Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1898-08-24
NO. IA.
State News.

St0tc News.
Oberlin is preparing for an old SOL
dier's reunion to he held September I,
8 and 8.
''Sin killer" Griffin, q negro evan
selist at Newton is said to have con-
verted 5000.
The city of Abilene will put In an
electric light plant to be operated by
the municipality.
Daniel Karnmann of Wamego was
found in the Kansas river August 14tb.
Suicide is suspicioned.
Robbers loot the south bound
Burlington near st. Joseph Aug. I1th
and secured $s, 200.
A resident of Osawkie dropped
letter in the postoffice on which he
had placed &C o. D."
The money obtained from the sale
of irrigation plants in Grant aud
Gray counties will be turned into the
general revenue fund.
An Elmont citiz n is indignant be.
cause about 200 Topeka society people
went out near that place and danced
and drank beer on Sunday.
The Kirwin Independents says that
the platform adopted by the Philips
County Republicans I. II on the con-
vention like sad news from home.
The NJ. A. & B. between Alma and
NJ lnhattan has been torn up and tn,
people who issued bonds to build the
road seem to have no recourse A.
torney General Boyle has brought
mandamus proceeding to compel tn,
replacement of the track.
republicans claim that when they
took control of the Topeka P..pulist
administration that one hundred joints
were running. The July report of the
police department. shows that eight
persons were arrested for liqucr selling,
which leaves the impression that the
other ninety-two are still running.
Loyal Democrats" are not even
supporting Henderson, Martin and w.
w. Price, the two Democratic Congress
sional nominees. The leader of this
faction is running the Republican
state ticket at the head of his editorial
columns headed Democratic State
Ticket"
Albert r. Greene, who has been
Kansas Republican leader for years,
says that the raising of wheat and
corn in Kansas for sale has not been
profitable to any one for any ten con-.
secutive years. AS an after-thought
he adds that possibly the implement
dealer has proflted some by the ans
action.
William Reeder, Sixth District Re-
publican nominee, told his people in
his acceptance speech that they should
be thankful that Mckinley had given
them dollar wheat, but his bank busi-
lately that he has been unable to find
an opportunity to explain why the
price has been reduced TO one-half.
The soldier boy is not being fooled
by the criticism which Republican pa
pers are directing at Governor Leedy
for bis alleged mismanagement of the
Kansas troops, as will appear from
the following letter from Second
Lieut.. p. S. Ray, Co. E, Goth Kansas,
which was published in the Yates
Center News. (Rep.)
OF late years only two buildings
have been constructed at the State
Agricultural College. One was the
library building built during LEVEL
| ling's term and the other is the Do
mestic Science hall which has just
been completed. Both are models
and no deficiency appropriations
were needed to complete them. In
stead of destroying and running the
institution Populists have built it up.
One Of the Loyal Democrat" de-
clines TO support the Democratic State
ticket because no Democrat occupies
a place on it, and in the same breath
he complains that the Atchison con-
vention did not do its duty to tie
party because it was controlled by
about seventy-ti Democratic who are
Leedy appointees. Nearly all of the
Democrats of Kansas are satisfied that
they have had substantial recognition.
The Kansas state supreme court
has made a decision on the rights
of sheriffs in making arrests. 1t
says: Except in pursuance to the
command OF warrant a sheriff has
no authority to make an arrest for a
misdemesnor not committed in his
presence; nor will the acts and lam
gusge of person which in duces the
officer as a reasonable man to believe
such person guilty of misdemeanor
authorize his arrest without a war
rant. A sheriff who acts without q
warrant in undertaking to make an
arrest for misdemeanor not commit
ted in his presence, and Who kills
the person in an effort to overcome
his resistance, or to recapture him