Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-02-09

ANOi lOh county IcpOIIS real estate
mortgages cancelled during the year
1897, sos. .633. So. New mortgages re-
corded, s46,s2e.
Alva Koken, cattle thief, has plead
ed guilty in the district court at New
ton, and has been promptly sentenced
to the Reformatory at Hutchinson.
The sale of the Missouri river bridge
at Atchison, which is to take place
next month under foreclosure pro-
ceedings, is regarded as a scheme of
the bondholders to freeze out the stock
holders.
Marsh Patton, SON of farmer H. II.
Patton, near Wier City, is missing.
He was sent with his brothers. dinner
to one of the mines in the neighbor-
hood of his home and has not been
seen since.
Sedgwick county farmers are max
ing determined fight, in which they
should receive the support of the state,
against the diversion of the water in
the Arkansas river by a Colorado
syndicate.
Topeka, Kan, Feb. 4.-Gov. Thom-
as A. Osborn died this afternoon at
3 o'clock at Meadvil1e, Pa. Death
was sudden. Immediate cause, hem
orrhage of the stomach. Gov. Osborn
was i'll but few hours.
Benton g. Son, of Onaga, have re-
ceived special consignment of feed
ing cattle, consisting of nine car loads.
The farmers are buying them up read
lily and putting them on their cheap
corn. Every farmer is feeding Who
has the corn.
Lawrence has a new dramatic club,
under the direction of Miss Georgia
Brown. 1t has covered up its name
with "Masque," but it is learned
that Prof. G. B Penny, is its presi-
dent, and Miss Josephine Shellabar-
ger, vice-president.
Miss Edna Whitney, the Topeka
Carnival Queen, was in Topeka last
week, in company with a vaudeville
show. Mrs. Sutton did not call on her,
but it is said that Charlie Holiday and
John Waters wore posters on their
backs for a consideration of balcony
tickets.
A kid in the Westmore1and Signal
Office is learning the trade with the
avowed purpose of starting a paper
in Africa. This sounds odd at first,
but when one thinks of it, the scheme
is not much wilder than that of other
printers who are trying to run papers
in some Kansas stowns.-South Kansas
Tribune.
The temperance people of Concordia
have been making a strong fight
against the running of joints in that
city, and they are feeling very blue
over their recent defeat in the district
court, in the case in which one Sven
SON was acquitted by the jury and
celebrated his victory by dispensing
liquor free to all comers.
Newton has freak in the form of a
gentleman named English. English
was recently arrested, accused of SELL
ing liquor contrary to the statutes in
such cases made and provided, and
when brought up for trial, plead
guilty as charged. The spectacle of a
Kansas jointist pleading guilty to the
Indictment should attract the atten-
ton of Miss Edna Whitneys' manager.
State Superintendent Stryker Is
quoted as saying that the next popu-
list convention will be in favor of taxi
ing the government of cities out of the
hands of the chief executive and grant
ing home rule. The Superintendent
says THAI this action would have been
taken at tn. last convention but for
the fact that it was understood that
Governor Leedy would abolish the
system.
Forty-seven students of the Kansas
University have failed to pass the ex-
animation. 1t is not stated, however.
whether the failure is in football or in
fraternal society, but it is announced
that the faculty has taken up the mat
ter and will allow thirteen of the stu
dents to continue their stndies condi-
tionally. Other students will make
application to the faculty 70. the same
privilege in the near future.
Topeka has a jointist who should
have turned his talents into the sooth-
ing paths of the politician. During
the meeting of the State Temperance
Union last week visitors were reealed
with the following, posted on the front
door of Kansas Avenue building:
"Notice-This saloon is closed ont of
respect for the State Temperance
Union and the Committee of Seven
teen. Closed for today and tomorrow
only" This notice stayed on the door
the allotted time and was then takeu
down, and the tiger again began 70
get in its work.
The Board of Railroad conmis-;on-
ers has made the following order II
the matter of the complaint Of III
State Board Of Charities v. the Roc1
Island Railway Company: The bo.<<
finds the price Or change u11e b. III