Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1895-06-05

At the annual meeting of the rail-
road telegraphcrs held at st. Louis.
Saturday, May % Walker w. Powell
OF Wichita, Grand Chief of the Rail-
road Telegra phcrs of North America,
was reelected to serve another term.
Barney Gibbons, who shot and kill
ed his wife in Wichita last January,
was placed on trial to prove his sam
itY. A jury of six men returned a
verdict that he IS of sound mind,
therefore he must stand trial for his
crime.
representative of English bond
holders is in Dodge City for the pur-
pose of buying the famous Eureka ir-
rigation ditch, which is being sold at
forced masters sale in the interest of
Englishmen who own $1,000, 600 of the
bonds on the ditch. The ditch is 50
miles in length, extending from the
Arkansas river in Gray county, near
Ingalls,, to the Cimarron. The En-
glish bondholders will take steps to
improve it
The monument erected by g. G
Gage in the Topeka cemetery in mem.
Dry of his comrades who fell at tho
battle of the Blue, October %, 1864,
was dedicated with appropriate cere-
monies Decoration day, May 30. The
monument is composed entirely of
Vermont granite, is 20 feet high and
~ feet square at the base. The sur
mounting figure is that of a soldier ut
parade rest, and is 81 feet high.
The Democratic State Central cotIi-
mittee met in Topeka Wednesday TO
issue an address to- the people. The
address declares for the free coinake
of silver and dcnounces the action of
the Supreme Court in the income tax
matter. The address appeals TO all
friends Of silver to join with the Dem
ocrats in the great battle for tho res
toratiou of the white metal next year.
1t Is also stated that the committee
will adjourn for two months to aw ait
the action OF the siiverites, whose
State convention will be held in idly.
About week ago Fred Bowen, of
Lincoln county, stole a road cart and
eloped with Miss Kitty Hartford
Smith, the pretty daughter of veal
thy northern Kansas parents. The
sheriff of Lincoln county has been
hunting them ever since and when he
got off the train ut Garden Plain
Thursday night he ran onto them just
as they were boarding the same train,
and arrested them. They had been
SO busy eluding the sheriff they had
not had time to get married.
Private Joseph Fennell, of Battery
A, k. N. G., had his right arm blown
to pieces, and Private Walker lost a
thumb by the premature explosion of
gun at the Decoration day exercises
at the cemetery at Wichita. This gun
has history. 1t was used in both the
Mexican and Civil wars, and has been
twice condemned. 1t is known to
have killed six men and injured FIVE
others, but it is now forever silenced.
Early Friday morning some man wits
small hammer and rat tail file
spiked this gun and another one. so
effort is being made to find out who
did it, as he is considered a benefac-
tor.
John Johnson of Springfield, No.,
was found Wednesday evening in the
brush in an almost dying condition in
lonely spot on Little river near
Wichita, Kansas. The police were
notified and an ambulance sent 10 the
place and the man was taken to the
hospital where ne was attended by
the city physician. The man was able TO
IL Il 81, Il
Springfield and that on Monday night
he was knocked down and robbed
near the Missouri Pacific depot of all
his money, consisting of S24. u. The
robbers were two colored men and u
.vhite man. After robbing him. they
agreed not to kill him if he would
leave town, which he agreed to do.
lie reached the bridge and give out,
but fearing that the robbers would
find and kill him, crawled off into the
brush, where he was when found.
The officers have clcw.
Harry Mansfield, the Topeka de-
faulter, was seen by Topeka man IN
old Mexico, acting rs a conductor on
the Mexican Central railway. Mans
field was the manager for Topeka of
the Kansas & Texas Coal company,
and after he left town his defalcation
10 the amount of s., 900 was dis
covered, but the officers have never
been able to locate him. lie is re-
ported as being married again, bis
wife in Topeka having secured di-
vorce.
Blighting hot winds blew IN Kansas
for thirty-six hours, commencing
Monday morning. A strong wind
from the south drove clouds of dust
and sand across the Central and Vest
ern parts of the State. Travellers on
the through lines of road say that
they were compelled to keep car win
dows closed for 600 miles to prevent
suffccation. The wind blightcd the
growing crops. and dispatches from
Central Kansas say the farmers do
not hope 20 raise anything. In hun
dreds of orchards the ground is COW
cred with young fruit, which has been
blown from the trees.
The Kansas Photographic society
was organized last week at meeting
of photographers at Topeka. An in
teresting exhibit will be made by tho
society during State fair week at
Wichita.
A company to be known as The Al
falfa Land and Irrigation company
was organized at the Throop hotel in
Topeka Tuesday. Capital stock, s5,-
600, 0Oc; president, NJ. Mohler; treas-
urer. H. E. Ball The company has
secured control of 10000 acres of
land in western Kansas and Will erect
irrigation plants.
The Topeka Telephone and Elec-
trical company, successor to the Har-
,;.a,, Ealarahnne. 4