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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


GEN. MILES is anxious that the new
regiments being raised for service in
the Philippines shall be especially
efficient with small arms, and an order
was sent to the commander of each
regiment on the 7th directing that
target practice be the chief feature of
the instruction given the soldiers.
A LONDON dispatch stated that China
and Japan have concluded an alliance.
GEN. MACARTHUR's force. consisting
of 1000 men, advanced five miles be-
'yond San Fernando on the 9th and de-
feated a Filipino force of 5000 men.
The American loss in killed and wound
ed was 20.
AGUINALDo has appealed to the
powers for recognition of Filipino in
dependence. The document was re-
ceived by all the foreign consuls in
Manila with the request that they for
ward it to their respective govern
mentS.
In the house of commons at London
the secretary for India, in introducing
the budget, said that after careful con-
sideration the government had deliber-
ately concluded that gold standard
was required in the interests of India
and that they would not be deferred
from prosecuting this policy by all the
means in their power merely because
the next phase in the Advancement
was coincident with abnormal or tenn
porary failure of the rain.
THE queens speech was read to the
British lords and commoners on the 9th
and parliament was then prorogued.
The speech said that the institution
of permanent tribunal of arbitration
could not fail to diminish the frequency
of war. The trouble in South Africa was
noticed and negotiations for settling it
were in progress, it was said. The
non-abatement of the plague in India
was also mentioned.
THERE is an admission in army CIR
cles at Washington that the remainder
of the 81, 900 volunteers, or provisional
army, will be called for within few
weeks. This would mean the enlist
ment of 30 additional regiments and the
appointment by the president of up
ward of 1000 more army officers.
ACCORDING to Hong Kong advices an
agreement has been reached between
Great Britain and the Chinese govern
ment that the United States shall have
an exclusive settlement at Hankow
GEN. OTIs cabled on the 10th that
some letters were captured by the Amer
leans in the Philippines from high in
surgent authority which exhorted the
| Filipinos to hold out a little longer;
| that European recognition would be
granted August 81, and that the pres
ent United States administration would
be overthrown.
GEN. CARLOS GARCIA. of Cuba, was
engaged at Washington on the !1th in
the presentation to army officials OF
| plans for the organization of a Cuban
militia. He had Il long conference
with Gen. Miles.
Il AM for Mr.. Bryan for president.
have always been for him and expect
to remain so. | think there is not a
shadow of doubt about his nomination
by the next democratic national con-
vention." This statement was made
by ex-Gov. William j. Stone at st.
Louis when he was asked if he was
preparing to forsake Bryan and take
up Rear Admiral Schley as a candidate
for the democratic presidential nomi-
tiOn.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Manila Hemp Jumps Up in Price.

London, Aug. 13.-Ma Mia hemp rose
ten shillings in London this morning,
being quoted at e35 los. Large guam
titles were bought at this price on the
prospect of further rise, in conse-
quence of the unexpected resumption
of hostilities in the Philippines and the
belief that the military operations will
drive the natives from the fields and
that the worlds supply will be prac-
tically cut off. The stock of hemp in
the Philippines was reported August 8
to be 95, 200 bales, compared with 1885,
900 bales in 1885,
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Salt Water Ruins Rice Crop.

Beaumont, Tex, Aug. 13.-Planter S
on Taylor's bayou had secured beau
tiful stand of rice, but Salt Water
bayou made it impracticable, or rather
impossible, to irrigate, and much of
the rice crop has been ruined for want
of fresh water. The indications are
that the losses will result in heavy
damage suits being fled against the
Port Arthur Channel and Dock COM
pany. The farmers will also petition
congress and the war department for
protection for their next years crop.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
valuable Libraries Burned.

Dallas, Tex, Aug. 1s--The fire in a
business block on Elm street was more
destructive than at first reported. The
total loss will approximate $500, 600.
The Guild building, fve-story brick,
stone and iron structure. built in 1885
at cost of $50, 600, was entirely ruined.
No lives were lost. Donald g. Jen-
kins, editor-in-chief of the Morning
News. lost one of the finest private
libraries in the south. President O.
Paget, of the Dallas Free Thought as
sociation, lost q library of infidel and
agnostic literature which, he claims,
was as complete and valuable as that
Of the late r G. lngersous
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
A Big Railroad Mortgage.

