Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-01-26

of Basil d. Owens, of Marysviile
Kentucky, read the account of the
self-infiicted death of Senator Jo<
Blackburn's daughter with marked in
terest, went Immediately to her room
secured her brothers. revolver and
committed suicide.
A church controversy of over thirty
years standing among the Baptists OF
Iowa, has been settled by the unani.
nous decision to have bat one college
which shall be recognized and receive
the support of the society. The Bap-
tist coliepe at Des Moines was chosen.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
issued circular to employees to the eff
feet that clerks receiving a stated sal
ary who neglect to pay their debts
contracted for the necessary support
of themselves and their families, with
out presenting satisfactory reasons
therefor, will not be retained in Office.
s. B. Nickum, of Logansport, Ind,
has invented perpetual light in the
form of a globe or sphere of glass
hermetically sealed air tight. The
light is inside the globe, and is pro-
duced by compound, the nature of
which the inventor will not divulge.
Those that have been exhibited show
the illumination diffused throughout
the globe instead of being in the form
of flame.
Gov. Adams of Colorado is president
of the Pueblo Savings Bank, but that
does not lead him to oppose the estab-
lishment of the postal savings system.
In answer to a communication from a
fellow-banker in opposition to the plan
he wrote recently:
while ! can see some objections to
postal savings banks the bulk of the
argument seems to me to be in favor
of their establishment. The interests
of the people appear to demand that
the government should give them a
place to deposit that is beyond ques-
ton secure. Holding these views, and
being willing to do what I can to Sc
cure postal savings bank law, you
cannot expect me to indorse your
proposition.
The ground is frozen too stiff for
the gold-hunters in the Klondike to
dig or prospect, and they seem to be
busying themselves in drinking poor
whisky, gambling, and killing each
other off. There is practically no law
in Alaska. There is but one judge in
the whole territory. There is no land
Office. There is, however, p1ent, of
confusion. Alaska news is burdened
with lawless performances and every.
thing that the people ought not to
have. The scarcity of provisions
other than meat has caused scurvy to
break out in alarming quantities. On
Thanksgiving night the people al
Dawson were celebrating at a mask
ball and general carouse at the opera
house. A fire broke out in nearby
saloon and destroyed nearly 500, ,OOC
worth of property. The people saved
all the whisky in the two saloons
which were burned, but allowed a
large quantity of provisions to be
burned. There was also burned two
casks of coal oil, which was about ali
the supply left. Darkness and starva.
ton stare them in the face, but they
saved their whisky.
The Illinois State Dairymen's asso.
citation has adopted resolutions pro.
testing against the appropriation by
congress of money for the free distri
button of seeds. eve believe the peo-
pie do not want the seed" the dairy.
men say, "and regard this use of the
money as an entire waste. We re-
spectful1y petition your honorable
body to stop this waste" Doubtles.
this free-seed distribution has ceased
to accomplish the purpose of benefit
ing agriculture by providing the
farmers with rare seeds for expert
mental purposes. But the congress
men have discovered that they can in
crease their personal popularity a,
the expense of the government by
sending to farmers in their districts
seed that the latter otherwise Nigh,
have to buy. Secretaries of agricul
trre and others without number have
protested against this free-seed dis
tribution, but to no avail. The grea,
majority of the farmers are agains,
it, but the congressman want it, fo,
the furtherance of their own interests
and they must have it. The usual ap
preparation for seeds was favorably
acted upon by the House the othe,
day. And the Dingley deficit keeps
on growing.
Rush to See Bryan.