Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-11-10
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Judge John Guthrie will take charge
of the Topeka post Office January 1st.
succeeding A. J. Arnold.
| Chairman Riddle and Secretary TIP
ton, after voting Tuesday, went to
opeka to receive the returns.
Wellington is having -four war and
the home product is down 30 cents per
100 to-day. The competition is due to
the fight between the big milling
companies of Hunter and Kramer.
| ]. E. Baer, formerly a wealthy cap
italist of Ottawa, died Wednesday
night in Kansas City, of cancer of the
stomach. Mr.. Baer was one of the
49ers who crossed the plains to CAL
ifornia in rhe rush for gold.
Robert Keuney, the apple king of
Chapman, is in the city. His splen-
did orchard has been the most produc-
tive in this part of the state and from
it has been sold over 700 bushels of
apples, all of fine quality, this season.
They have brought him about S., 900.
Now that the Shawnee County wire
pullers have won and lost, and lost and
won, it is to be hoped that they will
get down to business and find time for
once to tell the truth, and admit that
their manipulation of the state treas
ury was disgrace to Kansas, regard
less to party.
Prosperity has made such rapid
strides in Topeka that the City Rail-
way Co, has been compelled to put up
the sign: ''No men wanted to day." in
order to prevent 1aborers, svho are all
employed at an increase of wages, from
taking up all the time of it's Office men
in answering applications for work.
From all parts of India, China and
Japan come pleadings for more mis-
sionaries to the Methodist Woman's
Foreign Missionary society. The
names of five women were read who
desire to devote their lives to the en-
are Miss M. A. Livermore of Smith
Center, Kan, Miss Amy Clifford Lewis
of jamestown, n. Y, Miss E. Mar
guerite Glenk of Herkimer, N. Y,
and Miss Elizabeth Barney of Topeka,
Kansas.
VIM. A. Long of Montgomery coun-
fu aV1d fho
Coffeyville were sued in the federal
court of Fort Scott today by Wilson
Waddington of Pennsylvania for S15,-
600 damages. The plaintiff alleges
that the defendants disposed of $50
head of Mexican steers in 1891 upon
which they had given the defendant a
mortgage for Sc, 900 to secure payment
of a note. 1t is charged that in 1897,
without the knowledge or consent of
the plaintiff, the defendants sold the
steers and allowed them to be shipped
out of the county in which they were
mortgaged.
November 3.-Last night when
Earnest Jaigu, son of a German black
smith at Hope, was returning home he
noticed the door of his fathers shop
was open. AS he stepped up to the
door of the shop man ran out. He
followed him and caught him but not
until the fellow had thrown away a
bundle. He took him to the poultry
house here and put two boys there to
guard him while he went to see what
he had thrown away. He found the
bundle and when he came back the
boys had allowed the fellow to gain
the door and escape. The bundle con-
tanned fine kit of burglar tools and
it is very evident that his business in
the blacksmith shop was to get tools
with which to break into some of the
business houses here. He was a man
of medium height and had a red face
and mustache.