Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-12

into the state treasury. School fund,
$4,000; charter fees, S285; fling annual
statements, S501O; taxes (reciprocaD
$17 ,005.39; local agents licenses, $13,-
817; court and miscellaneous fees,
$204.o7. Total receipts for the. state
treasury, S41, 221.- For the fremen's
fund: Firemen's fund for 1896, $16,-
450.12; firemen's fund of 1894, SIS, 830.87;
appropriation of 1897, S11, 42O. Total,
$50, 10000. Total amount collected and
disbursed, S74, 922.45.
The case of the state VS.. Isaac War
rem, the man who shot Sheriff Lard IN
October at Leonardvi1le, and who is
charged, therefore, with murder in the
first degree, came up in the dis
trict court in session at Manhattan.
Warren entered plea of not guilty
and made application for change of
venue on the ground that the prejudice
against him was SO strong in Riley
county that he could not have fair
trial. The state made no opposi-
ton to the application and it was
granted by Judge Spil1man. 1t is not
yet determined whether the case will
be sent to Clay or Marshall county.
The assets of the Wichita National
bank has been sold by Receiver w. N.
Ewing at the United States court
room. The price at which they were
bid off is $4,000. The bid was par
value of the stock plus $4,000 and
costs. The par value of the stock and
costs will amount to about $50, 900.
There has already been an assessment
of 81 per cent. on the stockholders.
They will receive nothing as result
of the sale, but the depositors will be
paid in full. The assets consist prin-
cipa1ly of lands in southern Kansas.
The purchaser is J. B. Frazier, BAN
ker of Ell Dorado.
Two Topeka boys were arrested in
Emporia by Deputy Sheriff Tom F1em-
ing. They were Willard Cooper and
Fred Spencer, each IA years of age. 1t
seems the boys ran away from home
few days ago, Cooper taking one OF
his fathers horses, and Spencer one
of his cousins. Sheriff Kep1ey sent a
postal card to Emporia, describing the
boys and horses, and Fleming, seeing
them riding up the street, halted and
arrested them. Cooper's father took
the would-be Indian slayers and COW
boys home.
For some time petition has beer
circulated in Crawford county asking
the judge of the district court to order
the drawing of a grand jury in the
different towns. A war has beer
waged for months on vio1ators of the
prohibitory law, by the Law and Or
to the suppression of the whiskey traf
fic and their success in convicting ha
not been satisfactory. Seeing tina
they were not making the progress il
their work that they desired they re
sorted to the petition for a grand jury
The matter came up before Judge A
H. Skidmore, and after giving rea
sons for his actions refused to max
the order. This is the second petition
the judge has refused for grand jury
Attorney General Boyle has file
in the supreme court quo warrant
, proceedings against the New Yor
Mutual Life, similar to the cas-
brought against the Mutual Life O
New York, asking that the compan
be compelled to appear in court an
show cause for doing business in tn
state without license from the stat
insurance department. The question
, raised are the same as in the pending
case against the Mutual Life, and tn
attorney general asks for a writ O
custer against the New York Life
claiming they are doing business i
violation of law.
The preliminary hearing of Davi
Harmon, of Armourda1e, charged wit
the abduction of Ella Bum, the 1.
year-old daughter of Preacher Bunr
was held at Fort Scott and the prison
er bound over to, await trial in tn
district court. His bond was fixed a
81 500 which he could not give and j
now in Jail. District court is in ses
sion and it is thought Harmon will b
! given speedy trial. The girl test
fed that Harmon bought her ticke
and arranged to meet her at Arcadia
which he did. She also denied he
: former statements and admitted tina
while in Springfield she lived wit
! him as his wife: Since learning thu
: he has a family in Armourdale, til
: girl has turned against him and wi
be the chief witness for the state.
/ Fife Mitchell, an unfortunate WI
, man formerly of Topeka, took a dos
r of morphine at the Savoy hotel i
Kansas City, Mo-, from the effect
: of which she died. The troubl
! seems to have been a love a
! fair She left note to young mar
f who read it and tore i; up immediatel
afterward Efie Mitchell came to tt
: peka from Des Moines, Iowa, abor
three years ago and after stayin
here for some time she went to Kansa
City. While in Topeka the woma