Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-12

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Hurried Readers.
Eddie Rife, n Wichita boy, rode and
Won the 2-year-old race ut Gravesend,
| N. Y. Thursday, winning n purse of
| $4,000.
The twenty eighth annual encamp-
ment of the |. o o. L. of Kansas con-
vened a. Fort Scott Wednesday. A
competitive drill was given Thursday.
Mrs. frank b. Smith, the proprietor
of the Wichita Daily Beacon. was
married Monday morning to Harry j.
Hagney, business manager of that pa
per.
| The Commence exercises of
the State university at Lawrence are
being held this week. Sunday night
Rev. Willard Scott of Chicago, deliv-
cred the baccalaureate sermon. VIM
r. Harper, president of the University
of Chicago, delivered the annual uni
vcrsity address Monday evening, and
Wednesday morning the Commence
mcnt exercises proper took place.
The Topeka Capital company has
brought suit in the Shawnee county
district court against John E. Baker
OF st. Louis and a. B. and E. ). Quin-
ton of Topeka, for S25, 900 damages.
Judge Henry Keeler, attorney for the
Capital company. said this suit was
brought TO head off the action brought
in the United States court n few days
ago by Baker TO have the Capital
placed in the hands of receiver.
At Potter Station, a few miles south
of Leavcn rorth, Friday afternoon,
William Stevens and Henry Kleine
were digging a well for John Hans,
and were using dynamite for blasting.
Stevens was in the bottom of the well
setting dynamite blast, VIXEN Kleine
who was on top looking down, mis-
placed n rock which fell in the we'll.
1t struck the dynamite, and terrific
explosion followed. Stevens was torn
to atoms, and Kleine was instantly
killed by flying rock.
The contract for furnishing the pa
, per supplies 10 the state for the next
six months has been let TO the ]. w.
Butler Paper company, of Chicago. nj
| the uniform price of4 cents per pound.
, The price paid last year was 5 Lie
cents.
, The quickest disposition of Grim
. inal ease noticed in the Wcs: Tor {
/, long sine @as that of Mrs. Shroycr
in Snmner county. who ~as arrcs ted
, tried, Convicted, ard sentenced 10 five
/ years in the peni;entiary, in four
/ days, for leaving her th-cc-wccI,5' old
| baby in n cyclone cellar in Wellington
to die. She is a woman a years o.
| age, Il widow, her husband having
. been killed several years ago in Il LAND
= contest case in Clllaho where shC
4 owned a claim and lived until lately
B She has several grownup daughters
4 and ii is thought that her real cause
d for abandoning the child WAS 10 save
them, if possible, from disgrace, bu
she claimed that she was not able K
support it
Wichita Eagle: There is now living
3 in this city 4 frontiersman of uniqu,
Q character of wide, varied and lively
: experience. by the name of jaime;
t Duffy. Mr.. ]. r. Mead, William Mat
thewson and William Grieffensteln
Q whose lives we're full of border adven
I tEres, were all Indian traders, bu
Q Duffy was for twenty years or NOR,
q an Indian fighter. his field coverin,
: Arizona, Colorado, NcY Mexico, Mon
g tana, Kansas and Oklahoma, uude
Q nearly every one Of the successiv,
: military commanders known TO west
b ern fame. He knows more about tn
@ doings among the various Indial
d tribes down in Oklahoma, abou
It squav buyirg and trading, the esca
u pades at the Indian schools, annuit
= drunks, treaties and the like, thar
o many of the officials Mr.. Duffy, VIII
is n bright and intelligent man, has
family of four children.
r. Silas S. Brown of Wichita, was OF
u of the six chosen from n class of 13
, graduates of the State university a
It Lawrence to deliver ora.ions at til
st commencement exercises.
s. The juno races to nave been held a
s. the state fair grounds at Wichit
- have been declared off
l. Robert Snyder, brave boy of New
- ton, offered to replace the halyard o
~ the tall flag pole in front of the q. A
"a r. hall at that place, which had bt
h come disengagcd some time ago, an
!. very nearly lost his life. He made tn
"a ascent with :he pole climbers belong
a ing 20 the electric light station. Whe
ar within 10 feet of the top the climber
a. slipped from the pole and tie DO
n dangled in ;he air. The crowd c,
a, pected TO see the BOY fall to Ill
ground, but he only Rugged the pol
tighter, and Skinned up to the pullc,
In attempting % put the rope throug
the pulley 1t slipped from his fingel
10 m and fell 70 the ground. lie then sli
IA down the pole and was nearly e.
haustcd when he reached the Rrouni
" He made the ascent again the san
10 afternoon and succeeded in replacir
ol the halvard.
t. General Schoficld and party we
us ertertsined Tuesday at Fort Riley.
D Miss Morris, % Wichita, secured II
an first filing in the new KiclSapoo cou
as Try, and SO far she Is the only o.
N against whom no contest has be,
Ter filed. TIA a mighty cold day wh,
u the Kansas rnstlcr fails to get in
the ground floor.
Frank Ncvcls, colored man, is |
90 ing tried in the district court at I
pcka, charged with the murder
m Mrs A. ID. Matson. who was foul
'ey brutally murdered in her home in I
10 peka last December.
ap-
ths The 1s-months' old child of o.
ro- Martin, of Ottawa, vas almost faial
burned Tuesday. III. s West, "