Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1897-07-14
KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Banks in Good Condition.

KANSAS STATE NEWS.
Banks in Good Condition.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal says
he banks of Kansas are in better con-
Iition to-day than they have been for
ears. There are 275 state banks in
Kansas and 147 have reported. These
how in the aggregate loans, amount
TT to Sc, ,655, ,S9S, cash on hand 81, 1885,
61, sight exchange 2.471, ,S66. The de-
,osits amount to S7,s74, 125. while they
lold borrowed money in bills payable
and rediscounts aggregation only SOL
iS2. The reserve to-day is As 6s-10o per
cent. of the deposits. The law requires
only 20 per cent.
Assistant Grain inspectors.
Gov. Leedy has issued commissions
to assistant inspectors and weighmas-
ters in the grain inspection depart
ment as follows: S. S. Harvey of OF
tawa county, w. F. Thompson of Sedg-
wick county and j. B. Daniels of Wy
county, assistant inspectors;
F. 3. Schiffbaur, A. H. Schissler of
Reno county, B. w. Reynolds of Mont
gomery county, William Sullivan of
Atchison county, J. Lee Simpson of
Leavenwortb county and Frank H.
Beveridge of Marshall county, weigh
masters.
COlored Free Silverites.
The Colored Free Silver league, ~
Kansas, at it annual meeting at To
peka, adopted resolutions indorsing the
state administration and elected the
following officers for the year: Presi-
dent, J. r. Lytle, Topeka; vice presi'
dent, r. w. Lescher, Galena: secretary
J. b. Gibbs, Kansas City, Kan; CORE
spending secretary, p. c. Thomas
Kansas City. Kan; treasurer, E. b
Cabbel, Coffeyville; chairman execu
tive committee, j. w. Anderson, To
peka.
Kansas Boys at Harvard.
The Kansas boys who were granted
degrees at Harvard college were
Masters of art, Ralph Waldo Cone, o
Seneca; Thornton Cooke, of Herring
ton; John G. Hall, of Lawrence; tn
degree of bachelor of arts was con
ferred upon James Horace Patton, O
Paola; Carl Francis Prest, of Salina
Frank Nash Morrill,, of Hiawatha
Burtiss Burr Breeze, of Reece. Schuyle
Colfax Bloss, of Clay Center wa
awarded honorable mention.
Gov. Leedy Merciful to Joinists.
Gov. Leedy sremitted the fines of fou
Dodge City jointkeepers who ha
served out Jail sentence but were VI
able to pay the fine imposed upo
them. The governor said he remitte
| the fines because none of them had an
money and there was no way possibl
to get them to work it out. He though
perhaps they might profit by the
long confinement and go to work
the harvest fields, where labor is
such great demand.
Report to the State Auditor.
The superintendent of the state SO
diers' homeat Dodge City and the wa
den of the penitentiary have filed the
reports with the state auditor for tt
month of June. The Dodge City hon
cost for it's maintenance during Il
month $3,6O9.91. The expense bill
the penitentiary was, for salarie
S., 399 50; for maintenance, SO, 422.
The receipts of the penitentiary fro
labor of convicts was 3,674.25.
Want Aprons to Protect Their Uniform
Since the warden of the penitentia
took the stripes off the convicts al
gave them suits of cadet gray, ne
ideas of the fitness of things have be-
developing at Lansing. Warden La
dis received a petition signed by
The convicts in the leather workil
, shops asking for new aprons to prote
. their uniforms. Aprons have not J
. been provided.
Soldiers Home Death Statistics.
5 The deaths among the soldiers at
t home at Leavenworth, including tho
S absent on leave during the past ye
ended at midnight June 30, number
164 Singular to relate, the same nu
S Der of deaths among the members
: Cured during the preceding fis
r year, making the total for the t
v years 32S.
!, Col. James HalloweI Ill.
, Col. James Hallowell (''Prince Ha
S is seriously i'll with diabetes at
) fathers home on a farm near Lind
:, Ind. The attending physicians :
:, that it is not probable that he will
t cover, but that he is not in immedi
5 danger of death.
Receivers Must Pay the Fees.
Attorney General Boyle has r
- dered an opinion that all fees of
bank commissioner, charged for
- amining state banks in the hands
receivers. must be paid by the rec
ers of said banks.
n Gov. Smith "Caned."
Is Gov Smith, of the Soldiers home
is Leavenworth, has been presented W
n handsome gold-headed cane by S
e, eral of his comrades, as a to
n of their este, m and friendship for h
- Minor State News.
10 Women are getting 50 day for d
ing teams in the harvest fields of c
lv ley county.
= Del Valentine has returned to w
~ at Clay Center. He is on crutches,
n is recovering steadily.
j. The state board of pardons has
pc ommended Gov. Leedy to give WI
j. Sells an unconditional pardon.
w. w. Rose. of Kansas City,
elected superintendent of construct
by the state board of charities to
hs ceed ]. G. Haskell.
he The cost of the expert testim
in given by witnesses for the state to