Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1899-11-15


also suggest that appropriate mention be made
OF our fallen and departed soldiers of this and
other wars, and that where appropriate their
families may be the recipients of the peoples
benefactiOnS
Editor Elliott Fined.
Frank w. Elliott, editor of the Troy
Times, was fined 500 and costs in the
district court on charge of criminal
libel. Elliott charged Albert Perry
with using his position as chairman of
the county democratic central commit
tee to aid Cy Leland and the republic
ans. Perry had him arrested, and the
trial resulted in a conviction. In ap-
plying for new trial, Elliott and his
lawyer alleged that the trial Judge, w.
l. Stuart, used unfair means to convict
Elliott, whereupon Judge Stuart fined
each $25 for contempt of court. They
refused to pay it and were committed
to Jail, but later released on habeas
corpus by the appellate court judge.
Wamego Gave Them Gold Medals.
Wamego received the 16 members of
the Twentieth Kansas regiment whose
homes are in Pottawatomie county.
The returning soldiers were met at the
station by the town officials, band
and large crowd of people. The ex-
ercises in the opera house included the
presentation to each volunteer from
that county of gold medal. A ban
quet and ball followed.
Gen. Funston at Home.
Ten thousand persons from all parts
of Allen county gathered at lola to do
honor to Gen. Fred Funston and the
other 25 Allen county boys of the
Twentieth. A-parade and banquet
were part of the celebration. Gen.
Funston, Gen. j. X. Hudson and others
spoke. Quartermaster Hull presented
lola brass cannon which he brought
from Manila.
Without Opposition.
There were two state senator's elect
ed to fill vacancies, both republicans
John L. CLANCY, in the Shawnee dis
trict, and c. c. Mccarthy. in the JEFF
district. Neither had
opposition. Unless Gov. Stanley calls
an extra session of the legislature the
new senators will not serve the state
d day, neither will they draw any sal
ary.
Don't Want Pipe-smoking Woman.
At Winfield J. A. Folts has sued Mis-
souri, A. Folts for divorce, alleging that
she is lazy and will do nothing but sit
IN the house and smoke pipe. More
than this. Mr.. Folts asks the court to
compel Missouri to take her original
name, as he doesn't want any pipe
smoking woman to bear his patronymic.
Kansas City Journal.
Big Catholic Building at Atchison.
The convent now being built at Mt.
st. Scholastica academy in Atchison is
possibly the largest building in Kansas
outside of the public institutions. It
will be four stories high and 200 feet
long by 100 feet wide. 1t is Catholic
institution, and will be conducted in
with the academy, which is
for girls only.
Want New Post once.
Emporia citizens are clamoring for
hew post Office building and the Com
club appointed a committee to
go to Washington and urge congress to
take favorable action. The govern
ment owns a site for that purpose in
the center of Emporia.
Grain Inspector Sued.
Homer c. Galloway, who was recent
ly discharged as deputy grain inspector
at Topeka, has sued State Grain In
spector Mckenzie for SIS, 900 damages.
Galloway alleges that Mckenzie.
through malice, circulated the report
hat ho
A Loss of ESQ Tons of Hay.
The large feeding station of the NJ,
z. & T. railway at Parsons burned the
,ther night. Two hundred and fifty
,ons of hay and much feed was burned |
The origin of the fire is supposed to |
nave been from tramps who slept there. |
Ocher in AtchIson County.
What is believed to be bed of genu-
ne red ocher was discovered on the |
arm of Patrick Hennessey near Oak |
Mills Experiments have been made |
With the ocher, and it was found to |
make an excellent quality of paint.
His Daughter to the Rescue.
A. II. Bieber, farmer near Colby, |
vas lying at the point of death from
Wounds received in a hard fight with |
n angry bull The timely arrival of |
MS daughter, who turned the dogs into
he barn yard, barely saved his life.
A Dead Man on the Pilot.
When the eastbound passenger train
n the Rock Island railroad reached |
bonner Springs the other night it was
ignaled to stop. There was dead |
nan on the pilot of the engine. It
vas c. w. Edgerton, who was run
lown by the train near Lenape, and |
he engineer was not aware of the fact
lntil he was signaled to stop.
Hemp for the State Twine Plant.
Warden Tomlinson has just returned |
rom New York. where he purchased /
light carloads of hemp. to be used in |
he manufacture of binding twine at I
he prison plant Just established