Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-08-17
General News.

Eugene Field.
General News.
1t cost $4,000 to mobilize Missouri's
troops.
Cervera will return to Spain to be
judged.
Utah Republicans are about to de-
clare for silver and Mark Hanna has
written them protest.
General Blanco suggests that Cubans
be forgiven and that no unkind feel
ings be held. He will withdraw all
Spanish soldiers from the island.
Lient. l.. C. Smith, regimental
quarter-master of the goth Kansas reg.
iment is held liable to the amount of
SEQ for army SUPPLIES informally
issued TO soldiers.
Near Providence r. l., two tramps
attempted to kris two pretty summer
boarders who were returning from q
lawn party. Two young men res
eued the ladies and tied the tramps
TO a tree. Other trsmps released
their companions and al escaped.
Senator Harris is anxious for the
early completion OF the Nicaragua
canal by the government. He has
long been familiar with the efforts
to establish this thoro fare. In 1853
he with an expedition surveyed the
isthmus.
The fight of the state officer again
st the Western Union Telegraph Co.
having for its object the forcing of the
company to put revenue stamps on
teles rams itself instead of charging
the same to its patrons, is being taken
up by the Santa Fe railroad. The
Telegraph Company persists in charg
ing the Santa Fe the value of the rev.
enue stamps necessary for message.
transmitted in the connection Will
railroad business. The Santa Fe il
very much inclined to object and ha!
brought suit in the Federal court t.
compel the Telegraph Co. to attach
the stamps and pay for them.
A report comes from Chicago tina
there is an immense wheat crop ant
of course, this being the case, the pric
should sink very low. 1t is straDg
that Chicago should know of such al
enormous yield when western thresh
ers can get only from II to l 8 bushel
per acre out of the straw. 1t Is tn
old scheme to make the farmers be
lieve there is an over production AM
indAIce them to hurry the wheat t,
market and stop interest" at ma,
not raise any way" Then when tn
price goes up spectators profit by it
One X. G. daily paper put horde
around this lie that the "wheat GRO
VIII be record breaker"
Mayor McVicar of Des Monies, VIII,
Is president of the League of Ameri
can Municipalities, whech meet in an
nual session at Detroit last week, de
livered his annual address in which h,
took strong ground in favor of munic
ipal ownership of public utilities. Ii
the course of his remarks he said: ga
the threshold of the agitation we are
more concerned with the vital issue o
the sovereignty of cities. 1t seem
necessary as a preliminary to elFfin
ate from our cities the private tWner
ship of franchises for the monopolize,
use of the streets. The pubic mus
own and operate all the plants for tn
supplying of light and water. Proba
bly, it should extend its powers so as t.
take in street railways, having PLANTS
telephones and other means of instru
mental communications. At al
events there must be an end the con
trolling and corrupting of our cit
governments by those interested in th
manipulation of puclic comfort, evel
If the last vestige of private owne
ship in them shall be uprooted. L
these valuable franchises, these splen
dld privileges, were reserved to tn
cities would not this sort of corrup
ton which has caused legislative bod
les to become Il by-word among tn
people, Gel se to existg'