge and ninety others brought in
junction proceedings to restrain the
collection of the tax on the ground
that it was not legally levied and was
foreign to the purpose of the order
Hazen disSolves the injunction aad
holds that the grand lodge has fall
power to levy and collect the tax for
supporting an institution of this kind
Up to this date there has been no
proposition submitted formally to the
state department by the representa-
tives sof Great Britain or Germany
looking to the annexation or dissolu-
ton of the tripartite alliance and an
neXation of the Samoan islands to
Great Britain or Germany. In the
course of a few days Secretary Gresh-
am will submit to the senate the vol
luminous correspondence which has
passed between the three treaty pow
ers concerning the administration of
affairs in Samoa since 1890.
3 The forthcoming report of Commits
sionsr Harris of the bureau of edu-
cation will show that Kansas. has the
greatest proportion of her school pop-
ulation enrolled in the schools of any
state in the Union, the per cent being
$500. The next states in order are
Maine S7.12, Iowa Sc. 33, South Dakota
sl.04. The percentage in New York
is 70.43. 1t is significant fact that
the four states that head the list are
prohibition states and that New York.
high license state, is fifth. and is II
per cent below Kansas and IL per cent
below South Dakota, the lowest pro
hibition state. Louisiana, the home
OF the Louisiana lottery and the para
disc of the prize fighters, Is the lowest
with 1878 per cent.
EX-Chief of Police Stone and ex-
Lieutenant Clay of Denver. charged
with storing dynamite in the city hall
during the recent police board row,
were fined 500 each by Judge Frost
) Tuesday. They gave notice of appeal
and were released on bond of $500.
For the first time in the history OF
Sedalia, Mo-, the saloons were closed
last Sunday and kept closed all day.
: Mayor llastains' Sunday closing order
! was rigidly enforced. His order to
: close saloons and all gambling dens
on Sunday was regarded as a bluff,
but he has demonstrated to the
proprietors of such places that he
means business.
The Philadelphia street cleaners
, strike assumed a serinus asnect Non