Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-03

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The Gaylord Chess club has chal.
len2ed any chess ub or chess PLAYER
in the northern part of the State to
pay a seros of games for the cham.
piOnship.
An old gas prospect we'll 3lO feet
deep has been cleaned out at Mcuud
City, and flow of gas developed.
Steps will be taken to light and heat
the city from it,
The supreme court after certifying
1 down all tie cases to the various di-
( visions of the appellate court, will be
but trihe over year behind. II Is
thought it will now be able to catch
/ up completely.
/ The Gulf depot at Parsons was bur
/ glaTized Friday night and many ex-
/ press packages were broken. Only $40
was secured. Several holes were drill.
ed in the safe and an Intellectual at
/ tempt made to blow 1T open.
/ The memb bers o: the State Sa nitary
commission are: J. F. Villa ms, of
| Eureka, James w. johnson, Eureka,
and f. M. Turner, of Mg4rysvil e. Mr..
! Turner resigned and will be succeeded
April 1 by J. w. Moore, of Marion.
Sunday morning at o'clock the
/ two story stone block of j. w. Hall,
of Alma, Kan, occupied by Lewis
! Schroeder as furniture store, was de-
/ stroyed by fi"e, as was the On tire stock
/ of furniture. Cause of fire unknown.
Loss on building and stock estimated
/ at "a 900; insurance. 81 900.
a woman named Maggie Somers.
! giving her residence as Inde De ndence.
| Kan, went to Parsons last TIL ursday
and gave birth to boy at the South
ern hotel Tuesday morning the
! body of the boy was found in the rear
of residence in the eastern part of
the city. The police are iLve stigating
the case.
/ John II. Wild of Atchison. foreman
/ OF the Santa Fe freight depot, took
/ laudanum with suicidal intent Tues.
| day night and died next morning. De-
/ spondencv as the result of not being
able TO stop drinking strong liquor is
thought to be the cause. He was a
! h' P''NN W NhduuSCV AJCDCN, HIS
mother being sister of the railroad
magnate.
A discovery which battles the scienL-
lists was made IS miles Northeast of
/ Marysville. David Lasher. who was
/ d ggjng II well, at depth Of IS feet
! found the tooth of a mast0don which
was larger than a mans head. Scient-
! isis say tn It it was the tooth of an an.
imal larger than the elephant. Mr.
LaSher was offered 500 Tor it by geoIo-
| gists of Nebraska, but refused the
offer
/ Gustave Nelson, tramp. was lodQ-
| ed in the Pa wnee county Jail Tuesday,
| having pleaded gliltv to the charge
of raping the 9-year-od daughter OF
! Gustave Tell at Burdette. &C miles
west of LarneG. The crime was com
mitted Friday while the child's par.
ents w,re away from home. The
child is still in precarlous condition
and may die.
Col. w. ii. Ross'ngton. of Topeka,
will be United States Judge for the
district of Kansas to succeed Judge
Foster, if the attorney-general can
have his way ABOUT matters This is
evident by statement made by a
Mr.. Olney TO friend. Mr.. O'ney said
he favored placing Judge Foster on
the retired list at full pay If it could
be brought about.
DIR. n S. Mayo of the State Agricul-
/ n
of Animal Industry. United States de-
partment of agriculture, and the mem
bers of the State Live Stock Sanitary
commission went to the scene of the
outbreak of supposed contagious pleu-
ro-pneumonia III Morris and Geary
counties Tuesday. A telegram from
DIR. Mayo at midnight tells the result
of the investigation. DR.. Mayo wires:
"A thorough examination proves con-
clusively that the disease Is not con-
tagious pleuro-pneumonia."
r. NJ. Gilluly, of Oska loosa, has been
appointed stenographer of the Board
of Railroad Commissioners. The posi-.
tion "a worth $500 a year.
John Waller, who has been sem
fenced To 20 years in the penitentiary
by Spain, has been quite prominent in
| Kansas politics In 1882 he went be-
fore the Republican convention of
Douglass county for representative.
but was beaten by one vote by John
Speer. chief clerk in the labor com.
missioner's Office. Waller was one of
the Republican electors from Kansas
when Harrison was elected. Several
times he has stumped the state. He
is an able orator and a shrewd man.
c. s. Jobcs, of Attica, the newly-ap.
rointed State bank commissioner. will
file his bond with the Executive Coun
Gil next Thursday. and then make for.
NAL rmand t Mr.. Breidenthal for the
office. Mr.. Breidenthal will not com.
ply, and Jobes will institute a quo
warranto proceeding in the Supreme
Court to oust him. The contest viii
be free from scandal. IT is simply a
question of law, and all the parties are
on friendly terms. Governor Morri |
claims that he has appointed Jobes to
6ll vacancy. Breidenthal claims
that there is no vacancy.
Governor Morrill, has named John
Seaton, of Atchison, Sol Miller. of
Troy, and Mich vel Henry. of Topeka.
as members of the state board of pub
lie works.
John Speers. chief clerk of the labor
commissioners Office, with Governor
Robinson. surveyed the grounds for
the Kansas University at Lawrence on
New Years day 1855.
Tie Hon. J. V. Beekman Of Arl1an-
sas City has been appointed Judge
Advocate of the Kansas &. A. R.
b Fishback of Winfield has been ap-
pointed aide-de-camp.
The jury in the Hillmon case agreed
to disagree and were dlsrh rged Sat.