Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-03-06
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS Or INTEREST TO DWELL
LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review OF PersO nal ana
General News Condensed to Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

The man who is thought to be the
one who attempted to rob the Rock Is
land at Whiting last October and kill
ed the agent has been arrested and
now awaits Identification at Holton.
The safe IN the Santa Fe depot at
Baldwin was blown open last week.
The amount taken was not large as
Agent Van Keuron had remitted the
day before. Suspicion points to
tramps who were loafing around the
depot
man by the name OF Il. w. Hiatt
has been circulating through portions
of Missouri seeking aid for the poor in
Kansas, claiming the people are in
such destitute circumstances as to
compel them to eat horse flesh. He is
an imposter
Tuesday night the second hand
store of Brown Emmett, 117H West
Douglas, Wichita, was broken into
by thieves and about SO worth of fire
arms was stolen. 1t is supposed that
some tramp, who was out of money,
had adopted this means of securing
something which had value. No clue
has as yet come TO the ears of the Of
fcers
The second $4,000 damage suit Of
Mrs. Emma j. Phelps against Mayor
Cloyes, the late board of police com
missioner and Ex-Governor Lewelling
on the ground that her husband was
able TO secure liquor at the joints,
which were allowed TO run in viola
tion Of the prohibitory law was dis
missed by Judge Webb at Topeka last
week.
Shirville &c Corbett's grocery store,
Dulinsky & Bryant's grocery store
and Clements and Bros. drug store
were robbed last week and some
money and some goods taken from
each place. No clue as to who the
thieves were has been discovered.
Evidences that an attempt to enter
other places of business was made are
visible.
President ]. F. Davis Of the Kansas
Mutual, stated to IA reporter that all
the insurance companies in which DR..
Fraher held policies had offered a re-
ward of go, 600 for the apprehension
of DIR. FraSer, who, he says, is alive
MIR. DAVIS says the companies feel con-
fident that they will be able to find
Fraker and that If they do not in six
months the policies will be paid as
agreed upon recently.
The session of the grand Union of
the Equitable Aid union for Kansas
adjourned Wednesday morning. The
following officers were elected for the
next year: William Fletcher, Kansas
City, Kansas, president; Mrs. Jennie
B. White, PaOla, vice president; f. II.
Barker, Kansas City, Kansas, secre-
tary; J. II. WeUer, Kansas City, Kan
sas, accountant; ID. II. Justus, Mime
apolis, treasurer.
The Mutual telephone company late
ly organized at Fort Scott to compete
with the Bell company, went into ac.
tual operation Wednesday. The new
company is using the Reynolds trans.
mitter and subscribers are only charg-
ed 81 per month, while the Bell com.
pany collects 81 per month. The new
company has already twice as many
customers as the old company,
whose patrons are all putting IN thC
cheaper phones.
A war on liquor sellers is raging al
Emporia. No less than two hundred
or three hundred saloonkeepers and
druggists have been arrested within
L.. nj -
case fined by police court. Among
the number were some of the wealth
lest druggists in the city, who move
in the most exclusive society, and who
are among the oldest inha bitants
Tuesday six alleged violators of the
prohibitory law were arrested.
At about . o'clock Tuesday morning
destructive fire broke out in the
general merchandise store of Alex Gun
ningham ut the corner of Main anC
First streets, Council Grove. The
store building and stock of goods are
total wreck. The loss is from Sc, OOC
to $1,000 with insurance of 81, 900
The origin of the fire is unknown
The prompt action of the hose com
panies with good pressure of water
saved n number of other buildings.
Hartwell p. Heath, or Editor Franl
II. Truesdell, as the case may be, who
was jailed at Emporia Tuesday for at
tempting to pass forged drafts, still
maintains his cool self-possession, anC
refuses TO talk to anyone. He gave
an unwilling sitting for photograph
Tuesday afternoon. A dispatch ha:
bsen received by Marshal Flemming
from the Chief of Police of Syracuse
n. v, requesting Heath's picture anc
urging his detention, as the Syracuse
authorities say they want him on tHvC
charges of forgery. County Attorney
Simpson thinks Lyons county will moi
care to incur the expense of bringing
witnesses from California in order tC
convict the prisoner, but the banker.
say California witnesses will be here
and that he will be prosecuted to the
full extent of the law.
The stockholders of the Kansas I'm
iversity Oratorical association have
elected II. J Myers, treasurer; L. f
Waltmire, w. II. Wynne, w. II. Ma
son, executive committe; b. B. Mccall
C. A. Loomis, &. q. Clark, share ad
justcrs.
A special from Abilene, Kansas
says; Rev. +. l.. Prather, paster O.
the First Baptist church Wednesday
fled two suits for So, 200 damages TO,
slander against l.. ID. Tolliver and c
O. Spangler, leading members of hi,
church, whom he charges with max
ing false charges against his morality
Arthur Dickinson, the 17-year ole
son of = $. Dickinson, of Larned, Ell
old G.. A. r. man, was Monday thrown
under a farm wagon drawn by pail
OF runaway horses His nose, jaw anC
thigh were broken and internal injur
les were received by him which viii
probably result in death.