Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1894-03-21

The cases against the "blind pigs
at Huron, ), d., have been continued
from day to day for a week, vet are
not completed. The women who had
the injunctions taken out are impa-
tient at the delay. Tuesday afternoon
they went to United States Minister
Grants Office where complaint was en-
tered against City Marshal Crippin fo r
not prosecuting "blind pigs and club
rooms, where the ladies claim huuor
is being sold.
The net gold in the treasury at the
close of business Tuesday was S1O7,:
159, 544, which shows loss of S221, ,29s
since the preceding day, and the cash
balance has been reduced from S13S.! :!
500, 4S0 to $136, SS9,725 The loss of
gold is solely on account of quarterly
pensions paid in gold in San Francis
co which began on March 7. The re.
duction in the cash balance is not sig
niticant, and it is explained by the
fact that the warrants issued exceed
ed the receipts by that amount.
Jesse Evans was captured near AL
buquerque, n. NJ, Tuesday by j. w.
Walker, who has been on his trail for
a long time for the murder of Nogle
and Milleron, ranchmen of Cara
county, Texas, in 1888, soon after he
left New Mexico to avoid punishment
for horse stealing.
The New York Herald's Paris spec
ial says: "Mrs. Theodore Conkling.
the mother of Edward Webster, the
missing American school boy, said to
me tonight: My boy has been found:
where l cannot tell you; but not in
America. He is we'll, and there is
nothing in his disappearance which
reflects on him. l shall see him in a
few days" The news of the discov-
cry of the whereabouts of young Web
ster has also been announced by the
consul to the American embassy.
Thomas Dunlevy and Edgar Van
Gasklrk of Kingston, KY. lost their
lives In trying to save the lives of two
fellowworkmen who were overcome bv
coal gas, neal, that city. Patrick Burke
had gone down into the kiln to stop
the escape of gas and succumbed to its
effects. Engineer Vaddemark and
Henry Pinn next went down and thev
too were overcome. Then Dunleyy
and Van Gaskirk undertook the res
cue of their companions. They were
taken out dead. The Others were
alive when taken from the kill, but
Pinn will not survive. The accident
occurred at the cement works.
Speaker Crisp, in the house Tues
day, presented by request a petition
from the governor and legislative as
sembly of Utah protesting against the
removal of the Southern Ute Indians
from Colorado to Utah, and a memoir
ial from the same source for allotment
of the Indian lands in severalty.
While driving on Unterden Linden
Saturday afternoon carriage contain
ing Emperor William, three of his
sons and lady of the court, collided
with cart. The side of the imperial
carriage was completely sms shed, but
its occupants we're uninjured and re-
turned to the palace in a cab.
Miss Alma Winters, the 1s-year-old
daughter of Charles Winters of Chica-
go, died OF fright Tuesday during the
burning of her fathers residence in
the suburbs of Darlington. Miss Win
ters was the niece of Superintendent
Winters of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
st. Paul railroad, and well known in
Chicago society.
The earl of Elgin. viceroy of India.
has sent an official dispatch to the In
dia Office confirming the news exclus-
lively cabled to the Associated Press
of the disaster to the British forces
operating against the Abors on the
borders of Assam.