Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-05-29

cused of stealing horse, he expects o
newspaper to remember that he has
taken the paper ever since it started.
Emporia Gazette: The Queen of the
May in Kansas this year was wakeue6
early, but the base burner had beer
taken out and she Topped into bee
agair.
4Rallway assessments in Kansas com
pleted last week, show a slight reduc
ton as compared with the previous
year The Pullman Conpany's assess
ment was increased
Z. C. Case of Kansas CITY. one of the
brightest young men who has come
from the state university in recent
years, has been given a fellowship in
paienontology at Chicago university.
The Minneapolis Messenger SAYS
that stockman brought a two-line
local to that Office last week which he
wanted run in the paper one week,
and had the gall to ask it to take a
horse as payment.
While attempting to steal ride,
John W. Cosgrove, 60 years old, was
killed on the Kansas City, Fort Scott
q Memphis road ut Spring Hill. His
remains will be sent to his brother, j.
f. Cosgrove, residing at Bryan, o.
Governor Morrill, Tuesday morning
issued an order removing William
Rodgers from the board OF regents of
the state university in accordance
with the report of the legislative com
mittee appointed to investigate the
charges preferred by Cyrus Leland.
A 65-year old man living at Fort
Scott would like to take unto himself
helPmeet, and though he doesn't
like to be exacting, makes the follow
ing stipulations: That she be n wild
ow not over 40, and that che have a
good farm or IS, 900 in cash.
A special to the Star from Seneca,
Kan says: Burglars blew open the
vault of the State bank at Oneida,
Kan. early Wednesday morning, se-
curing about 81, SEQ. The explosion
was heard by people living near, but
no attention was paid to it until the
cashier opened the place for business.
A boy named Ernest HaneIin, Of
worth, was riding on beer
wagon when the team ran away and
the boy was thrown out. A barrel of
beer rolled off, too, falling on top of
the boy and almost crushing him to
death. He was mashed almost fat
lie Is alive but in a dangerous condi-
tion.
The druggists who are attending
the State Pharma ceutical association
| elected officers Tuesday morning rs
follows: President, j. W. Hurst, New.
ton; Vice President, w. ]. Evans, lola
| and Ed. G. Fritsche, Leavenworth:
Secretary, Mrs. NJ. o. Miner, Hia-
watha; Assistant Secretary, Fred Nc.
Donald, Topeka; Treasurer, II. w.
Spangler, Perry; Librarian, Prof. l..
\ Sayre, Lawrence. In the afternoon
the visitors visited the soldiers home
and witnessed field sport.
Recently a car load of crude oil was
sent from Neodesha to Coropolis Pa
fo- practical tests. These show a
high grade illumination yield of sc
| per cent, $50 degree flash test rein
ed oil o. so Pe- cent. 11O degree test
with 10 per cent. lubricant, Is per
cent Naptha on asphaltum based with
valuable by-l roducts. The plans for
| n refinery at Ncodesha are in the
hands of contractors, and the build
ing will be erected by October l. This
insures market and opens the field.
which extends from the territory line
south of Sedan in northeasterlv di-
rection to Allen and Bourbon counties
distance of from seventy five to 100
miles,
The State Board of Railroad Asses.
sors completed its work and an
nounced the figures on which the col
lection OF taxes on railroad property
in Kansas for the year 1895 will be
based. The total railroad assessment
has been decreased Sl1s,942 from the
assessment of last year. The politics
OF the assessment is supposed to lie in
the increase of the Missouri Pacific
assessment by S579,s s12 and the de-
crease of the Santa Fe by S615, ,O53.
During the last few political cam
paigns the party in power has been
charged with manipulating the rail
road assessment in the interest of the
railroad corporations which were
friendly to it. The Populists charged
that the Republicans always favored
the Santa Fe in fixing the assessment,
| and when the Populists were in power
they were charged with favoring the
Missouri Pacific. During the cam
paign last fall the Republicans charp.
ed the Missouri Pacific with assisting
the Populists, and the Populists charg.
ed the Santa Fe with assisting the
Republicans. The present assess
| ment gives color to charges of this
kind. The assessors assessed each
Pullman car in the State at Sc. 600, in
stead of 81, SEQ as fixed by the Popu-
lists year ago, but the Pullman COM
pany reports S46,60s less property in
Kansas than a year ago. The tabu-
lated assessment of Pullman property
shows that it is assessed sac, 753 more
last year, but in reality there is a de.
crease in this assessment of So, 226.
Sheriff j. w. Skinner of Cowlev
county, returned home Friday even.
ing from an 11-days' trip through Col
orado and Oregon in search of Bill
Smith, one of the Jail breakers. He
brought his man back and he is once
more behind the bars. Smith was in
for burglarizing store at Atlanta.
He has acknowledged the crime and
says that he will now plead guilty.
The sheriff has travelled about 21OO
miles.
The City bank of Galva, Mcpherson
county. has gone into voluntary IL
quidation, Business had been light.
The State University base ball team
defeated the team from the college of
Emporia Friday afternoon by the
score of IL 70 :. The batteries were