Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-11-01
KANSAS NEWS OF RECENT DATE.
What Gen. Funston Sacrificed.

What Gen. Funston Sacrificed.
| A recent dispatch from San Francisco
| to the Kansas City Star said:
| Now that Gen. Funston's immediate future IS
settled it is not out Of the way to tell OF soms
| of the tempting Inducements for financial gain
which he unhesitatingly renounces to take up
| again his military duties. At the same time
| that Gen. Funston received the telegram from
| the war department he received by telegraph an
| oner to represent in Venezuela q great financial
house OF New York at an annual salary OF 50. -
600. Hehas been urged to accept an offer OF
5000 and all expenses to deliver 100 lectures In
| the United States The offer comes from the
| best-known lecture bureau In the country. A
New York newspaper has asked him to act as
| war correspondent in the Philippines at a sala-
~ Of his own naming. and with the intimation
that 1t need not be less than $4,000 year. He
| has offers from almost all Of the leading n1aga-
zines for articles at from $50 to $1,000 each. In
| addition, numerous other opportunities for rich
financial reward are open to him.
Liberaasty to ME-. Cross' Widow.
When C. 8. Cross, the proprietor Of
the Sunny Slope farm near Emporia,
killed himself few months ago, his
wife turned over every bit Of property
to his creditors. At the Hereford sale
at Kansas City the other day Bonnie
Prince, calf owned by Mrs. Cross, and
all she had left of the Sunny Slope farm,
was sold at auction. Cattlenen run
the price up to 500 and it was sold to
Marshal Field, of Chicago. In addi-
ton, the cattlemen present made up a
purse of 500 silver dollars and gave it
| to Mrs. Cross.
Want q Kansas Exhibit.
The United States department of
agriculture will try to secure from
Kansas an exhibit of cereals for the
Paris exposition. The Kansas legisla-
ture declined to make an appropriation
for this purpose. The department. has
placed with F. D.. Coburn, secretary of
the state board of agriculture, franked
shipping tags and small bags which
Mr.. Coburn will distribute to those
who will give samples of their prod
ucts for the exhibit.
| Divided into Factions.
| The citizens of Kansas City, abous
As, 900 in number, are divided over the
question of the location of public build
ings, and the south side, including Riv-
erview and Armourdale, with about
half the population of the entire city,
have declared boycott on the north
side. The north side has recently Sc
cured the high school building and the
new government building over the pro-
test of south-siders.
Unpaid Warrants Are Piiine Up.
State Treasurer Grimes has stamped
warrants mot paid for want of funds in
the sumof over S196, 77Z63. The stamp
ing process will continue till the latter
part of December. There at present
cash in the permanent school fund in
the sum of $452, ,059. SO. The. school
fund commissioners are very anxious
to loan this money. They have loaned
about $500, 600 since October L.
He Charges Conspiracy.
w. A.. Leech, of Akron, o., has
brought suit in the federal court to re-
cover a judgment of $1,000 against
George S. Hartley and other officers Of
the First national bank, of Arkansas
City. Leech charges that the officers
used the assets of the bank for their
personal use and that they made about
$500, 900 for which there has never been
an accounting.
Stole Diamonds by Wholesale.
Lee Calm, son of well-known st.
Joseph (Mo.) couple, travelling sales
man for a candy house, was arrested
for stealing from residences and busi-
ness houses in Wichita. In Calm s
room in st. Joseph was found large
amount of plunder, mostly diamonds
and watches. 1t is said he had two
accomplices. He was taken to Wichita
for trial.
| Must Pay Fare Walk.
The various Kansas railroads decided
to give out no passes to attaches of the
state administration to 60 home and
vote. It has always been the custom
of the roads to give every official around
the statehouse who wished to go home
and vote round trip pass. But the
roads concluded that there was NO
reason why they should continue tho
practice.
| Deserted . Babe.
A well-dressed young couple, driving
team, left three-weeks'-old baby al
the farm of James Nelson, four miles
east of Hutchinson. They said the
wind was hurting the ehild's face an6
they would leave it until. they went te
Hutchinson and back. They did not
return, and officers found them at Burr
ton. They refused to give their names
Horse Kicked Him Into the River.
Charles o. Frye, a young married
man, was kicked into the Neosho rive
near Burlington by a horse ane
drowned He had put a wagon in tn,
river to soak and had horse there t.
pull it out. While he was standing be
tween the horse and the river the hors,
kicked him.
Many Cattle Killed In . Wreck
A Santa Fe cattle train was wrecked
the other night at Argonia, Sumne
county. Two hundred head of cattl,
were killed and 100 more crippled
|, They were being shipped by a Texa
cattleman to the Kansas City market.
VIII Adopt the BertiIlon System.
Warden Tomlinson, of the state pen
itentiary at Lansing. has decided t.
, adopt the Bertillon system of measur
I ing convicts for Identification. One o
, the prison officials will be thorough,
educated in the system.
Young woman's Christian Association.
The state convention of the Y. w
C. A., held at Emporia last week, elect
i ed these officers: President, Ida C
, Barnes, NJ. D., Topeka; vice presi
dents, Lillian Dardley. Rosine Scot
and Martha McCabe; secretary, Agne
Radford. Topeka; treasurer, Eelli