Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-03-27
HAPPENINGS IN KANSAS.
ITEMS Or INTEREST TO Dwell
LERS IN THE SUNFLOWER.
The Weeks Review OF Perso nal an d
General News Condensed to Short
Paragraphs for the Convenience OF
Hurried Readers.

| Paragraphs for the Convenience OF
| Hurried Readers.
DR.. w. N. King. register of deeds of
Dickinson county, died Sunday night,
aged 90. He was an old settler and
.eading physician.
The Messenger says that every day
brings TO light the name of another
Ellsworth county farmer who is going
to irrigate this year.
George NJ. Hoover of Dodge City,
has been appointed receiver of the
Dodge City land Office made vacant by
the death of Mr.. Christ.
The state census will be taken this
year and upon it will be based the rep
resentative and senatorial apportion-
ment. The census is taken every 10
years.
The dry goods firm of Stevenson &
Co., of Topeka, the oldest of the kind
in that city, failed Saturday afternoon.
Liabilities, $4,000; assets about S65.-
O00
Chris Hoff, German banker, COM
mitted suicide in room in the Ma
tional hotel in Leavenworth Sunday,
by shooting himself through the head.
He was penniless.
The new Chanute Fair associa ton
has III members, and nearly $1,000 of
stock has been subscribed. About
twenty-five laborers are at work on
the fair grounds.
After years of suffering from TWEEN
ty-two months Imprisonment in An
Jacksonville, Daniel Fairbanks died at
Blue Rapids last Monday. He was
prominent in Grand Army circles. The
funeral was held with full military
honors
United States Senator ]. r. Hawley
of Connecticut has notified Secretary
Adams of the State Historical society
of his receipt of the notice that he has
been elected an honorary member of
the Kansas Historical society. He
was personally acquainted with old
man Brown.
The case of ex-County Treasurer
Dick, charged with embezzling $50, 900
from Ellsworth county was called in
the district court Monday. He with
drew his plea of not guilty and enter
ed one of guilty. He was immediate
ly sentenced to four years in the peni-
tentiary by Judge Eastman.
The bank at White City was robbed
Monday night, the safe being blown
into 100 pieces. There was about 81, :
034. so in drafts, currency and coin in
the safe, of which 81, ,4DS. 10 was lost.
An assessment was was made on stock
holders to cover the loss and the bank
opened for business as usual
| j. A, Russell, who was stopping at
the the Centennial at Ottawa. and rep
resenting the Beebe Lumber Co.. of
Beebe. Ark, was taken sick last Tues
| day. Sunday it was found that he
had the smallpox. He has been moved
to the suburbs of the town. The doc
tors think there is no danger of its
spreading.
The Greenwood county Cattlemens'
Protective association, at its annual
meeting. adopted resolutions instruc-
ting its officers and inspectors to keep
careful watch on cattle shipped in
to see that they are not infected with
| Texas fever, and to take immediate
action under the quarantine laws if
such cases are found.
State Bank Commissioner Brieden-
| thai say that the failure of the Nation
al Bank of Kansas City will not effect
Kansas banks seriously. About fifty
Kansas banks were correspondents of
the bank which has failed, but their
accounts are not large. Since the
trouble of this bank in 1893, Kansas
banks have kept only small balances
there. and the failure of the institu-
tions to fully restore the confidence it
lost at that time is no doubt the prin-
cipal cause of its present trouble.
The Missouri Pacific railway people
are expecting a damage suit to be
brought against the company as a re-
suit of the killing of a Mrs. Allen and
daughter above Rushville several days
ago. Several photographers went to
the scene of the accident to take pict-
ures of the crossing and grade.
The block known as the Garrett
block at Hill City, took fire last Sat-
urday and is now in ashes. 1t was oc-
| cupied In one room by the Peoples
Advocate, owned by Inflow e. Emons,
and they saved only their press The
biggest loss was that of the tax list,
which was just completed. The i'm
plements belonging to the Rock Is
land Plow company, were
thinking it would surely be in flames,
but the rooms were divided by strong
walls and this one did not ignite This
is the first fire Hill City has had since
the burning of the Boston store some
four years ago. The fire was caused
by the explosion of lamp which was
! heating an incubator owned by T. J.
| Arnett. The loss to the owner of the
building is about $1,000. and the Peo.
pies Advocate, $780, There was nc
insurance on any of the property.
A Meade county farmer has fatten
ed his hogs on an exclusive feed OF
sugar beets- He will put in big
crop of sugar beets.
One of the canning companies a
Chase, Rice county. will plant 81,
hundred acres of peas and seven hun
dred acres of sweet corn this spring.
In the United States court at Wichi
ia, Susie Peck, of Mead county, Kan.
was found guilty Friday of sendin,
obscene letters through the mails ad
dressed Ollie Brick. Asherville, Kan
sas. Nathan Peck her codefendant
was acquitted.
Cornelius Archer, sheriff of Clou.
county, died at his home of Bright
. disease. His death had been expect
J ed for several days. His popularit
: was attended by the fact that he wa
, the only successful candidate on til
Republican ticket two years ago.
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