Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-01-02
NUMBER SO.
Burglars are holding high carnival
in Topeka.

Adells Williams of Topeka, has
been adjudged insane.
william Martin, the Emporia poll.
tician, is agin tho metropolitan police
law.
The Sedgwick block at wichits was
sold last Saturday to Boston capitals
lists.
A Newton boy has accepted posi-.
tion as night car sealer," according to
the local press
The Popullst State Central Commit
tee meets in Topeka the first week in
the New Year.
Frank Drummond, well known In
railway and commercial circles died
at Topeka on Christmas.
Pupils attending Central College at
Enterprise hung one of the lady teach
ers in effigy few days since.
The thirty, second annual meeting
of the state school teachers associs.
tiop met in Topeka last week
Dick Hurst of Wellington, was ar
rested in Wichita last week for pass.
ing counterfeit money.
A little girl, twelve years old, living
near Kingman, was thrown from her
horse on Christmas and killed.
James Winbern,a a well-known stock.
man. was found dead in his buggy
near Atchison a few days ago.
A few nights ago Olpe, south of EN-
poria, had a depot robbery, shooting
scrape, a fight and an elopement.
Colonel Daniel Grass. ex-state sena.
tor and prominent lawyer died at his
home in Independence last week.
After January /, 1895, penalty OF
S1oO will be imposed upon the guilty
who sells cigaretts in Emporia.
Salina has rendered the handsome
residence of the late w. A. Phillips to
the Masonic fraternity for home.
The defunct Exchange bank at
Goodland will resume business the
first of the year and pay depositors in
full.
Wichita is proposing to investigate
the gaseous regions and will make
$4,000 hole somewhere near the
city.
It is rumored that Governor Level.
ling intends to dissolve the Leaven-
worth police board before he retires
from Office.
The Oklahoma baby midget. twelve
months old, and weighing but five
pounds was curiosity i'll Wichita
this week
Governor-Elect Morrill, announces
that some important reform measures
will be introduced and suggested in
his inaugural address.
west bound passenger train on
the Missouri Pacific stuck ina heavy
snow drift ten miles east of Towanda,
causing dera ilment of engine and one
car last week.
J. w. Maddux, postmaster at Geuda
Springs, is short 500 in his accounts
with Uncle Sam. Maddux left for
parts unknown and his bondsmen will
De calteQ upon TO SeICie
The drawing for the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, valued at Sl40, 900, at Arkansas
City, took place on December %.
Ticket 4S, 954 held by Henry Linn OF
Guthrie, o. T., drew the prize.
Mrs. Willis Jackson, now living In
Texas, is endeavoring to get the free.
dom of her husband, who is serving
death sentence for the supposed kill.
ing of Wilson Mcdonald of Wellington
in 1872. Her chances for his release
are said to he good.
The experiments conducted for the
past two weeks at Goodland and other
points demonstrated the fact that irri-
cation for the western territory Is be-
vond failure and an immense acreage
will be put under the pumps the COM
ing season. Experiments show that
at cost of s35 pumping apparatus
of suffi cient capacity to water from
ten to twenty acres of land, can be
erected.
BY technical point in the law IL
has been ruled that the tax levy to
meet bonds ISSUED by Topeka to pay
for paving half the streets around tho
Capitol square was void.
Kansas ships her Walnut logs to
France, and thousands of car loads
have been shipped within the past
two years. The shipments are made
TO Chicago by rail, thence by the lakes
and the st. Lawrence river to the sea-
board and across the Atlantic to
France, where il is manufactured into
veneer.
The most important development
Saturday in the Maston murder case
is the Identification of the siungshot
with which Mrs. Matson was struck
and which was found wrapped in tho
carpet about her head. This weapon
it is declared belonged to Nelson Bail
ey, a colored man, who was a tenant
of Mrs. Matson. Bailey disappeared
from Topeka week ago Monday and
it is learned has gone to Chattanooga,
Tenn. The coroner's jury adjourned
over until Monday. In connection
with the hunt for the murderer of
WIS -hlabcoHs ~ iio6 OCCA oCCA0C0 VI
photograph the victims eyes to find IL
possible, clue to the culprit-
A man was found dead near Le-
compton few days ago. Papers on
his person gave the address of Arnold
Roymaker & Co., Kansas City. He
was sixty years old.
A G. A. r fair cut more figure in
the daily horse ear receipts in Law
renee than the last loan exhibit Law.
renee seems to be getting that kind
of town very rapidly.
The fame of Mr.. Schermerhorn who
killed the Sylvan Grove bank robber
has climbed to that awful point
where people are beginning to claim
relationship to him.