Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-10-18
They WIN Try 1t Again.


equal suffrage. The officers elected
are:
President, Mrs. Annie L. Diggs, Topeka: vice
president, Mrs. Laura NJ Johns. Salina: re.
cording secretary, Miss Maude Toothaker, Kan
sas City; treasurer, Mrs Henrietta S. Turner.
Paola; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Abbie A.
WEIGH, Cedarvale; auditor, Mrs. Emma Troud-
ner, Carbondale; parlimentarian, Mrs. Luella
kraybill, Winfield; attorney, Mrs. Antoinette
L. Haskell. Gaylord; organizer. Mrs. Laura A.
Gregg. Garrett; member national executive
committee, Mrs Anna c. Waite, Lincoln: dele
gates to national convention, Mrs. L. L. Tooth
aker, Kansas City; Mrs. Phoebe Bare, Baldwin:
Mrs. Judge Johnson, Topeka: Mrs. B. B. Baird,
Eureka, and Mrs. Mamie K. Garnett, Eldorado.
Democratic Ticket Disqualified.
Albert Perry, the Doniphan county
democratic committee chairman who
filed libel suits against the Troy Times
and Wathena Star, was denounced by
the recent democratic county conven-
ton. Perry then filed protest against
the validity of the convention and its
nominees. alleging that the convention
was called to meet at one place and met
at another. The case was tried before
court of three county officers, all re-
publicans, who upheld Perry's protest
convention were excluded from the
ticket. The decision also leaves the
local democrats without a county com,
mittee.
In Their Fighting Clothes.
The people who go to Topeka for the
reception to the Twentieth Kansas will
see the fighters march in the uniforms
and with the guns which they used in
the Philippine campaign. Permission
for the regiment to retain the arms and
equipment has been received by Gov.
Stanley from the chief or ordnance at
Washington. This is in response to q
request made by the governor, who be-
comes responsible for the return of the
guns to the federal government, and
upon this condition the members of the
regiment are permitted to come home
in all the regalia of war.
Was the Woman Kidnapped?
An Indian, Belone Deroin, was MUIR
dered on the Sac and Fox reservation
in Brown county. He left the house
of NJ. Deroin at night to take woman
who lived in the neighborhood home
in buggy. The next morning he was
found in the road with a gunshot
wound in the heart and two knife
wounds in the neck and head. The
is still missing. She is supposed to
have been kidnapped by the murderers
Ottawa to Honor the Soldiers.
A big reception to company X,
Twentieth Kansas, will be given by
citizens of Ottawa Immediately after
the reception at Topeka. Ex-Judge
Benson went to San Francisco to Sc
cure the regimental band for the occa-
sion. Citizens of Ottawa have erected
a memorial gateway in honor of COM
pany X, which has been placed at the
entrance to Forest park. It will be
formally dedicated to the company on
its return.
What One Dog Has Cost.
dog owned by J. w. Sugg, team.
ster of lola, has cost the owner:
friends $1,000 in litigation in an at
tempt to evade the payment of the city
dog tax. Sugg kept his dog chained
and claimed that the city ordinance
referred to unclaimed dogs He also
listed the dog as personal property
and believed that he was exempt from
taxation by the city. The suprem,
court now has the case under consider
alton.
Because They Were Kansans.
Gov. Stanley and the other member
of the Twentieth reception COMMITTEE
were royalty treated at San Francisco
Gen. Shafter and Gov. Gage drove then
about the city in carriages. A salut
! of II guns was fired in their honor from
| the battleship Iowa, now at Mar
island. The big dynamite guns which
point out beyond the Golden Gate wer
fired a dozen times for the pleasure ant
| instruction of the Kansas delegation
Reaches the Supreme Court.
The Parsons asylum location figh
has reached the supreme court. Afte
| the legislative committee selected PaI
| sons as the site for the new institution
| Clay Center brought suit in its owl
court to enjoin the state from appro
priating money to erect the necessar
buildings. An injunction was OF
tanned. Now the attorneys for Pal
sons have appealed the case to the 81
preme court.
To Save Themselves Trouble.
At the Marshall county fair las
week prize was offered for the pre-
tiest girl, the judges being seven youn
men chosen by the fair association
The first ballot showed seven differen
ladies voted for. and the committe
then resolved to disagree in order
save themselves trouble, which woul
undoubtedly follow if any one girl wa
chosen,
Kansas Odd Fellows.
The grand lodge /. o. o. F., in sessio
at Wichita, after a hot contest deferre
action looking to the establishment {
an Odd Fellows home. Topeka Wa
selected as the next meeting plac
John A. Bright was installed as gran
master and d. W. Kent as grand seer,
tary.
Going In for Improvements.
In Lyon county the commissioner
have submitted a proposition to /
voted on in November looking to tn
building of new courthouse. n
bonds will be issued, but in lie u there.
it is proposed to sell railroad stoc
owned by the county, as well as tt
present courthouse and site.
Number of Banks In Kansas.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal e
tablished state banks at Eudora an
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