Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-06-21

A SUMMARY OF KANSAS EVENTS.
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More Telephone Lines.
The Kansas & Missouri Telephone
company is making preparation for ex-
tensive improvement and enlargements
in Kansas this summer. 1t will ex-
tend its lines from Paola to Fort Scott
and thence to lola. Another line will
be extended from Emporia to Newton.
A line will be constructed from Wich-
ita to Augusta and thence to Eldorado.
Another line will be built from Well
lington to Harper and Anthony and an
other from Salina to Hutchinson, as
well as to Abilene and from that place
to Minneapolis, Lincoln and Beloit-
Salina and Brookville will also be con.
nected.
No Place to Invest the Money.
The state of Kansas has large sur
plus of money in the state school fund
and is at a loss to know how to invest
it. The school fund commissioners
have heretofore been able to invest
this money in five and six per cent.
bonds issued by the various counties
The counties are now able to dispose of
their bonds to eastern bond companies,
which take them at four per cent.
Cowley county recently withdrew $780,
600 worth of Az per cent. bonds, which
the commission had an option on.
Had MIR. Page Arrested.
Insurance Superintendent Church
caused the arrest of Thomas Page, a
Topeka miller, on the charge of refus-
ing to produce the fire insurance poll
cies written on his mill. Page has his
property insured in concern that is
not authorized to do business in Kan
sas. Under new law these policies
| are subject to tax of ten per cent.
Page would not turn them in for taxa
ton and the superintendent of insur-
ance ordered him to produce them SO
| that they could be taxed. He refused
to do SO and was arrested.
The Dog Industry Booming.
According to the assessors reports
| received by the state board of agricul-
ture, Sumner county shows an increase
of 6i2 in the number of dogs, followed
next by Shawnee, which has gained
54S; and Linn, 339. Crawford county
| has suffered a loss of 4O4: Ellis, 131;
Rocks, 95. and II other counties less
number in each. The net increase in
the "a counties heard from amounts to
2,677, or three per cent.
Population of Kansas Towns.
The latest returns from assessors
show an increase in population in sew
eral Kansas towns as follows:
Empire City 905; Galena 437; Weir City 46s:
Concordia, $50; Ellsworth. 354; Anthony. 2a0:
Harper, III: Kingman, 307; Leavenworth. 236:
Chanute 4iS; Phillips burg. Us: Topeka. 2,71i;
| Wellington, 522; Caldwell 262; Wilson. 27s.
Hiawatha shows a decrease of I18; Horton, 2H !;
Howard, "a; Newton, II; Sabetha, 90 Forty
six towns with q population OF 1000 or more
show a total increase of l0,iU3, and six a total
decrease of 5al.
Refused to Pay Them.
Gov. Stanley refused to pay the MEM
bers of the asylum location committee
for the mileage they claim they spent
in revisiting Parsons to purchase the
site for the new asylum. The commit
tee used the 81, 500 appropriated by the
Legislature for the trip and had de-
ficiency bill for $500 more. The gov
ernor says the members travelled on
passes and should not be allowed any
mileage.
VIII Open Up the Fight
1t was said that Clay Center and
Wellington will join hands in the
movement to have the asylum contest
reopened. The report was that Attor-
ney General GODDARD would hold that
the appointment of the locating COM
mittee by the lieutenant governor and
the speaker, having been made before
the law was published in the official
state paper, is irregular and therefore
void.
Expenses More Than Receipts.
State Grain Inspector Mckenzie has
made his monthly report to the state
auditor. The receipts for the month of
May amounted to 81, ,42S. 90, while the
expenses aggregated 2,520.O9. This
left deficit of SI,091.19. The law re-
quires the grain inspection department
to be self-sustaining and for that rea-
son the treasurer cannot pay up the de-
felt.
DIR. Gill Refuses to Go.
The state board of health met in
Topeka and elected DIR. J. B. Alexander,
of Hiawatha, president; DIR. w. b.
Swan, of Topeka, secretary; Ina Col
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: Gill, the present populist secretary,
made strong fight against the cleo
tion of a successor and declared that
: he would not give up the Office.
The Government Alleges Fraud.
The government has sued to cancel an
! original grant of tracts of land to the
, | Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad, be
! tween junction City and Parsons, com
prising 1,SO0 farms, claiming it was
/, obtained by fraud. The land was sub
: sequently sold in farms and the present
, owners of the 800 farms are made de-
PENDANTS to the suit.
Another McTaggart Patriot.
The regular army recruiting officer
! opened up an Office at Independence
, and in one day received 5S applications
: and 80 were accepted. One of the
recruits was Daniel McTaggart, q
: brother of First Lieut.. William Nc
D Taggart, of company G, Twentieth
E Kansas, who was recently killed neal
Manila.
They Oppose Free Rural Delivery.
: The postmasters of little town.
around Topeka were bringing every in
: fuence to bear to prevent the establish
ment of rural free delivery system in
= that vicinity. They were having ths