Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-19

were - 10 against the wichita
horse.
Two boys, James Ramsey and
George Bostic, aged respectively 10
and II years. have been arrested on
the charge of robbing' the house of
William Delaney, near Salina. 1t is
alleged that they broke into Delaney's
house ana got away with $50 worth of
property.
After being out So hours, the jury
In the Matson murder case at Topeka,
was discharged. Eleven of the Jurors
stood for the conviction of Frank A.
Novels, the colorcd man charged with
the crime, whilo one colored Juror
saved Novels from term in the peni
tertiary by resolutely insisting he was
innocent, There is great Indignation
expressed at the action of colored
Juror Jordan.
Elmer Muhllck Rasmussen, son of
Jacob Rasmussen of Lincoln, is at
tracing considerable attention in and
about Chicago as a bicyclist and
Inarksman. He is member of tho
Second regiment of Illinois national
guards. leader of the bicycle club,
and also member of the Overland bi.
cycle club of Chicago.
n. Hulpieu, six miles north of Gar.
den City, reports pumping up gold in
the well water on his place. 1t was
collected on flannel cloths and a sam
pie sent to an expert who pronounced
it pure gold. a jewclcr at Garden
City has offered $50 an ounce for it. 1t
comes from 12-foot vein of sand and
water.
In preliminary contest of 90 in the
American conservatory of music, Chi.
cago, Miss Katherine Edwards, daugh-
ter OF ]. j. Edwards Of Emporia was
chosen to represent that conservatory
in contest with representatives SIM
ilarly chosen from three other conser-
vatories. The final contest came of
last Saturday. Miss Edwards was
again wiz ner and will on the 18th OF
this month receive an elegant gold
medal.
Miss Higgins, 4 music teacher of To
peka, sold some furniture to second
hand dealer, and after he had taken
it away she remembered that her dia-
mond breastpin and earrings, valued
ut $3.50, were under the top of u
marble-top center table. When she
went to the second hand store, she
found that the owner had gone to
Kansas City for the purpose of selling
the diamonds. The police are after
him.
Miss Ida b. Wells, the noted col
ored lecturer on anti lynching, lee
tured in Topeka Monday night. She
Is highly educated young woman,
and has travelled all over the United
States and England, speaking against
the lynching of colorcd men in the
South, which she claims is, in too
many cases, entirely unwarranted.
Miss Wells will, on June 81, be mar
ried to ferdinand l.. Barnett, well
known colored attorney Of Chicago.
The constaut cutting away of the
| land by the river will soon render the
bridge over the Missouri river at Atch
ison practically valrcless. The Santa
Fc, Burlington, Missouri Pacific, Rock
Island and st. Joe & Grand Island,
! the roads making use of this bridge,
will, some time this year, it is said,
rebuild the old st. Joe & Topeka line
constructed many years ago from Ell
wood, opposite st. Joe, on the Kansas
side, 10 Atchison, and which was used
before the bridge at Atchison was
built.
Thursday morning patient of the
Topeka insane asylum, nlose Melon.
aid, aged so years, from Brown coun.
ty, hanged himself with threc-foot
window cord 10 tree in frcnt of onG
of the buildings, from which he and
two other patients, Jacob Schaffer OF
Lincoln county and Schuyler Dressler
of Ellsworth county, had escaped by
taking out window. They were all
known as quiet, harmless patients,
McDonald having been allowed to &C
into town quite often alone. 1t is
supposed that he obtained the screw
driver, while on one of these trips,
with which they took out the window,
War is to be made on the Russian
thistle in the vicinity of Logan. The
obnoxious weed is gaining such foot
hold as to greatly alarm the people OF
that section. The city council of Lo-
gan has announced that all who will
come to town and go after the this,
ties with hoes Mex Saturday will be
furnished With fl &c dinner.
The success of the State Fair at
| Wichita as regards good races is as
sured beyond doubt, as prominent
horsemen are interested, and the best
| horses IF tho Most boyo Iao,, o,3aro,l
and more are coming every day. All
premiums were paid last year, and
this inspired faith in horselcn as
to the Wichita speed ring being good
place to bring their flyers" Sc ere
tary Hewey reports 100 horses entered
III the six stake races. entries for
which closed June 1, but ntr1es for
the ten purse races will not close I'M
il September l. There are horses
now ut the state fair grounds liable to
make records equal to the best. 1t is
said that the string of horses recently
taken to Wichita from the Lamo Alto
farm ut Dallas, Tex, are the fastest
young horses, not only in the West,
| out in the world.
An Oklahoma editor declares that
he has studied the Indians for years;
and can state positively that they are
more immoral than the English no.
bility.
Judge Charles P. Stewart of the Il
dian Territory, has gone to Washing
! ton. accompanied by T. S. Genung,
Chief Deputy o. the United States
marshal, to secure, if possible, in
structions from the Attorney General,
which will permit a more liberal en-
| ployment of deputies for the territory
We-she-hoon of the Kiclkapoos, is
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