Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
KANSAS NEWS OF RECENT DATE.
The Baxter springs Reunion.

-S ASeAscA Springs AsCohAAoAAs
Extensive preparations are being
made to entertain the annual reunion
of union veterans at Baxter Springs,
August % to September 5. The reunion
grounds include 100 acres on Spring
river. A big amphitheater, capable of
holding 1000 people, is being completed
and other accessories for camping are
being provided. This is the historic
spot where Quantrell murdered 156
union soldiers after they had surren-
dered. Over 100 well-known speakers
from Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri
will be present. The Kansas City,
Fort Scott & Memphis railroad has ex-
tended spur to the center of the
camp so that the visitors will have NO
extra fare to pay.
Witnessed Many Exciting Events.
Mrs Eliza Dotson, who died at Con-
cordla recently, was born in 1900,
married in 1916 and became a widow in
1862. She was the mother of IL chill
dren, the grandmother of So and the
great-grandmother of 76. Three of
her sons were soldiers in the civil war
and three of her daughters married sol-
diers. She died at the age of 90 years,
fore had lived SO, ISL days and nights.
In her lifetime 90 presidents came and
went and the nation passed through
eight wars.
Populists Indorse Striking Miners.
The executive committee of the popu-
list state committee, at a meeting held
in Topeka, issued manifesto declaring
sympathy with the striking miners;
condemning the federal court for en-
joining miners from doing violence to
persons or property; denouncing Gov.
Stanley for permitting the Importation
of negro miners from the south, and
calling upon the populists of Kansas to
lend the strikers financial aid in their
fight against the coal mine operators.
Want Protection from Negro Miners.
Sheriff Sparks, of Cherokee county,
was petitioned by residents of the
northern part of the county for pro-
lection from the Alabama negro
miners recently shipped in there. The
sheriff selected ten men who went to
the scene of the trouble and are acting
as deputies. 1t was claimed the ne
groes were becoming overbearing and
that the white residents were alarmed
lest serious trouble should break out at
any time.
New Officers In the Twentieth Kansas.
Gov. Stanley received a cablegram
from Col. Metcalf, of the Twentieth
regiment, recommending the following
appointments, which were made at
once:
Lieut.. E. J. Hardy, of Salina, to succeed Capt.
H. B. Orwig of company d, who resigned to be .
come major in one Of the new volunteer regi-
| ments; Burton ]. Mitchell, Of Fort Scott, first
| lieutenant; j. G. Tefft, second lieutenant; Al
bert II. krause, captain; Samuel g. Hopkins.
| first lieutenant, and Chauncey S. Pratt, second
lieutenant.
Awful Charge Against q Young Farmer.
Mrs. Charles Fisher, wife of farmer
living near Atlanta, Cowley county,
| was shot and killed early the other
| morning, and circumstances indicate
that the deed was done by her husband.
| He is in Jail at Winfield. Fishers story
was that the shot was fred by strange
man. Fisher is stranger in the COM
munity and but little is known about
him.
She Had Gone with Another Man.
n. n. Mcpherson, a laborer, asked
the Kansas City police to help him to
| recover his wife, whom he found gone
when he returned from work in the
evening. She had left a note saying
she had gone with another man and
Mcpherson would never see her again.
Fortune for Topeka Lawyer.
John j. Schenck, Topeka lawyer,
| attended to the legal business of Mrs.
| Mary Mason, widow. She died few
days ago. When her will was opened
it was found that she had bequeathed
all of her property valued at $50, 900 to
Mr.. Schenck.
Reward for the Conviction of JointIsts.
| The prohibitionists at Lincoln Cen.
ter have offered $50 reward for each
conviction of a violator of the prohibi-
tory law in the town and county. A
voluntary reward fund of $500 has been
raised in contributions of from so cents
to s..
The Strange Events That Time Brings.
Miss Bessie Nessly has been engaged
to teach in the Cartwright school in
Sedgwick county. Miss Nessly's
mother taught in this school before
her, and the young woman has engaged
board in the house in which she was
born.
Voted Against the Road Levy.
In Bourbon county, the commits
sioners refused to make the two-mill
levy for road improvement, under the
good roads bill passed by the last leg
islature. A number of the county's
heaviest taxpayers petitioned for the
levy.
The Champion Tomato-<irower.
Green Clay, living near Frankfort,
picked from his patch a tomato that
measured Is inches in circumference.
1t was as smooth as an apple, without
a blemish, and looked more like .
small pumpkin than tomato.
Eight Ears ON One Stalk.
Henry Ceaser, a Marshall county
farmer, has a stalk of corn in his field
upon which are eight good ears and it
promises to produce a peck of good
corn.
May Remain In the Army Permanently.
Congressman Calderhead, just back
from Washington, credits President
Mckinley with the following remark
about Gen. Fred Funston: ''That young
man has a fine army career before
him" I" This is interpreted to mean that
Gen. Funston will be permanent fix
ture in the army.
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