Chicago, Aug. 13.-Ro utine business
was transacted by directors of the Chi
.ago &c Alton Saturday, their time be-
ing chiefly occupied in drawing up the
mortgage to secure the issue of bonds
to the amount of $40. 600. 900, which is
expected to be made at the meeting of
the stockholders September Z. Presi-
lent Hartman and over two-thirds of
the directors were present. The mort
gage drawn up will be submitted for
the approval of the stockholders.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

THE prairie dogs in the Texas pan
handle are being rapidly exterminated
by means of a new device for catching
them. which has been adopted by all
the ranchmen and farmers of that sec
tion. On one large range over Il, 600
prairie dogs were captured and killed
last week by this trap. 1t is placed
over the animals mound and makes it
a prisoner when it energies from the
hole. This pest has been destroying,
it was said, over so per cent. of the
growing crops and grass in that Sec
tion annually.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

ASSISTANT SECRETARY VANDERBILT re-
Gently had occasion to visit several di-
visions in the auditing department at
Washington and found the clerks read
ing newspapers or talking in groups.
He decided that the chiefs and assist
ant chiefs of these divisions were re-
sponsible for this general state of idle
ness and reduced their salaries. He
thought that these officials should have
their clerks under better regulations
as regards their duties, especially as the
auditors office is nearly two years be-
hind in its work.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Must Not Play the Races.

Kansas City, Mo-. Aug. ia num-
Der of young men about town who have
been patrons of the state line pool
room, while holding responsible posi-
tions, are on the anxious seat as re-
suit of the theft of 5000 from the Mis-
souri, savings bank by an employe who
said he lost the money playing the
races. A prominent bank director
said that at his place the officers of the
bank had been instructed to dismiss
every employe in any capacity who
was known to have been playing the
races or frequenting bucket shops.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

SINCE their supply of tobacco was cut
down the convicts in the Iowa state
penitentiary have been sullen and hard
to manage and some 800 of them have
refused to work. Chicago physicians
interviewed on the subject say the ac-
tion of the prison authorities is unwise:
that tobacco in moderate quantity does
no harm and its quieting effects make
prisoners as well as soldiers more
amenable to discipline and less dis
posed to mischief.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

THE British government. it was re-
ported. has contracted with a lumber
company of Orange, Tex. for 500, 600, 600
feet of yellow pine. This amount of
lumber would be the greatest order in
the history of the world. 1t would
take all the mills in southeast Texas a
year to turn that much out and it
would require nearly 500 good-sized
steamships to carry it across the ocean.
1t would mean a great boom in yellow
pine lumber prices.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

THE state department has received
from the Italian authorities a copy of
the complete report made by the Mar
quis Romano, secretary of the Italian
embassy at Washington, on his person
al investigation of the recent lynching
of FIVE Italians at Tallulah, La. The
report presents the affair in serious
light. As whole, the Italian author
tiles view the matter of the lynching
as one of unusual atrocity and without
any mitigating circumstances. There
is no effort made in the report to OBJ
scure the fact that Charles Difata, one
of the Italians, made the first offensive
overture.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

+. Il. EVANS, of Des Moines recently
returned from a trip through northern
Iowa and reported discovery of about
20, 900 acres of land to which title has
never been made. They belong to no
one at present, but are being farmed
by owners of adjoining property. A
good share of the land is in the swamp
country and results from discrepancy
between government and county sur
VOWS
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

THE third assistant postmaster gen.
eral, Mr.. Madden, has decided on a
plan for the registration of all mail
matter by letter carriers at the door in
the residence sections of cities having
the free delivery system. The same
idea is to be extended to the rural free
delivery service as soon as The plans
are perfected. An extension of the
plan to the business districts of cities
in the discretion of postmasters is also
contemplated.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Both Are Kansas-Bred.

Great interest is being manifested in
the match race during the Wichita fair
next month between John r. Gentry
and Joe Patchen for purse of 49, 600.
Both horses were bred in Kansas
Gentry at Wichita and Patchen at Pea
body.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

The Wool and Cotton Reporter fig
rres that between January and July
the new trusts represented on paper
a capitalization of 81, $50, 7S3, 1888, of
which 1,62s, zoe, 900 was preferred and
$5, 7+2, 076, 4S3 was common stock. In
the opinion of the same journal the
preferred stock includes everything of
tangible value, and it is forced to the
conclusion that two-thirds of the trust
capitalization is water pure and
Simplen
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

THE report of Commissioner Evans
for the fiscal year ended June 80 last
shows total disbursements for pensions
of Sf3S, 253, ,923. The number of pen
sioners on the roll June so was 991 ,s19,
a decrease of 2,195. There were 4O,991
names added to the rolls and 43, 1856
dropped because of deaths, remarriage.
minors attaining their majority and
other causes. Under the general law
there were 1,412 claims fled and 1924
allowed. There were 6,1S4 original
widows claims fled and 4,246 allowed.
The war with Spain brought total
of 16, p66 claims. of which number but
305 have been allowed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
There May BE Two Reunions.

