Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-11-10

Hon. F. p. Baker, we'll known il
, Kansas, through his connection witt
the Topeka Commonwealth, has re
turned to Topeka from New York
where the operation of removing
cataract was recently performed OF
one of his eyes.
We have been in Kansas TWENTY-FIVE
years, and we think we know a heap
but we have learned some things toda,
about Kansas, from a paper published
at Hamilton, Canada, that causes u.
to speculate as to whether we are :
Brown Leg-horn or Cherokee.
A negro named Porter, who was a
tporter in low resort at Ga1ena, tried
to kill white man named Chambers
last night, but accidentally shot
Frank Martin, another white man. in
the abdomen, inf1icting probably ia.
tai wound, and escaping, is still at
large.
The old Santa Fe depot at Hutchin-
son is being torn down. 1t will be
moved and parts of it used in con-
structing the freight depot to stand
near where the stockyards are now To-
Gated. The old depot came soon after
the buffalo left Reno county, and be-
fore the antelope disappeared.
W. H. Suppe, who had his prelimin-
airy examination at Cottonwood Falls
last Saturday upon the charge of be-
ing connected with the robbery of a
bank at Elmdale, Chase county, was
bound over to the March term of the
district court in the sum of s., 500.
Mr.. Suppe quickly gave bond and re-
turned to Galena last night.
| The Mulvane Policy sheet is al
ready running some six or eight mart
yred Republicans for Governor in 90.
We are satisfied for the present, and
we are going to take time to shuck
corn. Politics may be all right i'll its
way, but an eternal dose of it, and
particularly from a Republican source,
eventually becomes nauseating.
Emporia will have another ice plant.
L. r. Rater of Abbotsford, Wisconsin,
was in the city last week and made ar
rangements for the erection of an ice
plant with daily capacity of tive nty
tons of ice. It will require about 1OO,-
600 gallons of water day. The city
council made rate of three and a half
cents per thousand gallons for the
water which is acceptable to both ice
plants.
AT the meeting of the board of cdu-
cation of Leavenworth, Superintend-
ent Dolphin reported an enrolment of
3,7o2 pupils, with an average daily at
tendence of 2,7S2. The number is a
decided increase over any previous en-
rollment and is taxing the seating ca
pacity of the schools. In some of the
schools the attendance Is SO large that
many of the pupils are compelled to
do without desks.
"a Huron young lady, who is soon
to be married." says the Huron Herald,
had her fortune told by a woman
with the Sel1s-Forepaugh show at
Atchison last week and said to her
friends that she would not tell what
the future had in store for her for ten
hundred thousand million dollars, but
day or two later she let the cat out
OF the bag by blushing1y asking a girl
chum, DO you think twins are nicer "
William J. Williams, a postal clerk
employed on the Missouri Pacific.
committed suicide yesterday at Atch.
1nson by severing the arteries in his
wrist and cutting his throat with a
razor. His five year old son saw the
act, but his father prevented him from
rousing the household until he fell to
the floor unconscious. He had been
separated from his wife, and worry
over his domestic troubles caused the
suicide.
In January, 1895, Treasurer Biddle
turned over to his successor, Anterior
1854, ,97S.28. Atherton turned over t.
Hef1ebower S94, 1888 and of thi.
amount warrants were OUTSTANDING
for S21.221.36. So the Populist admiu
istration had only S73, ,S36.87 to run tn,
state the first year, that is till thi
} years taxes reach the treasury, whicl
, will be in January. Howl about a de
ficiency, will you, you snides? VIII,
| made it?-T0Peka american.
Contest proceedings will be com
menced November S, in Shawne,
l county for the Office of Sheriff of tina
) county. The Republican, Cook, claims
: the Office by 110 votes and the Populist
: Kepley, whose name appeared on al
= three of the ballots, as the candidat,
, of the allied forces, disputes thi
claim for the reason that some 200 O
800 ballots were refused on which hi
. name had been marked in three place
as the choice of the voter for the offic
of Sheriff.
r We would like to invite Charles F
' Scott, of lola, Kas., of whom the re
publican papers speak so much, Z
come to Marysville and tell the peopl
why, in the great manufacturin,