Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-12-01
SUNFLOWERS.
Picked From the Different
Branches.

Contest I'm Shawnee-N. ID Stanley XIII.
ed-Farmers Organize Dolds
Remanded
What is the matter with Kansas as
a summer resort?
Judge Foster excused himself to the
Fakes, but the law was against him.
1t may be wise to look wise, but to
try to act wise is otherwise. Webb
McNall.
A Chicago syndicate has purchased
the big mining property known as the
Monte Cristo tract, near Galena.
The Kansas Equal Suffrage Associa-
ton will hold its fourteenth annual
convention in Yates Center, December
8, 9 and 10, 1897.
The jury in the Estabrook murder
trial at Hays City, after being out
twenty-four hours, returned a verdict
of manslaughter. Sentence will be
passed in December.
Phillip G. Walton and Miss Eliza
beth Bent were married at Salina
Wednesday evening at the National
Hotel, the home of the bride. The
Rev. DIR. Foulks officiating.
N. D. Stanley, mail carrier between
Chapman and Reinhart, lost control of
his team, which collided with another
team on bridge over the Smoky Hill
river. Stanley was thrown out and
fatally injured.
Secretary Gage is said to be figuring
on scheme to take care of few more
Republican "farm hands" at Wash
ington. He has discovered that Kan
sas is not represented by full quota
of treasury clerks.
w. ]. Costigan has brought suit
against E. H. Snow, ex-state printer,
for $2,176,32. Costigan claims to have
edited the Ottawa Journal for Snow,
at stipulated salary, which he has
never received.
Parsons is to have a new ice plant.
A fifteen ton compression plant is be-
ing put up in the south part of the
city. The water will be furnished
from an immense well which is being
dug for the purpose.
Mr.. and Mrs. Brennan, an aged
couple, were found dead in bed Friday
morning near Jewell City. They had
not been seen since the night before.
The coroner's jury found that death
resulted from asphyxiation.
Fred Thornton, manager of the
opera house at Emporia, has sustained a
fracture of both legs above the knees.
He was standing by while stage hands
were removing some scenery, and was
knocked down by falling timbers.
Three hundred and forty:four ricks
of alfalfa on the bottom lands between
Dodge City and Cimarron, and two
hundred and fifty ricks on the south
side of the river, contain from ten to
twenty tons each, worth about s.. so
per ton.
The first session of the North Cen.
trail Kansas Teachers Association
was held at Junction City, beginning
Thursday and closing Saturday. Geo.
W. Kennedy, of Junction City, gave
the address of welcome, and Miss Lucy
Howard the response.
Last Thursday evening robbers en-.
tered the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Gar
rett, a newly married couple living
near Burlington, and carried away
everything moveable. There was nc
one at home at the time, and there i:
no clue to the thieves.
Louis Poynton, of Hiawatha, re
fused to compromise with the authori
ties for running joint. He was ar
rested, fined and convicted, and MA.
assessed fine of $500 and ordered {,
be confined in the county Jail of tina:
county for period of 12O days.
The burning of the barn of ]. T
Anderson, the owner of the Andersen
ranch, near Wise, Kansas, destroyet
160 tons of new hay, 1000 bushels O.
corn, fine surrey, new road wagon
and nine head of fine horses. The firs
is supposed to have been of incendiar,
origin.
George Dodds, the alleged murderer
of Joseph New, at Eureka, has beer
remanded to Jail without bail, te
await trial at the January term of tn,
District Court of Greenwood county
The evidence was entirely circumstan
tial, but it raised strong presumption
of guilt.
Henry Sheesly, the slayer of Dan'l
McTaggart, Is to be tried December
at Independence. A special venire o.
81 persons from those portions of tn
country most remote from the scene o
the killing, has been ordered. Shoes
ley has been confined in the Jail at In
dependence since he committed tn
murder.
Mrs. Caroline Alike, of Leavenwortf
was found fviuD hesid. her hed AZ he