Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-02-06

Word was received here last week
that the Sugar Mill Company had as
signed the state bounty to one Waffle
in Iowa. 1t created quite an excite
ment among the cane growers and Ia
borers when the news was first received
and meeting was at once called.
Meanwhile w. 81. Sparks wired Sena.
tor Lands as to the authenticity of the
report and received reply to the eff
feet that the entire state bounty had
been assigned last August. This, of
course, aroused the indignation of the
parties to whom the company is indebt-
ed, as they had been promised their
money as quickly as the appropriation
would be made by the legislature and
this assignment looks very much as
though the company intended to de-
fraud these men out of their hard
earned money.
! Messrs. lime, Stout and Taliaferro
| were not disposed to trIf1e with the
matter any longer and each ran an at
tachment on some of the goods stored
at the mill at the present time. Mr..
HinZe attached 252 sacks of sugar 80.
400 pOunds) and l20 barrels of syrup to
satisfy debt of SlO0J. Wilsey Stout
attached 80 sacks of sugar and 200 bar
rels of syrup for a debt of S135.39 and
MIR. TaliaferrO attached 900 barrels of
syrup to satisfy debt of Sl6097. Ever
CjnRn tho of nh a.
sheriff has deputized day and night
man to guard the goods. Gus Schmidt
served in the former capacity until
yesterday when he LETT for Topeka lie
was succeeded by Ed. Williams. L.
81. Kidd is the night watch.
Some of the parties interested,
through their attorney, MIR. Sample,
tried to prevail upon these men to
| withdraw their attachments but to no
avail. These parties seem to be look
ing out for q co.
Meetings to devise means for self pro-
lection have been held almost daily tile
past week but the farmers are almost
pOwerless. 1t was hoped that when
Mr.. Best would arrive home the matter
would be amicably adjusted but upon
his arrival these fond hopes quickly
vanished. Mr.. Best has very little to
say and what he does say is by no
means satisfactory to the cane growers.
At their meeting yesterday the farm
ers decided to make out statements of
the company's Indebtedness to them
respectively, and present the same to
the legislature, hoping that the legis.
lature will make the appropriation to
the farmers instead of the person to
whom the bounty is assigned. If this
move fails it is feared that the creditors
here will lose all that is due them. Sem
ator Lands and others are making a
strong fight IN behalf of the farmers
and we hope it will prove successful.
The statements have been prepared
and will be taken to Topeka oy Ed.
Sample today. The sympathy general.
ly is with the farmers and it may have
some bearing in inducing the legisla-
ture to pay them out of the appropria-
ton.
This is discouraging state of affairs
and shows the company up in a bad
light. Everyone that had anything to
do with the running of the mill felt
confident of receiving their money as
| soon as the appropriation was made
and contracted debts on the strength
Of it. Our merchants also have orders
on the company and it will cause suf-
ferlng on all sides If nothing comes to
the rescue.
1t Is said that the mill is about to
change hands and Will be run along
different lines in the future. We hope
so.