The annual state G. A. r. reunion at
Topeka in September may be double
headed affair. Department Commander
Coulter's committee selected the old
fair grounds as the site, which dis
pleased number of people, who threat
ened to hold reunion the same week
in Garfield park.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Wilson Creek Battle Veterans.

Leavenworth, Kan, Aug. 13.-The
annual reunion of the survivors of the
battle of Wilson creek was held here,
with veterans present from st. Joseph
and Kansas towns. w. III. Curtis, of
Severance. was elected president of the
association, and Harry Miller, of
Leavenworth, secretary.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Stephens for vice President.

Saratoga, n. Y. Aug. 1s.-Hugh j.
Brady, of st. Louis, who is here at
tending democratic conference, is adj
yocating the nomination of Gov.
Stephens for vice presid ent- He says
Stephens has more influence in Mis-
souri, than William J. Stone.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Physicians Form a Trust.

In Atchison county the commission
ers invited bids for doctoring the coun-
ty's paupers and when they were
opened it was found they were all for
81, 900, about three times the amount
heretofore paid. The commissioners
rejected the bids and say they will
break up the combine.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
sandow on . LImited scale.

w. H. Farr, 135-pound man in Os-
borne county, on a wager of $50 carried
$50 pounds of -four on his back three
miles without resting. On a wager of
IS he shouldered 300-pound barrel of
salt and carried it 100 feet with perfect
ease.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

THE whole Japanese nation rejoiced
at the treaty between the United States
and Japan. Shinto priests organized
a great festival, at which their gods
were praised for the consummation of
the treaty. The Buddhists also held
great festival.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

THE British Medical journal reports
that DIR. D'Aiutolo, in an address before
the Medico-Chirurgical society, of
Bologna, Italy. prescribes laughter as a
specific for bronchial and throat dis
eases. A good laugh, the doctor de-
clared, helped to eXpel the morbid pro-
duct in the bronchial tubes.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

SANTA TERESA, the Mexican woman
who has long been revered as saint
by the natives of Chihuahua and
Sonora, and who is believed to possess
the power of healing the sick by the
laying on of hands, is said to be more
or less responsible for the present out
break among the Yaqui Indians in
Mexico.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

Fire on the 18th destroyed the grand
stand of the Louisville Baseball club.
The fire originated from a live wire.
A temporary stand viii probably be
erected. Loss, SIS. 900.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

RAILROAD men express the belief that
before very long all of the prominent
railroads of the land will have adopted
the pension scheme recently taken up
by the Pennsylvania system and now
being worked out, in which employees
are to be pensioned when 20 years old.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
WIN Hold TheIr Corn,

An Atchison lumber salesman says
that 1000 cars of lumber for building
corncribs will be shipped into northern
Kansas this fall. The demand for
lumber has never been so great. The
farmers have money and many of them
will hold their corn.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
For the Care Of the Insane.

During July the following amounts
were paid for keeping the wards of the
state: Topeka state insane asylum,
S12, ,521.39; Winfield imbecile asylum,
81, sos. .43; Osawatomie insane asylum,
912 5Q6 NJ
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Choked His Wife to Death.
They Met Violent Deaths.

Two fatal accidents occurred near
Dlpe, Lyon county, the other day.
Henry Naussen, aged 16, was drowned
while in swimming with young COM
panions. William Grieder, wealthy
young farmer, was hitching up a
vicious horse when he got too close to
the animals hoofs and the horse kicked
him, the hoof striking him in the breast
near the heart. He died almost in
stantly.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
He Served with Funston in Cuba.

It transpires that j. F. Greene, the
young Kansan killed in duel in Ha-
vava recently, was a major in the
Cuban army at the time Funston was
in the service. Greene left home in
1898 after graduating from the Kansas
normal college at Fort Scott. His
parents live in Oswego.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
CURRENT COMMENT.

AN 1s-year-old girl, named Lucy
Havens, who lives in Laporte county
Ind, weighs 500 pounds.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Most Remarkable Pastor.

