Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-04-03
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS
ITEMS Or INTEREST TO DwEL-
lERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The WFo'r's Rov ew OF Personal AT
General News Condensei to Short
Paragraphs for tho ConvenIenoe OF
Hurried Readers.

reaper and binder for Ills wheat crop
this year.
Ex-State superintendent II. N.
Gaines will conduct the Kingman
county normal institute during the
month OF August.
4Kansas had only regiment at Chica-
maugua, but she has appropriated for
monument in each of its three fight
ing positions.
Mayor Nathaniel Barnes. OF Kansas
City. Kan, president OF the Barnes
Tea, Coffee & Spice Co, made an as
signment ON the 2Gth. Poor collec-
nons is the cause of the failure.
q. c King II. H. Bngley and S. X.
Washer, leading business men OF
Atchison, are working with the gov
ernor for r. +. Antle of Atchison for
State grain inspector of Kansas.
Prof. Geo. ". Winans, ex. State SUI
perintenGent of Public Instruction.
will deliver an address before the
Harper County Tea ,hers' association,
which meets in Anthony, April 10.
Miss Fannie Nesbitt, night operator
At North Topeka, has been presented
with god medal by her fellow oper-
ators for her bravery at Bonner
Springs last fall when she drove away
q robber.
President William II. Harper, of Chi
cago University has accepted an invi-
tation TO deliver the annual com
mencement address at Kansas Univer.
sity in June.
Miss Grace King was appointed reg
lister OF deeds TO I'll out the unexpired
term OF her father the late DR.. w. N
King, of Dickinson county. She has
been an assistant in the Office and is
capable of filling the place well.
To discover the value of testimony
Editor Scott, of the lola Register, ask
ed l03 persons which leg of a well
known citizen, who only had one, was
gone. Fifty-two said the right leg.
and 81 the left, and yet they see him
every day
The president has granted pardon
to John Il, Miller. al IA Dick Miller,
sentenced in Arkansas TO three years
imprisonment and 500 fine for Illicit
distilling and unlicensed liquor SELL
ing, and An.o Gabo, sentenced ih
Kansas TO two years imprisonment for
perjury.
Yates Center has entered into an
agreement with the Werner Boo,
company whereby that company will
take up all the arithmetics. gecg a
phits and physiologies now used in
the city schools and provide new
books free Of cost.
Assistant state superintendent OF
Public instruction GUY Z. Benten has
gone TO Abilene. where he will repre.
sent Superint 'ndent Stanley at the
committee meeting held 10 arrange
the program for the state meeting oi
county superintcndents to be held in
MAY.
Charles Carson, of Niclerson. who
had been on trial for five days las,
week, was acquitted Mocday morning
Of the charge of having murdered his
wife last Christmas eve at the Colo
RADIO hotel In Nickerson. The court
room was crowded and when the clerk
announced that the verd ct was mot
guilty" cheers and great applause
went up.
w. h. Musselman, n prominent farm
or or Pawnee county, was accidentally
shot Saturday noon. He was riding in
doc cart when double barreled
shotgun he was carrying slipped from
his grasp, striking he hammers on q
Clnt in the cart. Both barrels were
discharged in Musselman's side, from
which he died in few hours.
At Sedgwicil Sunday night burglars
entered the postotiice and blew ope1
the safe, but failed To get the cash boz
open. After taking everything OF
value they could tind, the thieves stol,
n horse and buggy and escaped
Last Friday there was much excite
ment arounl the Kansas penitentiary
over a murderous assault on james j.
Howard, cell house guard. mude by
Finnian Wolf, full bloooed Indiar
who Is under a life sentence for mur
der. While the convicts were all out
armed prisoner. Howard was in the
cell mouse alone with them. lie lean
ed over the desk in n drowsy manner
when the Indian picked up the hatch
ct that was on the desk and strucI
him on the head with It, fracturinl
his skull He was about to repeat tn,
blow when the one-armed prisoner
grappled with him and managed &
wrench the blade from the handle
dozen times on the hra1 and shoulder,
with the blade of the hatchet, ther
made n rope of his clothing and at
tempted 70 scale the prison wall. Tn,
alarm was given, and his escape pre-
vented by shooting him and turn ms
the hose on him. The guard is no
expected to live
The thirty-two ex-Pullmau work
men brought TO Hiawatha last fal
have succeeded in interesting enough
capital to start them in the manufac
turing business. A building and tw,
acres OF ground have been bought 70
them and they hope TO be at work 70
themselves inside a week.
The Kansas Irrigation Commission
has located the irriga tion lants nea,
the east line Of Hamilton county, nea
Ulysses, Grant county, near Cimarron
Gray comfy, near Oakley, in Scot
county, near GoodlRnd, and near Al
mena.
Sheriff Burdge returned from Ar
kansas City with John Rush, who i
charged with stealing n buggy an,
harness from Z w. Gr'g 'ggs on tn
night of the election last fall in Tope
ka. Rush admitted 70 Sheriff 2urdg,
on his way up from Arkansas City tina
the charge is true ana Implicated tw
others
The executive council has appointe,
Col. Lewis Hanback,. OF Kansas City
Kan, TO bs transcriber OF the war rec