The dedication of the handsome new
Congregational church at Council
Grove calls to mind the fact that the
pastor, Rev. L. Armsby, has served in
that capacity for 25 years and although
a man over S5 years of age he is men
tally and physically strong. He served
as chaplain in Minnesota regiment
during the civil war.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Government Paid for the Funeral

S. E. Fergus, of Yates Center, re-
eeived from the government recently
$125 for the funeral expenses of his
son Bert, who died at San Francisco
of spinal meningitis while encamped
there with the Twentieth Kansas vol
unteers. He was the first Kansas boy
to give up his life in the late war.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Arkansas City woman in trouble.

Mrs. L. l.. Chinn, of Arkansas City,
was arrested by Deputy United States
Marshal Trigg on the charge of send
ing obscene matter through the mails.
She was in correspondence with Jesse
M. Lee, free lover, who was arrested
at Ottawa. The arrest came about by
her misdirecting package containing
obscene pictures and literature to Lee.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
WIN Try to Interest Capitalists.

The Wellington Commercial club has
taken steps to interest capitalists in
the immense brick shale deposits lying
along the banks of Slate creek, west
and south of Wellington. Experts say
the shale is the finest for vitrified brick
manufacturing in the country.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

John Harper Bonnel, the New York
publisher, has fled petition in bank
ruptcy. His liabilities are S750, 900 and
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
She Had Gone with Another Man.

n. N. Mcpherson, 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 note saying
she had gone with another man and
Mcpherson would never see her again.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
They May Be Consolidated

A movement is on foot to consolidate
Galena and Empire City into one city.
The two towns are built close together.
but ill-feeling has heretofore existed
between them, which prevented con-
solidation. So much did they dislike
each other ten years ago that Empire
City built huge stockade between the
two towns, but the Galena police, in a
riot, destroyed it. Portions of the wall
still stand, but peace reigns. By unit
ing them Galena would make COM
pact city of over $4,000 people, and
would rank the eighth city in size in
Kansas.
Prosperity at Galena.
Galena, the great zinc-mining town
in southeastern Kansas, is having a
great building boom. The Interurban
electric railway will extend its line
from Galena to Riceville and Empire
City. With work on a big foundry,
boiler works, a new wholesale grocery,
large hotel, IL big business houses.
SO residences and many large mining
plants that are being urged rapidly
forward. Galena bids fair to be one
of the most important commercial cen.
ters of the southwest.
Choked His Wife to Death.
James Best, of Colum bus, choked his
wife to death early the other morning.
Best is mill laborer, 26 years old. He
had been married five years. The
couple had not lived happily for some
time and had separated, but recently
became reconciled. The old quarrel
was renewed that morning, and, in a
fit of jealousy, Best seized his wife by
the throat and choked her to death.
He surrendered to the sheriff and was
hurried out of the county, because of g
fear of mob violence.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Awful Chi

Awful Charge Against 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 a strange
man. Fisher is a stranger in the COM
munity and but little is known about
him.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Fortune for a Topeka Lawyer.

John j. Schenck, Topeka lawyer,
attended to the legal business of Mrs.
Mary Mason, widow. She died a few
days ago. When her will was opened
it was found that she had bequeathed
all of her property valued at $40, 900 to
Mr.. Schenck.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

new Omcers IN the IWentletn hans8Ss
Gov. Stanley received cablegram
from Col. Metcalf, of the Twentieth
regiment, recommending the following
appointments, which were made at
once:
Lieut.. E. ]. 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 J. Mitchell, Of Fort Scott, first
lieutenant; j. Q. Tefft, second lieutenant; Al
bert H. Krause, captain; Samuel G. Hopkins,
first lieutenant, and Chauncey S. Pratt, second
lieutenant.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
Voted Against the Road Levy.

In Bourbon county, the commits
sioners refused to make the two-mil
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
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

Green Clay, living near Frankfort,
picked from his patch tomato that
measured Is inches in circumference.
1t was as smooth as an apple, without
blemish, and looked more like .
small pumpkin than a tomato.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

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.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16
EIeht Kars on Ono st.lk,

Henry Ceaser, a Marshall county
farmer, has 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 Ca1derhead, 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." This is interpreted to mean that
Gen. Funston will be permanent fix
ture in the army
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-08-16

POpulists Indorse Striking Miners.
The executive committee of the popu-
list state committee, at 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.